NEWSMAX: Former President Bill Clinton says Republicans have tried to keep the nation’s unemployment rate high for political gain.
Campaigning in Ohio for President Barack Obama, Clinton says the GOP was “crushed” when the jobless rate fell to 7.8 percent last month. He says Republicans nearly managed to keep it above 8 percent “all the way to the election. But they failed.”…
The former president also criticized some Republicans who suggested the most recent unemployment figures were rigged. When the unemployment rate was higher, Clinton says Republicans considered it like “Scripture.” … (more)
EDITOR: The Republican controlled House of Representatives fought every request for additional stimulus and allowed hundreds of thousands of government employees – librarians, teachers, police – to be laid off. They ‘trashed’ Keynesians economics, purposefully rejecting the proven medicine that would have speeded up a return to a vital economy and, as a result, the reduction of the fiscal deficit and ultimately national debt. Some may be just dimwitted, but for others it was dereliction of duty.
