Jim = Jobless

Time for a new bumpersticker, Governor.

The Vermont Press Bureau reports today that Vermont is hemorrhaging jobs at a rate of about 2000 a year. That's the magic of the Douglas "Affordability Agenda." Vermont Tiger schill and supply-side apologist, Art Woolf says it is "not because our economy is doing lousy." Hmmm. Why would it be, then?

Oddly enough, it's usually the Vermont Toothless Tigers who are out trashing the Vermont economy. Now Woolfie is trying to make it sound like things aren't so bad (it's not the job-loss that hurts, it's that when we rebound in a year, we won't have enough workers, sayeth Art). Maybe with an election year looming constantly harping on Vermont as a bad place to do business is suddenly not looking like a winning strategy, eh? Time go give Do-Nothing Douglas a little cover so he isn't the one who ends up jobless? Could be...