Comment & Debate
Steven Pearlstein. “Wanted: Personal Economic Trainers. Apply at Capitol.” Washington Post. February 6, 2009 – “And then there is Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), complaining in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal that of the 3 million jobs that the stimulus package might create or save, one in five will be government jobs, as if there is something inherently inferior or unsatisfactory about that. (Note to Coburn’s political director: One in five workers in Oklahoma is employed by government.)”