WOW! John Snow will discuss the ECONOMY and JOBS! TOMORROW! WOWEE!!!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

OH, MAN! I'm cancelling all of my Friday appointments. I need to BE HERE for THIS one!

Friday's guest at 4:00 pm (ET)
John Snow
Secretary of the Treasury

http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/question2.html

John Snow, Secretary of the Treasury, will discuss the strong U.S. economy and newest jobs numbers Friday at 4 pm (ET). Submit a question.

[babylonsister]

1. Curb Your Enthusiasm,

dammit! ;-)

[ShortnFiery]

2. Just Maybe

Tony will also emerge from the shadows and we all can score TWO Snow Jobs! :yoiks:

[MSgt213]

3. Is this about how we lose our jobs and our money?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. No, it will probably be about how the economy...

...is FIRING IN ALL CYLINDERS!

From Snow's "Ask The White House," January 6, 2006:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20060106.html

January 6, 2006

John Snow
Hello, everyone, and thanks for joining our discussion on "Ask the White House." We found out today that the year 2005 was a very good one indeed for the 2 million Americans who found new jobs. Today's employment report is the latest indication that the American economy is firing on all cylinders, with over 400,000 jobs created in the last two months.

It's always a pleasure to be here, in cyberspace, with you. Let's get started.

and, from June 18, 2004:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20040618_2.html

jay, from charlotte writes:
I recently had a friend challange me to tell him how in any way the economy is better now then before Pres. Bush took office. Unfortunately, I could not defend my position. Could you help.

John Snow: You can feel very confident in your position. First, this Administration inherited an economy that was in steep decline and weakened further by the bursting of the tech bubble. The United States suffered further uncertainty from terrorist attacks and corporate scandals. President Bush faced and addressed each challenge, and despite the serious setbacks, we now have a strong economy that is growing stronger.

GDP, the best overall measure of economic activity, has risen over the past year at the fastest rate in 20 years. Productivity, which translates into faster income growth and a higher standard of living, grew at the fastest 3-year rate in 5 decades from 2000-2003. Since the President has been in office, after-tax income has risen by 11 percent – that means Americans are keeping more of their hard-earned money. Today household wealth and homeownership rates are at all-time highs.

The President’s economic leadership and pro-growth policies have led to an economy that is firing on all cylinders.

SO IF HE SAID IT TWICE, IT MUST BE TRUE! WOW!!!!

:evilgrin:

[MSgt213]

6. Do they break down the jobs? You know, temp jobs, minimum wage jobs

or high paying? I can't bring myself to read those reports because they are so misleading I don't know what's true or not.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

7. It's all spin...but what I see, for the most part:

a lot of "health care," "construction" and "education," "service" jobs...

I've never seen a breakdown of temp positions or minimum wage jobs.

[MSgt213]

8. So all the jobs could be in the low end of the pay scales for all these

jobs. You know, not nurses, but nurses aids, not teachers but teacher's aids. So the 400,000 number looks big but for 200,000 it might be a second job. If that makes since.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

9. The specifics are "deliberately vague"...

...because categories like "health care" and "service" constitute a BIG umbrella.

Also, we can't forget the push a few years ago to classify burger flippers as "manufacturing" jobs, because they have to assemble the bun, patty, lettuce...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/03/07/BUGMJ5F97N1.DTL

In any discussion of the steady stream of U.S. manufacturing jobs being outsourced abroad, your first thought wouldn't be for Maria Contreras, who works at a Burger King outlet in downtown San Francisco. Contreras, 26, takes hamburger patties and sticks them in the fast-food chain's broiler. When they're cooked, she places the burgers on buns and dresses them with lettuce, onions, ketchup, mustard and pickles. Most people would say that Contreras is in the service industry. But the Bush administration is suggesting that she and other fast-food workers may actually be manufacturers.

Yet the White House appears to be encouraging people to think otherwise by including a box that asks, "What is manufacturing?" in its 412-page Economic Report of the President submitted to Congress last month. "It could be inferred from your report that the administration is willing to recognize drink mixing, hamburger garnishing, French/freedom fry cooking and milk shake mixing to be vital components of our manufacturing sector," Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., said in a letter to Greg Mankiw, head of the president's Council of Economic Advisers.

:patriot:

[AX10]

4. Will he discuss high oil prices, skyrocketing healthcare costs...

the deficit, trade imbalance, stagnant wages, job insecurity???

NO! Since, he won't discuss the above, there really is no need for him to hold a press conference.

[C_U_L8R]

10. "How To Lie With Statistics"

The Republican Playbook...
and oh.. this...
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/

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