Gentle Readers,

Our friends from the Washington Times added this bon mot…

Since January 2009 the country has added a net total of 270,000 full-time jobs, but it has added 1.9 million part-time jobs, according to the House Ways and Means Committee. 

Now lets do this math, and assume 30 hour work weeks for the part-time jobs, just to be nice:

Since January 2009 – 2.17 million jobs, but at most, only 1.70 million FTEs.

How many summers of recovery are necessary?

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UPDATE

Veronique deRugy generated this graph over at NRO’s Corner:

Worth a thousaand words.

She also suggests that you head over to the WSJ to read this and despair at this graph:

Dr. J.