Score one for Mr. President
Written by: Beck
I can't even begin to say how happy it made me when I turned on my computer this morning, headed over to CNN.com, and saw the lead headline there:
U.S. JOB GROWTH SOARS
Inasmuch as the Dems realized early on that they wouldn't be able to attack Bush strictly on the economy--for one thing, 9/11 did more damage to the economy than any presidential policy could have, and for another thing, the economy had been in steady recovery mode for over a year--they made the brilliant tactical maneuver of announcing that the present economic boom was "a jobless recovery." I knew they'd hit their mark when I heard my mother, during a visit home last month, using the phrase "jobless recovery" at the dinner table.
First of all, the whole jobless recovery bit was nonsense. Non-farm payrolls have been growing since September 2003. But now, they've had a talking point they were extremely fond of yanked out from under them. Jobless recovery what?
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - U.S. payrolls grew at the fastest pace in nearly four years in March, the government said Friday, in a report that soared past Wall Street forecasts and could play a pivotal role in Fed policy and the presidential election... Payrolls outside the farm sector grew by 308,000 jobs in March, the Labor Department reported, compared with a revised gain of 46,000 in February.