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To: Mephisto who wrote (7393)	9/3/2003 8:41:07 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 15516

Bush's economy is 'bumping along' seattlepi.nwsource.com Tuesday, September 2, 2003 SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD President Bush's visit to Richfield, Ohio, yesterday was the first sentence in a long conversation this country needs to have about the economy. Labor Day is the traditional kickoff of the presidential campaign season -- a 15-month debate about the country's direction. Voters usually put the economy -- and especially jobs -- at the top of that list and that portends trouble for the Bush re-election effort. Going into the campaign, the nation's unemployment rate stands at a nine-year high of 6.2 percent with some 9 million Americans officially looking for work. Already Team Bush says the recovery is underway -- touting tax cuts and improving data. "Obviously, the economic recovery is not as strong as we would like, but the trend lines are positive," Labor Secretary as Labor Secretary Elaine Chao said yesterday on CBS's "The Early Show." We hope she and the president are right. In fact two words we'd like to see never used in tandem are "jobless recovery." There can be no recovery for most Americans unless there's a stronger employment base. The president told workers in Ohio that despite of everything the "economy was still bumping along." So, the president said, "we passed tax relief and we lowered taxes once again to create jobs. When you lower taxes, people have more money ... they tell me it was a shallow recession because of the tax relief." We disagree. And, we think it'll be jobs -- not tax relief -- that will be the theme of the campaign ahead.