Syria is leading the news but Friday's jobs report is not too far back.  Once again, the unemployment rate dropped because Americans are not looking for work.    Welcome to the world that Obama's voters did not vote for in 2008. On Friday, we were once again reminded of President Carter, the one man in recent memory that many of us would rather not be reminded of.  Nice man, lousy president! The numbers in this jobs report are awful: "The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Friday job numbers show the nation's "labor force participation rate" -- i.e., the percentage of Americans over 16 who have jobs, or are looking for one -- dipped to 63.2 percent.  That beats the sad record of 63.4 percent set in 1978, a harbinger of the Carter-era stagflation and malaise to come.  Yes, the unemployment rate last month ticked down a tenth of a point, to 7.3 percent. But that's only slightly better than the 7.8 percent rate that...(Read Full Post)