This is our economy, stupid; quit whining or we'll give you something to really whine about.

Very close to "let them eat cake," I think.

New incentive for children in this day and age. Work hard and you might be able to beat out a million other people to get a job at McDonalds or Target.

The new taxis look like modified mini-vans in the photos I saw.

I really boil over Bloomberg type liberals.  

  When the market improves. People who who stopped looking for jobs begin looking for them again....

Given you would like to see the unemployment number come down, but referencing that figure without referencing the jobs number is ridiculous.

Objectivity fail.

The same guy shouting about the drop in unemployment a few weeks ago - without pointing out the fact that it was due to an increase in people who stopped looking for work - now wants any mention of increased in unemployment to include jobs numbers?  Then complains of an "objectivity fail"?!?!  From ABG?!?!

Funny stuff.

Paul Krugman:

Employment has risen from its low point, but it has grown no faster than the adult population. And the plight of the unemployed continues to worsen: more than six million Americans have been out of work for six months or longer, and more than four million have been jobless for more than a year.

It would be nice if someone in Washington actually cared.

It's not as if our political class is feeling complacent. On the contrary, D.C. economic discourse is saturated with fear: fear of a debt crisis, of runaway inflation, of a disastrous plunge in the dollar. Scare stories are very much on politicians' minds.

Yet none of these scare stories reflect anything that is actually happening, or is likely to happen. And while the threats are imaginary, fear of these imaginary threats has real consequences: an absence of any action to deal with the real crisis, the suffering now being experienced by millions of jobless Americans and their families.

Heather Boushey from the Center for American Progress:

The upshot: Today's job growth is an improvement, but there is a large backlog of workers waiting in the unemployment queue as well as millions who have given up searching, but still want to work.

We need to see job growth break above 300,000 a month and stay at that level for many months before the unemployment rate will begin to come back down. Today's report provides a number of data points that point toward caution in interpreting the data positively in anticipation of that level of jobs growth returning anytime soon.

The average hours worked for production and nonsupervisory employees was 33.6 hours per week in April, the same as in March. This remains below the 2000s recovery peak of 33.9 hours per week, and far below the late 1990s peak of 34.6 hours per week. At the same time, employers shed 2,300 temporary workers, which either means they are hiring permanent employees or they are no longer seeing an increase in demand.

Another concern is that state and local cutbacks continue to drag down the labor market. Government employers shed 24,000 jobs in April, with 14,000 of those lost at the local level. These cut-backs are hitting women especially hard: Women have lost nearly two-thirds of all the 404,000 jobs lost in government over the past year.

The coming austerity program is not going to drive demand, ABG; it's just not.  But more government spending would, and that's something that Obama has had the ability to promote for over two years - instead, he's been leading the debt and deficit hysteria; he's done absolutely nothing about things that could raise demand and lead to the creation of jobs.  Good jobs - not the minimum wage, part-time jobs.