"Any step forward in the job market is good news for workers but America is still in the worst job recovery since the Great Depression," said Allison Dobson, spokesperson for Kerry, in a statement issued Friday.Don't they realize there are people alive today who remember the Great Depression and know better? This is the same goofy story Clinton got away with in 1992 ("Worst economy since Herbert Hoover"). I guess if your education system keeps people in the dark about history, you can count on people swallowing anything you tell them. Especially if you tell them about anything that happened more than, say, five minutes ago.
Saturday, June 5, 2004
Kerry Campaign Tries to Throw Cold Water on Job Recovery Numbers
This dumb lie continues:
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Well, I agree and disagree. The job market? Not so hot, but getting better, although I suspect it has more to do with the natural rhythm of economics than anything G.Dub has been up to- supply-side economics is still not my favorite governmental economic defibrillation technique. The vital difference between the Depression and today, and one needn't have been present, only use one's brain, is that people aren't starving in grand style. In today's socioeconomic climate, even if your money is nil, there is usually somewhere to go that will put food in your belly. Not so in the depression. Moreover, the stock market collapse of 1929 was caused in large part by shady financial practices that would probably make the Enron executives look like a bunch of cupcakes. As a result of the Great Financial Bake-Off of 1929, if you think in degrees of ruination, we were a lot more ruined then than now. Let's also not kick Herbert Hoover when he's down - he made some attempt to straighten things out, they were just not very good ideas- he had this notion that this thing was short-term. History notes him as a crap president (and History would be correct), but it could be worse. Could be raining.
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