Fire One Million (Fifth Element reference)

Mitt Romney on Obama yesterday:

That stimulus he put in place, it didn't help private sector jobs, it helped preserve government jobs, and the one place we should have cut back was on government jobs. We have a 145,000 more government workers under this president. Let's send them home and put you back to work!

First of all, he's lying. Obama signed the stimulus in February of 2009. Since then thanks to tax cuts for people like him and companies like his public sector employment has dropped by 608,000.  Second, his contention that his favorite pastime (firing people) would result in putting different people in this country back to work is ridiculous.  In fact, exactly the opposite is true.  If he fires another 145,000, that's 145,000 less people with money to spend in the private sector.  Which of course means less jobs.  And who exactly in the public sector does he want to cut anyway?  Firefighters?  Police?  Teachers?  They're already emptying the jails because tax cuts for people like him are leaving us unable to pay for essential services.