Convention Highlights

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The Republican Party has found itself on the outskirts now, on the verge of becoming a permanent minority party, because the RNC convention revealed it to be empty of actual policy, simply falling back on rancor, attack, insult, scare tactics and wanting to undo all the gains of the past 150 years. Useless.

Here Ezra Klein, a few days ago, explains how government lay-offs has killed job growth, and the good job growth we've had in the private sector past 4 years.

The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein breaks down what the US economy might look like if government employment was at the same level as in previous recessions under Reagan and Bush 41. "If we hadn't lost public sector jobs, unemployment would be at 7.8 percent," he says.

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