The article said MILLIONS, NOT "hundreds of thousands".
I can see why the democrats want unemployments, since they were able to capitalize on it for decades after the Great Depression. They also want lots of immigrants coming in who vote democrat.
Lots of unemployment and lots of new immigrants will help the democrats win the next election, much more so than it helped clinton win in 1992.
Why any republican would want americans out of work, and tens of millions of immigrants coming in to take whatever remaining jobs, is soemthing new, and a puzzle. Traditionally, republicans used to be good for the economy, and for creating american jobs for americans.
Long term, Bush's policy of trying to give citizenship to illegals, to keep the flood of legal immigrants coming in at a steady high rate, and to keep letting in millions in from the H1-B visa program which prevents American engineers and American computer people from getting jobs, is disastrous.
Unless the economy turns around THIS year, Bush will be a one term president like his father. It is the economy stupid. No one cares about the minor things when they are not employed, or if they see friends and relatives unemployed.
That's millions cumulative arrived at at tens or hundreds of thousands per month or others short period.
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If Bush is going to do what he is doing to this nation, excluding the diversion of bombing ragheads, why should he be preferable to a Democrat? Neither I nor others should tolerate a moron in the White House just because he calls himself a Republican.