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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	You are making it up Archibald
	Date:	1/22/2013 4:48:26 PM (updated 1/22/2013 5:02:47 PM)

I know how inconvenient it is that the labor participation rate magically dropped precipitously in the last three years because it does not fit the template. Face it dude, without those millions leaving the workforce unemployment numbers reported by the govt media would be up, up, up. Man this is a hard one for you. I understand, grasping at straws with the only so called piece of good news that you can come up with regarding your beloved messiah and his failed economic policies. I give you credit, even the looney leftists on TV don't make up as much stuff as you.

Heres the table from BLS for non farm job growth or loss by month. Add all the numbers from Jan 2009 to December 2012 and you get -368,000. And yes, I will preempt you and say all the losses came in 2009-2010 but just look at the pathetic, paltry numbers in the last two years. Most of them were below population growth. My whole point, which is not in dispute by anyone but you is that this recovery has been pathetic as evidenced by job growth, GDP, unemployment, dependence on food stamps, unemployment insurance extensions, people going on SS disability, foreclosures, etc., etc., etc. Archie, if you could only set aside your blind hatred of me and all conservatives and admit what is blindingly obvious we could probably have a more constructive dialogue.

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
2002 -129 -146 -24 -84 -9 47 -100 -11 -55 121 8 -163
2003 95 -159 -213 -49 -9 0 25 -45 109 197 14 119
2004 162 44 337 249 310 81 46 122 161 348 63 134
2005 137 240 141 360 170 243 374 193 66 80 334 160
2006 283 316 283 181 14 76 209 183 157 -9 204 171
2007 236 93 190 72 139 75 -40 -18 73 79 112 89
2008 41 -84 -95 -208 -190 -198 -210 -274 -432 -489 -803 -661
2009 -818 -724 -799 -692 -361 -482 -339 -231 -199 -202 -42 -171
2010 -40 -35 189 239 516 -167 -58 -51 -27 220 121 120
2011 110 220 246 251 54 84 96 85 202 112 157 223
2012 275 259 143 68 87 45 181 192 132 137 161(P) 155(P)
P : preliminary