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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI Don't Think The Republicants Are Going To Be Happy Unemployment Dropped To 8.3%
http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-unemployment-january-report-20120203,0,6620355.storyNo soup for you. Mittster...
Turbineguy
(37,324 posts)Low unemployment is a threat to (something). This precipitous decline must be stopped!
How dare Obama let unemployment get lower!
zbdent
(35,392 posts)how, yes, the numbers are good, but not great, and how you need X jobs to actually grow the economy, and the classic "the numbers don't reflect the number of people who have quit looking and ran out of benefits."
Mind you, these messages were NOT done during the Bush years when the numbers were just as anemic, and the (allegedly) "liberally-biased media" said that the economy was growing ...
already seeing it.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And the troglodytes on the teevee just repeat that without the least sense of irony. Things are happening too slowly, GOP? Really? And what, pray tell, have you done in the last year and a half to grease the wheels of government to help out so many citizens in such terrible need?
I can wait . . .
Johnny2X2X
(19,061 posts)These are great numbers!!!! Great for America that is, but anything great for America is lousy for Republicans nowadays.
NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)It is their only hope.
Don