I think it's safe to say that any uptick in jobs or the stock market is the direct result of new Republican leadership in Congress thanks to the overwhelming mandate of the electorate. It just goes to show that keeping taxes low and government programs unfunded was all we needed to turn the economy around.

I mean lookit. Three days after the Red Tsunami and our markets are up, people are getting back to work, and our gay soldiers have to keep their mouths shut. THAT'S leadership!

Or so we'll be told in 3...2...1...

Stay away from open windows, Steve. Fox Noise will spin it to such contortion that you'll die without jumping. Buckle up buddy...

Maybe some of that $2 trillion the private sector has been sitting on for months is starting to trickle out in the form of new hires - now that's it's safe to help us help them to help themselves again.

It is obvious to even casual observers that the improvements in the job markets and on Wall Street are solely because employers and investors knew that republicans were going to regain control of Congress!

Steve,
How 'bout reposting the chart with only the private sector?

Does this chart reflect the revisions or only the initially released numbers?

Put the chart of just the private sector jobs which is different from all jobs.

Heard on NPR this morning that we'd need 250,000 jobs created each month for ten years before we'd drop to an unemployment rate of 5%.

This is going to be awhile.

And it's all the bankster's fault, they're getting away with what they did--and what they continue to do. Faith in the rule of law is evaporating because of it. And when that faith goes away, look the hell out.

But look over there, it's a dark person!

You know very well that it's going to be, "Businesses anticipated GOP gains in the election, so they felt more confident and hired more workers."

After a couple of days of severe depression, I woke up this morning thinking perhaps California is the answer to moving forward. The legislature there has been working on a single payer health insurance plan, they now have a dem for governor, it they pass the plan perhaps we will follow one state at a time, I know Vermonters want to. Also California dearly would love alternate energy, both of these initiatives would save the country a load of money.

as a follow up to js' comment, vermont's newly elected governor, peter shumlin, is making single payer health insurance his top priority.

Here's a plan to create job growth that both Democrats and Republican'ts can get behind:

Take the money AIG, GM and the banks are paying back and use that money to contract with private companies to tear down houses in communities with oversupply (Detroit, Las Vegas, Florida, etc.) Anyone with a mortgage will have it forgiven and the banks will get 20 cents on the dollar of what is owed from Uncle Sam. This will do a number of things.
1. Help the supply/demand ratio for housing causing house prices to rise or at least stabilize.
2. Put people to work in the hardest hit areas of the country.
3. Give the banks an opportunity to clean up their balance sheets
4. Give people mad at the banks a sense of some justice (the banks are going to lose money)
5. Republican'ts can get satisfaction that many people in the lower income brackets are having their neighborhoods destroyed
6. Dems get to put people to work and claim credit for saving the economy

Keep in mind that Detroit has already started tearing down houses.

Where are the jobs? ~Beohner

They certainly werent created during 2000 to 2006. Furthermore whats an obstructionist care about jobs?

Sure it would have been nice to have the latest numbers come out before the election, but they would have been ignored by a Media bent on a No Jobs Under Obama meme.
If the Media had wanted to show the voters the numbers and your excellent graphs...they could have. They didn't. And remember this: these positive signs come despite 100% opposition by the Party that now controls the House. Think what might be the case right now if the Republicans had actually tried to help get us out of this mess.

Three days after the Red Tsunami and our markets are up, people are getting back to ~Chris

The markets are up because of Bernankes QE which relieves stress in the assets markets and because speculators can borrow cheaply. Would the new leadership [actually they are representatives] like to take credit for rising food and oil prices?

But look over there, it's a dark person! -Terraformer

This reminds me of a Lincoln quote that Ive found useful lately:

Abraham Lincoln in 1864—“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. …corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”

Now listen to the pundits and politicians and see how they use peoples prejudices.

So, I say, those who use peoples prejudices either for profit or political empowerment with the rational they are 'Saving America' are actually doing the opposite.

"And if Fox News gives Republicans credit for this, I'm jumping out the window."

Hope you're on the first floor, man.

"John Boehner likes to ask, 'Where are the jobs?'"

And I like to answer: "I think they're sitting on Mitch McConnell's desk. Why don't you take a stroll to the other side of Capitol Hill and talk to him about it?"