ay that warned of slow growth ahead. Austan Goolsbee, who heads the president's Council of Economic Advisers, says the addition of a million new jobs over the past six months shows "we have improved a long way from when the economy was in rescue mode." Employers added 54,000 jobs in May, the fewest in eight months, and Friday's report showed that the unemployment rate had inche — The estimated 45 percent of U.S. households that did not pay income taxes in 2010 would see no change in their tax rates. — Individuals would pay 10 percent tax on the first $50,000 of income. Couples earning $100,000 would also pay that rate. — "Everything above that would be taxed at 25 percent," Pawlenty said. He also wanted to cut business taxes, reducing the current rate from 35 percent to 15 percent. Before the event, Pawlenty's Democratic successor in the Minnesota governor's office dismissed the proposals as the latest ploy from a politician who cares more about rhetoric than results. "I think it's ironic that he's talking about a fiscal plan for the entire country when he left his state a mess," Gov. Mark Dayton said in an interview. "He decided he was going to leave and left it to his successor. They knew they were going to kick this down the road." In speeches, including the one Tuesday at the university where Obama taught law, Pawlenty boasts that he balanced the Minnesota budget during his time in office although he fails to mention he left behind a projected $5 billion deficit. Dayton said the cuts under consideration for the next two-year budget include cuts to special education programs, increases in college students' tuition and limited availability of home health care for seniors to offset the deficits. When he announced his 2012 White House bid, Pawlenty promised policy details but kept his focus on rhetoric. He went to Florida to promise an overhaul of Social Security and Medicare, programs sacrosanct to the state's seniors. In New York, he told Wall Street a Pawlenty presidency would not bail out investors. And in Iowa he promised to phase out subsidies to corn-based ethanol, a deal breaker for many in a state that relies on those federal dollars for a way of life. He pitched himself as a truth teller but was unwilling to offer specifics. Instead, he promised a series of policy announcements that would leave voters convinced he was a policy heavyweight. Tuesday's speech was a first step toward that effort. Appealing to small-government conservatives, he suggested what he called "The Google Test." "If you can find a good or service on the Internet, then the federal government probably doesn't need to be doing it," Pawlenty said. "The post office, the government printing office, Amtrak, Fannie (Mae) and Freddie (Mac) were all built for a time in our country when the private sector did not adequately provide those products. That's