If you wanted a reasonable criticism of the Heritage graph, you should have asked why they excluded postal employees, which have dropped by 100,000 since 2007. That was the first thing I noticed. I checked it out, and it turns out there wasn't a choice, since the BLS numbers exclude them. Don't ask me why.

At bottom, this is about two sets of basic principles for governing a country as far as economics is concerned. Which ones actually create real robust growth and which ones create stagnation, like the Great Depression which rolled on at 15 percent-plus unemployment for a decade, or a downward spiral, like much of Europe now.

At this point, anybody calling for more government spending as the solution, in the face of trillion-dollar deficits, is nuts.

Delusions aside, there is no level of taxation on the "rich" that can make up that shortfall. The math has been done, much of it right in front of you. Confiscating the entire gross income of the top 1 percent would cover just the deficit for one year.

The real answer to our economic problems is to take politicians who think "profit" and "private sector" are dirty words and get them out of office ASAP.