Thanks, Republicans!

This can only be good news for Rudy Giuliani. Or whatever the Florida equivalent of that classic snarky saying would be ...

Florida's jobless rate spiked to a 13-year high in July, and unemployment in Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties rose sharply.

Florida's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.1 percent last month, the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation said today. The rate is the highest since January 1995, when unemployment stood at 6.5 percent.

Palm Beach County's jobless rate rose to 6.9 percent in July from 6 percent in June. Martin County unemployment rose to 7.1 percent from 6.3 percent the previous month, and St. Lucie County's jobless rate was 9.5 percent, up from 8.1 percent in June.

The county figures are not seasonally adjusted.

Construction employment fell 13.4 percent over the past year, state officials said, as the housing market continued to slow the Florida economy.

Remind me why we keep electing these GOP dumbshits? So they can keep giving back meaningless pittances of our tax dollars instead of investing it, say, in workforce development?

Maybe we can just agree that the whole Conservative Movement is a massive failure, and start cleaning up their mess now. If it's not already too late, that is ...