re: #870 Walter L. Newton

“Mike Shires at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy, who develops the survey, calls it “an awful year.” Making it even worse, the source of new jobs in almost all areas were either government employment or highly taxpayer-funded sectors like education and health. This year’s best-performing regions were those that suffered the smallest losses in the private economy while bulking up on government steroids.”

[Link: www.msnbc.msn.com…]

You do realize this article is from 4/28/2010 dont you, and they were speaking of the year 2009?

This year’s survey, measuring growth from January 2009 to January 2010, found only 13 metros with any growth.