what happened to the job security safety net

One month the job report numbers are down and now the numbers are up. While I'm no economist, that doesn't sound like a stable economic rebound to me. That in turn raises the question -- what happened to the job security safety net? Historically that has been the Feds, but while we're trumpeting an increase in private sector hiring, at the same time the Feds are axing jobs like it's Armageddon or something. What's that all about? Hummh, maybe it's the narrow focus of bean counters at the expense of the big picture i.e. economic stability an d national security.

What do jobs have to do with national security? Well, its a little hard to ensure national security when the Pentagon is up for big budget cuts which mean massive job losses in defense. Make no mistake about it, those cuts will hurt and they will hurt badly. It's a simple reality, many US military bases are located in cities in which those bases are the primary source of revenue flow. Now what do you think is going to happen to those cities when the cash stops flowing? You guessed it, many of those towns will be hit hard economically. It's a little hard to figure out how a measly increase up to 200,000 or so private sector jobs [for November] account for the tens of billions of dollars of revenue loss for many military towns and states. Sounds like a classic case of one step forward and two steps backwards. Needless to say it just begs the question, what happened to the job security safety net? Maybe that's something the Occupy DC movement can better ask.