Yes, with a true unemployment rate hovering near 14%, plus millions of also tight-walleted part-timers dying for full-time living-wage work, the continuing SNAFU is completely understandable, as these people need to spend money to create more job opportunities, which they can't do because they don't have jobs, which they don't have because no one is hiring, which is because there's not enough increase in customer spending to justify full-time living-wage hiring ...
... So without heroic measures to create a super-customer(s), like Uncle Sam in 1942, and to bring in- and out- sourced jobs back to the poor sub-primers and other "middle-class" Americans devastated by this mess, are today's figures really
any real surprise to
any reasonable person
not suffering from the dumbing-down effects of political wing ideology?
Of course not.
Here's another similar link:
US employers add 80,000 jobs as economy struggles - Yahoo! Finance complete with a rather unmissable quote:
Gas prices
plunging???
I don't remember any plunging.
I haven't heard any plunging sounds.
Have you heard any plunging noises at the pump?
There haven't been any plunging activities in my neighborhood.
It would be nice, though, if there was some plunging going on ..
.. Somewhere ..
.. Anywhere ..
.. Like, say, in Washington, D.C.