[lucysmom]

...puts the giant fart ina tornado at 330,000 jobs lost vice 2.3 million. Election year scare mongering isn't new but it really has become high political theater to scare the hell out of anybody willing to listen to this claptrap.

330,000 or 2.3 million jobs lost really doesn't matter very much. Even if zero jobs were lost we would still be in trouble because job growth would not be keeping pace with the number of people entering the labor force.

In December 2003, 62.2 percent of the labor force was employed; in October of 2000, 67 percent of the labor force was employed. These are both Household survey numbers.

[lucysmom]

Your post said "employment," not this new, unprecedented, if not contrived term, "employment-population ratio."

Take it up with the Department of Labor, that's where the information came from.