Because of the way the unemployment rate is calculated, the rate can actually go down even when the number of people who are employed is also going down.
This all pretty much says that there are lying statistics.
This administration literally makes things up as they go along. They can, because the low information voter lives and dies with soundbites. That being said, people are hurting out there, and are starting to pay attention. When someone is dropped from their health insurance for reasons they cannot really understand, and/or lose their job and cannot find another, the President getting on the television to tell everyone how great everything is and how successful his signature healthcare law is, people start asking questions and really wonder how things got this bad. We need to remind that it is the President, the Democrat party and their policies that have dragged us down and that there is an alternative. Unfortunately, the GOP-e could not care less, they just want their chance to tax and spend. It is a stupid game, of which I tire.
But, but John Boehner and Hussein 0bama say we need to throw open the borders and grant amnesty because we need more workers! How can that be?
/EXTREME Sarc
Please, tell me your opinions. Can’t we simply take the number of people of working age, determine the number of those that are not working and then determine the real unemployment rate? Am I missing something?