The Numbers Game

Two hundred and ninety thousands jobs created- hallelujah! Obama has saved us, but overall unemployment actually jumps to a government-admitted figure of 9.9% (which according to many economists is actually a low ball figure with true unemployment counting discouraged job seekers and the under-employed still hovering around fifteen percent). And how did the administration fix the numbers? They cooked the books by having the Census hire six hundred thousand workers, three times the number the last Bush administration hired at a similar point in his term of office. And these are lousy, temporary jobs without benefits. When the Census is finally tallied, many of these hires go right back into unemployment lines. Is this how America will turn the corner and return to growing prosperity?