someone tell me if this makes any sense... taken from this article...

Bush said at a campaign rally that "because we acted our economy is growing again" and said 1.7 million jobs have been created since August 2003 and more than 200,000 in the last two months.
The campaign of Democrat John Kerry quickly argued the jobs figures fell short of what is needed to keep up with population growth. Despite the new numbers, the U.S. economy has shed about 913,000 jobs since Bush took office.

so... 913,000 jobs have been lost, while 1.7 million jobs were created. i guess kerry didn't pay attention in math class... that's still 787,000 new jobs. great argument kerry! hopefully you'll soon be added to that lost jobs number.