McCain Campaign: "A Nation of Whiners"

Last week:

Job-hunters faced a bleak start to summer, with employers shedding another 79,000 positions in June, according to ADP's monthly report.

Declines were much broader than previous months, as continued weakness in the housing and financial sectors bled into other areas. Even the services sector -- which had not posted a decline since November 2002 -- slashed 3,000 jobs over the course of the month.

The response of the McCain campaign? Here's what his top economic advisor thinks -- sentiments that McCain himself echoed repeatedly for months:

Former senator Phil Gramm, a top policy adviser of Sen. John McCain's, said the nation is in a "mental recession," not an actual one, and suggested the United States has "become a nation of whiners."

People losing jobs across the country, according to the McCain campaign, are whiners. That ought to go over well in communities being hurt due to unemployment.

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