(no, not the nitwit protesters)

I hate to say I told you so. . .

(here) (here) (HERE) & (here) (among others) (ok, maybe I don't hate to say it so much) but today's report from the Bureau of Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics bears out what I've been ranting and raging about for so long.

The 99ers are coming home to roost and will be a millstone around Obama -- and the economy's -- neck.

The headlines trumpeting the "unexpected" (not by me and those here) fall in the unemployment rate to 8.6% in November.

Yet in the report and somewhat less trumpeted are the facts as we have them.

ONLY 120,000 jobs were added.

Labor force participation FELL from 64.2 % to 64 %.

315,000 LEFT the labor force in November alone.

THESE ARE THE 99ers. Those who either expired their unemployment benefits OR just plain quit looking and can no longer collect those benefits and are therefore no longer counted as unemployed.

And only in the liberal media is this spun like it may be a good thing

The fall in the jobless rate was aided by 315,000 people leaving the workforce.Aided? Really? You use the word aided to describe people who have given up?

Additionally, nearly half the jobs added were seasonal holiday temp jobs, which will largely go away in January.

Yet even these statistics don't really add up, as a talking head on Fox just pointed out.

If we assume that the worforce is 153,000,000.

And we say 120,000 jobs were added.

And 315,000 left the workforce in November

THEN that's 435,000 who are no longer counted as unemployed.

Lessee here -- 435,000 divided by 153,000,000 is .28%.

9.1 % - .28 % is 8.82 % unemployment.

Hmm.

Where's the other .22 %, the OTHER 336,600 people that should account for the rest of the drop?

Watch for a very quietly revised unemployment number for November.

Most of the reports out there have this information in it, playing it up or down to various degrees. But the fact is it's the headline most people read, and the administration will gloat on, that will stick with people just as I said it would.

UNEMPLOYMENT FALLS TO 8.6%!

Bloomberg:

U.S. Jobless Rate Unexpectedly Declines to 8.6%

Payroll gains in the U.S. picked up last month and the jobless rate unexpectedly fell to the lowest level since March 2009, a decline augmented by the departure of Americans from the labor force. Payrolls climbed 120,000, after a revised 100,000 increase in October, with more than half the hiring coming from retailers and temporary help agencies, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. The median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey called for a 125,000 gain. The unemployment rate declined to 8.6 percent from 9 percent. “It’s good news, not great news,” said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Inc. in Lexington, Massachusetts, whose forecast for a 125,000 gain in payrolls matched the median forecast in Bloomberg News survey of economists. “The labor market is gradually healing. I wouldn’t take huge comfort that the unemployment rate is falling but some comfort that it’s edging down.” Companies like DirecTV (DTV) have said they will keep a tight rein on spending and employment in 2012, reflecting concern over the outlook for demand, Europe’s debt crisis and the U.S. deficit. The scant number of jobs is limiting wage gains and restraining consumers’ ability to boost spending, which accounts for about 70 percent of the economy. Stock-index futures maintained gains after the figures. The contract on the Standard & Poor’s 500 index expiring this month rose 1.1 percent to 1,257.1 at 9:14 a.m. in New York. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.12 percent from 2.09 percent late yesterday. Unemployment Rate Revisions to prior reports added a total of 72,000 jobs to payrolls in September and October. The unemployment rate, derived from a separate survey of households, was forecast to hold at 9 percent. The decrease in the jobless rate reflected a 278,000 gain in employment at the same time 315,000 Americans left the labor force. “You’d like to see the unemployment rate coming down when people are coming into the job market, not disappearing,” James Glassman, senior economist at JP Morgan Chase & Co. in New York, said in an interview on “Bloomberg Surveillance” with Tom Keene.“That’s probably exaggerating the trend in unemployment.” Private hiring, which excludes government agencies, rose 140,000 after a revised gain of 117,000. It was projected to rise by 150,000, the Bloomberg survey of economists showed. Factory payrolls increased by 2,000, less than the survey forecast of a 9,000 increase and following a 6,000 gain in the previous month. Retail Hiring Employment at service-providers increased 126,000, including a 50,000 gain in retail trade at companies hired for the holiday shopping season. The number of temporary workers increased 22,300. Macy’s Inc. (M), the second-biggest U.S. department-store chain, increased mostly part-time staff by 4 percent for the November-December shopping season. See’s Candies Inc., a chocolate maker owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said it would add 5,500 mostly temporary workers. Construction companies shed 12,000 workers. Government payrolls decreased by 20,000. State and local governments employment dropped by 16,000, while the federal government trimmed 4,000 positions. Average hourly earnings fell 0.1 percent to $23.18, today’s report showed. The average work week for all workers held at 34.3 hours. Underemployment Rate The so-called underemployment rate -- which includes part-time workers who’d prefer a full-time position and people who want work but have given up looking -- decreased to 15.6 percent from 16.2 percent. The report also showed an increase in long-term unemployed Americans. The number of people unemployed for 27 weeks or more increased as a percentage of all jobless, to 43 percent from 42.4 percent. The jobless rate has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, the longest stretch of such levels of unemployment since monthly records began in 1948. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his colleagues last month cut economic growth forecasts for 2012 and said unemployment will average 8.5 percent to 8.7 percent in the final three months of next year, up from a prior range of 7.8 percent to 8.2 percent. Growth in the U.S. and other advanced economies “has been proceeding too slowly to provide jobs for millions of unemployed people,” Fed Vice Chairman Janet Yellen said in a Nov. 29 speech in San Francisco. She called for “urgent” international action to combat a “dearth” of global demand. Central Banks Six central banks led by the Fed acted on Nov. 30 to make more funds available to lenders to preserve the global expansion. The move came after European leaders said they failed to boost the region’s bailout fund as much as planned, fueling concern about a possible breakup of the euro bloc. The crisis in Europe and presidential election in the U.S. make it difficult to predict the level of economic expansion, causing DirecTV to “slow our growth rate,” Michael White, chief executive officer of the largest U.S. satellite-TV provider, said in an interview last week. “We’re tightening our belts in terms of spending,” White said in the Nov. 21 interview. “We’ll cut back on overhead, hiring and programming.” Payrolls may pick up as more businesses benefit from increased demand. Boeing Co. (BA), the largest U.S. aircraft maker, is hiring about 100 machinists a week as it boosts production by about 60 percent over three years to whittle down a backlog that now stretches to nearly 4,000 aircraft.
[Image]





[Image]

[Image]

[Image]

[Image]
(hmmm. . .)

[Image]
[Image]








FUCK YER HOPE AND CHANGE
[Image]