[tobyhill]

When Congress passes the unemployment extension they need to make sure that they allow those who lost their benefits within the last year to reapply. If this happens then the unemployment percentage rate will skyrocket but closer to the true accounting. What would Obama say if suddenly 3 million already unemployed were just added back to the numbers?

[Thom Pain]

Do people on welfare count as unemployed? I don’t believe they are and wonder what the “true” unemployment rate would be if the numbers were accurately reported and compared to historic rates before the “War on Poverty” travesty.

[COBOL2Java]

By October, there will be only 10,000 people left in the entire U.S. workforce, selling apples.

Bam! BLS will report 0% unemployment! All praise Obama!

[cookcounty]

MY only criticism of this report is that it ignores the fact that the population is aging and as a consequence one would expect that the percentage of the population seeking work would decline somewhat, though the drop is pretty dramatic.

[Colinsky]

I keep thinking about how scared Yossarian was about an upcoming bombing raid, and so he went to the big tactical map at three in the morning and moved the markers indicating US troop positions into the target city.

In the morning, the general saw that the city had been taken and cancelled the raid.

Maybe Obama is studying Catch 22.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Jobless recovery. I have yet to hear the MSM utter that term. They used it daily through 8 years of baby Bush.