Job Loss from the Sequester

Open Email Speaker Boehner:

Dear Speaker Boehner,

            Fox News says the White House is bemoaning the loss of jobs caused by the sequester. The estimate is placed at 750,000. Pundits say that this is much exaggerated.

            There is no breakdown of the 750,000 between government jobs and private jobs, but let's guess that they might be about equal. If so, we should start cheering for the loss of  375,000 government jobs. Let's remember that our whole previous and still current objective was and is to reduce the size of government. Obviously, we are making headway.

            If there is a real loss of 375,000 private jobs, we can easily make that up. The 375,000 government employees are no longer in position to limit the development of private industry through establishing ridiculous controls. Perhaps those controls still in place will not be prosecuted, as has been prevalent with Eric Holder operations. However, he picks and chooses what laws he wants to enforce, so there is still some risk. To eliminate that risk, Congress needs to get back on the stick and specifically reduce the controls.