Shirley, You Can't Believe the New Unemployment Numbers

The new unemployment number is out. Magically, it happens to be just under the traditional figure at which presidents can't get re-elected of 8%.

It's at 7.8%

How convenient.

We're supposed to believe this when the most recent GDP numbers show an anemic 1.3% increase?

We're supposed to believe  this when the U-6 number remained unchanged at 14.7%?

We're supposed to believe this when factory orders just went down 12%?

We're supposed to believe this is the biggest one-month jump in 29 years?

We're supposed to believe this?