When President Bush proposed his second tax cut, he told us it was an economic stimulus package. The economy is so stimulated that zero private sector jobs were added in February. Zero. None. 21,000 government jobs were added, all of which will be paid for with borrowed money, right? This sucks. Would we be adding jobs hand over fist if we had a Democrat in the White House? Honestly, probably not. But the huge deficits that are now a big part of our foreseeable future were pitched as a way to fix this employment problem, and that hasn’t exactly worked out. What’s the political cost of that?
Sick of it
When President Bush proposed his second tax cut, he told us it was an economic stimulus package. The economy is so stimulated that zero private sector jobs were added in February. Zero. None. 21,000 government jobs were added, all of which will be paid for with borrowed money, right? This sucks. Would we be adding jobs hand over fist if we had a Democrat in the White House? Honestly, probably not. But the huge deficits that are now a big part of our foreseeable future were pitched as a way to fix this employment problem, and that hasn’t exactly worked out. What’s the political cost of that?
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