[Mike Darancette]

Was it ever so. There are recurring talking points in the way the mainstream media handles things.

Under a Republican Administration when unemployment numbers go down it is because people have become discouraged and left the job market (to become homeless I guess) and when numbers go up it because the jobs have been lost permanently.

Starting in Jan., 1981 (Reagan years) homelessness became a huge problem with ever larger (and unfounded) estimates of the numbers being reported, This lasted until the magic day when Clinton was sworn into office. It started again when the Republicans took office in 2001.

[Mike Darancette]

OBTW: You should have posted this news. A good article deserves a larger audience.

[Coop]

Nice article, Gary. Welcome to the forum!

[Alberta's Child]

We have also recovered nearly 70,000 jobs, and many economists are predicting a 5 percent to 7 percent increase in economic growth over the next quarter.

This itself is also a misrepresentation, since GDP growth may not accurately reflect the "strength" of the U.S. economy. I suspect that a huge chunk of the 5% to 7% growth forecasted for the next quarter is the result of government spending more than anything else.

A true indicator of economic growth would be something along the lines of an "adjusted GDP," in which the nation's budget deficit is substracted from the actual GDP figure.

[Mike Darancette]

BTTT

[ladyinred]

Another winner indeed!

Amazing how the public doesn't seem to notice that many of these so called "journalists" are former partisan political staff members from the Clinton administration! How are they supposed to be viewed as impartial newscasters?

My favorite lie from the media is the one about how unemployment is down, but it ISN"T because people got jobs, NO, it is because they just gave up looking for them! LOL! They think we are stupid!