[Wyatt's Torch]

There were never 155 million full time jobs. There were never 155 million jobs.

Peak full-time was 121,875K in November 2007. There are now more non-farm payrolls than ever (139,118K).

I certainly don't dismiss your conclusions but want to make sure you have the numbers right,

[sten]

i took the 155m from memory... which was from this post 2 months ago:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3175813/posts?page=9#9

some investigation turned up these govt numbers:
http://www.bls.gov/cps/aa2007/aat23.txt

140m full time jobs in 2007.