[quote=temeculaguy]Be careful mojo, you are going to get the tsuinami crowd all pissed off by using numbers and such. Might I suggest you mention relationships, child rearing or politics to take the focus off of numbers, especially those numbers that suggest the bottom has passed. Might I suggest that you attack the validity of the employment estimates because the estimator is a woman and probably hates short men, or that Obama forced them to put out rosy estimates, it just makes it more fun, nobody wants to swallow bitter pills.[/quote]

From those conspiracy theorists over at Bloomberg,

Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) — An exodus of discouraged workers from the job
market kept the U.S. unemployment rate from climbing above 10 percent
in December, economists said. Had the labor force not decreased by
661,000 last month, the jobless rate would have been 10.4 percent

It’s kind of like shadow inventory, but for people. As long as we pretend its not there, all is well.