Jim,

>I tried to show in my other comments that the number ought not have been "news" to the stock market or to the people of Ohio/Ca because they should have been participating in all those new jobs and it ought not have been "news" to news organizations because they should have noticed all those happy people now working RATHER THAN reporting about the desperate job situaition as they have been.

What news organizations SHOULD be reporting is another issue, indeed. :-)

My question for all who are determined to make an item of good news into something bad, sinister, conspiratorial, or whatever... is, "What is your number?" Using whatever accepted practices for tracking job creation that have been in place consistently for years, come up with your own authoritative numbers for the past several years. Maybe you can convince someone that they are accurate.

The idea that if the national media is not reporting something, that it must not be true is laughable to the extreme, Jim.