by John Galt
January 12, 2012 18:05 ET
Of the following headlines and links, tell me which news outlets are carrying the water for the regime if it isn't that hard to figure out already:
Unemployment claims jump, but Home Depot is hiring
Unemployment benefit claims jump after holidays
Unemployment Claims Tick Upward Thanks to Seasonal Layoffs
Holiday season over, jobless claims jump
First-time jobless claims jump as employers shed holiday workers
Uh, yeah, right. But don't worry, according to the elitists, things are getting better, right? Perhaps not. Let's review today's data report from the Department of Labor where the media reported a “surprise” increase of only 24,000 new claims:
Wow, non-seasonally adjusted up a whopping 102, 314 !!!! Think that was covered by the mainstream media? Uh, no. But let's be fair and compare this number to the comparable number from 2011:
WAIT JUST ONE DADGUMMED MINUTE! (To quote the famous former FSU Head Coach, Bobby Bowden)….
Last year the numbers looked one heck of a lot better and the numbers this year look one hell of a lot like 2010, 2009, and worse! So just how bad was it during the Bush administration before the Great Recession? Let's take a look at first the long term NSA Unemployment Claims chart that I have maintained since 2007:
(click on chart to enlarge)
Are you kidding me? The Christmas layoffs in 2007, during the “teeth” of the start of the housing crash and “Great Recession” were that much fewer than now, the time of the Great Messiah's Recovery? It would appear someone is lying so let's take a second to review the raw data from the 2007 era and see just how bad things were when children were begging from dogs in the streets of America:
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