2.5 million jobs..................MY ASS!
I gurantee you Obama is lowballing that number incredibly. It is ingenious, the ultimate "low expectations" game. I believe this is the case when I watched his youtube address and you can easily tell he is playing this number perfectly. When he FAR exceeds the 2.5 million it will do two things:
1. It will help the American people since more and more jobs are created.
2.It will look like he is making incredible progress in putting this country back on track.
That will keep him in those high 60s in approval ratings right before election time (I am not saying he is playing politics to fix the crisis I am saying this is just killing two birds with one stone). Just watch, God willing I will be here to bring this blog up by 2011 when it is 4 million plus new jobs created by 2011, INGENIOUS.
I agree, it will take at least 4 million workers to build all the things critical lefties want by 2011. Start with all those hospitals to provide universal free health care with the finest technology for everyone, and don't forget the thousands of free abortion clinics for minors can get this done without parental consent, then there will be countless also free daycare centers so every woman with a child can go to work and have the kids nearby, plus all those wonderful headstart schools which have been so successful, job retraining institutes to transfer skills to the obsolete blue collared workers so they can become proficient in the emerging high tech industry making all those toxic batteries for 'green' cars, thousands of drug rehab centers to provided much needed treatment for urban youths, a massive new high speed rail system for bullet trains, tremendous upgrades at all harbours to effectively scrutinize all containers shipped in and a huge fortified border with watchtowers, sycnchronized camera guided machine-guns to mow down anything that triggers the motion detectors along the dangerous Mexican border.
November 24, 2008 3:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wouldn't object to anyone "playing politics to solve the crisis." Politics is about ideas and confidence. So are the markets.
Part of the crisis we have now is that Bush played the expectations game so badly. When he said that subprime was under control, some people believed him. Then giant banks started collapsing, making the government that was supposed to step in and fix the mess look incompetent. We were all left to believe that the government either didn't know what was going on, or didn't want to tell us. Not good, and not a total explanation, but it's partly why we are where we are.
November 24, 2008 8:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Um, you seem to be forgetting about the 2-4 million jobs that will be lost through 2010.
November 25, 2008 1:57 AM | Reply | Permalink