The unemployment report this morning showed the unemployment rate is down to 8.5 percent. This is being celebrated by the Obama Administration as stupendously good news.
Well, it's not bad news. It's just more of the same -- a slow, sluggish economic recovery consistent with 2 percent GDP growth continues to trudge along.
The only reason the unemployment rate is down to 8.5 percent, is that so many people (and this is the only real record that Obama has been able to set) have simply given up looking for work and have disappeared from both the numerator and denominator that makes up the unemployment rate. That's why Congress periodically extends unemployment benefits (also an Obama Administration record).
A good month would be 350,000 plus jobs. That's not going to happen with this Administration in the driving seat.
