Midknight Review -- new and revised: After two weeks of smoke and mirrors, an honest first time jobless count is recorded

Here is more bad news: Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 20,000 to a seasonally adjusted 457,000, the Labor Department said, reversing the prior week's decline. LINK >>>>

Editor's notes: what will not get much press is the fact that this increase is recorded two days following the midterms. The two Thursday's prior to the elections? On each of the two Thursdays immediately prior to the midterm elections, the jobless counts decreased giving Dems something to brag about in the approaching midterm election. Smoke and mirrors.

Here is the course of events: October 14 - 450,000 first time jobless; four days later this count was suddenly adjusted upward to 462,000; October 21, the jobless count "fell" to 452000 and the following week, October 28, the count "fell" again "for the second consecutive week" to 437,000. LINK The following Tuesday we have the election and bragging rights to support the claim "that we are on the right track." The first report AFTER the election? Well, the jobless count suddenly went up to 457.000.

Point of post: the two positive jobless reports before the midterms were made possible with the revision of the October 14 numbers, so we use the term "smoke and mirrors." The one good thing in dealing with hard numbers is found in the fact that it is only a matter of time before the winds reality clears out the smoke.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

After two weeks of smoke and mirrors, an honest first time jobless count is recorded - 457,000. Anyone surprised?

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