About Employment and That Recovery

This is a topic that we have covered before, but it’s worth going back to it from time to time because the administration has a tendency to push inconvenient facts down the memory hole. And we have a nice new chart to show you too. It is important not to let The Obama-Fuhrer get away with making a claim that just doesn’t reflect reality.

Recently The Dumb Bastard and his minions have been trying to convince the American people that what they see with their eyes and hear with their ears is not true and that they should, instead, believe all of the pro-Obama propaganda coming out of The Elite Media Monoculture. The claim is that we are finally getting those unemployment numbers down and that things are looking good. But it is important to understand that the numbers have been cooked in order to present unemployment figures that look like they are going down.

The way that this has been done is simple. You no longer count people who are looking and still have not found work. If you have run out of unemployment compensation you are not counted. If you have given up, you are not counted. If you have been unemployed for too long, you are not counted. And so the overall number of workers shrinks. This mathematical method allows you to say that the employment numbers are better because you are just ignoring a whole lot of people who would drive the numbers up if they were counted. James Pethokoukis over at the American Enterprise blog has run the numbers and thinks that the real unemployment number is at least 11% or so. It might even be higher, but even at that level, it’s pretty bad. The chart below shows the drop in the total number of Americans in the labor force dropping since the Democrats took over the congress in 2007 and it has never recovered.

Apparently the left is living in some bizzaro alternate reality where everything is unicorns and rainbows. For the rest of us, we have to suffer under the burden of the Dumb Bastard until we kick him and his lovely wife Bruno to the curb in November, and not a moment too soon if I do say so. The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that this election is not going to be close at all. Too many people have lost their homes, their jobs and their futures. They are not going to forget what they have had to endure on election day. And it’s not going to be pretty for the Democrats. Not one bit.