Sugar Ration's Been Increased--Half Kilo a Month. Doubleplusgood, eh Smith?

Expect Team Bush to crow about the "glorious news" on the home front (can we expect the announcement of a "smashing victory" over the forces of East Asia in the near future? Not enough to end the war, but...

Anyway, buried at the end of this Reuters article is an interesting line:

In the only other jobless recovery since World War Two, which was the crawl back from the 1990-91 recession, it took 14 months for the number of employed to get back to where it stood when the recession ended.

This time it is 28 months, and counting.

Anyone who thinks this is such good news should start counting backwards from 1,800,000. That's the net number of job losses since Bush was selected president.