The Rachel Maddow Show
| February 20, 2013
Cutting government jobs wrong remedy for recovery
Rachel Maddow reviews the labor statistics of past recent presidential terms and recessionary periods and points out that in each case the number of government workers crew - particularly during recessions when hiring is an important ingredient for recovery - and only the Obama administration has government jobs even as the president is accused by misguided Republicans of being a "big government socialist."