Jim Clifton, the Chairman and CEO of the Gallup polling company, said what many Americans already knew, that the administrations rosy view of declining joblessness is phony baloney. A January Fox poll found 64 percent of Americans believe the economy is still in recession , so there is a lot of suffering down on Main Street. Another measure is that the middle class is actually shrinking

Clifton appeared on Fox News Thursday.

Interestingly, Clifton noted, At the recession, we lost 13 million jobs, only three million have come back. He said that in the context of explaining misleading numbers, not the cause of the economys failure to create jobs. Certainly business people generally say that they survived the recession by implementing more efficiency, which is shorthand for computers, automation and robots.

One example: When was the last time you phoned an office and got a human receptionist?

Rush Limbaugh had a simple graphic showing Obama unemployment math. The more people drop out, the better the numbers look for the administration.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration secretly distributed 5.5 million work permits to foreigners since 2009. Furthermore, Senator Jeff Sessions (and others) estimate Obamas current imperial amnesty will give work permits to five million illegal aliens.

In short, the jobs economy remains very bad, but the administration is awarding highly desired work permits (the real amnesty) to millions of foreigners to displace citizens.

Following is Cliftons opinion piece that got some attention: