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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (51277)	10/4/2004 9:31:57 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 81568

"Job creation is great. The highest number of people ever working is fact." From: Thomas A Watson 10/4/2004 7:05:25 AM Data extracted on: October 4, 2004 (8:06:32 AM) stats.bls.gov; I have to say that you're the very first person that has quoted from the A-Tables for job growth. I can tell you why people don't generally quote the A-Tables. The A-Tables include government and farm labor. If you're interested in bigger government as a positive factor in employment or if you think we're migrating to a agricultural [pre-industrial economy] the A-Tables are a very good choice. Most people turn their attention to the B-Tables which is non-farm labor and where you can exclude Government employment. Try: bls.gov Check off: Total private [seasonally adjusted] and click on retrieve data. When you get that table, change the year range to 1991 to 2004 and click on include graphs. Look at the graph and then give me your assessment of how great job growth is during the Bush Administration. jttmab

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (51277)	10/4/2004 9:58:21 AM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Thomas I have a few questions you can help me with. 1- How do you think Cheney will do tomorrow against Edwards? 2- What are 3 or 4 of Geo. Bush's biggest faults? 3- Did Bush appear very tired or just scared Thursday night? 4- Do you feel Bush has the ability to deal with foreign leaders in a second term?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (51277)	10/4/2004 10:35:26 AM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Lets say you wrote "It is 100 miles from Los Angeles to New York". I would respond that that statement is false. Using your logic, you would claim you were using a different length of "mile". That would be mendacious at best, since by definition we all use the same definition for a "mile". I understand that those of you without an economics background like to try to redefine the "mile" (job statistics in your case). Sorry, there is an agreed upon set of data and there are good reasons that set is used. Job creation has been exceedingly poor under Bush due to Bush's failed policies. The bottomline is you are 100% wrong on job creation. Yawn ...