I went to the link and it said out of the 2.2 people who have dropped out of the labor force and given up or are not planning on returning, 1.7 million are 65 and older and 275,000 are teenagers. That does still leave 325,000 people who have given up on finding work and that is a terrible situation to be in. THey said they don't have figures on how many are going back to school or getting some training in another field. Still 4.3 million out of the labor force who are still looking (considered no longer "unemployed")
I still say things could have been much worse and given the situation with the economy, I think Obama should have let those tax cuts expire and done some more progressive things when he had the chance but he has to play by the Republicans rules so this is all we got right now. Hopefully after the election we get a couple Democratic seats and he can do something.
What Romney is talking about is smoke and mirrors to me. Pulling jobs out of a hat.