Holding Elected Officials Responsible for Unemployment - NYTimes.com

Holding Elected Officials Responsible for Unemployment - NYTimes.com: "We approach the midterm elections, and the unemployment rate is 9.6 percent. Inevitably, economic policy will play a major role in voting decisions, but wise voting and wise policy require us to recognize two central, almost contradictory, truths about the government and the economy: economic policy does affect people’s lives and the economy, and, less obviously, most of what happens in the economy has little to do with government policy."