Journalhttp://lesaucoin.squarespace.com/journal/Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:18:26 +0000en-USSquarespace Site Server v5.8.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)I'm Switching To A New BlogFormer Congressman Les AuCoinLes AuCoinThe Les AuCoin BlogLes AuCoinFri, 06 Nov 2009 18:39:17 +0000http://lesaucoin.squarespace.com/journal/2009/11/6/im-switching-to-a-new-blog.html63293:5104149:5719684I’ve had it with Squarespace, a too-costly, frustrating blog hosting service with impersonal and inadequate technical help. You can find my new blog here. I hope you will bookmark it. And to my subscribers, I hope that you will cancel your subscription here and start a new one there.

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]]>http://lesaucoin.squarespace.com/journal/rss-comments-entry-5719684.xmlWhere Are You On the Map Of Economic Stress?Congressional DemocratsEconomyEconomyForeclosuresGeitnerNPRObamaReichUnemploymentUnemploymentLes AuCoinTue, 03 Nov 2009 05:47:09 +0000http://lesaucoin.squarespace.com/journal/2009/11/2/where-are-you-on-the-map-of-economic-stress.html63293:5104149:5682819The Associated Press has a national county-by-county map showing economic conditions like unemployment, home foreclosures, etc. The terrain isn’t pretty. Click here to see where you are. (Wait for it to load.)

Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich writes (here, in Slate) that for Obama giving life support to the catatonic jobs sector may be more important that health care reform. 

Meanwhile, in the Huffington Post Bill Maher (whom no one should confuse as being the intellectual equal to Reich and whom was being unfair for satirical effect …) nevertheless reflected a tone I’ve heard from a troubling number of Democrats in Congress:

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