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It couldn't have happened to a nicer country. On March 18, with very little pomp and circumstance, president Obama passed the most recent stimulus act, the $17.5 billion Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (H.R. 2487), brilliantly goalseeked by the administration's millionaire cronies to abbreviate as HIRE. As it was merely the latest in an endless stream of acts destined to expand the government payroll to infinity, nobody cared about it, or actually read it. Because if anyone had read it, the act would have been known as the Capital Controls Act, as one of the lesser, but infinitely more...

U.S. President Barack Obama signs the HIRE Act, a job growth initiative, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington March 18, 2010. U.S. President Barack Obama says goodbye to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi after signing the HIRE Act, a job growth initiative, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, March 18, 2010. President Barack Obama has a word with Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., after he signed the HIRE Act jobs bill in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 18, 2010. At rear, from left to right: Budget...