although we had two weak months during this polar vortex and the survey was taken during the mildest week of the month but we did see an imprint on the household server where people get called up, we saw a very large gain in jobs which we don t quite believe either but there has been some upward movement in that number in the last four months and the household survey over time if there s a leading indicator, we call people and say, hey, are you doing something new out there that we are maybe not capturing in the establishment, the established firm survey. you may be seeing something there. it s also important that you did see the imprint of the weather. overtime was down. a lot of manufacturers were actually shuttered during this extreme cold weather, in places like chicago. and state and local governments
payroll tax. still, it gets revised by a million every year. whereas the jobless number is a household server. they call up homes and say, are you working? if you work just one hour this week, they count you as employed. a lot of the people that got counted as employed and caused the number to go down, they were newly self-employed people. hundreds and thousands of people that can t find a job. they are hardly really employed. there s still a great deal of pain out there. this is no time for put dragging for the republicans or the democrats. if they are going to have a jobs bill, they better get busy and they better get one that has traction. we export only $88 billion a year to china. china exports 348 billion to the united states. we can t afford that kind of imbalance if we re going to put america back to work. that s what it s all about, the trade deficit and trade