Over the last two years since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000* new federal jobs and if some of those jobs are lost in this, so be it. We’re broke!
— House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), bristling at criticisms that there might be job losses resulting from the his party’s promise of $100 billion in spending cuts this year, ABC News reports. (*The actual number of jobs created by the federal government since 2009 is 58,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.).
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