Job Hunting

Via the brand-new First Draft, I find this story of Bush’s response to the July jobs report. Specifically, he says:

“When I came into office, we had a problem with our economy; it was in a recession.”

That’s bollocks. The data at JobWatch tells the real story: the recession began in March 2001, two months after Bush took office. I’m not saying the recession’s his fault — no one person could make big enough changes in two months to cause a recession — but the fact that we still haven’t recovered certainly can be blamed on his policies.

We’re going through the greatest sustained job loss since the Great Depression, and I’m busy hunting for a new job (125kb PDF). Wish me luck!