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GOP's Austerity Chickens Come Home to Roost

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Today's dismal jobs report -- just 69,000 net jobs created last month and the unemployment rate ticking up slightly to 8.2 percent -- shows that the GOP's success at manufacturing crises, blocking new job creation measures, and forcing deep spending cuts is taking a severe toll on our economy and the lives of millions of unemployed Americans. Why would Republicans want a weaker economy? Republicans have made clear that defeating the president, which would be made much easier by a weak economy, is their number one priority.
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