Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs
Thursday, February 04, 2010

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- As bad as the government's jobs readings numbers have been during the Great Recession, we'll soon find out the real situation likely was worse.

Much worse.

Job losses during the recession may have been underestimated by close to a million jobs. So instead of employers cutting just over 7 million jobs from their payrolls since the economic downturn began in December 2007, it's expected that the Labor Department's new estimate will be a loss of 8 million jobs.

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Ouch.

And when asked about this at todays press conference, Gibbs broke out in Raffiesque ramblings:

"Little Bunny Foo Foo,
I don't want to see you
Scooping up the field mice
And boppin' 'em on the head.
I'll give you one more chance,
And if you don't behave
I'll turn you into a goon!"

The next day:

Little Bunny Foo Foo,
Hopping through the forest
Scooping up the field mice
And boppin' 'em on the head

Down came the good fairy and she said

"Little Bunny Foo Foo,
I don't want to see you
Scooping up the field mice
And boppin' 'em on the head.
I gave you three chances
And you didn't behave
Now you're a goon! POOF!!"

The moral of the story is:
HARE TODAY, GOON TOMORROW

The new reading will come when the economists at the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics release their annual revision of U.S. payrolls from April 2008 through March of 2009 Friday, using data that wasn't available as the monthly readings were being estimated and reported.

I'd sure as hell like to have a job where I could revise my estimates. Maybe if we paid these Goverment workers more, they could at least come with 500,000.

Them jobs are gone forever folks. Nothing is bringing them back.

I'd sure as hell like to have a job where I could revise my estimates. -- #3 | Posted by wisgod

My strongest "I wish I could get away with that" moment was when a doctor was 1hr20m late for an appointment, had forgotten I was there to get test results and so had to run off and find them, and then came back and said "You're either very very healthy, or very very sick."

Was healthy, btw.

Wouldn't want you losing sleep, Wis.

I'd sure as hell like to have a job where I could revise my estimates. Maybe if we paid these Goverment workers more, they could at least come with 500,000.
#3 | Posted by wisgod

They are already well paid to lie.

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