William A. Jacobson
Legal Insurrection
1/6/2012
There is a new jobs report out, with the usual caveats that the work force is shrinking, but the nominal unemployment rate is down to 8.5%. That’s the number which counts politically.
The rate would be 10.9% if the same number of people were in the workforce as when Obama took office
The media keeps telling us jobs is the main issue for the election. Maybe. But it’s a whole lot more, it’s a question of the vision thing.
Would you vote for Obama if the nominal unemployment rate were down to 8% by November 2012? Or 7.5%, or 7%.
Of course not, because it’s about jobs but it’s not all about jobs. It’s about what type of country this will be. Will we be a country of individual economic freedom or cogs in someone’s ideological wheel.
If a candidate cannot articulate that vision with passion based on history, the election will be a hostage to misleading statistics…
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