You KNOW Those Figures Were Cooked

in order to help Obama in the waning weeks of the campaign. Any sane person, and certainly anybody who is struggling in this job market knows it is shitty and there aren't much in the way of improvements.

That's because high unemployment is deliberate Washington policy now that we have a "Democrat" in office. It helps drive wages and benefits down.

Another reason to reject the two candidates in bed with the same interests.

Worse still, even if the new rate were true, it is still a horribly high rate. There was a time when a three-percent or four-percent unemployment rate was considered good. Now if it is below ten percent, hey, things are booming:

Moreover, the household survey found the bulk of the increase, nearly 600,000 jobs, came in part-time employment, and much of this seems related to a change in the seasonal pattern of college students reducing work hours when they go back to school. August showed an unexpectedly large decline in employment among those aged 20 to 24, 530,000 compared to an historical average of 98,000. September’s large increase may simply reflect a reversal to that abnormal decline.

What is most remarkable about the controversy is how low the bar has been set to mark economic “progress.” Democrats rejoice and Republicans cry foul over an unemployment report that would in any other presidential year have been regarded as catastrophic. No president since Franklin Roosevelt in the Great Depression has been reelected with an unemployment rate as high as 7.3 percent.

The two big business parties view the unemployment figures purely from the standpoint of gaining an edge in the mutual mudslinging of the final month of a presidential election campaign. Neither party has the slightest concern for the actual conditions of life of the 12.1 million officially out of work, the 23 million who are either unemployed or working only part-time when they need full-time jobs, or the tens of millions more living in poverty and increasing desperation.

When he came to office, Obama should have immediately taken action to put people back to work, but he was more interested in bailing out Wall Street and putting through a completely ineffective health care "reform" law that keeps the inefficient and unworkable health care insurance industry in business.

Obama is a worthless excuse for a president.