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

To: tonto who wrote (513172)	12/19/2003 5:28:22 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Now go back and dig up the unemployment numbers since 2000. You'll find 2.5 million missing. We experienced massive layoffs throughout the 2000-2002 period extending into 2003. Now we seem to have hit bottom and are inching back up, but considering the amount of deficit spending we SHOULD be adding millions of new jobs, like 4-5 million more. Bush is putting 500 billion a year on the national credit card. Divide that by $50,000 (average salary) and see how many jobs he should be creating at the bare minimum. Since he isn't, it proves his trickle down policies only help those at the top who don't need jobs.

To: tonto who wrote (513172)	12/19/2003 6:46:45 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

You need to provide links so that others can see where you're getting your numbers. epinet.org The primary focus of this article is the manner in which employment is counted. ...According to the payroll survey, employment has fallen by 726,000 jobs since the end of the recession in November 2001 and employment has fallen by 2.4 million since the start of the recession in March 2001....</> From the graph, it appears that payroll numbers started going down in Q1 2001 and have continued to drop since then.