Oh and since january 2008 (the year and a half before Obama’s policies) the unemployment rate rose a whopping 4.5%!!!! By October 2009, so within a few months of his policies taking effect, the unemployment rate reached its max at 10% and it has been going down since. I think that’s a pretty miraculous turnaround. 

The rate is 8.3% now, that’s 1.2% lower than when his policies started taking effect.

Stop spreading the propoganda that you believe to be truth, if you were to research a little you’d realize you’re the one being mislead. 

Of the humans that left the labor pool, the PA says you gave no reason as to why 5,674,000 souls vanished from the rolls.

Here is another “toid” for the board.

There are 1.4 million “very long-term unemployed” who have been out of work for 99 weeks or longer, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service.
Ninety-nine weeks is a milestone for the jobless because that’s the limit for unemployment benefits (though 99 weeks are not available in all states). Beyond that point, the jobless aren’t eligible for much help besides food stamps and charity. The job market for anyone out of work that long is downright hostile.

and I even quoted Huffpo, so PA could swallow it.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/24/crs-report-99-weeks-unemployed_n_813182.html

“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I feel something terrible has happened.”

What was the population of Alderaan?

Similarly, I’m thinking that you don’t understand that when you remove the discouraged worker from the equation, the numbers change, so that saying that the unemployment numbers are around 8.6% means nothing unless you understand that there’s another several percentage points that are missing.  Also, we are not losing people due to retirement.  In order to keep the rate the same, we would have to be adding 150000-200000 jobs or so each month in order to keep our noses above the water.  In order to reduce the rate, the numbers would have to be much higher. 

I think there’s a reason that most of the people who support Obama and think he’s doing a good job also tend to be people who do not have hard science or mathematics in their backgrounds.  They are easily fooled by the spin on numbers that we are fed every day by those who know that the majority have no idea what they’re talking about.

Again, if anyone can dispute the fact that the economy has a pretty good turnaround since 2009 I would like to hear it? So far nobody including LJ has made any kind of an argument to dispute that. This will be the key question come 2012.

And if LJ only qualifier to whether the economy has turned around in only 3 years is that the employment level needs to get back to 142 millon then great. It was 140 million in December. If we do 200,000 job adds a month through 2012, then that will put us at, wait, 142.4 million. 200,000 a month is very achieveable, particularly when job growth has been accelerating recents, as 2011 was the biggest job creation year since 2005. That would be a heck of a turnaround in a pretty short period of time, given the depth of this recession. What are you going to argue then LJ?

PA: “Obama policies has put people back to work and has improved the labor picture.”

If nothing else, PA, you’ve proven that you’re not a “paid professional troller.”

A pro wouldn’t leave a trail of distracting grammatical howlers.

Gotta keep the suckers on message, PA, not pointing and laughing at your 5th grade education.

Some outright claim we have a problem, and the Dems have to find a way to boot the whole gang out of there, before the Democratic Party is discredited for generations (too late….)

Others honestly believe he inherited the WHOLE megillah, but nobody’s claiming that he’s actually competent or has the skills necessary to rise to these challenges.

The only place I see anyone completely defending him and in the tank here are these few commenters here, and on another blog I frequent.