Originally Posted by Rochard

Of course you know better. Sure sure.

For example, you understand the workforce participation rate has little to do with the economy, right? The workforce participation rate has been on a downward trend for the pasty forty years, while the economy has not. The workforce participation rate has to do more with the age of workers. In very simple terms, the baby boom generation is aging out of the workforce....

It's always comical how when we discuss unemployment, you want to talk about something else - the "true" unemployment rate (which has also been cut in half in the past seven years) and now the "workforce participation rate".

I don't think Obama is our savior; I just want the economy to do good.