we have this lackluster recovery. let me show you this graph courtesy of the wall street journal. this is the employment participation rate. look at that. it s down at an abysmal rate of 63.2%. hasn t been that bad since 1977. the employment number s more revealing, 58.9%. while unemployment has gone down, the labor rate has not recovered. this is serious. this is important and serious. can you blame the obama administration, their policies are just not working? certainly, there are a lot of things going on happening at cross purposes. when you raise the cost of labor, the affordable health care act, talking about raising the minimum wage, it has consequences. the consequences could be as simple as part-time jobs being created instead of full time or