[AngelesCrestHighway]

But the grim reality of widespread unemployment is drawing little response from Washington......

Washington will get more than a "little response" in the next election....

[therightliveswithus]

UNemployment numbers!

[Berlin_Freeper]

Obama’s chickens are coming home to roost.

[Pining_4_TX]

I doubt the socialist experiment is dead. There are too many people, Chamber of Commerce type Republicans included, who believe that government can run the economy. Every little town has its own economic development plans and convincing them that central planning always fails is impossible.

[bcsco]

Coming from the NYT, this has to be considered a shot across the bow by the administration. But I doubt anyone in that administration (or in the Democratic side of Congress) has any clue whatsoever of what to do.

[Armando Guerra]

Expect the numbers to be cooked (even more than they already are) and then highly touted by the state run media. We'll be enjoying 6.8% unemployment and a 6% growth in GDP by 2012 according to the government and media experts and it will be main news story of how can the Republicans expect to beat Obama with this economic miracle. Meantime, the reality will be otherwise.

[mjp]

socialists will further delude themselves by believing that Hussein was not socialist enough

[FrankR]

[Sybeck1]

They will lie, cheat and steal to get those numbers down by 2012.

[Bon mots]

The unemployment rate is a lie. Politicians and the complicit MSM have made that number useless. People do not get counted as unemployed after they are out of work for more than six months... Not when they have actually found a job.

One needs to actually look at the labor force participation rate to determine the true unemployment rate, which is much higher.

[ex-snook]

FLEECE TRADE JOB SUCKING SOUND

CAN YOU HEAR IT NOW?

[chris_bdba]

7.2%? How in the world did they cook up that number when we’ve been bleeding jobs for 2 years? There hasn;t been a single month where the jobs created would even cover those entering the workforce every month let alone those who have lost their jobs.