How can anyone cheer when 1.2 million people gave up even trying to find a job? How can we cheer when, in spite of the claims of the President, we have lost 6 million jobs? How can we cheer locally when the actual unemployment rate is twice what the state claims or more?

The handling of the latest economic crisis has been pitiful. The Obama administration has spent trillions taking care of its special interests and making it financially impossible to respond to any other crisis. Some hope and change.