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US presidents approval ratings visualization tool (via Clusterize - US Presidents Job Approval Ratings)
Yes, small businesses account for 65% of net job creation in the US.
But the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy that publishes those statistics defines small businesses as all companies with fewer than 500 employees. With that definition, 99.6% of the 4.8 million private employers in the US are small businesses.
So I would say: largest 0.4% employers create 35% of all net jobs, and that’s precisely the issue with long-term job (non-)growth.
Post-bubble Japanese-style (via 3 Charts From SocGen On Why The “Japanese Scenario” Means Investors Should “Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid” | ZeroHedge)
Estimates of when the US will run out of money (via Charting the American Debt Crisis - Interactive - NYTimes.com)
Most European countries have total tax revenues over GDP above 40%. In the US, total tax revenues (federal, state and local) are about 25% of GDP.

And yet Republicans keep vetoing any tax raise. Go figure.