OpinionJournal.com daily "Best of the Web" feature likes to include a "stupidity watch" item of some silly event or news report. However anyone reading the Journal's editorial page or OpinionJournal must wonder why they don't feature their own work more often.
Just look at their April 5 Best of the Web including the following gem criticizing Kerry's plan to create 10 million new jobs during his first term.
"Ten million new jobs? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are only 8.4 million unemployed people in America. As long as Kerry is promising to create more jobs than there are people to take them, why doesn't he go all the way and promise "billions and billions"?
What the Journal conveniently excludes is that the economy loses a number of jobs a month (currently an average of around 95,000) plus the workforce grows each year so just to keep even Kerry would have to create over 5 million new jobs.
So are the writers at OpinionJournal stupid, hypocrites or do they expect the economy to do SO WELL under President Kerry that no jobs will be eliminated?
Then again the Bush economic team announced in the summer of 2003 a plan to create 300,000 jobs a month. Over 4 years that would be over 14 million new jobs. So where is the criticism of Bush's plan to create "trillions and trillions" of new jobs?
