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Unemployment Explained: Obama's Disability Scammers

ericynot Wrote: May 07, 2012 2:02 PM
Carter was pretty good with the budget. He brought it down to the lowest it had been since WWII. Outlays exploded under Reagan/Bush. Clinton got things moving again in the right direction -- down -- but it exploded again under Bush2, and Obama is carrying on with that spare-no-expense tradition. Here, have a look at the graph: http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

I have to credit our own Mike Shedlock for writing about how Obama’s been able to drive down the topline unemployment number even though unemployment remains as a big problem today as it has ever been.

I’m often reluctant to piggy back on a contributor’s work, but when something is really newsworthy, I think it’s justified.

Yesterday Mish pointed out that:

In the last year, the civilian population rose by 3,638,000. Yet the labor force only rose by 945,000. Those not in the labor force rose by 2,693,000.

In the last month, actual employment fell by 169,000, but...

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