So, the good news is that unemployment is at 7.8%.
Read that sentence again.
Now, go back in time to 2008 and read that sentence. The 2008 reading sounds like parody, doesn’t it.
That’s because the Obama economy is so bad that 7.8% actually is good news. For Obama. For nearly 8% of Americans, though, it’s not good news at all.
The reason it’s good news for Obama is that it’s the first full month since he took office that unemployment has been below 8%. But, how did it get that way? A combination of things.
You’d think it’s the number of people not working divided by the number of people. But, that’s too simple. No, you got to take all kind of things into account. For example, if someone isn’t actively working for work, you don’t count them. So, if you can discourage enough people, or make it so that they get more money and benefits by not working, they stop looking for work and don’t figure in to the numbers.
The other thing is figuring out what jobs to count. Farm jobs don’t count, for instance. But, you do count part-time jobs. That means that someone who works 1/2 a job is counted as working a full job.
Another thing that helped was that they found a bunch of jobs that they didn’t find earlier. Total new jobs only rose by 114,000 (to be revised down in coming months), but they found a bunch of existing jobs that didn’t exist before.
Like what?
- Ghost Hunter
- Community Organizer
- Chupacabra Hunter
- Obama Debate Prep Expert
- Assistant Tooth Fairy
- Reindeer Wrangler
- New York Times Fact Checker
- Cave Man Defroster
- Yeti Groomer
While most of these seem like B-Ark jobs, rest assured, they’re not. They serve a purpose. Jobs, and others like them, are there to help get Barack Obama re-elected.
Actually, there are some new jobs – “I Built This Business” signmakers for example.
* Obamaphone passer-outers.
* EBT card distributors.
* Illegal Foreign Contributor Liaison Persons
* Political Rally Attendees
* Green Energy Business Liquidator
* Illegal Alien College/Career Councilor
* Main Stream Media Payoff Staffer
* UN Project 21 Advance Men
* EPA Snitches
They are counting all the seasonal part time workers at the smoke and mirrors factory during the campaign season.
* Obamacare IRS Agents
*street smilers
*post office junk mail sorters
I was buying your list of new jobs until I got to New York Times fact checker…then I knew it was fake.
Yes, someone on a local radio show put together the numbers and proved that this just could not be true. They’re cooking the books but why are we surprised. The man who promised the most transparent administration, the man who promised he’d get out if he couldn’t fix the problems in 4 years, the man who couldn’t be bothered to attend intelligence briefings, the man who would be king of the world is the head of a dishonest administration, probably the most dishonest administration in the history of the country.
Nah, couldn’t be.
ABC mentioned in passing on an unrelated story that many people have come to the end of their eligibility for unemployment benefits. Perhaps, Once you reach that point, you are reclassified as an indigent homeless person and are no longer tracked by the BLS.
Why isn’t “moon nuker” on that list?
* Seat Filler at the Security Briefings (Like all his favorite stars have at the academy awards, etc.)
* Caddy ( A new job created (!) at every course His Cleats plays, each time he plays the course). THAT’S alot of new jobs right there !
*Gardeners to take care of “Michelle’s backyard garden” created to show her commitment to organic veggies…like raddichio (()); which, at best, are garnishes on her beef wellington.
@12: Iowa Jim: “Why isn’t “moon nuker” on that list?”
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Because that is a way to make other countries see how awesome America is, and fear the power we might just unleash on them if they don’t behave!!!!(It’s like me always fearing a spanking–even though my parents never spanked me…But, I always knew they just MIGHT if I crossed the line; so….I didn’t cross that line!)
DOES ANY OF THAT SOUND LIKE OBAMA ???
My mother never apologized to me because she “put me through labor and delivery”, and realized that it might have been tough on me, too!! Obama has apologized for something about America to every foreign leader he has met with ( He must have run out of apologizes for Netanyahu)!
You can bet that Jimmy Hoffa will stop voting the Democratic ticket every 2 years before The Great Apologizer would stop handing out trophies to every country- just for showing up.