Dynamic and Growing vs. Old and Bitter

"Non-farm payrolls grew by a robust 337,000 in last month, more than twice the increase recorded in September, the Labor Department said today. The department also revised its estimates of payrolls growth for September and August, saying employers added more jobs than previously thought. That brought the total of jobs created over the last 13 months to 2.2 million."

That is real validation that the economy is growing and that the Bush economic plan is working, we can only wonder what impact this news would have had if it came out a week ago.

However, readers of the New York Time will open their papers this morning to read a vitriolic diatribe from Paul Krugman. I am not going to re-print any of his column, you can click the link if you want to read it. It is classic angry liberal, name calling, baseless allegations, the whole boat. When I first read it, I was angry, I couldn't believe someone would say such nasty things about the voters and about the President. I was going to rebut his column point by point, but as I got started I realized that if I did that I was missing the point.

Paul Krugman and his leftist friends are mad for two reasons: first their policies have failed, and second, the voters reminded them of that on Tuesday.

Wherever the policies Paul Krugman has suggested have been tried, they have failed. He assails President Bush for job losses when our economy is creating hundreds of thousands of jobs every month and unemployment is just above 5%. In contrast the European economies he admires so much are in a perpetual quagmire, growing less than 2% if at all and with perpetual double digit unemployment.

He alleges that the only people who would vote for the President are wild eyed religious wakos, well Mr. Krugman, I doubt 51% of the nation would agree with that characterization. Americans voted on Tuesday, and people of all stripes chose to re-elect President Bush because they know he has done a great job of dealing with very difficult circumstances.

Mr. Krugman, the economy is growing, the world is becoming safer, your policies have failed, and your vision has been rejected, have a good day, I know I will and so will the millions of other Americans ready to move our nation forward into the future.

Timothy Burger