So what made up those 162,000 jobs we did get? Well you can thank Uncle Sam for a lot of them, about 29.6% of them to be exact.

“Employment in federal government was up over the month, reflecting the hiring of 48,000 temporary workers for the decennial census.”

But those are all temporary workers. What happens when the census is over? We’ve been hiring a lot of these census workers, it isn’t limited to March’s report. When those workers hit the streets again, it may make 9.7% unemployment look pretty good. Looking at census hires is only part of the picture, however. While America’s private sector has struggled, our public sector has escaped the economic turbulence, thanks to you – the taxpayer. Since one year ago, the Feds have hired 170,000. Were it not for the postal service letting some folks go, the Federal government would have taken on 51.3 thousand last month alone. If you take out the census workers that’s still 3,300 new Federal jobs in one month.

I was recently criticized in a post online for suggesting that Congress is paid too much. I was instigating “class warfare”, they said…plus the idea of making Federal officials earn market rate for their services was just “stupid” according to one participant. Perhaps that individual and other like-minded people would reconsider that position given the growing scope of Federal employment. It isn’t class warfare to wish for a Federal government that eat, sleeps, and works like its citizens do, but it might be unrealistic. No one in Washington wants to rock the boat of the ruling class that makes, on average, 45% more than us losers in the private sector.

So we are hiring more and more Federal workers, and paying them increasingly gaudy sums of money. The worst part is, that we keep electing politicians to keep it this way. For my friends who think Congress ought to keep getting regular raises because their jobs are so tough, I ask this: Why not let those people go find work in the private sector that provides those kinds of benefits? Some may succeed in doing so, some may become vastly richer working in the private sector, even. I say, let ‘em, at least we won’t be financing them.

After endless debate over a 2 trillion dollar health reform bill and passage of countless other multi-trillion dollar packages; the real question is: why do we only have a measly 15 billion for “jobs”? It seems like Obama would want to create the appearance of caring about job creation. He is free to continue to fail on the economy but we’d assume he wants to look like he cares. No such luck.

Instead, on a jobs package that actually has a small amount of bipartisan support, we give it the Congressional equivalent of a spare nickel. For what we spent on the auto bailout alone we could have had several jobs bills. Don’t get me wrong. Any jobs bill will have only marginal impact, but one that focuses on sustained broad tax cuts would definitely do more than the State bailout package (a.k.a. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act).

We put every progressive spending bill above the economy. We continue the same monetary printing press mentality that has indirectly or directly led to every boom and bust cycle we’ve had – The same boom and bust cycle Obama repeatedly condemns on the 2012 campaign trail. Even if Obama’s sick fascination with environmentally friendly stimulus programs were to succeed, only the smallest fraction of workers could benefit. Even then, a recent look at Spain’s green jobs efforts shows what the true costs of these programs are to the workforce as a whole.

Since Obama’s in campaign mode he might want to worry less about building monuments to himself and come to the realization that his throne will be up for re-election in about 2.5 years. A health care bill we’re paying for and getting nothing from and unemployment that’s still twice what it was under Bush will simply open the door for a Reagan/Carter moment at the debates: “Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?”.

It is almost as if Obama can read our minds, and has trained himself to say the exact opposite of what we need to hear. Good ideas abound: Cutting marginal tax rates, eliminating capital gains taxes (at least temporarily), a promise not to sign any law that raise taxes on business, to name a few. Obama delivered none of these.

Hiring people is a long term decision. Companies spending a lot of money simply training new hires, and though Obama most likely doesn’t believe it; most companies still don’t want to hire people only to be forced to fire them a couple months later. In light of this, businesses need stability before they will want to hire. They need to know that the regulatory and tax environment is unlikely to change significantly in the near term. For businesses that rely on imports and exports, the value of our dollar is key. We can provide some degree of assurance on this in the form of spending cuts and debt reduction.

Instead, the President misses the mark completely. His new focus on jobs: More handouts for banks (“small” banks this time), “targeted” tax cuts for businesses Obama deems worthy, and more social spending. No wonder his popularity is falling. Americans simply don’t take him seriously anymore.

Even though we were given assurances that Obama is on the jobs trail, he did an about face today, back to that old, beat up health care horse. We sat in agony and watched the expensive buy-offs, and 1+1=4 math from Congress virtually all of last year, and yet Obama’s bringing it back. When does even the most egotistical, arrogant person on earth finally realize no one wants to hear about his bill anymore?

Nothing is more pitiful than a poor loser.  Obama should follow his own marching orders for 2010, and start to get serious about creating jobs for Americans (yes, Government doesn’t make jobs, but it sure can make policies that stunt job growth).  We need them, the Government needs them, and yes, Obama needs them.  That is, unless he has abandoned hope for a re-election bid.