How many jobs lost?

So while people are throwing around anti-stimulus and pro-stimulus arguments, have we even stopped to think about the sheer numbers of jobs lost in the past 2 months alone?

659,000 jobs lost in December
522,000 jobs lost in January

For a total of 1,181,000 jobs lost in a 2 month time span.

The chairman of the group that complied these numbers says that all a stimulus will do is limit unemployment to 8% this year, and allow only 3 million jobs to be lost.

Think we don't need a stimulus? Okay give me some other options than just "let the market handle it". Or is that all the Republicans are proposing?

And you know what, I am pretty sick of this b.s. found in the WaPo's The Fix this morning.

Sen. John McCain -- apparently not ready to become Obama's favorite Senator -- sent out an email via his Country First political action committee urging his supporters to sign a petition stating their opposition to the current stimulus plan. "The proposal on the table is big on the giveaways for the special interests and corporate high rollers, yet short on help for ordinary working Americans," McCain wrote.

Bipartisan for the lose. No offense on McCain, but his PAC doesn't even have a website yet, its just a email newsletter link. So what is the Maverick's plan for economic recovery then? Well its tax cuts. Repeated, redone, re-funded Reagan and Bush Jr. tax cuts. But then he says we need more military spending. And across the board spending cuts after 2 quarters of growth.

Is this all the minority party has to offer? They screamed at Democrats about obstuctism in the Bush 2nd term, but when they have the chance to offer meaningful moderate progressive ideas, they go back to their old standbys?

And Obama is the nailed for "special interest stimulus" in promoting those ideas?

Not to mention:

"If, on the other hand, Obama's plan is not perceived to move the economy in the right direction or is seen as yet another big spending bill with limited real-world effect, then Republicans will be well positioned heading into the 2010 midterm elections.

The not knowing is what makes politics so unpredictable -- and so great."


GREAT!? This is GREAT!?

I am beyond sick of this partisan bickering coming from Fox News and Republicans.

And then Arrinna Huffington was on MSNBC this morning saying the stimulus is not progressive enough. More needs to be done in teacher merit pay standards, environmental jobs, and is "not bold enough".

So progressive liberals want more. Conservatives want nothing.

All this while atleast 3 million more jobs will be lost before 2010.