Winter storms to distort US jobless figures (HUH?)

Via Drudge ^

[Typical_Whitey]

WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) - White House economic adviser Larry Summers said on Monday winter blizzards were likely to distort U.S. February jobless figures, which are due to be released on Friday.

"The blizzards that affected much of the country during the last month are likely to distort the statistics. So it's going to be very important ... to look past whatever the next figures are to gauge the underlying trends," Summers said in an interview with CNBC, according to a transcript.

Construction activity was hit particularly hard by the storms, but many restaurants and stores also had to close, putting the brakes on hiring plans and temporarily throwing some employees out of work.

[Typical_Whitey]

Just when you think they can't lower the bar anymore here it comes. Obviously the numbers show a rise in Unemployment. So now its the snows fault? Wow imagine if George W. Bush had used the myriad of crisis that happened during his tenure to make excuses for everything Economic... Oh thats right those were the good ol days until the Democrats took over congress in the 2006 elections with their change mantra and thats when the country started falling apart.

[Tarpon]

It’s snowing ... fire everyone quick. I wonder what rain does to the jobless numbers.

Makes sense to the deranged Obamites

[dynachrome]

I would have guessed that the snow storms would cut down on the number of people claiming unemployment. Harder to get to the unemployment office, power outages, etc.

[Izzy Dunne]

so.... now the jobs numbers can be blamed on global warming (which caused the blizzards, dontcha know), and are thus Bush's fault,

hey, politics is easy!

[Rational Thought]

Just so I have it right....The snow storm, caused by Global Warming, will cause the unemployment figures to rise.

....And this summer, warm weather, also due to Global Warming, will cause the unemployment figures to rise.

OK, I’ve got it now.

[cranked]

Larry Summers is an idiot and a retard disguised under the neon sign of “economist”.

[cripplecreek]

Sounds like a preemptive strike before the bad news.

[jim35]

I wonder how bad these numbers are going to be since they are already spinning them this far in advance?

[sfimom]

They will blame sunspots next.

[MindBender26]

Nah, First the snow, then the Jooooz, then the bicycle riders, then the sunspots!

Be well

[BookmanTheJanitor]

a better headline would be: “Summers complains about winters”

[Dallas59]

Everyone would have blamed Bush for the snow. According to the lib mind...snow is white...therefore....it’s a racist weather phenomena that directly threatens Obammy.

[blueyon]

lies just more lies to change the facts....

[paulycy]

Globull warming apparently predicted that February would be warm, sunny and bursting with green shoots and jobs.

Oops. Wrong again.

Globull warming fail. Marxist fail.

[Swing_Thought]

Go back to sleep Larry. Nobody cares what you think.

[Misterioso]

First prize for you.

[Tarpon]

You can’t fix stupid and these people are to top shelf stupid.

They think they are addressing a bunch of shoeless ignorant Kenyans, as long as the lame stream media parrot is still wheezing.

[LibLieSlayer]

Lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies.

LLS

[xzins]

Guy at the unemployment line: “So they says to me, they does: “It’s snowin’ outside so you’re fired. We feel we haven’t been paying our fair share of unemployment, and this snow gives us a dandy reason to catch up.”