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Hume: Obama's 'private sector' comment not a gaffe

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    President believes public sector trumps private

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Look at who's talking and this morning it's -- -- and he is reacting to president Obama's comments at the private sector.

Is doing just fine now many are calling this a gaffe but -- sees it differently.

President Obama's assertion that the private sector is doing fine was no -- and his later comment that the economy is not doing fine was no backtrack.

In fact both remarks were completely consistent with each other and -- mr.

Obama's clear belief in the primacy.

Of the public sector over the private.

Remember his graduation speech for years ago at Wesleyan university in which he spoke proudly of his days as a community organizer.

And suggested that -- private sector career quote betrays a poverty of ambition and quote.

Remember too how much stimulus money went to shore up public payrolls across the country.

On Friday he fretted that the economy was suffering because too many public employees face layoffs.

In fact as you just heard the unemployment rate among government workers in May with four point 2%.

Roughly half the national average and the lowest of any sector.

The president however once more teachers cops and firemen hired using federal money.

Never -- at 40% of that money must be barred from China or elsewhere in his mind this is a way to stimulate the economy and of course to extend vital government work.

So it's not just politics it keeps him so close to public sector unions it's his genuine belief in the importance of the work and the spending.

They're members do compared to that in the private sector.

This is who use.

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