Government Jobs?

For the past three or so years the right has derided the idea that the government can create jobs.  In spite of all of the economists saying that the best way to recover from recession is having the government create jobs to place many of those who lost jobs as a result of economic downturn replace those jobs with others.  Needless to say, Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, and company sneered at those suggestions and went so far as to block or fail to bring to a vote any legislation designed to create jobs.  Today and for the next five months, when trying to walk through the halls of the Senate or house of Representatives, a visitor will be run over by over three thousand lobbyists who are massing in these halls for a single reason.  That reason is to lobby for the government to fund programs that create jobs.  It seems that on December 31, 2012, funding for defense will be cut back to the spending levels of 2006.  To hear the right tell it, this is a disaster beyond comparison.  To hear the defense industry’s lobbyists story, this will result in so many layoffs and job cuts that another recession is sure to follow.  What happened to “the government can’t create jobs”?  Why, all of a sudden, did the right realize that government spending can actually act as economic stimulant?  Many American families have had to reduce their spending far below 2006 levels thanks to inaction on the past of Republican legislators.  From all of the hues and cries about defense cuts the Republican job creation hypocrisy should be apparent to everyone.