Obama is in a mess!

[bhikkhu]

58. Who is playing word games?

4 million new jobs created is a recovery.

If you want to play republican word games, how about we say there are only 142 million or so total jobs in the US, and 311 million people living here; that's a whopping 56% unemployment rate. Who are all these slackers!?!

The important thing is that we are moving in the right direction, which is more jobs. The existence of problems doesn't imply that things aren't getting better.

Fixating on a number that needs improvement and ignoring ongoing improvement is the RW talking point that is being used to discredit the efforts of the party and con people into another republican sweep. Remember 2010? Perhaps Romney and Ryan and Gingrich and so forth have ideas that will improve the numbers faster (no minimum wage, children and elderly working, unions gone, etc), but it will definitely be a change of direction!