re: #117 Killgore Trout

He’s blocking unemployment benefits in a recession. Republican.

No kidding.

The doomers are out in forcer, btw, another reason Bunning is 180 degrees out of sync with reality:

Don’t go wobbly on us now, Ben Bernanke

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The Economic Policy Institute says states face a shortfall of $156bn in fiscal 2010. Most are banned by law from running deficits, so they must retrench. Washington has provided $68bn in federal aid, but that depletes the Obama stimulus package.

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Lots of doomer stuff in that Evans-Pritchard column (but he is known for often concentrating on the harsher side of reality.)

Every time I hear one of the wingnut yokels deride “the stimulus” I can’t help but marvel at how clueless they are… or hard-hearted. A non-trivial chunk of the “stimulus” was to keep states from closing down all sorts of efforts that, if actually missed, would cause outcry.

We are teetering at the edge of a very long and persistent economic malaise, and now is no time for the likes of Bunning to be assholes, even if they were born that way.