The number is artificially low right now. Call it whatever you want... anomaly, fudging, conspiracy, accounting error... who cares. If the Republicans make too big of a deal out of it they're going to look like they actually WANT high unemployment. If the Democrats try to spike the football and say... "See!!! Told ya so!!" ...they risk looking like idiots if the next number goes back above 8%. The way I see it, both parties better walk a pretty thin line.
It will NOT go back up above 8% until after the election. THere is no way the Obama admin will allow an unemployment number above 8% be reported - they would burn down the BLS first.
This entire thing has been calculated to provide the right number at the right time. This will not be allowed to be reversed. This is the way the marxist mind works, and they don't even feel bad about it. To them the truth is whatever advances their agenda.
One only has to consider that the population has grown since Bush left office and that there are substantially FEWER people who have a job now than they did then and that a HUGE percentage of those jobs are either part-time, temporary, or government hires.
The private sector has taken it in the gut by this administration. The middle class is under constant attack - with the gambit that they are going after the super rich. Hell, the super rich cannot be hurt regardless of what the government does. They can always just move to one of their homes in Tahiti or somewhere and laugh at Obama.
Who the real target is here is the middle-class. It is the middle class who overwhelmingly vote GOP. That is the problem as seen by Obama - too many of them GOPers out there. The middle class do the hard work, produce what the nation needs.
If Obama can just get them into the welfare system then he will have no problem getting anything he wants passed. Obama wants a poverty stricken nation that is dependent on government handouts for their daily existence. Obama doesn't care that such nations exist and they are all third-world status. That is what he wants.
In a productive America it is the IDEAs that are debated to see who rules. In third world countries the strong man takes all he wants and leaves whatever is left for the poor to struggle for. The strong man doesn't care if they are all starving. He wants it that way. If they are too busy trying to stay alive, they won't have much time or energy to organize or participate in a revolution.
Enjoy your handiwork liberals - you are the enablers, if you win.