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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (513050)	12/19/2003 12:58:03 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

American "Disappeared" The last few weeks have brought headlines to help sustain the fantasy. Unemployment numbers have been edging down. The Detroit Free Press explains that the decrease, in their area anyway, was a result of taking people off the list who had not been able to find a job. They are no longer merely jobless, it would seem; they no longer exist. The other big reduction in the jobless numbers has come from "restaurant hiring," in which well-paid computer engineers take jobs as busboys while they wait for the 'recovery' to gather itself together. They may wash a lot of dishes before the recovery actually arrives. Economist Joseph Schumpeter, quoted by Marc Faber, explains why: "Our analysis leads us to believe that recovery is sound only if it does come from itself. For any revival which is merely due to artificial stimulus leaves part of the work of depression undone and adds, to an undigested remnant of maladjustments, new maladjustments of its own."