The precise integer is not the point. The point is that Obama has been lying with statistics for 8 years, showing everyone what a big economic success he has been. Unemployment under 5%? Obama is a genius!!
The point is that Trump is going to be more honest and he’s going to let people know that a lot of folks have given up on looking for work and they have become statistically invisible. And a lot of people are “working” but get by with multiple part-time jobs.
The “real number” shows that the job situation is not as good as we have been told. What is the “real number”? Does it really matter?
Then don't you need a precise integer to show just how badly Obama has been under-stating the problem? Using the 95 million figure just gets you laughed at. Trump needs to have his people come up with the accurate figure, a simple explanation on how it was arrived at, and then he can hammer away at Obama's alleged job creation and show it is all smoke and mirrors.
The point is that Trump is going to be more honest and he’s going to let people know that a lot of folks have given up on looking for work and they have become statistically invisible.
Claiming 95 million people are looking for work is not being honest. It's giving the media more ammunition to shoot at you with. He needs an accurate figure that shows how wrong the current unemployment figure is and what the magnitude of the problem is. Shooting from the hip and throwing out bogus figures may have been fine for the campaign but he's in a different league now. He's about to become president.