1. and ms p is to put her prodigious piece on the carpet tomorrow
2. such incompetent political leadership this nation has ever seen
3. the prez promised with his stimulus we'd top at 8%
4. he bailed out the top and left the bottom to fend for itself
5. he (actually, ms p did it, she's the one who wrote the "stimulus") socialized the losses of the too-bigs-to-fail and privatized their gains
6. ask msnbc's dylan rattigan, he's outraged
7. it's still as clear as stanley mcchrystal---had the stimulus devoted even a portion of its 787B to payroll tax cuts, we'd be out of this mess by now
8. econ 101 says jobs growth comes from new biz STARTS, not expansions
9. the all-inclusive climate of taxes, fines and mandates contained in cap and trade and obamacare creates a depressive psychosis of effectual freeze relative to biz start-ups
10. counting the underemployed and those who've given up, we're at 17.5%
11. with the highest concentration very notably in our bluest states
List of U.S. states by unemployment rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
12. 5.6 million have been out of work 6 months or more, 36.5% of our unhappy neighbors and friends, another rueful record
13. the last time we were here, 1982, saw the following year 8% gdp growth in 1983
Jobless rate tops 10 pct. for first time since '83 - Yahoo! Finance
14. the stimulus is a disaster, it's all about tunnels for turtles, snow machines for wisconsin, studies of radioactive rabbit droppings
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15. ie, the worst of business as usual pork, all earmarked up
16. what else would you expect when you let ms p and her partisan pals in lower parliament pen the piece