11.5% unemployment

Charleston (WV) Daily Mail ^ | February 4, 2012 | Don Surber

[Mustang Driver]

The new employment numbers are out and they show that unemployment fell to 8.3% in January. Woo-hoo. We added “243,000″ jobs, right?

Not exactly.

From Zero Hedge:

“In January, the number of Part Time workers rose by 699K, the most ever, from 27,040K to 27,739K, the third highest number in the history of this series. How about Full time jobs? They went from 113,765 to 113,845. An 80K increase. So the epic January number of 141.6 million employed, which rose by 847K at the headline level: only about 10 % of that was full time jobs: surely an indicator of the resurgent US economy… in which employers can’t even afford to give their workers full time employee benefits.”

I am not that pessimistic.

[hoosiermama]

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[Para-Ord.45]

Those are the facts but no one is listening .

The narrative has been written, the propaganda disseminated via the dominant left-wing media and dutifully repeated by the RINO GOP and Romney.

They are fooling most of the people most of the time.

Combine that with the fact almost anyone with dual foreign allegiances can be President and what you`ve got is the Beast System.

[fhayek]

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts - thats how the saying goes. But I guess Barack Obama feels that he is entitled to his own facts. I know that every measurement has an inherent margin of error, but the Obama administration has so bastardized the unemployment number that it has ceased to have meaning (apart from the obvious propaganda value). Anyone who looks at the numbers should understand that the economy is not picking up steam. Barack Obama's policies are not working. In fact it is quite the contrary. And yet the media continues to marvel at how wonderful the emperor's clothes are. Sheesh.

[whitedog57]

Also from Zero Hedge:

Unemployment Actually Rose in January, Media Screams “Unemployment Rate Declines!” – Is INCREASING Unemployment Something To Brag About?

http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/unemployment-actually-rose-in-january-media-screams-unemployment-rate-declines-is-increasing-unemployment-something-to-brag-about/

[wny]

the media are such oboamabuttlicking whores. if Obama and Biden (fool-DE) were struck by lighting and killed, within 24 hours of republican John Boehner being sworn in as the new president the MSMwhore will be cranking our stories on the depression.

[Vaduz]

The media and Obama&Co will make sure all unemployment numbers will look good until November.

[Quix]

Gerald Celente is evidently saying unemployment will be

3 X’s what it is now . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXIrfjLsmaU

[LibertarianLiz]

Zero Hedge has had two good articles in the last two days at their site. My husband was looking at some of the charts today and what really struck him was the comparison chart between employment for younger people and 55 and older. The Boomers are not retiring and the younger people are not finding work.

[RedMDer]

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