http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/18/business/18reserve.html
A photo from his talk at Timken leads the White House Web site's "Building America's Economy Photo Essay." It shows Bush standing in front of a glorious red, white and blue "Jobs and Growth" banner.
As he said at the time, the "greatest strength of the American economy is found right here, right in this room, found in the pride and skill of the American work force."
Last week, Timken announced that the folks right there in that room are getting fired. Timken, the world's largest industrial bearings maker, whose chairman is a major donor and fundraiser for the Republican Party, plans to shut down three factories in Canton and eliminate 1,300 jobs.
But a lot harder when you are wrong and should know it. Wrong here means an accurate read of the economy s being on a slope, not in a wave.
