[P-Marlowe]

The economy does not create jobs. Hard working industrious people who risk their own capital in order to better their own lives create jobs.

To say that the economy created these jobs is the same as Obama telling people they didn’t build their own businesses, that other people did it for them.

[xzins]

but the unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent

Note that convenient typo in the article. The rate ROSE.

My guess is that formerly "discouraged workers" found part-time jobs. That accounts for the job increase and the rising unemployment rate.