The sad cost of war

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Originally Posted by Danzig

and here's this, on the stimulus spending, from a few months back:


http://www.factcheck.org/2009/06/mak...ulus-spending/


~The Obama team originally estimated, for example, that unless a stimulus plan was enacted, the unemployment rate would reach nearly 9 percent sometime in the first three months of next year....


...But as things have turned out, even with the big spending package in place, the jobless rate shot up to 9.4 percent in May, according to the most recent figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Please look at the link I posted, which has the CURRENT information.