re: Unemployment down to 7.8%

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blueridgeTiger

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Not a fabrication if you delve into it, many in these surveys are trying to get another part-time job for the holidays. Its in line with seasonal patterns but it was a big jump. Also that report is obviously so angled its ridiculous.

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Republicans kept hammering Obama on the high unemployment rate and now that it is slightly in his favor, he is going to try to use it in his favor.

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The unforunate irony is that politicians talk about it because the general public pays attention to it. It really wouldn't have mattered who the president was the past 4 years, I doubt the unemployment rate would have deviated +/- 0.5%. Its a long-term structural unemployment problem that politicans keep making short-term reactive fixes to in order to get re-elected by a short-term thinking, easily impressionable public. This goes for both parties.