Wait! This is a good jobs report?

UNITED NATIONS – The monthly jobs report for December is out, and the administration is trying to spin it as great news.

The economy added 292,000 jobs in December, officials say.

But what kind of jobs were added?

Look below the top-line number and we see low-wage, low-skill jobs that won't support what the world knew as "the American standard of living."

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Notably missing are jobs that support a middle class, provide for a family and pay for a college education.

We see the economy added 37,000 jobs for waiters, waitresses, bartenders and busboys. Why bother getting a university degree to wait tables?

The economy added 15,000 couriers and messengers, but lost nearly 5,000 jobs producing the automobiles and transportation equipment those couriers rely on to deliver their messages.

Americans were told a college education was the ticket to one of the "jobs of the future" in the much ballyhooed "information" industry.

But that part of the economy added only 16,000 jobs – and 15,000 of those were in the Hollywood sector of movies and music recording. The non-glamour professions of telecommunications and data processing actually lost jobs.

Meanwhile, retailers added an anemic 4,000 jobs. Clothing stores actually shed 17,500 clerks, cashiers and shelf-stockers. Apparently Americans who don't have well-paying jobs can't afford to buy clothes.

The U.S. added 52,000 in "health care and social assistance" – changing bed pans at hospitals and nursing homes. No college degree necessary – and no guarantee the jobs are going to Americans rather than immigrants.

How many of December's 45,000 construction jobs were filled by Americans rather than cheaper foreign-born labor? The jobs report won't tell you that.

But new research from the Pew Charitable Trusts tells us those construction jobs were more likely to go to immigrants than to native-born Americans. Same for those restaurant jobs. The Pew research says immigrants make up nearly one-fifth of the workforce.

Meanwhile, manufacturing – the key to the middle class for generations of Americans – added only 8,000 jobs in December. An eighth of those were in the manufacturing of computers, though the number of jobs manufacturing semiconductor chips actually shrank, further evidence the U.S. has outsourced virtually the entire high-tech industry.

Counting the millions of Americans who've given up looking for work or are forced to take a part-time job because they can't find full-time work, the real unemployment rate is 9.9 percent, not the 5 percent the administration touts.