It won't be a mistake. It will be intentional.
President-elect Barack Obama may be about to make a big mistake: raising taxes in the middle of a recession.
The propaganda ministry (what we used to call the media) will blame the entire economy (recession, depression, whatever it turns out to be) on Bush. If it gets worse because of the policies of the new administration, the propaganda ministry will still blame everything on Bush. Obama will make it bad enough to get his socialist agenda through the Dem controlled Congress.
The One wants "fairness" in his tax policy. He doesn't care if it hurts the economy. He doesn't care if tax revenues go down. He wants to reward the "middle class" and stick it to "the rich."
On the jobs front, he doesn't want to grow the economy. He wants to develop "green jobs" and develop "sustainable businesses." And the propaganda ministry will laud every "green job" that is created and every "sustainable company" that opens. And if they go belly up in 6 months, it will be because of George Bush's economic mess.
Neither Pelosi, Reid, nor The One and his incoming administration want to "waste this crisis." They need the biggest possible crisis, so they can pass more of their "save the planet" and "help the little guy" agenda. They have no idea how to create real jobs.
But they don't want to allow "the rich" to create jobs that they don't like and can't take credit for. It will be easier to create "green jobs" if they have a lot of unemployed people who will have to settle for a "green job." So they don't want the competition from productive "old fashioned, non-sustainable" businesses.
I fear you are correct.
And the propaganda ministry will laud every “green job” that is created
The best “green job” to be created would be to shut down the newsprint business - after all they use a resource that ends up in a dump.