Private Businesses Will Calculate Unemployment for Free

In what must be considered, in fairness, a series of rather shaky performances
from the Administration in front of the White House Press Corps, the Administration
has, it seems, developed a break out star in the form of Mick Mulvaney, former
congressman and current director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Regardless of what side of the political aisle one might find oneself, it would be difficult
to deny that Mr. Mulvaney has emerged as an extraordinarily articulate, poised, and
passionate advocate of the idea that the government's budget should take into account
the feelings, needs, and desires of those paying taxes. The fact that such considerations
are viewed as controversial is yet another example of the alternative universe that
Washington, D.C. has become.