Originally Posted by Rochard

Everyone's income is down. Our net worth is down too. But that's not because of Obama, that's because of the recession that hit during the last administration.

This is where the Republican party fails.... They want to roll out every freaking possible excuse. "Oh, we need to adjust the way we've been doing unemployment for the past sixty years" or "We need to look at the people who have given up looking for jobs" or "the labor force is less". My favorite is "welfare is at an all time high". This is all bull shit and smoke screens. We do not "suddenly" need to adjust the way we figure out unemployment, but if you insist let's do it - all it's going to do is push ALL of the numbers up, and you will still see the same trends. The labor force is less because our labor force is older, and more people than ever before have retire. And I never understood this "People have given up looking for jobs" - Well, if that's the case, I guess they didn't really need them.

And then there is the welfare thing. That's funny. People didn't go on welfare because Obama is in office; People went on welfare because they lost their jobs and then lost their houses. And that wasn't because of Obama.

Obama isn't superman. Unemployment isn't down because he's a genius; It's down because it couldn't get any freaking higher. The economy isn't up because Obama is a genius, the economy is up because it couldn't have gotten any more worse.

Nah. Let's not accept the truth. Let's just spit put bullshit numbers to confuse everyone. Or let's just "insist these numbers aren't correct" and insist we have to "use a different method to get better figures".