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Oh, well, in that case . . .

When spin doctors explain all

DON’T believe what you saw in the papers last week. The unemployment rate in this country really isn’t 8.3 percent. It couldn’t be that high in this booming summer of 2012. You might remember something called the Stimulus Package, passed by a Democratic Congress and proudly signed into law by a Democratic president in 2009. It was bound to create enough jobs in 2010 and 2011 to drive the unemployment rate down somewhere south of 6 percent. The administration’s experts said so. All these news stories about unemployment climbing to 8.3 percent? They must be typographical errors.

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  • Headline: Oh, well, in that case . . .
  • Publication: Editorial, Pages 16 on 08/08/2012
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