The job crisis: Solved in 10 pages?

By Michael Veldman

STAFF COLUMNIST

House Republicans, led by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), recently released their Plan for America?s Job Creators. The document, as well as a shortened summary version, can be accessed from . When I first opened the full document, I thought I had chosen the summary by mistake. As Paul Krugman notes, it ?has to rely on extra-large type and lots of pointless pictures to bulk it out even to 10 pages.? Indeed, the equivalent of four pages of the document consists of images of cars at the gas station, scissors cutting red tape, and the like. Another page is a platitude-ridden introduction that could be substituted by manic repetition of the phrases ?common-sense,? ?pro-growth,? ?job creators,? and ?remove Washington? to the same effect.

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