Dayton Daily Democrattm
From the editorial page of the Dayton Daily News:FINALLY, JUST IN TIME FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL campaign, the job situation improves.
After several years of historic job loss, the economy is creating jobs at the rate of a couple hundred thousand a month. That's happened for two months in a row now.
In the 1990s, this rate would have looked perfectly ordinary. In this decade, however, it is greeted as a cause for celebration.
"The tax relief we passed is working," says a celebratory president on the stump in Ohio and elsewhere.
It's enough to make a person cynical:
The economy sits there like a bump on a log for three years. Then, when the president has to face the voters, suddenly it's doing what the voters want. What's that about?
Well, it's not about some plan to victimize would-be workers in nonelection years. True, profits turned up long before employment turned up. A cynic might get the impression that the economy was being structured and planned with corporate front offices in mind in 2002 and 2003, and voters only in 2004.
In fact, however, the people who make economic policy aren't smart enough or effective enough to time things as well as they are working for the president.
Matt's Chat
Well, isn't that something. These partisans can't even accept good news for America without turning it in to some Vast Right Wing Conspiracy story.Come on guys, this crap is getting tired. It really is. It's enough to make a person cynical about your bias. The President had a plan and executed that plan. End of story. And I love how now even the people who work for the President are too stupid to do anything right. A cynic might get the impression there is some bias in the Dayton Daily Democrattm.
