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To: Natural Law; cranked

The thing that is frightening is that Obama’s playing with unemployment numbers in such a transparent and biased way leads one to fear that he is changing the rules by how such things are measured.

How then do we know what the real unemployment rate is?

If the same exact numbers are presented in the same exact way from one administration to the next, it’s fine. We can fill in the blanks. But when politically motivated bureaucrats start changing things, then you have no idea of knowing how bad things are.


12 posted on 06/08/2009 5:54:39 PM PDT by Michael Eden (It's "We pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor" time, people.)
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To: Michael Eden

Agreed. Like an Enron redux.


13 posted on 06/08/2009 5:59:13 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Michael Eden
"How then do we know what the real unemployment rate is?"

You might need to do a little research. In any event the data you work with will be at least 3 months old.

15 posted on 06/08/2009 7:19:49 PM PDT by Natural Law
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