seen in the last quarter, as a matter of fact. let s look at the numbers. down to 8.8%. as you reported the net job gains, 216,000 jobs when you take away losses in the public sector. professional business services added 78,000 jobs. health care was up 37,000 jobs. ditto for leisure and hospitality up 37,000. manufacturing jobs up 17,000. the trend is your friend when you re talking about the white house and the economy and the jobless number going down as it has. not only for some 14 million americans who are out of work but politically here at the white house, good news for democrats, a lot riding on the jobless number come 2012 in the election year. richard? the trend is your friend. you got all the mottos there too at the white house evidently. reporter: i borrowed that one from wall street. another number you touched on, and that s the public sector. we saw that go a little bit down in terms of numbers. also related to that is the budget and trying to cut the amoun