Monday posts will be tougher this year. Crazy schedule. I might have to write one on Sunday and save it.
I guess I'll just say that I am shocked - SHOCKED! - to find out that Cantor doesn't approve of the government doing any direct hiring of people to do jobs.
The term "Stimulus" has become a cudgel. It worked. You can measure how it worked. But it didn't keep us out of a recession and a deep jobs recession. It prevented a depression, though. That's something. But the term itself became so freighted with bad meanings after a two year sustained (and unrejoined) attack, that calling something "stimulus" is to call it a failure.
But as the stimulus funds dry up, unemployment is growing again. That should be clear to any casual observer.
Unemployment is especially bad among laid off state employees. You could simply loan moneys to the states at zero interest to hire back their employees. Red states might not take it, blue states likely will. And then you can solidify your standing among states that see their unemployment numbers dip and demonstrate the failure of tea party ideology.
That might sway some of those otherwise dumb-ass independent voters.
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