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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (19804)	10/18/2004 12:56:07 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

Notice all the oil stocks at their highs in the stock market....no accident.

To: American Spirit who wrote (19804)	10/18/2004 1:17:00 AM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

Ah, now I understand. The 821,000 public sector jobs --teachers, firemen, policemen, etc. -- don't count. Fess up dude, your 1.6 million job loss claim is, according to factcheck.org, misleading. factcheck.org Kerry misled when he claimed the economy has lost 1.6 million jobs under Bush. It is true that figures released earlier in the day show the economy is still down by 1.6 million private sector jobs since Bush took office, but the drop in total payroll employment -- including teachers, firemen, policemen and other federal, state and local government employees -- is down by much less than that -- 821,000. Furthermore, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced, with the release of the latest figures, that its yearly "benchmark" revision would add an estimated 236,000 payroll jobs to the total when made final next February. That means the best current estimate is that 585,000 jobs have been lost under Bush, about one-third of the number Kerry stated.