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Jobs, Schmobs
I've always had reservations about those job numbers put out by the government since the Reagan administration found the way to cut unemployment was to simply drop unemployed people off the list. As Slackie said, we're running like hamsters. If a $20-per-hour job is eliminated, and replace by two people working $8-per-hour, I fail to see the improvement to the people working or to the economy as a whole. Sure, the conservative mantra would be "People (employers) are keeping more of their money." But that just means the amount of commerce is declining, not increasing.