Horsecrap.
Total manipulation. Total disregard for the lost labor force.
Someone we gotta get Romney to make an add like this:
We all know this and it is a waste of time if Romney can’t explain it...20M fewer jobs means 0bummer shrank the economy...his ads need to show pictures of closed businesses, boarded up houses, and mention to get 7.8% with this many people on foodstamps, welfare, and selling their kids clothes (show yard sales and Ebay)...end the ad with, (how does that 7.8% unemployment feel to ya?)
There are two very politicized Obama departments who could easily have rigged this data:
1) It was the US census bureau that did the household polling. This is the same crew that for weeks had temporary census ‘workers’ meeting for once a week, one-hour meetings. Even though there was no actual work for them to do, they could thus be counted as employed. I’ve no doubt that the census is very aware of how they could have tweaked the list of who they called in order to goose the employment figures. They could have simply executed that by some minor adjustment to their methodology in selecting households to call.
2) Obama’s communist-led labor department then additionally had free rein to interpret the raw data by whatever similarly tweaked methodology they would have liked.
The fix no doubt was in, and in fact the Obama administration has been rigging the numbers with various changes in assumptions—the numbers are rife with ‘assumptions’—for months, simply to keep the figures within range of a sub-8% dip.