Hurricanes were Bush's jobs-creation program
You may recall that George W. Bush was blamed by the "Scientists and Engineers for Change and Environment2004" and the NAACP National Voter Fund for the hurricanes that devastated Florida this year.
No, really, he was.
Now we learn that bringing hurricanes to Florida was part of his devilishly clever pre-election economic program:
Last month, American employers added 337,000 new jobs, the largest increase in seven months.
The biggest single engine for job creation was the hurricanes.
Part of the pick-up in jobs was down to the worst hurricane seasons for many years. About 71,000 new construction jobs had been added - the most since March 2000.
Kathleen Utgoff, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said this "reflected rebuilding and clean-up activity in the south-east following the four hurricanes that struck the US in August and September".
And they say Bush is not very bright. . .
by Donald Sensing, 11/6/2004 09:08:34 AM. Permalink |
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