White House cooking Jobs creation book?

59millionmorons

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Fri Jun-04-04 05:43 PM
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White House cooking Jobs creation book?

Seems funny that the same day 248,000 jobs were supposedly created Bush just happened to have a new ad airing about the 1.4 jobs created this year. Remember a few years ago when they just happened to come up with a new way of calculating the unemployment numbers which immediately took the unemployment rate from 6.0 to 5.8. I smell something fishy.

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nadinbrzezinski

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Fri Jun-04-04 05:45 PM
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1. Not only fishy

but quite rotten...

I had the same thought this morning when I heard the numbers

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Qutzupalotl

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Fri Jun-04-04 06:23 PM
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5. You got that right:

http://www.nypost.com/business/22197.htm

"When the government announced that 288,000 jobs were created this past April, for instance, that figure included a whopping 270,000 jobs that the Labor Department estimated — but couldn't prove — had been created by new companies.

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Trajan

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Fri Jun-04-04 05:47 PM
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2. I understand ....

Crankly lil hobbits will come and whap you with Elvish blades of GOP Truth ...

Chuckles ...

Being a Democrat can be a tough road to hoe in DemocraticUndererground.com .....

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AntiCoup2K4

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Fri Jun-04-04 05:51 PM
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3. The numbers are meaningless without a context of where they come from.

Do they even have to prove what states the jobs are in?

If a company "creates" 1000 jobs in India, how does that help the US economy? How many American citizens does that help?

Is McDonalds considered a "manufacturing" job? They DO manufacture fast food, right?

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Momof1

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Fri Jun-04-04 06:21 PM
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4. In May all the high school kids line up their McJobs

for the summer.

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lanparty

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Fri Jun-04-04 06:24 PM
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6. They're bogus

Look in the Sunday want ads, you'll see little new demand.

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