Shrub's "Ohio Jobs" Ad is Wishful Thinking.

[Kukesa]

In his radio ad "Optimism Ohio," Shrub states Ohio has added 1,100 jobs in May; that barely makes a dent in the total number of Ohio jobs lost since he took office -- 218,400. And, the number of good-paying manufacturing jobs actually decreased by 900 in May.

Link here:

http://tinyurl.com/2s64f

And be sure to point that out when your RW friends bring up this stupid ad.

[Prodemsouth]

1. Yeah, many of these jobs are interstate temp jobs- Travel up 1-75 and you

will see what I am talking about

[daveskilt]

2. and don't forget the pay differential

I am interviewing for an ohio job right now. I just got my MBA and while there is a job in ohio now - the pay is about 15-20k less than it would have been a couple of years ago.

great bush plan - lose jobs - gain them back again with lower pay, higher health insurance premiums and high interest rates on the debt that the unemployed piled up while waiting for their jobs to come back. step 2 call the return of the jobs a success.

we used to call this an aberdonian discount (raise prices by 50% then announce a 10% off sale)

[Maeve]

3. From Saturday's Columbus Dispatch

(I think registration required)
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2004/07/03/20040...

Monthly job estimates can fuel misleading conclusions
Preliminary figures often get quoted, but numbers can change greatly when revised
Saturday, July 03, 2004
Mark Niquette
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

When Vice President Dick Cheney stopped in Lewis Center last month to say the economy is "moving in the right direction," one of the statistics he cited as proof was Ohio’s job growth in April.

"About 4,300 workers found new jobs in April here in Ohio," Cheney said during a speech at NexTech Materials.

Treasury Secretary John W. Snow also pointed to the statistic during a recent trip to Columbus, saying, "That’s terrific news for 4,300 of Ohio’s workers and their families."

The problem was, Ohio actually lost 700 jobs in April.
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One more quote from the article--
"My advice to people is not to believe a word any politician says about statistics," said Lucia Dunn, an Ohio State University economics professor. "They can make the numbers read any way they want to."