Political Humor

Big news everyone.

Not only has the recession ended in Massachusetts, and New Hampshire too apparently, we’ve got a runaway economy on our hands in the Bay State:

Supported by universities and hospitals, and buoyed by a housing rebound, Massachusetts has pulled out of recession ahead of most states and could start to add jobs steadily in coming months, according to a leading economic forecasting firm.

The Boston Globe reported it so it must be true right? (If I didn’t know any better I would swear they sell rose-colored reading glasses to compliment the content.)

(bold emphasis mine)

Moody’s Economy.com of West Chester, Pa., which analyzed employment, production, and housing data, estimates that Massachusetts began a recovery in January, becoming one of 22 states with growing economies. New Hampshire, the only other New England state no longer in recession, began its recovery in December, according to Moody’s Economy.com.

That is odd because the same website describes New Hampshire this way: (bold emphasis mine)

Although conditions are not as dire as those in both the Northeast and the U.S., New Hampshire remains in recession. Losses in employment and output are moderating and the housing correction is winding down.

Now I know how Inigo Montoya felt. They keep using that word “recession”…

The mixed messages do not end there however. According to Moody’s nearly half the country is experiencing economic growth yet the situation for the entire U.S. is more dire.

The glass is half-full with recovery and half-empty with recession at the same time. That’s a nice trick.

And what about the twenty-two states with their supposedly growing economies? Are some of them part of Obama’s 57 states?

They must be invisible economies. That’s it.

All those Stimulus jobs the Democrats promised us were real. We just couldn’t see them.

Obama you minx you.

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Chris Cameron is a writer, columnist, and beat reporter for Radioactive Liberty as well as for his own blog, Angry Seafood.