[Dane]

Is this charge true - NO - but we have to deal with public perception - And public perception is GWB is part of Big Oil - And they aren't going to sit back and hear that it is the Senate's fault (of which is run by the Republicans) as to why gas prices are high - After 4 years in office -

And you don't help tamp down that lie by your propagating it on FR.

[POA2]

Here is the best thing I have come up with (while at the office) to get out to family, friends and co-workers -

To try and help offset the negative media spin that will be touted 24/7 over the weekend concerning the jobs report -

Pass it along -

Once again, the press is reporting half the story on job growth for the month of July. None of the newly self-employed, contract workers, independent and freelance workers are being taken into account by the media who are reporting the 32,000 new jobs number.

Yet when one looks at the new data being released by the Houshold survey (where unemployment numbers are derived from) the U.S. economy added an incredible 629,000 new jobs in July!

Why isn't the media reportng both these numbers?

Think about it: unemployment just dropped in July to a historically low 5.5%! But the media are declaring July jobs data as a bad sign on the booming U.S. Economy?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -

In a report likely to revive a political debate over how the government measures employment, the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said its establishment survey of employers showed only a 32,000 job gain in July, while the nations survey of households found a whopping 629,000 increase.

The two surveys together make up the government's monthly employment report. Economists prefer the establishment report because it is larger, but the smaller household survey is used to calculate the unemployment rate -- a more familiar measure to the average American.

The jobless rate fell to 5.5 percent in July from 5.6 percent the month before.