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On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:50:50 -0400, LilAbner wrote:

On 8/5/2011 12:44 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 09:41:45 -0400, wrote:

I am not very good at math.

Can someone explain that how adding 117,000 new jobs/mo (good news) when it
takes 157,000 or more/mo to keep up with the population growth causes the
unemployment rate to *drop*?


Clearly. It's better than 18K jobs added or even a negative number. I
guess you don't remember the US bleeding 700K jobs per month during
the last part of the Bush admin/beginning of the Obama admin.

Would you all polish up your insults a bit?


No insult was intended. I pointed out that it's not an empirical math
issue.