President-Elect Barack Obama told us last week, as did the news media that last month we suffered the worst monthly job loss in 34 years, and almost 2 million Americans lost their jobs since December 2007. He also forewarned that it is only going to get worse before it begins to get better. These realities, I’m only too certain, will be explained in great detail in this afternoon’s post-agenda. The legislature is also currently considering repealing their automatic pay raises. The sponsor of the anti-COLA bill said the following: So I invite you to ask them if $12,690 is chump change.