On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 13:50:29 +0000, Steven Shelikoff wrote:


If you'd like to contend that the Wisconsin figures are anything but a
total fabrication, where's the data to back them up?

Gross job loss is a different bird. Wade through it if you must:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cewbd.toc.htm

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 10:59:23 -0500, thunder
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 13:50:29 +0000, Steven Shelikoff wrote:


If you'd like to contend that the Wisconsin figures are anything but a
total fabrication, where's the data to back them up?

Gross job loss is a different bird. Wade through it if you must:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cewbd.toc.htm

Show me where it supports the assertion of the Wisconsin editorial that
"American businesses cut 1,236,426 jobs in 2003." That statement is a
*net* jobs statement. But even if you take it as a gross jobs
statement, it's still WAY off ... on the low side.

Steve