Great news!

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Unemployment has dropped to 8.3%. It's the 5th straight drop. We're back!

I guess I've been lied to all these years. Trillions of dollars in deficit spending, intrusive and burdensome government regulations of business, green jobs, reduction in our nation's credit rating, near default, and cronyism IS the secret to turning the economy around.

I'm going to go sit in a nice quiet room and think about this...

 

[indykid]

Don't forget to thank the long term unemployed who dropped off the list and are no longer counted.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Don't forget to thank the long term unemployed who dropped off the list and are no longer counted.

Wait! What?....huh??? You mean we're not back?!?! But the market rallied!

 

[Osobuco]

Don't forget to thank the long term unemployed who dropped off the list and are no longer counted.

You nailed it!

 

[Stschil]

Don't forget to thank the long term unemployed who dropped off the list and are no longer counted.

Or the Seasonal Adjustment and those "marginally attached to the labor force"

Employment Situation Summary

In January, 2.8 million persons were marginally attached to the labor
force, essentially unchanged from a year earlier. (The data are not
seasonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the labor force,
wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime
in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because
they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.
(See table A-16.)

 

[IndyBeerman]

Unemployment has dropped to 8.3%. It's the 5th straight drop. We're back!

I guess I've been lied to all these years. Trillions of dollars in deficit spending, intrusive and burdensome government regulations of business, green jobs, reduction in our nation's credit rating, near default, and cronyism IS the secret to turning the economy around.

I'm going to go sit in a nice quiet room and think about this...

You know what I want to see.....

I want every single unemployed American eligible for work stroll into their unemployment offices within the next two weeks and apply, I know that each and everyone that is not eligible would not get benefits, but they be included once again in the unemployed numbers.

This would result in a more accurate number reported, not some adjusted number that is only people who are receiving and who have dropped off the books because they are no longer applying for.

Wait! What?....huh??? You mean we're not back?!?! But the market rallied!

HAHAHAHA

The market also rallies when someone who is deemed important farts in the right direction.

Rallies mean nothing, long term continued growth, that means something.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

You guys are a wet blanket on obama's reelection campaign! Don't you know if he doesn't get that number down below 8%, he doesn't stand a chance? Everbody's doing the best they can!

 

[Carmelbythecorn]

It appears that the unemployment rate in this country is actually at 15.1% according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

[Stschil]

It appears that the unemployment rate in this country is actually at 15.1% according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Your screen shot doesn't list line one:


U-7 --- "BS number we're reporting to the public". 8.3%

 

[ZombieApocolypse]

It appears that the unemployment rate in this country is actually at 15.1% according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics

yep .... I read about this the other day, (hard to read that chart so, sorry if this is on it.) but the main contributing factor to the 15% unemployment is, people working part time because they cannot find full time jobs

 

[MilitaryArms]

Unemployment has dropped to 8.3%. It's the 5th straight drop. We're back!

I guess I've been lied to all these years. Trillions of dollars in deficit spending, intrusive and burdensome government regulations of business, green jobs, reduction in our nation's credit rating, near default, and cronyism IS the secret to turning the economy around.

I'm going to go sit in a nice quiet room and think about this...

That's the "seasonally adjusted" unemployment rate. They "adjust" out about 2 million jobless which makes things look much better than they really are.

 

[justjoe]

Does anyone really believe anything our government tells us?

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

That's the "seasonally adjusted" unemployment rate. They "adjust" out about 2 million jobless which makes things look much better than they really are.

I know. I was doing my Chris Mathews/George Stephenopolous/Racheal Maddow/Ed Shultz/Al Sharpton cheer leader impersonation.

 

[nicajack]

Their lying just never ceases to amaze me with their stupidity, and is nothing but disgusting....

 

[Double T]

It's not down, people have ran out of claims and extensions. Don't get the wool pulled over your eyes.

 

[Stschil]

Does anyone really believe anything our government tells us?

Their lying just never ceases to amaze me with their stupidity, and is nothing but disgusting....

It's not down, people have ran out of claims and extensions. Don't get the wool pulled over your eyes.

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