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

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (530174)	1/26/2004 9:50:05 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

US Treasury: No specific job growth targets for 2004 On Friday, in a radio interview, Snow said private sector forecasts that the U.S. economy could create 1.85 million jobs over the next nine months were "reasonable." Critics of the Bush administration's economic policies have said they have failed to provide the promised pickup in jobs. Asked by what benchmark the latest economic package should be judged if Treasury had no official job growth estimates, Nichols said: "The benchmark we care about is that we are going to keep doing our best to strengthen the economy so that every American who's looking for a job can find work. That's the benchmark that we're focused on." biz.yahoo.com In other words Snow is taking about 200K jobs/month, but he is afraid to commit to it because he isn't sure that even that dismal level of job growth can be attained. There are 9 million looking for work and the US needs to support 150K job growth/month just to deal with population growth. In this "recovery", Snow thinks creating an additional 50K jobs/month over and above the population high water mark is "doing their best"? Lets hold this loser administration to their pathetic promises, shall we? (vote anybody but Bush in 04)