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A Rather Sparse Jobs Plan
After taking heat on Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget plan, House Republicans tried to "reset the debate" with a new jobs plan. However, Paul Krugman notes "there's so little there there that the document -- look at it! -- has to rely on extra-large type and lots of pointless pictures to bulk it out even to 10 pages."

Ezra Klein: "Academic books pack about 600 words to a page. Normal books clock in around 400. Large-print books -- you know, the ones for kids or the visually impaired -- fit about 250. The House GOP's jobs plan, however, gets about 200 words to a page. The typeface is fit for giants, and the document's 10 pages are mostly taken up by pictures. It looks like the staffer in charge forgot the assignment was due on Thursday rather than Friday, and so cranked the font up to 24 and began dumping clip art to pad out the plan."

Steve Benen sees nothing new: "It's as if someone bought an iPod, uploaded one song, and hit 'shuffle.'"


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