Unemployment is up "unexpectedly." It is up because the feds extended benefits and people came out of hiding to collect it. That means very little has changed. Well, that’s not entirely true. Add several trillion dollars in new and improved debt with job killing action, and a year of left wing rhetoric about how every bill that passed through congress was a jobs bill—
“Naming this pot hole after the ditch diggers daughter will create or save 850 Ka-trillion jillion jobs.”
—and we discover once again that the government can’t create meaningful jobs for American families even when it hires ditch diggers (or their more modern equivalent, home weatherizers).
Of course Obama is still working the "it could be worse shtick" which is predicated on a concept nonexistent during Republican administrations but no one is buying it.
He’s only trying to save a few Senate seats because there can be no creating them.
Back in the real world where vacations are not piggybacked in a lazy and lumbering succession the Bureau of Labor(ing) Statistics notes that in August of 2009 there were approximately 2.4 million people marginally attached to the work force. And in 2010? There are 2.4 million people marginally attached to the work force. We can thank the Obamacrats for creating a new welfare class to whom they can pander with rousing choruses of "99 weeks of unemployment on the wall…99 weeks of unemployment…. take one down, pass it around…126 weeks of unemployment on the wall."
These terminally unemployed (our new normal) are defined as wanting and available for work within the past 12 months but were not counted as unemployed because they had not looked for work in the past 4 weeks. (There’s a sad sexual simile to be had here, I’m just having trouble wording it without seeming too crude so feel free to make your own.)
Of those 2.4 million, 1.1 million (an increase of 352,000 from August of 2009) are considered discouraged. They stopped looking because the do not believe there are any jobs available.
Meanwhile regular "media spinnable" unemployment is being reported at 9.6%. That translates into 54,000 fewer people working in August than worked in July. (Where’s Harry Ried to tell us how great that is?)
But that’s not nearly quite as interesting as this bit of my own analysis. Roughly 352,000 more people (according to BLS) have stopped looking for work altogether since the Summer of Health Care back in August of 2009? That’s the same as if Obama had put the entire city of New Orleans not just out of work, but out of the urge to even look for work–in the last twelve months alone. Talk about Obama’s Katrina.
So recovery summer was actually a reference to taking five vacation in six weeks. (Or was it six vacations in five weeks) That’s time away from motor mouth, serial liar, and boob extraordinaire Joe Biden. No wonder Obama looks so refreshed. It’s recovery summer–for Obama.
Meanwhile the entire city of New Orleans, or at least it’s population equivalent, has had to give up on the American Dream, and all the Obamacrats have done is more uncertainty so that no business dares make a move for fear of being regulated, taxed, fined or sued. And that’s not about to get better because the only thing democrats know how to do is spend, tax and regulate. Translation? Democrats destroy jobs. Need proof? Hello! McFly!!! You are living it!
So people like Paul Hodes and Carol Seiu-Porter won’t want to talk about what they did, (Obamacare, stimulus, trillions wasted on more government ) because these are the only things they know how to do, but they will lie about it to get elected. These are going to be the exact same lies they told in 2008. The only difference is that we now have more debt and less employment—with less freedom and more government to go along with it. That’s all they’ve got.
