While I’m thinking about it, OFA emailed me a bar graph entitled, “U.S. Job Loss (Dec. 2007 to Jan. 2010).” Several hours later, I flashed back to the graph and was amazed at the Gaussian distribution. The graph, showing how Bush destroyed jobs and Obama created them, when time-averaged, is amazingly symmetrical (I printed a copy and folded it in half.), with neither skewness nor kurtosis. One might have to believe Bush precipitated the trickledown to reverse the downward slope during his administration. OFA may be counting on us not to remember what second derivatives are. Considering the lack of a definition of jobs appended to the graph, and rumors about fraud in accounting for job creation, plus the fact that there is no reason for job creation to be Gaussian – I’m a little skeptical.