This Christmas season has been injected with a significant political element. There were 64,000 new jobs in November, but we’re told some 105,000 were lost in October. Furthermore, prices were up on a number of items while they were down on other items. Democrats are making much of the jobs numbers and certain prices since an election is coming up next year. Should Republicans be worried? I don’t believe so. The job losses, you see, are largely attributable to the government being shut down by the Democrats and to government downsizing requested by the voters. It’s true, of course, that ...