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"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?