I suppose, if you think about it, when you expect the worse, and then find out it isn’t all that bad, you feel good. Though I don’t know, is it that we feel better or that we are simply feeling relieved it wasn’t worse? I mean the so called Pundits expected an even higher Job Loss report, and now that only 20,000 jobs were lost, they feel better. Heck, they even call is Good News for the Economy, but then again, how about those ADDITIONAL TWENTY THOUSAND UNEMPLOYED?

How they feeling?

Employers cut far fewer jobs in April than in recent months and the unemployment rate dropped to 5 percent, a better-than-expected showing. Still, the economy lost jobs for the fourth month in a row, the Labor Department reported a few hours before Bush’s speech. (source)

I wonder if the Media, and all these So Called Experts actually know what it means to be unemployed? Do they understand the stress, the depression, that being laid off creates? It doesn’t change the needs of their families, and when you are laid off, your health insurance from the employer just ended as well. Standing in line to get a pittance of relief from the Unemployment Centers isn’t going to make that mortgage payment AND feed the family, now is it?

Course they may have to sell their car, so the HIGH PRICE OF GAS won’t really be of a concern, but then they do have to heat the house, if they can manage to keep up with the payments. Heck, maybe they got their cheque for $600 and can now afford to relax, right?

This isn’t good news, it is simply a break from the more disheartening news, which obviously doesn’t sell things, so I suppose we can understand why the News & Media downplay it. Then too, if they did TELL US THE TRUTH, maybe we wouldn’t be so quick to jump on moronic solutions like a gas tax holiday, or worry about who is answering the red phone at 3am, but instead we might be looking for someone who has REAL ANSWERS or who isn’t PREJUDICED BY LIVING IN THE PAST.

Just a thought.