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Originally Posted by finnbow
I agree pretty much with all of the above. However, I strongly disagree with the concerted effort by the GOP to characterize the report as reducing jobs rather than workers by 2 million. If they are at all literate, they know full well what the report says and it says nothing about losing 2 million jobs. In fact, it says the opposite (i.e., its impacts will be negligible in that regard). In fact, I have a hard time seeing how this is a bad thing. People leaving the workforce voluntarily to either start businesses or retire create jobs or open up existing job slots for those seeking employment, respectively.
I gotta hand it to the GOP, however, for being better at creative messaging than the Dems.
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It may not have come from the GOP initially, though they might have run with it. It may have come from the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/05/us...ment.html?_r=0
Note the correction / retraction at the bottom, dated 2/4/14:
Correction: February 4, 2014
An earlier version of a headline accompanying this article on the home page was incorrect. The health law is projected to result in a voluntary reduction in the work force equal to 2.5 million full-time workers, according to the Congressional Budget Office, not two million fewer jobs.