Web Letters: By the Numbers

By David Cay Johnston

This article appeared in the August 3, 2009 edition of The Nation.

July 17, 2009

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  • Nice article, but the 1940s are irrelevant. In Obama's first press conference after being sworn in (February 2009) he answered a question about how the public will know if his economic agenda is succesful by stating that the initial measure of success will be to "create or save 4,000,000 jobs." By his own metric (thus far) his agenda has been an abject failure. Perhaps you should put up a scoreboard of jobs lost under Obama's anti-growth "spread the wealth" policies. Scoreboard: Obama minus 2.6 million jobs so far. 6.6 million to go to make it to his initial measure of success.

    Ted Mayle

    Alexandria, VA

    07/17/2009 @ 10:22am


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