Obozo press secretary spins unemployment

The cunning liars of the Obama administration have no equals when it comes to simply making stuff up to spin what would ordinarily be bad news into non-damaging news.

Case in point: Obozo press secretary Jay Carney was asked whether part of the reason for the recently reported drop in official unemployment to 8.3 percent could be that a million people have stopped searching for work--meaning the government doesn't count them as unemployed.

Carney responded,

A large percentage of that [the million-plus who just stopped looking for work] is due to younger people getting more education, which in the end is an economic positive," Carney said. "This increase in the number of people leaving the work force has been a trend and a fact since 2000, because of an aging population, which is not to say this is wholly -- that's not to say that I would wholly disregard as an issue." Carney had been asked about the 19 million underemployed or unemployed Americans, and about people who had left the work force.

Gosh, Jay, if a big chunk of the dropouts have done that to get more education--certainly a plausible theory, which is why your guys concocted it--shouldn't we have seen college enrollments go up by that amount? So...did that happen?

And the last-second pivot to blame the number on "an aging population": One would think the number of people reaching retirement age is essentially constant from year to year.

If the presnit were a Republican you can bet the press would be asking followups that would expose the press secretary's excuses and lies. But because the press is totally Dem/lib/socialist, no one asks the really probing questions.

Just like they refused to vet Obozo.

Thanks a lot, MSM.