From the "Let Them Eat Cake" Dept.

The assholes who are our leaders....

Paulson said the loss of jobs signals a ``tough'' quarter for growth, while stopping short of saying the economy has entered a recession.

The February jobs report was ``not welcome news, not good news,'' Paulson said in a press conference in East Palo Alto, California. ``This is a tough quarter, we knew it.''

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Yeah, tough. More and more people financially wiped out as a result of being played by those more sophisticated (who aren't being hurt so bad). Yeah, tough quarter....