evidently there was an old method of counting new jobs for 50 years, and now with the internet, flex time etc, jobs don't get generated the old way, but they are still new jobs, entrapenures, self employed, etc.....
Let's see.....so if I buy a job, i.e. I pay for an interest in a company, say a 20% share of the capital, in return for a director's slot at an annual stipend of $1000 per year plus $500 per board meeting, does that count as a new "job" created by the incumbent party's magisterium?
If I hang a sign on the front of my house, "laundry taken in", does that make me a "job" holder?
How about if I start a new business -- as a proprietor -- in my office? Is that a "job"? And do I get counted twice as a business launch and as a "job"-holder?
How about if I wander over to the nearest six-lane intersection and hold up a sign and a tin cup? Would that be construed as a "job"? Or would I have to sell newspapers as well, as an "independent contractor"?
How about if I slip around at night, surreptitiously emptying restaurants' grease traps and selling the grease on the black market? Would that be a "job"?
What if I re-roof my own house, get up there with a hammer, a bunch of nails and shingles and a water bottle? I'm delivering value -- same as if I'd hired a crew of roofers. Is that a "job", and the check I don't cut to the roofer my "salary"?
Sounds like some people just want to be able to quote bigger "job"-creation numbers to mask the fact that their "audience" -- as defined years ago by James Q. Wilson -- the people they really work for as opposed to the mere chumps who are stuck with voting for the two political parties, are destroying jobs as fast as they can on the altar of "cost control".
As George W. Bush if he's opposed to "cost control". Then you'll have him -- you'll find out where he's really coming from, and it ain't hiring and job-creation, no matter how much his allies talk about "job" creation.
For purposes of further discussion, let's clarify the hierarchy of employment, then:
Real Job
Move-up Job
Job
Dead-end Job
McJob
"Job"
That about get it?