2.6 million jobs in a year.

[TNDemo]

The latest Let's Throw This Out And See If They Buy It from the white house. So how many is that per day? How many more jobs should be available tomorrow?

[boxster]

1. I'm amazed that ANYONE let him say that.

It's a complete an utter pipe dream.

Roughly 9,000 jobs a day. Yeah, that's likely.

[Wwagsthedog]

2. 9000 per day for the rest of the year?

2.6 mil divided by 321 days left in 2004

[Arbustosux]

3. and that includes January

which already came in alot lower than Bushie's prayer

[beyurslf]

4. 112000 in jan.

That is about 1.3 Million for the year and I have heard many say that number is not adjusted correctly for seasonal changes.

[BeatleBoot]

5. With 11 months to go...

that's 236,364 jobs per month.

What kind of jobs would that be?

Good sustainable jobs that provide healtha insurance?

[thebaghwan]

6. In his dreams. I saved that statement so I can use it against Bushies.

n/t

[leyton]

7. Perhaps he meant 2.6 million worldwide...

and seeing how Bush is exporting our jobs, I wouldn't be surprised.

[boxster]

11. I had *exactly* the same thought.

Hehe.

[wysi]

8. There will be lots of jobs...

... for the newly homeless to squeegee windshields.

[DebJ]

9. did he specifiy that the jobs will be located in the USA, or will US co's

be creating 2.6 mil jobs in Mexico, India, China?

[HootieMcBoob]

10. Jobs related program activities

Just wait...he'll change that later to 2.6 million jobs related program activities. :)

[dfong63]

12. or maybe companies have the "intent" to create jobs

[HootieMcBoob]

13. You're right

We simply can not allow our country to remain in the hands of this "mad man"!! :)

[guitar man]

14. we need more than the 2.6 million lost

We also need jobs to accomodate new entries into the workforce. I can't find the source right now,but I know I heard a while back the economy needs to create 450,000 new jobs per month to keep up.

[Burma Jones]

15. In China, Right?

I hope we're not dumb enough to buy this crap.

[Dudley_DUright]

16. Since they are talking about an average over the year

it turns out they really have to add 5.3 millions jobs from Dec 03 to Dec 04. This is more than any other time in our history, including WWII. This is absolute nonsense. See Brad DeLong's blog for more details:

http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2004_archives/000253.html