[politics]
Apr. 21st, 2004 09:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
holzman_tweedI've been tracking on a roughly monthly basis how job creation has been going, whether Bush would get something right or if this would be another failure like everything else he's ever laid his hands on.
Earlier in the month, it was announced that 300,000 jobs were created. To hear "Junior" (as he was known by staffers in his father's White House) talk about it, this was the vindication of his tax cuts and time to do the Snoopy Dance on the white house lawn.
Regular readers of this blog will recall that 256,400 per month are needed for Junior to reach his stated goal of 2.7 million jobs by years end, and 300,000 certainly clears that bar.
Well, you'll never guess what. They cooked the books.
Jim Hightower reports that 50,000 of those new jobs were simply people coming off strike against some California supermarkets. 250,000 doesn't cut it, and the Junior's new monthly target is 257,111 jobs per month.
But wait, it gets better! February's jobs created figure is being cited at 21,000, not 28,000. Restatement again, bringing the required total jobs up to 257,888.
But also keep in mind that this is simply new jobs created. Jobs lost are not factored into this figure. What kind of jobs are not factored into this figure.
Earlier in the month, it was announced that 300,000 jobs were created. To hear "Junior" (as he was known by staffers in his father's White House) talk about it, this was the vindication of his tax cuts and time to do the Snoopy Dance on the white house lawn.
Regular readers of this blog will recall that 256,400 per month are needed for Junior to reach his stated goal of 2.7 million jobs by years end, and 300,000 certainly clears that bar.
Well, you'll never guess what. They cooked the books.
Jim Hightower reports that 50,000 of those new jobs were simply people coming off strike against some California supermarkets. 250,000 doesn't cut it, and the Junior's new monthly target is 257,111 jobs per month.
But wait, it gets better! February's jobs created figure is being cited at 21,000, not 28,000. Restatement again, bringing the required total jobs up to 257,888.
But also keep in mind that this is simply new jobs created. Jobs lost are not factored into this figure. What kind of jobs are not factored into this figure.