I got a feva!!

Fantastic! It looks like people are beginning to make up their minds. Maybe they're confident that their candidate will be elected and the economy will begin a steep 4-year rise, so they're hiring. Or maybe not. Darn.

Hello its FedEx....need you to sign for this shipment of GOLD PLATED DIAPERS BABY!!

More cowbell!

With respect to your earlier comment,

"Too late to influence the election,..."

I would point out that people don't need a report to tell them if they are working. They will form their opinions based on whether their situation has improved, not whether they are told the situation has improved for most people in general. Six percent ain't great but it's a definite improvement.

I believe Ohio will come through for the right guy. Kerry is just unelectable.

"But more jobseekers dropped out of the labor pool, too, contributing to the rate decline."

Dropped out of the labor market?

What the hell are they doing now?

Does this mean that they didn't really need to work? I know that I damned sure couldn't just decide to give up if I were looking.

Could you?

jmflynny,

I 'dropped out of the labor pool' five years ago, and year later, my husband did too.

We decided to stop living 'indoors,' in the obnoxious land-grabbing SPRAWL that you bourgeouis American piggies seem to prefer. We also stopped eating.

No, really, we're self employed.

Whatever those people did to drop out of the labor pool, we know they're not starving to death in roadside ditches, because Dan Rather would be ALL OVER THAT ACTION.

I certainly hope they are engaged in some non-criminal activity that keeps them off the taxpayer rolls. That's what we call main-lining cash to the economy, baby.

Its all good.

The US media isn't reporting this anymore than the Arab media is reporting the sentencing of the Abu Ghraib sgt: just to hard to explain.