11/08/2003

HOW THE LEFT MEDIA VIEWS THE JOBS DATA
Frisco: After playing it pretty straight for a few paragraphs, they start whining.

too little, too late to improve prospects for job seekers, including the 2 million workers who have been unemployed for more than six months.
first recovery since the Great Depression in which jobs have failed to regain all lost ground 31 months after the beginning of a recession...
Not as good as when Clinton was President.
Then moving right along to our pink pals at the Washington Post; they play it very straight for the first few paragraphes (this is the standard reporting tactic) but then....
...even with the gains of the past three months, the number of payroll jobs is still about 2.4 million lower than it was when the slump began in March 2001 while the jobless rate, at 6 percent, is nearly 2 percentage points higher (than under Clinton).
(Quoting Pete Stark, D. CA)This level of job creation, while better than expected, is probably not strong enough to keep up with the growing labor force, let alone erase the enormous jobs deficit any time soon. . . . Unfortunately, we are still a long way from a robust jobs recovery
And on and on in paper after paper. Things are still bad, hopeless for most people, impossible for economy to grow enough to "save" everyone. The NYT actually plays the story pretty well, saving a separate two column bash for the whining Democrats who actually read as a pathetic bunch of bozos. Only the Temple of Evil in Los Angeles plays the story straight, actually adding all the other elements like productivity into their report. Prepare for a huge drop in readership there. The Left will now attack our country by claiming the recovery is too slow, Clinton did better (with higher taxes), people are still miserable and need to be "rescued" (by you know who), and the deficit.
The rest of us can just go out and make money. AND BY THE WAY Here in LA there is nothing, like zero and nada, on sale anywhere. The stores are all getting full pop. While we may piss and moan about it when shopping, this is actually great news. It means people are buying and stores don't have to cut margins. Another good sign.

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