Here in Las Vegas, its 13.1% an all-time high; in California, 11.9%, a post-WWII record; in New York, 9.6%, a 12-year high.
Obama and his Democrats can take their “green shoots”, “stimulus” and “hope and change” and shove ’em. We don’t want bail-outs for failed banks and businesses, we want an economy where people can work to build their dreams.
UPDATE: Bernanke and the Stimulators claim to have saved the world. Mish’s explains that they are, well, insane.
UPDATE II: Steyn notes that never in the course of history has so much been borrowed from so many to benefit so few.