Bush’s Record Of Failure

Kerry does his best to spin the good job market news America received today.

Kerry: Jobless Rate Points to Failures
NEWARK, Ohio – Democrat John Kerry criticized new unemployment figures Friday that showed a slight dip in the jobless rate and fewer jobs created than expected as another example of what he says is President Bush’s “record of failure.”
The Labor Department reported Friday that the unemployment rate slipped to 5.4 percent last month, from 5.5 percent in July, with the economy adding 144,000 jobs.
“This number should not come as any surprise given that this is an administration that says outsourcing is a good thing,” Kerry said in a statement while campaigning here.

The economy adds jobs and the unemployment rate goes down a point and Kerry is blaming outsourcing? Well, some would agree with him.
I can’t help but laugh when Kerry and the left accuse Bush of “failing” because job growth or economic growth doesn’t match the levels predicted by economists. First of all, the predictions are just that. Predictions. If the growth doesn’t meet the prediction perhaps that has more do to with the accuracy of the prediction than the economy. Second, not meeting those predictions isn’t a failure. Losing jobs would be a failure. Negative economic growth would be a failure. Growth that isn’t fast enough only shows that there is room for improvement.
Its one thing for Kerry to campaign on the idea that he could provide those improvements. Its quite another for him to campaign on economic “failures” like this one.