One of the things that is left out of this type of article is Stimulus I & II. Those budget busting, and possibly Republic busting, pieces of legislation were to fund the public sector workers through the recession. The Democrats presumed that the economy would rebound, as it has in the past, and they would get away with robbing the treasury to assure their main contributors retained their jobs. That did not pan out. Instead, the nation is stuck with a boatload of debt and the piggish unions are still bleeding the taxpayers dry.