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Just curious other FReepers' takeaway on what he stated. I couldn't find a link to that segment (it was in the 11:30-12:00 slot).

I recall Rush "citing" statistics before, not not using them to attack a lib. He knows better.

WTH? My jaw was on the floorboards by the time he was done. I couldn't believe that I heard him cite unemployment figures as a measure of "full employment."

I know better. Many people I know are simply working poor; I fail to grasp the reason for his equivalency just to denounce Sanders...

1 posted on 04/25/2018 2:18:51 PM PDT by logi_cal869
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To: logi_cal869

Because you wrong and he is right.

Full Employment is an economic term. It does not mean “everyone employed in the job of their dreams” as you apparently think it means.


2 posted on 04/25/2018 2:21:30 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: logi_cal869

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fullemployment.asp

Full employment is considered to be any acceptable level of unemployment above 0%. Full employment exists without any cyclical or deficient-demand unemployment, but does exists with some level of frictional, structural and voluntary unemployment. Full employment is seen as the ideal employment rate within an economy and is normally represented by a range of rates that are specific to regions, time periods and political climates.

A government or economy often defines full employment as any rate of unemployment below a defined number. If, for example, a country sets full employment at a 5% unemployment rate, any level of unemployment below 5% is considered acceptable. Full employment, once attained, often results in an inflationary period. The inflation is a result of workers having more disposable income, which would drive prices upward.

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3 posted on 04/25/2018 2:23:11 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: logi_cal869
I'm with you. Funny how we started accepting the cooked U-3 unemployment numbers instead of the more accurate U-6 numbers.

I understand a ton of jobs have been created since President Trump took office, but I refuse to believe that the Labor Participation Rate has increased dramatically.

5 posted on 04/25/2018 2:25:34 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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I like Bernie's guarantee job scam. How do you fire someone? They will just be given a new job. So where's the incentive to work and do a good job?

And if you really work and care, what happens when they keep bring in the guarantee job employees? Are the good workers going to be motivated to be the only one actually working?

11 posted on 04/25/2018 3:17:08 PM PDT by Lockbox
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To: logi_cal869; mewzilla; MNJohnnie; Steely Tom

Bernie’s plan is to provide government jobs by hiring people to dig ditches, pick all crops by hand, weed fields by hand instead of using chemicals, and similar high intensive people required jobs and low use of machinery. And if folks don’t want them, then he can create the American version of his beloved Stalin’s gulags.


12 posted on 04/25/2018 4:00:17 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: logi_cal869

Why don’t you go to his website and read the entire segment?


15 posted on 04/25/2018 4:03:56 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Mother nature is a serial killer......)
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To: logi_cal869

If all of the unemployed just formed a DUES PAYING UNION, all problems solved. (/S)


17 posted on 04/25/2018 4:07:40 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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As a post script, maybe you should be watching and listening to CNN, you’ll get a better evaluation on how terrible our job market really is since they have professionals analyzing the job market.......................


18 posted on 04/25/2018 4:10:18 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Mother nature is a serial killer......)
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To: logi_cal869

If you are a Conservative start acting like one. Leave the emotional posturing for the Leftist and stick to logic and reason.


29 posted on 04/26/2018 6:54:08 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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