"It's hard to say the economy is slowing if you get payrolls growing more than 200,000 and an ISM index above 60. . . "
No, its easy. Some doom and gloomers do it without any trouble at all, even in their sleep I suppose.
Now listen, all these people being hired NOW only means that sometime up in the future, probably quite soon, they will all have to be laid off, as the economic bubble bursts, so the "last hired" are the "first fired", suddenly releasing a vast number of disgruntled ex-employees who vote against whoever is in office.
Montgomery Burns rubs his hands together, and says to his assistant, Smithers, "Excellent! My friend George Soros could not have done better!"