Stay tuned for “media” triumphalism.
“We’re turning the corner! All hail our Dear Leader!!”
“Technical” issues — like trying to make it look like Obama’s economy is improving?
?????? Watch it be revised upwards next week??
Wow - below 400,000 for the first time in four years.... only to be revised up again next week.
Holy crap! 391,000 is a total flipping disaster! These aren’t numbers, they are people and families...
Just rememebr, it took seven weeks for the President to roll out his “big plan”—raise taxes!-—and in those seven weeks, about 3 million people signed up for unemployment for the first time.
That’s why Obama needs to be called out everytime he or one of his O-bots say that “jobs” is his number one priority.
Wow.
740 people per state
GREEN SHOOTS! GREEN SHOOTS!
“”technical” issues...”
“Technical issues” is Obamaspeak for outright lies.
So, last weeks “real” (revised) numbers come to 428,000. That’s an upward revision of 5,000 from the reported 423,000. Next week will see a revision up above 400,000.
The regime is manipulating these numbers, no doubt.
Obama proclaims his Jobs Bill a success!
Why pass Obama's Jobs Bill and mess with this success?
This is no cause for rejoicing, for it isn’t even close to the break-even numbers. That number is 350,000, if you ask the experts even a year or two ago. Then it was bumped up to 400,000. Why? Pure politics.
After checking the job-turmoil-transitioning numbers of the high employment eras of Clinton and GW Bush, I found the weekly applications number to have been about 250,000 or so.
IOW, to get back to the times of near full employment, even 350,000 is too high.
And they are throwing a victory dance over 390,000+
What it means is that a huge percentage of those people filing for claims weren’t just part of job-turmoil-transition. They had actually lost a job that had disappeared for everyone else, too.
1. Hurricane Irene
2. Emergency Personnel in Tx. Wildfires
3. Toys R Us started hiring for “Holiday” season.
4. Halloween Retailers started “hiring” part time workers.
But watch out because Best Buy just announced they will be hiring 1/2 of the seasonal workers, Toys R Us will be hiring 40K vs the 48K, and several grocers have announce a cut back.
All of this is unexpected and revised accordingly.
“but a government official suggested the surprising drop may have stemmed from a variety of “technical” issues not captured by normal seasonal adjustments.”
Like not being able to add or what?
I would love for them to add the numbers of self employed like my husband that has lost so much work. He doesnt have work and doesn’t get unemployment so all those peoplelike him are not even in the numbers.
There are plenty of good available jobs out there that are unfilled, just sitting there waiting for someone to apply. There must be, else why would we need to bring in millions more immigrant workers, each and every year?
To be revised up to 403,000... playing games with numbers... IOW our gooberment lies... obama... lord of the lies.
LLS
OK, without looking I’m guessing last weeks numbers were revised upward. Am I right?