Pres. Obama: Bringing Even More Change to U. S. Jobs Really Soon
The new Federal Department of Unmeasurable Statistics estimated yesterday that super-extra focus on Hopenchange emanating from President Obama's transcendent consciousness, plus a few hundred billion dollars in deficit spending, will "create or save" precisely 600,000 more jobs by the end of the summer. This compares to how his slightly more distracted focus on Hopenchange (he was just moving in and had to take some time choosing the drapes, figuring out how to work the phone system, updating his business cards, etc) plus a few hundred billion dollars in deficit spending "created or saved" 150,000 jobs in his first 100 days. This comes as quite a relief as there were 345,000 jobs he forgot to "create or save" in May alone, and another 504,000 he forgot to "create or save" in April. All told there have been 1.6 million jobs which the president's glorious stimulativity didn't get around to "creating or saving" so far.
Or I mean there would be if that was measured by how many have been shed since the time we were warned how really, truly awful the jobs situation would get if we didn't let the president stimulate us back to a sound economy with gobs of borrowed money and a bevy or earmarks for his Democratic buddies in Congress. But I guess we're not doing that kind of measuring any more, preferring to focus on the far happier "created or saved" figure provided by magical pixies, or gnomes leaving post-it notes on white house computer screens in the wee hours of the morning, or however it's derived.
Of course reactionary cynics may note that it seems odd for the Obama administration to follow their prior attempt in "creating or saving" jobs by more of the same, when the economy actually shed 17% more jobs than said administration forecast would be lost if they did absolutely nothing to try to save them. This graph from Geoff at Innocent Bystanders illustrates this insolent observation of actual measurable employment numbers, rooted in the failed politics of the past which our Great Leader has promised to transcend:
But happy members of Obama-nation know this ignores the important foundational work going on in delivering us into a new era of Hopeyness. Can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, as the saying goes, and you can't "create or save" a few hundred thousand jobs without "collateral damage" to a few hundred thousand other jobs. That should just go without saying. I mean really people, does he have to spell everything out for you?
Next on the agenda... reforming the nation's health care system. We can surely look forward to President Obama providing the same kind of rigorous attention to detail and seriousness of thought in that arena as he's already demonstrating by "creating or saving" us toward double digit unemployment. And the same press corps which is boldly choosing not to question the president's transformatively non-falsifiable contentions is already gearing up to tell us how fantastically better it's going to make all of our lives. I for one can't wait.
UPDATE:
Yet another illustration showing how some people are still stuck in the tired old politics in which elected officials are expected to keep promises and are held to account for the actual results of their policies. It's sad how this guy just does not get Hopenchange.
(h/t Allah)
Or I mean there would be if that was measured by how many have been shed since the time we were warned how really, truly awful the jobs situation would get if we didn't let the president stimulate us back to a sound economy with gobs of borrowed money and a bevy or earmarks for his Democratic buddies in Congress. But I guess we're not doing that kind of measuring any more, preferring to focus on the far happier "created or saved" figure provided by magical pixies, or gnomes leaving post-it notes on white house computer screens in the wee hours of the morning, or however it's derived.
Of course reactionary cynics may note that it seems odd for the Obama administration to follow their prior attempt in "creating or saving" jobs by more of the same, when the economy actually shed 17% more jobs than said administration forecast would be lost if they did absolutely nothing to try to save them. This graph from Geoff at Innocent Bystanders illustrates this insolent observation of actual measurable employment numbers, rooted in the failed politics of the past which our Great Leader has promised to transcend:
But happy members of Obama-nation know this ignores the important foundational work going on in delivering us into a new era of Hopeyness. Can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, as the saying goes, and you can't "create or save" a few hundred thousand jobs without "collateral damage" to a few hundred thousand other jobs. That should just go without saying. I mean really people, does he have to spell everything out for you?
Next on the agenda... reforming the nation's health care system. We can surely look forward to President Obama providing the same kind of rigorous attention to detail and seriousness of thought in that arena as he's already demonstrating by "creating or saving" us toward double digit unemployment. And the same press corps which is boldly choosing not to question the president's transformatively non-falsifiable contentions is already gearing up to tell us how fantastically better it's going to make all of our lives. I for one can't wait.
UPDATE:
Yet another illustration showing how some people are still stuck in the tired old politics in which elected officials are expected to keep promises and are held to account for the actual results of their policies. It's sad how this guy just does not get Hopenchange.
(h/t Allah)
Posted by Doug Williams on
Tuesday June 9, 2009 at 11:26am
