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August 7, 2008
Less Jobs = Bad Job = McBush's Job
This time, they didn't wait for Friday. The July job and unemployment numbers
are out for last month and they look a lot like the numbers from the seven
months preceding it. Lost are an additional 51,000 jobs (bringing this year's
total close to a half-million jobs lost). Plus, as one would assume,
unemployment has risen as well to a new high of 5.7 percent.
And that doesn't even include those Americans without jobs who have given up
every chance and hope of finding employment in the waning days of this, the
Administration of Diminished Responsibility.
The bad news doesn't stop there. Along with the loss of jobs and Bush's newer
and higher unemployment numbers is the news that Inflation's ceiling has been
raised disproportionately once again. For the single month of July, the Consumer
Price Index rose 1.1 percent. If one were to amortize that number out for a
whole year, one would be talking about an inflation rate upwards of fourteen
percent.
Go on, ask your boss for a fourteen percent raise this year and wait for his
response.
Do you remember the Right Wing's arguments about the Market and imports which
came to their height during these past seven-plus years? Allow me to refresh
your collective memories about what the Bush administration said about
outsourcing our American jobs:
"Outsourcing... is a good thing,"
-Dr. M. Gregory Minkow, former Chief of the President's Economic Advisors
Today's news includes the proof that Outsourcing is NOT a good thing. While we
have lost our jobs to overseas manufacturers so Wal-Mart can bring you "Low, Low
Prices, Every Day", the amount our imports have gone up continues to amaze. The
US Import Price Index, which measures the cost of those "cheap" goods we bring
in to make a few of Bush's (now John McCain's) "base of haves and have mores"
have even more, has gone up a staggering 2.6 percent, more than double the CPI.
In other words, those cheap imports ain't so cheap anymore.
In the "Let's see how we can spin this" side of this overwhelmingly bad news,
the Bush administration has only three employment statistics to point to as
"Good". The first two were Education and health services, which projected an
additional 39,000 jobs; and the Leisure and Hospitality industry which saw an
increase of some one-thousand (yeah, I'm not joking) jobs. Certainly we'll see
and hear a Bush administration statement-of-spin saying something like this:
"There were signs of the economy improving,"
...even though there aren't.
There is, however, one more "industry" which showed job growth, and it's an
"industry" which has grown to bloated proportions during the Bush years. The
category is listed simply as "Government", and in the month of July, the Bushies
have managed to add an additional 25,000 people to the ranks of the
bureaucratically employed.
So much for "Small Government Republicans".
I can't wait for these free-market, small-government, Compassionate
Conservatives to get out already.
They cost too much.
-Noah Greenberg
In response to John McCain's Campaign's chaos, Sheila writes:
McSame's problem is simple: He fully expected to be slinging mud at Hillary and
had all her baggage ready to smack her with it. Then along comes this
charismatic, intelligent, patriotic American who draws crowds (as opposed to
McSame who has to find a crowd and then worm his way in there to give a speech)
and he is the nominee and BAM McSame's campaign is in shambles which I admit
tickles me to death.
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-Noah Greenberg