Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) talks on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2011. Conspiracy theorists came out in force Friday after the government reported a sudden drop in the U.S. unemployment rate one month before Election Day. West agreed with former GE CEO Jack Welch's skepticism of the Labor Department's announcement that the unemployment rate had fallen to 7.8 percent in September from 8.1 percent the month before. <br>The Associated Press