Reply #49: The key to understanding that is to look at total employment...

[punpirate]

... rather than the advertised unemployment rate. It's a better indicator. As I recall, right around the time of Bush's second fraudulent inauguration, the total employment was 2-300,000 shy of total employment at time of his first fraudulent inauguration. Taking Jan., 2001, total employment, then adding (48 x 150,000) would give the figure required in Jan., 2005, just to stay even. So, in actuality, Bush is down about 7.5 million jobs. The ones he picked up over the big losses in 2001 and 2002 are mostly in chicken-plucking and burger-flippin'.

Cheers, Ozy. (Great cartoon pick, especially for today. Hoping for the best for all you Delta rank-and-file.)