Reply #13: You're not missing something.

[ozymandius]

Bush is. This rhetoric is called lying by ommission.

This was posted by Maeve on Friday:

"But the job growth so far is unlikely to be much help to President Bush, whose re-election effort in 2004 depends in large part on how Americans feel about the economy, and the job market.

When pushing for tax cuts earlier this year, Bush promised his proposals would create 300,000 jobs a month. And more recently, Treasury Secretary John Snow suggested the economy could start adding 200,000 jobs a month in October.

So far, neither rate has been approached, and Friday's report seemed certain to draw fire from the left, including Democrats seeking to replace Bush."
http://money.cnn.com/2003/12/05/news/economy/jobs/index.htm

And another post from Maeve:

Just to keep up with the population growth (120-170K, estimates vary within that range), so the hole is still expanding.

As for the media-types who trumpet new jobs in this economy, I am reminded of the waiter listening to a speech in which a politician bragged about creating new jobs. "Yeah," said the waiter. "And I'm holding down three of them!"

Quantity does not equal quality. Someone should be asking "what kind of jobs?"