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The "NAFTA draft".(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
In May, the Bush administration and its media mouthpieces--Rush, Hannity, Fox News, et al.--touted the Labor Department's report that 288,000 new jobs were created in April. At one campaign stop in Dubuque, President Bush appeared to say that he had willed those jobs into existence through the force of his optimism: "The president has to make sure that we're optimistic and confident in order for jobs to be created."
"Some jobs, however, are more responsive than others to the power of positive presidential thinking," commented British journalist Naomi Klein in the May 18 London Guardian. "More than 82% of the jobs created in April were in service industries, including restaurants and retail. The biggest new employers were temp agencies. Over the past year, 272,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost. No wonder the president's economic report in February floated the idea of reclassifying fast-food restaurants as factories."
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