California Unemployment Down to 12.3%!

Yup, that's the headline: unemployment dropped slightly in California. From 12.4% the month before. I doubt the 0.1% is reproducible.

The bigger story is how long this misery has lasted in California: the unemployment rate for the state was 11.9% one year ago.

Last month the state lost another 27,600 jobs and jobless benefits for 400,000 unemployed ran out.

No end in sight.

But the administration says a) no one in the White House is satisfied with the nation's continuing employment situation; and, b) the White House has gotten us out of the mess it was confronted with when it came into office.

The unemployment rate has gotten worse since the election.

No end of denial.

Speaking of California. Here's Steve Jobs' answer to question about ATT improving its nationwide cellular neywork:

...when AT&T wants to add a cell tower in Texas, it takes about three weeks... when they want to add one in SF, it takes three years. That's the single biggest problem they're having. They're spending a lot expanding their networks, and our data rates are way better on the iPhone 4, but AT&T has to expand its network, and that's a long process. I know because we're constantly asking about it. They're trying really hard, and sometimes I think they should enlist the support of the users in the community. 

Amen.

Meanwhile, the President is on his seventh (7th) vacation in less than two (2) years, and has spent more than 200 hours [41 rounds] on the golf course.

The presidential tag line in all his speeches: "I will never stop working for you."

It is what it is.