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Tue May 29, 2012, 07:19 PM May 2012

The GOP is Threatening Your Job

Of all the terrible lessons the Republicans have learned since 2009, the worst is: Economic sabotage works.

In 2009, the President’s immediate efforts to stimulate the economy and rescue the auto industry took us from losing 800,000 jobs a month to creating thousands. But, before the policies were even in place, the GOP called it a failure.

KNOW THIS: The Stimulus was the most successful economic effort since World War II. Yet the GOP was able to make it a bad word by employing Karl Rove tactics with Koch brothers money–carefully crafted talking points repeated endlessly.

The recovery was obvious. But it couldn’t move fast enough to undo eight years of Bush/Cheney so the public bought into this baldfaced lie. Plus the GOP won the House in 2010.

Read more: http://eclectablog.com/2012/05/the-gop-is-threatening-your-job.html#.T8TrJP-NBXI.reddit

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