Someone should tell Senator Reid that the arrangement and choice of words in a sentence can crucially tip meaning one or the other. In this particular clipped, it seem to have tipped it toward "other."
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The context, from the senator who led the latest passage of job bills designed to create/save a million jobs:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/05/harry-reid-responds-to-cr_n_487621.html
It is hard for me to view a loss of only 36,000 as a victory. It is a statistical wash, in that the 9.7% jobless rate did not change. However, how do we call that an improvement? At the end of the day, a net loss is a net loss. If jobs were being dreated, vis a vis the stimulus, it seems we should see some positive movement in the bottom line numbers.
Were I part of that 36,000 number, I don't think I would have much to cheer about.
Losing 36,000 is not a victory, but it's a lot better than what could have been. If you want to call out someone whose recent actions and statements demonstrate obliviousness about the jobs situation, I nominate Jim Bunning,
My partner has been unemployed going on 2 years now and is losing benefits. The unemployment rate in RI as of Dec. 2009 is 12.2%. THERE ARE NO JOBS. I'm not happy that the unemployment rate here is 12.2%, but I'm happy that it's not 14 or 15% because then I'd probably be unemployed too.
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