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Nov 8, 2011, 6:50 am  Republicans—Primarily—Make Jobless Plight
Worse  BY David Moberg  Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) (R) shakes hands
with Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) as they wait for an elevator
outside the Senate floor after voting against President Obama's
America Jobs Act October 11, 2011 in Washington, DC.   (Chip
Somodevilla/Getty Images)  The country's unemployment crisis
continues, as GOP blocks small stimulus bills and  expiration of
jobless benefits looms  The unemployment figures released last
Friday may have been discouraging, but putting them in the
context of what Republicans—primarily—have been doing
politically, they also seem cruel, outrageous, and unnecessarily
harsh. The number of jobs in the United States grew last month,
but the bad news is that the 80,000 net new openings did not
quite keep pace with the growth in numbers of people looking for
work. Even when averaged with the revised, healthier figures for
the previous two months