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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.

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.