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"  We can point out to him that, according to his Labor Department, new unemployment claims jumped again, and that the blog&amp;#039;s basic economic theory \u2014 Fk The Deficit. People Got No Jobs. People Got No Money \u2014 seems to be in play again, and that, frankly, nobody much cares about his spending cuts or his attempts to get The Deficit under control. The Republicans wouldn&amp;#039;t give him any credit if he eliminated the entire federal government \u2014 &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s stealing our ideas!!!!! AIEEEEEE!!!!&amp;quot; \u2014 and many Democrats are tired of hearing about pie in the sky by and by. The only ones listening to him on this are Tim Geithner and the people with whom Tim Geithner has lunch. Is the &amp;quot;jump&amp;quot; in unemployment claims really a &amp;quot;surprise&amp;quot;? To whom? It feels to me like the classic Doonesbury cartoon about the &amp;quot;secret&amp;quot; bombing of Cambodia, in which two peasant farmers are being interviewed, and both of them explain that the bombing wasn&amp;#039;t secret to them. &amp;quot;I stood right here,&amp;quot; one of them says, &amp;quot;and I said, &amp;#039;Look, here come the bombers.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Out in the country, there is no surprise anymore that more people are out of work. Chronically high unemployment is part of daily life now. We see it on the local news, hear about it on the radio, talk about it at the corner joint. We develop elaborate coping strategies \u2014 one of which, unfortunately, seems to be blaming our unemployed neighbors for their plight. There is a sullen ugliness building in the land, and professorial explanations about &amp;quot;the long-term&amp;quot; aren&amp;#039;t cutting it any more. And, no matter how correct the president is about the destructively goofy ideas coming from the other side, it doesn&amp;#039;t hide the fact that, for too many people, many of his policies seem to be happening somewhere else to somebody else. I&amp;#039;d like to hear him give one speech on the current economic crisis in which he doesn&amp;#039;t mention The Deficit at all. (Most people don&amp;#039;t understand what he&amp;#039;s talking about anyway, and see The Deficit only as a proxy for government spending on people they either don&amp;#039;t like, to think they don&amp;#039;t deserve it.) I&amp;#039;d like to hear the rest of the campaign be about unemployment and unemployment alone. The corrosive effects of The Deficit exist in some realm beyond the experience of most people. The corrosive effect of unemployment is right down the block. Willard Romney has a deficit clock being set up in Tampa. And, Mr. President? You&amp;#039;re not going to get any help on this, and the clock is ticking. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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