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swayne

(383 posts) Fri Sep 6, 2013, 08:09 AM Sep 2013

Job rate 169,000 adds, 7.3% unemployment rate. GOP supporters disappointed AGAIN! [View all]

The unemployment rate is lower than when Obama took office (7.8% January 2009), but you won't hear them mention that.

I love to see the numbers at 8:30 each month on the Morning Joe Show. Joe seems so disappointed when the number is positive in any way. If the rate goes down or the number is up, the meme is that it isn't as good as it should be. No it isn't. But, when we we losing 750,000 jobs a month--under Bush, he somehow always found a way to be positive.

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Job rate 169,000 adds, 7.3% unemployment rate. GOP supporters disappointed AGAIN! [View all] swayne Sep 2013 OP

It must be very hard for the GOP to accept the unemployment number is going down after all of their Thinkingabout Sep 2013 #1