Actually, numbers can lie and these do. The unemployment rate in the United States fell to 8.5 percent in December of 2011, the lowest since February 2009. That was after a seasonally adjusted high of 10% in October of 2009. The rate was 7.8% when Pres. Obama was inaugurated, so between then and now the rate has changed 0.7 percentage points. Pres G W Bush was 1st inaugurated with an unemployment rate of 4.2% and left with the rate at 7.8% and the economy was spiralling out of control. Obama's 0.7 point change looks pretty good when compared to W's 3.6 percentage point change to the negative. Give Obama credit for turning this thing around. And, please see this chart for what it is, a skewed piece of political gutter trash.

Obama is misleading everyone about all of the jobs created. He said that 3 million jobs were created since Feb. of 2010. The amount of people employed has only increased from 138.66 million to 140.79 million a net increase of only 2.13 million, while that sum sounds nice that is a pace of just 96,000 a month which does not even keep up with the growth of the population. This is according to the Bureau of Statistics. This along with the 4 million working age adults from the labor force who have simply stopped looking for work and are not taken into account. The unemployment situation has not improved at all.

Just for one. There are a whole lot of folks that have given up looking for work. They are not included in the unemployment numbers. I think the numbers they quote as having given up is around 400,000.

Nice to say "waning months of last administration", but that is nothing more than a sound bit intended for liberal effect. Now get between the numbers, and why the decline in job growth? That's something a liberal would not want to entertain.