18% sounds closer to it.
I was thinking it was in the 20’s.
Potemkin Village:
“My policies really ARE working...!!!”
Yeah, right.
(spits)
And 18% is likely conservative, but good to see a candidate willing to question the “official line”.
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[insert facepalm here]
Finally, someone of note has said it!...............
This morning I hear on CBS radio that 100 million people are on welfare of some sort and 90% who have these debit cards withdraw cash and buy no services, rent, food, etc on the card. Hmmmm
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Trump's major appeal is that he IS NOT a career politician.
You know the saying “Torture statistics long enough and they’ll say anything you want?” Well, the unemployment statistic is so tortured much it should sue for protection under the Geneva Conventions.
Article absolutely confirms that Trump is right, real unemployment is at least double the official government figure.
Then they quibble with him saying it’s even higher. Does that discredit him? Hell no.
“Unsurprisingly, health care has been a major engine of the recovery in the jobs market.”
And yet ALL of this spending increase is simply the result of more hundreds of billions of conjured-from-thin-air “money” borrowed from the FedResBank by the Fed government and funneled to state Medicaid programs and/or simply directly handed out as subsidies on exchange insurance polices. The economic impact is not sustainable and will collapse if/when the extra money is withdrawn and/or becomes increasingly worthless as money-printing continues unabated.
This kind of health-care spending is simply another form of “stimulus” spending by the government.
The 5% is what’s left after everyone else gave up and realized they could get more from government freebies.
When you have a third of the work force NOT in the work force, it doesn’t make any sense that the jobless rate is stated as 5.5%.
>>And in every case, these business leaders either trust the official federal statistics, or are confident that their own proprietary numbers show a major decline in unemployment since President Obama took office.<<
What would you expect them to say? Of course, they are going to toe the government line. There simply is no way to believe the regime and what it puts out there as fact.
BTW, if I remember correctly, at full employment, you still have 5.4% unemployed - sick, hospitalized, etc.
Add drop-outs, underemployed, part timers, and people (who used to have houses) now living in relative’s basements, and it’s about 45%.
If you use the same method used for calculating unemployment during the depression, then we have been just over 26% since 2008.
This depression is deeper and longer than 1930s.
Mostly because we are being lied to when we are told that unemployment is around 5.5%. And then people aren’t clamoring to get this fixed.
Everybody with a functioning brain already knows this. Question is why have the so called conservative elected representatives been silent regarding this reality? Sad state of affairs when it requires a liberal democrat to speak the obvious.
He’s right, even Bernie Sanders will admit this.
With the continued DESTRUCTION of this Country by Barry, the pro Illegal Immigrant Lobby, the Politicians with their slice of the pie, I feel the American Dream slipping away (for me personally) more every day.