© themodernsocialist.orgProtesters gather as part of the long-term unemployed underclass.
Senator Jeff Sessions has released a statement that says, "7 Million People Have Left The Workforce Since The President Took Office."
The statement is in response to today's jobs numbers."Today's jobs numbers are only enough to tread even with population growth, maintaining unemployment at 6.3 percent. When you include discouraged workers, the unemployment rate doubles to an alarming 12.2 percent. There are still 3.2 million fewer full-time employed persons than there were in 2007," says Sessions.
© www.politico.comSenator Jeff Sessions doing the math.
"Since President Obama came into office in 2009, 7.2 million people have left the workforce entirely. One out of every six men aged 25 - 54 is not working. Employment in this group fell by 72,000 last month, while the number of employed women aged 25 - 54 fell by 37,000. Meanwhile, the workforce participation rate for women is at its lowest level in 23 years. Median household income is down almost $2,300 from what it was when the President took office. Real wages are lower than they were in 1999. Growth in the first quarter of this year was negative.
"These numbers are grim and make clear that this economy is nowhere close to performing at an acceptable level."
© www.frugal-cafe.comChart created by Sessions' Republican staff based on 60,000 households conducted by personal and telephone interviews from 2009-2012.
Comment: The fact that the 2014 Republican faction created this chart from polling (read hand-selecting) only 60,000 households, from 2009-2012 data, is just as, or more suspect than the current numbers coming out of the administration. And, our information from both sources is based on "definitions not-in-common" and "seasonally-adjusted data" from which to glean persuasive results. While "numbers don't lie," the interpretations may well be suspect. Regardless, one blatant fact remains: the economy is still not working.
(FYI: Sessions is the Alabama senator who thought the KKK was "OK until I found out they smoked pot," voted against prohibition of cruel and inhumane treatment of individuals in custody, has received a "zero" rating from the Human Rights Campaign and opposed the notion that the Ugandan Parliament consider rejecting "Kill-the Gays Bill"...yeah, that guy.)
The first paragraph of your appended "Comment" is germane to the issue at hand and entirely appropriate. The second paragraph (the "FYI") is not.
While I have little doubt that Sessions has strongly fascist leanings and probably ranks below the minus two-sigma level in intelligence, your "FYI" comment is merely an argumentum ad hominem, whereby you cite some examples, completely unrelated to this story, which display his stupidity and/or fascistic POV. Using such tactics to attempt to discredit his statement on a completely different issue should be beneath you.