Muscatine

If Art Linkletter was on
TV today his show might be called "Harry Reid Says The Darnedest Things!" The
Senate Majority Leader always finds a way to say the dumbest thing at the worst
time. Today's example displays his typical lack of intellectual
dexterity.
During a speech on the Senate floor, the Majority Leader voiced
support of the President's jobs bill by saying,

“It's very clear that private sector jobs have been doing just
fine, it's the public sector jobs where we've lost huge numbers, and that's what
this legislation is all about.”

This Statement was
meant to add weight to the claim that if the Jobs bill is not passed every
teacher and cop in the world will have to be fired. In fact according to the
President, if his bill doesn't get passed little children will be forced to sell
their fake cop costumes and dollhouse classrooms.

Forget for a moment the
original purpose of the President's jobs bill was to stimulate jobs in the
private sector, but in truth, the private sector is doing much worse than the
public sector.  According the Bureau of Labor Statistics the September
unemployment rate for government workers is only 4.7%. The
total unemployment rate
was 9.1%, which mathematically means that the private sector unemployment
must be higher than 9.1% to balance out the 4.7%

Maybe it just depends
what "doing just fine" is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kk6D1-ECnQ