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To: KevinDavis

Do you think Roberts quoted the jobs report incorrectly?

Do you have a specific complaint, or do you just troll?


127 posted on 07/27/2005 9:01:35 AM PDT by ninenot (Minister of Membership, Tomas Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: ninenot

Well for one thing, Mr. Roberts said,

"Fifty-six thousand jobs were created in professional and business services, about half of which which were in administrative and waste services."

I gather the inclusion of the phrase "...and waste services," was intended to deceive the gullible.

Actually that report shows NO increase in waste MANAGEMENT AND REMEDIATION services on a year to year basis. So the increase in employment came from:

Legal services: up 20,000 from 2004
Architectural/engineering services: up 76,000 since 2004
Computer systems design: up 43,000 since 2004
Management and technical consulting: up 27,000 since 2004
Management of companies: up 27,000 since 2004
Etc.

I wonder if the reason that it took Mr. Roberts more than two weeks to spin the good news in June's Employment Situation Summary into bad news, was fear that some iconoclast would call him on his misrepresentation of the facts presented in that report.

But he shouldn't have worried about that.

This thread proves that, even here in the FR, there are plenty of gullible shallow-thinkers.



388 posted on 07/27/2005 7:29:17 PM PDT by pfony1
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