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chances. there was a lot in the recent weeks, if not months, we ve been thinking the economic picture has been getting rosier if not decidedly rosy. something like this would seem to be a problem for the white house. ezra klein has been saying all along he thought the number would go up. if you want to talk about unemployment, you have to talk about strategies to reverse unemployment. unemployment in spain today is 23.6%. in ireland, it s 20%. in greece, it s 20% and in the united kingdom it s rising above 9%. why? because those economies have chosen a single strategy which is the austerity, the very strategy, surprise surprise that eric cantor, john boehner, mitch mcconnell and mitt romney condemn the president for avoiding and ignoring. so we have an unemployment rate that s gone down to 8.2% and it s sputtering and it s relatively good and then not so great. do you want spain s level? i m not sure that s going to be an argument that obama is going to be able to m ....
house. ezra klein has been saying all along he thought the number would go up. if you want to talk about unemployment, you have to talk about strategies to reverse unemployment. unemployment in spain today is 23.6%. in ireland, it s 20%. in greece, it s 20% and in the united kingdom it s rising above 9%. why? because those economies have chosen a single strategy which is the austerity, the very strategy, surprise surprise that eric cantor, john boehner, mitch mcconnell and mitt romney condemn the president for avoiding and ignoring. so we have an unemployment rate that s gone down to 8.2% and it s sputtering and it s relatively good and then not so great. do you want spain s level? i m not sure that s going to be an argument that obama is going to be able to make summer and fall though. it could be worse. we could be in spain. i m not suggesting that. sure. i m not suggesting that s an argument he s going to make, but what i m trying to say as you ve been saying p ....