Canada Beating US In Job Growth

by Outlandish Josh

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Tuesday, Apr. 20, 2004 Tuesday, Apr. 20, 2004 at 6:46:04pm PDT

The economic news just doesn't get any better for Team Bush. The spring hiring bump wasn't the grand slam they were hoping for, and now those pesky liberals over at The Center For American Progress have come up with this stunning little statistic:

Canada is kicking our ass at creating jobs.

Maybe NAFTA is to blame. Maybe it's the war. Maybe it's all the do-nothing hippie potheads lazing about campus. Whatever the reason, the comparative numbers don't look rosy for us here in the land of the free.

It's not pessimism, it's realism. Our current economic priorities are straight-up busted. Voodoo economics isn't working, and our generation is going to be paying for Bush's slash and spend binge for years to come. It's aboot dignity. It's aboot respect. It's aboot...