Even President Barack Obama's senior advisor Valerie Jarrett admits the so-called American Jobs Act has not been fully written yet. That fact would have been impossible to ascertain by listening to the president's recent address to a joint session of Congress. His rhetoric delivered before an actual plan even exists and, of course, Edgar Allan Poe have inspired the verses below.

Once upon a summer evening, while the Congress was convening
Hoping they would get to witness oratory skill
In strode a familiar fellow, who before had seemed so mellow,
Now began to speak in tones bordering on shrill
Perhaps in an attempt to bring to legs another thrill
Quoth Obama, "Pass this bill"

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Have you heard the one about the $787 billion stimulus bill that had to be passed to keep the unemployment rate below eight percent? Turns out the bill cost an additional $75 billion (for a total of $862 billion) mostly because unemployment benefits are costing more now that the unemployment rate is at ten percent. I really wish this was a joke but unfortunately, it's the bottom line in Tuesday's cost estimate of the Recovery Act by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. (source)

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