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Right Direction? Wha?

Submitted by Robert Lindquist on Sat, 08/08/2009 - 12:06pm

When my wife came home and told me about the audio clip she had heard on Rush, I really thought she had heard wrong. So, I checked it out. She was right.

"Last week, we received a report on America's Gross Dometic product, a key measure of our economics health, aaannnddd, it showed marked improvement over the last few months. Today, we are pointed in the right direction, we are losing jobs at half the rate of what we were when I took office." Adding to that, citing yesterday's Labor Department report that (supposedly) showed a dip in unemployment, Obama said on his weekly radio show, "We've begun to put the brakes on this recession and ... the worst may be behind us."

First all, what appears to be a typo in that quote ("economics health") is not. Obviously, it should be "economy's health." No biggie. But if George Bush had said that, it would have been the lead on Letterman and Leno.

Secondly, to say that "We are losing jobs at half the rate as when I took office" is just speculation. He knows full well that no one in the press will call him on it, so why bother to get the real numbers. He's learned that he can pretty much say whatever he wants without any repercussions from the ultra-soft, mainstream press.

But let's assume his figures are dead-on accurate. When you get to the real meat of the matter, it's just simple math. If we continue to lose jobs at half the rate of the previous month, then eventually, everyone will be unemployed, at which point the administration will be able to take credit for totally curbing the loss of jobs. There will be no jobs for people to lose. So, I actually have to agree with Obama on this one. We are headed in the right direction... assuming the right direction is down.