This is your president speaking:

In an appearance in Albuquerque, New Mexico, president Bush said the following: (emphasis added)

First, our economy is growing: It's strong and it's getting stronger. Secondly, inflation is low, and interest rates are low. Manufacturing activity is up. The unemployment rate today is lower than the average rate in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. New Mexico's unemployment rate is 5.7 percent, down from 6 percent a year ago. Things are improving. Things are getting better. Thanks to being the most productive work force in America -- and I might say thanks to good policies -- this economy is strong, and it's getting stronger.

We think Bush meant to say "the most productive work force in the world", but was he really saying that the work force in New Mexico is "the most productive work force in America"?   Presidents are loathe to show regional preferences (just look at the waffling over which sports team the White House roots for), so it seems unlikely Bush was touting New Mexico as the pinnacle of productivity. So file this as yet another Bushism - subcategory: subject-object-reversal (derived from "America is the most productive work force").

posted by Quiddity at 3/27/2004 06:40:00 AM