The Great Bush Economy

• The merger of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Bank One Corp. will result in the loss of 12,000 jobs!

Yippee!!

• Mitsubishi Motors North America said Wednesday that it would fire up to 1,200 workers at its Normal, Ill., assembly plant!

Hooray!!

• Fortune 500 company Capital One Financial Corporation announced Wednesday 1,100 jobs at its Tampa call center are being eliminated.
  
  Also, about 160 positions in Dallas, Texas, and 120 in Richomond, Va., will be cut. The layoffs will start this fall and should be finished by spring 2005.

Way to go!!

• Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. has notified the Georgia Department of Labor that it will begin laying off 1,410 Bibb County workers Aug. 13.

Yep, the economy is doing great! Keep up the great job, Prez!