ABC is reporting [4] that the White House has told defense contractors to not issue layoff notices until after the election. They even went as far as to offer to pay for any legal fees associated with not giving employees proper notice - pardon, you will pay for any legal fees associated with the administration keeping the unemployment rate artificially low.
Two things:
1. Why aren't we hearing more about this from the mainstream media (rhetorical)?
2. Still think the jobs report yesterday was real?
We don't think so
Jack Welch clearly doesn't think so
And for fun, here is Jack defending his comment to the ever articulate Chris Matthews
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