Friday brings us to the favorite part of the month when we sigh and think:  were the Bush years really that bad?

 Seriously, the August US unemployment rate is expected to jump increase to 9.5% from 9.4% in July and non farm payrolls are expected to have declined 230k.  From a low of 4.4% in October of 2006, the number of unemployed has soared to 6.7 million in the United States.  It’s one of the contributing factors for why President Obama is seeing his approval ratings sink.

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