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Originally posted by bilmore
The unemployment stats are meaningless at this point, as most of the long-term unemployed have either been shipped to Guantanamo, or have been killed and eaten by right-wing religious fanatics.
There is no true recovery.
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I know this post is just another example of your special way of making us lefties feel loved, so please don't take me as someone stubbornly trying to argue with what was meant as a sarcastic zinger.
But I'm curious: do you (or sgtclub or anyone else on the "things are getting better" side of the argument) find it at all significant that to date the economy has not once generated the monthly number of jobs projected to be created by the admin as it pushed for the latest round of tax cuts?
To me this mismatch would seem to indicate that the tax cuts were poorly crafted to address the jobless recovery we've been having. Or maybe it's just attributable to the fuzziness inherent in predicting economic effects of policy decisions, which itself would raise the question of why these types of projections are given any airing at all.
It just seems funny to look at a downtick in unemployment as a positive for the admin when there is no standard to judge it against. If you have a fairer yardstick (I'm not joining the "metric" crowd - I'm old school) I'd be interested to hear it.
