did you dummy the 300,000, or did MSNBC run it?

That is an actual screen shot. It has also been posted at dailykos. MSNBC corrected it later.

If MSNBC is going to pimp Kudlow on outsourcing and jobs a little disclosure seems to be in order. I specifically recall Kudlow saying on Kudlow and Cramer that the Bush dividend tax cuts would do very little to increase jobs. Bush tax cuts were NOT geared towards increasing jobs, even though he approved the dividend tax cuts for other reasons.

Kudlow is capable of being honest on occasion, just not this close to an election.

On the matter of whether or not the Bush administration actually favors outsourcing, Lou Dobbs named a group in his book "Exporting America". I am at work and don't remember the name, but it had former advisors to both Cheney and Bush on the board. They made the argument that it is unconstitutional for states to pass laws limiting or restricting outsourcing.

Their argument was that when states passed laws restricting outsourcing they were interfering with U.S. foreign policy. It seems to me that linking the Bush administration to a group that makes this kind of outrageous argument would be devastating.

The real news has been killing him, but this has been an excellent week for Bush in fake news.

It's a little creepy. All the fake test stories in the past week make it seem almost as if the Bush spin fantasy is actually spilling over in tiny ways into the real world. Very Orwellian. Krugman's column Ignorance Isn't Strength talks more about that.

God, I hope this is all going to be over soon. Can you imagine where we would be if the net weren't quick to jump on stuff like this? But thank goodness -- Al Gore's Internet saves the day once again.

I was also working on a post last night about the Forbes 400 and got sidetracked.

The website doesn't go back that far, but in "Wealth and Democracy" Kevin Phillips has a 1982 list that only has about 18 billionaires. By 1996 they were up to I think 80, and Phillips says that the top 1% had 10 times as much wealth as they had in 1982.

Billionaires had a rough patch because of the .com meltdown and only held their own at about 80 billionaires between 1996 and 2000.

Even the Forbes 400 shows that from 2000 to 2004 the number of billionaires increased to over 400.
We now have at least four times as many billionaires as a result of the Bush tax cuts, but working families are barely holding even.

How many more multi-billioniares do we need before some of it starts to trickle down to hard working middle income families?

only 59,000 of those jobs were in the private sector.

I say this as someone who desperately wants the economy to rebound (although the failing economy hurts bush...Kind of a catch 22)...We were all fearing a trumped up jobs report...What if this was a trumped up report?  They can't overinflate too much or the BLS loses all credibility.  They probably can't handle an adjustment of more than 50-100K jobs.  So, these numbers may actually be worse than what was published.  Things are getting worse and if the monkey is re-elected, this country will be in the toilet further.    

I wonder if some of these jobs are the people Halliburton is sending to Iraq?