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- dibec0
Obama cooking the books ...
Added 190K jobs in July, UE stayed above 8.1%
Added 150K jobs in August, UE stayed above 8.1%
Added 114K jobs in September, UE rate plummets to 7.8%- Or BLS revised their numbers, but dismissal theories to justify frustration is an option too.hellobotto
- Kind of like liberals who came up with a host of theories to vilify anything GWB-related.hellobotto
- Cooking the books? How would Obama be able to change UE numbers?ukit2
- probably a coincidence ... right?dibec
- Pad July, Pad August, and let September be.dibec
- He doesn't control what the numbers are...it's an independent agencyukit2
- Chicago politics at their finest my friend.dibec
- If the WH had absolute control of BLS, they would strong-armed them to...hellobotto
- ...make the data BLS was sitting on official sooner, rather than now.hellobotto
- The WH masterminded this BLS report = the GOP directs hurricanes at poor peoplehellobotto
- +1dibec
- umm... to use Barry's words, "Simple math really", duh! lolwhhipp
- * facepalm
Jobs added means nothing until jobs lost is subtracted. Do THAT math first.ETM - More jobs added in summer, but more jobs also lost.ETM
- Less jobs added in Sept, but less lost as well. 14,000, mostly manufacturing, if I recall.ETM