COSTELLO: So if you’re off the unemployment rol

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COSTELLO: So if you’re off the unemployment roles that would count as less unemployment?
ABBOTT: Unemployment would go down. Absolutely!
COSTELLO: The unemployment just goes down because you don’t look for work?
ABBOTT: Absolutely it goes down. That’s how it gets to 5.6%. Otherwise it would be 23%.
COSTELLO: Wait, I got a question for you. That means there are two ways to bring down the unemployment number?

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I can see that you had a lot of fun 'constructing' that. Abbott and Costello ARE superior to Laffler and Norquist, though!

Unemployment doesn't JUST go down because people are no longer in the job market. It also goes down because people HAVE gone back to work. The biggest component, by far, of the so called 'given up' is now the retired, retiring, baby boom generation.

That the real unemployment rate wasn't discussed during the Bush years doesn't mean there wasn't one. It just means that Republicans are selective in their outrage.

If they didn't have double standards they'd have no standards at all!