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Hightower Lowdown:
Corporate kings grab our tax subsidies but create no new jobs. Obama fiddles.
By gollies, when the economic going gets tough for America's workaday people, you can always count on our tough-minded political leaders to get going! Get going, as in: rush like hell to find some gimmick to make it look like they're doing something without actually, you know, doing anything.