Never agreed with any such thing,
I agree the economy was good under Clinton in his last 6 years.
NOT so for Obama; is a matter a fact it's FAR worse, I'm not going to play your game and cherry picking the worst and the best to paint a pretty picture, you love Libs love doing that and it's quite deceiving.
One of the most important factors when measuring the state of the economy is the labor force, and it's quite dismal under this President;
U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate Lowest Since 1979
AP | By PAUL WISEMAN and JESSE WASHINGTON
Posted: 04/06/2013 9:55 am EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a full year of fruitless job hunting, Natasha Baebler just gave up.
She'd already abandoned hope of getting work in her field, working with the disabled. But she couldn't land anything else, either — not even a job interview at a telephone call center.
Until she feels confident enough to send out resumes again, she'll get by on food stamps and disability checks from Social Security and live with her parents in St. Louis.
"I'm not proud of it," says Baebler, who is in her mid-30s and is blind. "The only way I'm able to sustain any semblance of self-preservation is to rely on government programs that I have no desire to be on."
Baebler's frustrating experience has become all too common nearly four years after the Great Recession ended: Many Americans are still so discouraged that they've given up on the job market.
Older Americans have retired early. Younger ones have enrolled in school. Others have suspended their job hunt until the employment landscape brightens. Some, like Baebler, are collecting disability checks.
It isn't supposed to be this way. After a recession, an improving economy is supposed to bring people back into the job market.
Instead, the number of Americans in the labor force — those who have a job or are looking for one — fell by nearly half a million people from February to March, the government said Friday. And the percentage of working-age adults in the labor force — what's called the participation rate — fell to 63.3 percent last month. It's the lowest such figure since May 1979.
The falling participation rate tarnished the only apparent good news in the jobs report the Labor Department released Friday: The unemployment rate dropped to a four-year low of 7.6 percent in March from 7.7 in February.
People without a job who stop looking for one are no longer counted as unemployed. That's why the U.S. unemployment rate dropped in March despite weak hiring. If the 496,000 who left the labor force last month had still been looking for jobs, the unemployment rate would have risen to 7.9 percent in March.
"Unemployment dropped for all the wrong reasons," says Craig Alexander, chief economist with TD Bank Financial Group. "It dropped because more workers stopped looking for jobs. It signaled less confidence and optimism that there are jobs out there."
The participation rate peaked at 67.3 percent in 2000, reflecting an influx of women into the work force. It's been falling steadily ever since.
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But according to JB Lions, the economy is doing GREAT, it's BETTER, it's IMPROVING, everything is just FINE.
Even the National DEBT has gotten better,
Growing from $10.5 TRILLION when Bush left office to $16.8 TRILLION
And we still have 3 more years of borrowing $4 Billion dollars a day, YEP, another step in the right direction..
Aint this Obama guy something? He really did turn this economy around, everything from fudging unemployment data to win re-election to growing the size of Government and shrinking the public sector like no other President before him has.
He has even re-defined the words; "Work Ethic" Today this means standing in line at the Welfare office, filling out forms and collecting as much of the $52, 000 a year each unemployed person with no bank account is entitled to.
Bleeding the system for everything they can get, where seeking a job is actually discouraged by means of our Government making it too damn EASY for them NOT to look for work.
But who cares right? They don't have to pay it back, and it will be our children and grandchildren that will be paying for it.
It's all part of the slow degradation of American Society that Liberals and progressives are responsible for.
