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Guess, boast about the fact that they don't have as many jobs leaving the work force as they had in 2008? well, that's why we elected you president. and right now i think it's significant to note that we have fewer americans working in the work force than we had when the president started. what's the point of delivering someone in the office of the presidency if we're going to have fewer opportunities and fewer people participating in the work force than we did when he started? so they're forever shifting the goal post here and i think it's incumbent upon the romney campaign to make this very ...

Recession was in full bloom. once the president's policies having been enacted by congress acted on by the president began to take affect. that free-fall was halted and we have been gradually pulling ourselves out of the hole. >> steve: so he said it was not blame and then he immediately blamed george bush said we are pulling ourselves out of the hole that. is great news. have we really? look at the numbers that are shocking. have we pulled ourselves out of the hoil if 23 million americans are unemployed or stopped working? have we pulled ourselves out of a hole if you look at real rate of une...

Romney and mr. ryan on their plan to fix medicare. i thought this was interesting . if the same share of americans are in the office. the actul unemployment rate would be len and half percent. underemployment figure is the number of people who have begin up working or have taken a part-time job currently at 14.7 percent. and the participation rate of people in the work force is in the lowest level in 30iers. >> brian: that goes to your point gretchen. president obama has a great shot of winning, as bill clinton said. you don't need president obama or mitt romney speak. i have to change this an...

Stewart. the participation rate falls by .2 percentage points to 63 1/2 percent. >> if i'm not mistaken, that labor participation rate is the lowest in a generation. that means a smaller proportion of people, of working age are actually working, correct? >> right. the unemployment population ratio falls also by .1% to 58.3%. >> i don't want to get too carried away with technicalities, but there is something called the real unemployment rate and technically that's called u 6. what's that rate? >> you know, oddly sometimes these numbers don't exactly jive with one another. we saw an actual drop ...

That unemployment according to new report is 14.7%. that's a lot of americans that can't find jobs. that is one out of every seven. jenna: mike, one of the other questions we're getting what is keeping hiring down? you talk to a lot of folks every week on wide variety of industries. is it regulation? is it the fiscal cliff? higher costs? not enough skilled workers? we're hearing a lot of variety of things from the campaign trail. what do you lear. >> i don't think there is smoking guns. i don't think a u.s. economy growing less than go% where we are would suggest much job growth than we've see...