The irony here is that Keynesians and monetarists to a man and woman say they love jobs, but their confused ideology which says money can be had at rates set by governmental planners blinds them to the reality that if you love jobs, you must love the very savers whose capital makes employment opportunities more plentiful.

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So man up and woman up and stand before the voters in debates and town halls and say, 'Yea, we passed the stimulus bill because we needed to do something to get this economy going.

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However the tradition has upset some women, who say the tradition is rather sexist, since it involves the man getting the book and the woman the rose.

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For instance, Mr Obama favoured same-sex marriage in 1996, only to say in 2004 when running for the Senate that he believed marriage is between a man and a woman.

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