Not just a talk show meme anymore

Howie says:

There are two Americas. John Edwards was right. But not in the way that the Anthony Weiner of the last decade could have ever imagined. The two Americas are the Dreaded Private Sector, where the real unemployment rate hovers close to 20 percent, and housing prices have taken a bigger plunge than they did during the Great Depression. And then there’s Public Sector America, where the good times never end.

That Dreaded Private Sector needs to shape up. In a command economy, can't you just order it to shape up?