Unexpectedly, Jobs Numbers Are Terrible Again; Unemployment Rate Drops For All the Wrong Reasons, as Hundreds of Thousands of People Exit the Work Force Entirely

It's not just the Conservative Partisan Snipey Claim that the unemployment number fell for the wrong reason. Look at this pisher:

So unexpectedly Barack Obama's economy continues to inflict misery on a nation.

Can we give him a Nobel Good Economy Prize? I know they don't have that but we should just make it up.

“The civilian labor force participation rate edged down to 63.2 percent in August,” the report adds.

In fact, and this is worth noting, the last time the labor force participation rate was this low was in August 1978.

Also called "the Depths of Carter."

There is some good news, though: The motion picture industry took it hard in the ass lately, too.

And when I say "took it hard in the ass" I mean that joke you do when you say "and when I say this I mean that" and then you say something unexpected.

Oh: And Syria:

via @jennjacques and @gaypatriot

posted by Ace at 03:42 PM

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