"...Or to put it another way, 73 percent of jobs created in the last 5 months are a drain on the taxpayers that we don’t have. Because it’s one thing to add tons of government jobs when there are taxpayers, it’s a lot worse to do when the people who pay for government jobs are unemployed."

[link to frontpagemag.com]

by creating so many "government jobs" the politician garners more and more people who will vote for more and more government, it is win/win for them and lose/lose for us who must pay these parasitic salaries.

for instance take your local public librarian, does anyone think of him/her as a government employee? no, not usually seen as your quintessential leech, but i bet he/she always votes to increase the public library budget because it is in his/her personal best interest to do so.