Supply side economics anyone?

Despite our presently anemic economy, conservatives still want to make the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy "permanent."  The idea is that these tax cuts performed so well that they are necessary for our country's well being. A great analysis of the data that proves this idea wrong can be found at

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/02/pdf/picker_jobs.pdf

You can go to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and download data for yourself and do your own analysis

http://www.bls.gov/