Translation Fun

AL HUNT to HILLARY CLINTON: "You're going to give a major economics speech tomorrow night at the Economic Club of Chicago. The unemployment rate is 4.7%, robust growth, low inflation and interest rates, consumer confidence soaring. What's wrong with the economy?"

HILLARY CLINTON: The indicators at the present time, as you say, are positive, but if you look just over the horizon and below the surface, there are some troubling issues.

TRANSLATION: Nothing. Dammit.

HILLARY CLINTON: Yes, unemployment is 4%, but, you know, it was 4% in the Clinton administration and more people were in the workforce [sic].

TRANSLATION: Anything Bush can do, we already did better. Really, both our books said so.

HILLARY CLINTON: So a lot of people have disappeared from the workforce.

TRANSLATION: Into those 5.2 million new jobs. Dammit.

HILLARY CLINTON: Replacement jobs for those that are lost are, you know, 20 to 40% less in income. The sort of pillars of the middle class, a stable job with certain benefits if you work hard are beginning to disintegrate.

TRANSLATION: Boy, I hope the audience doesn't subscribe to the Christian Science Monitor.

[HT: El Rushbo]