There's nothing surprising, really, in this New York Times article on the economy -- we've been in "recovery" for two years but we're losing jobs, the administration says happy days are nearly here again, blah blah blah, you know the drill.

But try reading it with Rumsfeld in mind -- especially the parts that talk about "declining loyalty on the part of employers" while "expectations for productivity and quality are going up." Isn't keeping employment low and making the workers who are in place miserable -- while demanding ever more productivity from those workers -- exactly what Rummy's doing in Iraq?

This is what you get when CEOs run the country.