THE TRUTH ABOUT TODAY'S UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS: "the actual amount of Americans working dropped by 195,000"

• the actual amount of Americans working dropped by 195,000

AND THIS BIT OF TRUTH:

the government releases a separate number called the "U-6," which provides a more complete tally of how many people really are out of work. 

The numbers in some cases are startling. 

Consider: Nevada's U-6 rate is 22.1 percent, up from just 7.6 percent in 2007. Economically troubled California has a 20.3 percent real rate, while Rhode Island is at 18.3 percent, more than double its 8.3 percent rate in 2007.

Those numbers compare especially unfavorably to the national rate, high in itself at 14.9 percent though off its record peak of 17.2 percent in October 2009. 

Only three states — Nebraska (9.1 percent), South Dakota (8.6 percent) and North Dakota (6.1 percent) — have U-6 rates under 10 percent, according to research from RBC Capital Markets. 

Election battleground states paint a picture not much more flattering. Florida's U-6 number is an ugly 17 percent, though Pennsylvania and Ohio are both around 14 percent, below the national U-6 average.

IOW: THE OBAMA ECONOMY SUCKS AND AIN'T GETTING BETTER - AND IT'S EVEN WORSE THAN OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES IN THE LEGACY MEDIA WANT YOU TO KNOW.