Mayor Bloomberg's jobs gains?

The New York Sun has an editorial where they put things into perspective on Mayor Bloomberg's claims of job growth.

Voters who look beyond the five boroughs will notice that adding more than 60,000 jobs is standard fare in many cities these days, even the smaller ones. Consider Seattle, population 570,000 within the city limits. Hit hard both by the end of the tech boom and cutbacks at Boeing after the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the city has gained about 61,000 jobs since 2003. Phoenix, population 1.4 million, gained 76,000 jobs between 2002 and 2004. Seattle's achievement is even more impressive since it has regained almost two-thirds of the jobs it lost in the recession - its 61,000 job growth compares favorably to the 38,000 jobs it still needs to create in order to return to where it was before.