[einhverfr]

A few things that are particularly sad about it are:

1. We learned our lesson, given how we rebuilt Taiwan, Japan, and Germany.

2. We haven't learned out lesson given how the same rhetoric is trotted out by both parties today.

I swear... "creating jobs" is the single worst goal in American politics. Any time you hear it watch closely: both parties use it as an excuse to give rich people more money nad chain people to corporate employment....

[Retra]

As long as somebody is "creating jobs" you have nobody but yourself to blame for your hardships. It is like a pacifier to stick in the public's mouth.