Why Sanders is Parroting GOP Talking Points on Obama's Jobs Record?

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#DontBernMeBro: Why Sanders is Parroting GOP Talking Points on Obama's Jobs Record

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Spandan Chakrabarti February 5, 2016

This morning's jobs report, by all measures, was pretty good: unemployment down below 5% since well before the Great Recession, 14 million jobs added in the Obama recovery - 5.5 million in just the last 2 years - and even finally some wage growth.

And it is good news, unless you ask the ever angry warrior of the Left Bernie Sanders, who has now been reduced to parroting Republican talking points to belittle the tremendous progress President Obama has made and the stunning recovery America has come through under him. The unemployment rate is really 9.9%, said Sanders, in campaign rhetoric reminiscent of Mitt Romney's unskewing of polls.

Has he lost his everloving mind? The unemployment rate is what it is, and it has been measured that way for decades. The average weekly hours for those who are employed (counting part-time and full-time) was pretty close to full time hours, at 34.6. Discouraged workers accounted for only 623,000 out of a jobs report set the civilian labor force at 159 million - indicating that the drop in labor participation rate from mid-2000s to now has largely come from babyboomer retirements and an aging population, not discouraged workers.

There are only two non-mutually exclusive logical conclusions here: (1) Bernie wants retirees to have to come out of retirement and work, and/or (2) he wants Americans to work dramatically more hours...........................