| MontanaHatchet said: "You have terminal cancer, but you're now dying slightly less slowly." "This calls for a celebration!!!!" That's roughly what we're looking at. I suck at analogies (I've been told this many times), but I thought I'd have fun with that one. |
The problem with that analogy is the same problem with how this news is presented. That analogy means that on one day, you thought you had.. say 100 days to live. The next time you went to the doctor, he told you that you had 150 days to live.
That's actually good news. You gained 50 days. This would be the same here as unemployment going down, but not being back to the level it should be.
The real analogy here would be you go to the doctor the first time, and he tells you that you have 300 days to live. You come back the next day, and he says 200, then you come back the next day, and he says 150.
Then try and tell yourself 150 days is good, because the trend had you expecting him to say 100 days. No, it's not good. You lost 50 days from the day before. Your still dying faster, just the days you loose each visit is slowing down.
