Still more Bush brilliance...

[asheris]

"Things are getting better," Bush told a subdued crowd. Orders are coming back to U.S. factories, he said, and productivity is on the rise -- although he acknowledged that that is one reason jobs are disappearing. "What productivity means is that we've got a lot of hard work, and we're using new technologies to make people more effective."

He promised reliability rules for electric power companies and continued crackdowns on corporate executives who cheat. He again touted his tax cut, telling the crowd that it prevented the economic downturn, which the administration says it inherited, from getting worse.

Bush announced the creation of a new assistant secretary of commerce for manufacturing. He argued that in creating the post, he would address head-on the loss of "thousands of manufacturing jobs" in recent years. In fact, 3 million jobs have been lost since he took office, including 2.5 million in manufacturing.

My brain hurts. That's an awful lot of thousands.

How the holy hell did this moron ever get elected to anything, much less get passing marks in first grade math?

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[dprlynch.livejournal.com]

During the campaign, didn't Bush say that he was going to make the gov't smaller and less intrusive?

I'd say his math skills make my head hurt as well, but everything about that man makes my head hurt.

[asheris.livejournal.com]

Smaller and less intrusive, unless you're a friend of his looking for a job where you can collect lots of kickbacks and contracts for the companies you're associated with. (Bechtel, Halliburton, Enron...)

Yeah, everything he does is pain-inducing, but this was one of his more blatant ones this weekend.