Unemployment drops to 7.8%, labor force up.

[opebo]

In other news, anecdotally at least, hiring is picking up in Socal in the construction industry at last.  My poor unemployed roommate is sending out more resumes. That also suggests that the market thinks housing prices have bottomed and are on an upswing, which also seems true - anecdotally.

Yes, cyclical boom is baked in the cake by Obama for Romney's first term.  It will be most gratifying to you and yours to watch him take credit for it.

By the way, you have a 'poor unemployed roommate'?!  Isn't 'rentboy' a paying profession anymore?

[opebo]

The president is simply unable to deal with numbers. I think it's beyond obvious after the debate.

Um.. you seem to have a misunderstanding about the job of the 'commander in chief'.. don't you realize he has lots of staff for the adding and subtracting and so forth?  There's no need for him to do that - or carry out the trash at the whitehouse either.

Obama's problem at the debate wasn't something he could change.

[opebo]

Yes, cyclical boom is baked in the cake by Obama for Romney's first term.  It will be most gratifying to you and yours to watch him take credit for it.

By the way, you have a 'poor unemployed roommate'?!  Isn't 'rentboy' a paying profession anymore?

He's not one of my boy toys. He's straight.

Well, let me apologize for my teasing.  I was genuinely surprised that a wealthy man like you had a 'roommate'.  Is he more like a majordomo or head butler, managing the Mexican staff and generally taking care of life's little annoyances?

[opebo]

He's looking for a job, and has his kids with him at my house about a third of the time (for the first time in my life I am doing a cameo appearance as a quasi parent - it is quite interesting willing to get the brats to do it your way through psychology rather than yelling at them). He does a few repairs because he is handy, and picks my up at the airport now and then, and does a bit of shopping at the grocery store with my money, and we share cooking duties. His name is Ron. Any other questions, opebo?

I must say I am quite impressed with your fantasies about my life style. I'm flattered.

And I'm genuinely impressed with the reality of it - you sound amazingly like Larry David with the Blacks.