Exactly. The press expends a lot of ink discussing little blips in the supposed unemployment rate as it zig-zags from 8.1 to 7.9 as if its some kind of great improvement in the economy. When, since these people do not return to the work force, it actually traces an economy corkscrewing into the tarmac.
The most important statistic, completely ignored by Big Media, is that the unemployment rate in November, 2006, when the Democrats were elected to take control of the House and the Senate, was 4.6%. This should be a talking point of every Republican running in 2014.