> All of this tends to indicate that hiring is down and will continue to be down I'm not sure why, but it seems half the posts in this discussion seem to be wo

> All of this tends to indicate that hiring is down and will continue to be down I'm not sure why, but it seems half the posts in this discussion seem to be working very hard to twist things around to dispute the actual numbers by the Fed, without just explicitly saying the numbers are wrong. Is hiring down? No. Apparently not. Yet, people seem to keep arguing that they are down. 2 + 2 does indeed equal 4. No? Am I missing something here?