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Some economists have actually said that Kerry's continuous statements that we are in the worst jobs market ever in this country (a lie) have in fact driven down the number of new jobs being created.

Kerry WANTS bad things for America so he can get elected.

The numbers regarding the economy and the jobs situation are not getting heard enough through the filter of the liberal press, but here's the facts:
Some key points:

We have lost over 2 million jobs in this country, but we've also GAINED over 2 million jobs. Various links I have to dependable investment sources that track these things admit that there is a net loss of anywhere from 360-560,000 jobs.

In 1996, CNN Headline News trumpeted the unemployment numbers under Clinton's regime, I mean administration as 5.6%. Today they say those numbers are miserable.

Monthly job statistics began to be collected in 1939. Since that time, there HAS NEVER been positive growth in jobs two years after a recession ended. Instead, there's been a 0.6% decline. What's going on with the jobs,therefore, is entirely consistent with what's happened every other time there has been a recession. And we've never had a 9/11 before.

The net worth of all US households is $44.4 trillion, the highest level ever.

More than two-thirds of American families own their own homes, the highest percentage ever.

Consumer prices increased just 1.9% in the past year.

The unemployment rate is 5.6%. The average unemployment rate since 1980 was 6.3%. The average unemployment rate in the 1990's was 5.7%.

The stock market has advanced 45% in the past 12 months.

The gross domestic product, the total goods and services produced in the US, increased in the third quarter last year at an annual rate of 8.2% after inflation and 4.1% in the fourth quarter. Growth in the 1990's averaged a little better than 3% annually.

The wealthiest 5 percent pay more than half the taxes, while people in the bottom half pay just 4 percent.

Factory output is at a 20 year high.

The number of American workers is at an all-time high of 138.5 million, a level never before attained in U.S.
history.

The average was is currently $15.40 vs. $11.80 during Clinton's term.