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Breakfast Scramble (Tuesday)

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Obama administration clueless on jobs, from Fox News Sunday interview by Chris Wallace of Bbama brand spanking new economic advisor Austan Goolsbee, Fox News [1]:

GOOLSBEE: But I don’t think the unemployment rate will be coming down significantly anytime in the near future.

WALLACE: Do you think it will — you’ll be — it’s now 9.6 percent. End of this year?

GOOLSBEE: I don’t — look, I try to stay out of the specific forecasting games other than our official forecast. I think it’s clear that the labor market is significantly weakened, has been for some time. We have to do everything we can to try to create jobs and get people back to work.

WALLACE: Could it be 10 percent by the end of the year?

GOOLSBEE: Look, as I say, I’m not going to speculate. We have official forecasts and we’ll release them when they come out.

WALLACE: But you don’t expect…

GOOLSBEE: We need to do everything…

WALLACE: … it to go down appreciably from…

GOOLSBEE: I don’t expect it to go down appreciably. That’s what — our forecast, and most of the private forecasts say the same thing.

With the official unemployment rating pushing ten percent, the Obama administration has no plan on bring it down, and apparently no sense of urgency.

Banned books, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852 maybe the mosst important book ever written in American history.    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, 1884 is considered the greatest American novel.    Yet Tom and Huck, joins forty–eight other commonly banned books.   From AARP [2].

To ban books is to imperil our ability to understand the human condition.