Middleoftheroad
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Its called seasonally adjusted, I can't believe I have to explain this AGAIN. The jobs report for the month is to determine how many PERMANENT jobs were added. Were you complaining when they didn't add 3M people in November and December?
They didn't add them in then, and they aren't taking them out now. They just ignored those 3M people the entire time.
There is only one number that matters & that is the employment to population ratio. Go to the federal reserve website & look at the chart called EMRATIO. I have posted it below. It proves that after Democrats won control of the country in 2006 we started loosing jobs 3 months later. There have been no employment rate gains since. Just fairy tails of fancy adjusted unemployment numbers.
Trying to blame it on the democrats for taking office in 2006 is just more partisan hack jobbery. Everyone in America knows that the economy went to crap because of the housing and subprime mortage bubbles. This was well in place long before the democrats took office at this time.
If you want to blame it on Clinton and the deregulation of the banking sector, and on Fannie and Freddie, fine. They do deserve part of the blame.
But we already know that the economy had zero growth from 2001-2008, with the exception of the housing and subprime mortages. This has been shown over and over again.
So unless you are blaming the '06 dems for bursting the bubble before it got bigger, then you are either just refusing to look at the real causes, or you are being purposefully misleading. It would be like you running up massive debts on everything then putting your wife in charge when you couldn't make payments anymore, then blaming it on her. It just doesn't make sense.
As far as EMRATIO, you are barking up the wrong tree. I have never claimed that the economy is growing substantially. 2011 was basically a break even year as there were only enough jobs created to fill in for those entering the workforce, and the total number of unemployed really hasn't changed in the last year, and 2010 was even worse then that.