john lonski, and we welcome back my pal, cnbc's rick santelli.o, rick, you think the gallop crowd is right? wall street's optimistic about a couple hundred thousand new jobs and maybe a steady unemployment rate. do you think the gallop guy's right we'll jump to 9.1? >> in an apples to apples comparison, keep in mind that they're talking about i non-seasonally adjusted rate and if you look back at the mid-month move which moved higher, and you factor in the seasonalities, you're talking about a half a percent lower if you adjust it. the same is true for the government, actually. if you took that 8.3 last month and looked at that time nonseasonally adjusted it would move to 8.8. i think the long and short of it is is i do think the mid-month trend of moving higher is accurate and it goes along with the employment indices and the survey, but for me, the issue is the total amount of employ and the shrinkage that we've seen in the counting of the unemployed. why is jobs important, larry? things like tax revenues and of course, consumption and it's the