[Lael]

Make sure you keep repeating the mantra!

LOL!!!

Clinton shill Lanny Davis said yesterday that all he wants the eventual Democrat nominee to say is..."Are you better off today than you were four years ago???

Look, folks, the economy hit bottom sometime in the Second to Fourth Quarter of 2003 [that's right, boys and girls, just this past year].

We will bump along with minimal job creation until "well into 2005" in the words of the Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee.

In fact, there is an outlier forecast for the 10 year note to hit 2 1/2% this year in a last [for this cycle] Flight to Quality.

Bush is STILL skating on thin ice.

He shouldn't be playing footsie with VINCENTE Fox.

[sarcasm]

The jobs market "is now much slower to react to the performance of the economy," which is undergoing structural changes through technology, productivity and increased outsourcing overseas, said John Challenger, chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray and Christmas, an employment research and recruiting firm.
He doesn't think another hiring boom will occur until the next economic cycle, sometime near 2008.

[futureceo31]

Though based on your handle (send jobs to India), there are going to be some major changes with this philosophy in the next few years as companies are finding out that having their development done in India is not as cost worthy or productive as they thought it to be. Innovation has and always has come from the US and there is going to be some soul searching among companies who have sent jobs in mass to India.
Also, on a secondary level, I think this is going to also result in the secondary and lower level jobs that will stay in those countries and companies here forced to hire Americans and maybe send them to India and other places to do management and supervisory type jobs to produce american standard quality. That does not exist currently in quite a few of the programs coming out of India as I have seen that first hand...