[TheRealVille]

WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's frequent remarks about the nation's unemployment problem have long included one curiosity, if not an outright contradiction: It's bad for private-sector workers to lose their jobs, he says, but it's often good for government workers to do so.

Romney's positions on employment are drawing new attention after his back-to-back comments about firefighters, police officers and teachers. The nation doesn't need more of these workers, Romney said last Friday. And the federal government doesn't pay for them, he said Tuesday, after Democrats harshly criticized him.

The first statement can be debated. The second claim is simply false because the federal government spends billions of dollars a year to pay for teachers, police officers and firefighters throughout the country.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505244_162-5...bs-claims/