"Good" news

From a wire story this morning:

WASHINGTON - The nation's unemployment rate declined to 6.2 percent in July as nearly half a million discouraged Americans stopped looking for a job. Payrolls were cut for the sixth month in a row, suggesting businesses remain cautious and want to keep work forces lean despite budding signs of an economic revival.

I've always loved the concept of discouraged workers, and I'm still having trouble convincing myself it's a good thing that the economy lost only 44,000 jobs in July. After all the economy lost 72,000 jobs in June. Fan-fucking-tastic.