[concerned about politics]

391,000 new unemployed this week. Who would celebrate this "exciting" new number? A sadist, or a radical who's trying to get as many people as he can dependent on government handouts.
This is NOT good news, unless you're a miserable leftist who likes to see other people made as miserable as you are.
2012 just can't come soon enough!

I'd like to know how this country can lose 400,000 jobs every week and still have 9.1% unemployment. More + more should = more!

[algernonpj]

... I'd like to know how this country can lose 400,000 jobs every week and still have 9.1% unemployment. More + more should = more!

Easy ... just keep bumping people out of the civilian labor force using an 'enhancement' in the sorting out of the data collected by the BLS, introduced under Clinton and continued under Bush.