On the Democratic side, the same sorts of hacks and PR men focused like a laser beam on the bad employment news of the George W. Bush years, ignoring the good news about output and productivity. And, again, Republicans responded tendentiously, by focusing on the unemployment rate rather than on the job numbers - as if it were a good thing that the lousy labor market since 2001 has artificially depressed the number of people looking for work.
而民主党这边，类似的雇用文人和公关人士像激光束一样把焦点聚集在乔治·W·布什执政年间令人沮丧的就业状况上，不理会产量和生产力方面的好消息。而共和党再次做出了颇具倾向性的回应，强调失业率而不是工作数量——仿佛2001年以来疲软的劳动力市场人为地压低了求职者人数是件好事一般。