[Michael Barnes]

... when the numbers are close to 500,000 each week...

A lot of people are not picking up on this number or understanding its significance. I know it took me a while.
This country is bleeding jobs and all D.C. can think to do is spend, spend, spend with a steadily deteriorating taxable base.

[TSgt]

What are the average weekly numbers during 5% unemployment?

Just curious...

[Liberty1970]

Keep in mind the ~500,000 in job losses each week has to be matched up with the creation of jobs, which is almost as high. It's the difference between the two that yields this 54,000 number. Too many people treat the weekly job losses report as if there were zero jobs being created on the other side.

Obama is giving us enough real bad news, we don't need to invent any fictitious bad news to go along with it.