Recovery?

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by Ibram

If you can show me that the U3 numbers used by Bush DIDN'T discount people who took themselves out of the labor force, you might have a case, Merc.

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Oh I have a case. A huge one. It is an election season. Obama owns the failure of the last three years and every bit of the failed economy.... The time of blaming Bush is long past.

That's called a cop-out, mate. Did Bush or did Bush (and Clinton, etc) NOT use the same U3 number, calculated the same way, as the "unemployment rate"?