The administration's response to joblessness is somewhere between comical and tragic.
We gotta get those numbers down. Should we focus on jobs? Work to strengthen the private sector? No wait. Don't need any of that. If you count right, those numbers bring themselves down.
Unemployment as we know it is the number of people getting benefits. Right? Well, when their benefits run out, we'll simply stop counting them. They 'left the job market.'
So as benefits run out… presto! The nation's unemployment numbers are better because millions of people have 'left the job market.'
Which is that? Comical or tragic?
