[Hoot Gibson]

I looked at the wrong colum. Sorry.

Civilian labor force.

jan '09

april '12 154,365

Again, the civilian labor force has nothing to do with jobs created. The shrinking civilian labor force is the reason that the unemployment rate has not risen further, despite the fact that the number of people employed was greater when Obama entered office than it is now.

Where are the jobs of which you speak?

The Obama campaign will try its best to claim that Obama has created jobs during his first term. If you repeat that claim here, then be prepared to tie yourself in knots. The BLS numbers do not support his claims. It is not likely that on election day 2012 that the number of people working will exceed the number who were working on Jan. 20, 2009. That is why he will cherry pick the stats and boast of a declining unemployment rate, which is still much higher than it was when he took office, and will start talking about adding private sector jobs while he ignores the net loss of total jobs. Obama will lie with statistics and the media will just wink and play along.