Wednesday, July 07, 2004
While Mr. Bush points to the 112,000 U.S. jobs created in June as a sign of "steady growth," the number fell short of the 250,000 economists had forecast.
Being an economist is the greatest job in the world. You can pretty much make any prediction you want, and even those economists whose predictions are in a completely different universe from the subsequent reality can be given a column in the New York Times. In the above quote, the economists were off by over 100%, and the tone of the article is that Bush is the asshole. Uh, maybe the forecast was just pulled out of someone's ass? Maybe we should not blame reality and blame the ignoramuses who call themselves economists? Ironically, the economists who are often closest to reality are the ones most scorned by the elite.
If I couldn't be an economist, my second choice would be weather man. There is another job where you can come to work and say anything you want. A 10 second glance at the satellite photo would give a monkey 50% chance of getting the weather right, which is more often than the guy on my local news.
As you may know, my vote for the toughest job in the world is bank security guard in Alaska. Imagine the stress all day as everyone walks in wearing a ski mask.
Being an economist is the greatest job in the world. You can pretty much make any prediction you want, and even those economists whose predictions are in a completely different universe from the subsequent reality can be given a column in the New York Times. In the above quote, the economists were off by over 100%, and the tone of the article is that Bush is the asshole. Uh, maybe the forecast was just pulled out of someone's ass? Maybe we should not blame reality and blame the ignoramuses who call themselves economists? Ironically, the economists who are often closest to reality are the ones most scorned by the elite.
If I couldn't be an economist, my second choice would be weather man. There is another job where you can come to work and say anything you want. A 10 second glance at the satellite photo would give a monkey 50% chance of getting the weather right, which is more often than the guy on my local news.
As you may know, my vote for the toughest job in the world is bank security guard in Alaska. Imagine the stress all day as everyone walks in wearing a ski mask.
