Posted by
Catmman on Sunday, November 23, 2008 6:14:40 PM
So sayeth Obama's website (the soft bigotry of low expectations
continues unabated):
"The plan will mean 2.5 million more jobs" by 2011, Obama said. His Web site clarified that the plan would "save or create" that many jobs.
Obama's website says it right
here. This indeed is a bold initiative. I suppose you could also say that if Obama fails to create
any jobs by 2011 his economic plan is a
success? Is that
really an economic plan? I enjoy the double talk - Obama says one thing, his web site "clarifies" it. Why not just say it? Will you create new jobs? Or will you "save" old jobs? If you only "save" jobs, then what is it you really did? And if you claim that you saved said jobs, by what measurement do you use to quantify that, "
See? Told ya!"?
Something else to ponder: Just some cursory glancing at the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows about a million or so jobs created annually on average (the numbers do fluctuate but bare with me for the sake of my point). Obama says he wants to create 2.5 million jobs in two years. That is pretty much along the statistical average for annual job growth anyway (for two years), so what's the big dang deal? Of course the next year could be pretty shacky with the state of the economy right now, but come on. Is it really a "plan" to "create" jobs which were probably going to be created anyway? And if you simply "saved" jobs, you did nothing for the economy or the overall unemployment rate so what the heck are you bragging about?
No word in Obama's economic plan thus far on paying for
that one lady's gas and mortage...