Obama "Saves or Creates" 91.9% Employment Rate!

Who says I never give Obama props?

I mean, sure, I could look at todays employment figures and gripe but that wouldn't be considered constructive dialogue, would it?

Instead, I prefer to find the silver linings in the many, many dark clouds that the Obama Administration seems to attract. And let me tell you something, my "Mongoloid conservative"* friends, silver linings futures are bullish indeed!

So when I see numbers like this:

The nation's unemployment rate bolted to 8.1 percent in February, the highest since late 1983, as cost-cutting employers slashed 651,000 jobs amid a deepening recession.

Both figures were worse than analysts expected and the Labor Department's report shows America's workers being clobbered by a wave of layoffs unlikely to ease in the coming months.

"There is no light at the end of the tunnel with these numbers," said Nigel Gault, economist at IHS Global Insight. "Job losses were everywhere and there's no hope for a turnaround any time soon."

I can't help but feel grateful that we are living in a historic moment not seen since the halcyon days of 1983! I'll be able to tell my date tonight, FoxNews' Suzanne Sena, that times haven't been this bad since before she was born!

Y'all don't think she's yanking my chain, do you? Her Match.com profile said she was only 25. And I believe it! I really, really do.

In any event, thanks Obama! Now my topics for opportune dinner conversation this evening will be plentiful, indeed.

*Used in the Dreherian sense.

posted by Jack M. at 11:23 AM

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