they are government numbers ... like global warming they are manipulated to be political advantage for a program to make some fat cat wealth.
So we are back to the Clinton era game.
During the Clinton years, they would over estimate the job gains and under estimate the losses to manufacture fraudulent propaganda for the Clinton regime.
Bush changed that. His administration tried to be as accurate as possible. Almost always they revised up the job gains after the fact.
Now we are back to the 0 regime massaging the number to generate favorable propaganda, then fixing their over optimistic numbers much later.
Harry Potter is more Believable than these Unemployment numbers....
Harry Potter is more Believable than these Unemployment numbers....
Rahm left a Horses head in someones bed over at the Labor Dept...
But the stimulas is working!!!
Look, we’ve butted heads before about you blogpimping on FR. Even as I generally like your commentary and your positions on various topics, your lack of linking to original source links materially degrades the quality of one of freerepublic’s central purposes of archiving original content.
Specifically recently you posted the entirety of the SOTU address on your blog, and didn’t post a link to the whitehouse.gov link to the prepared text. That is of course understandable as you had like 30 minutes to post before the speech, but it’s that type of stuff that causes problems in say 5 or 7 years from now when someone wants to search the archives, your blog has closed down, and you have left FR’s database with hundreds of exception 404’s in excerpt links.
However, if you are going to specifically name a long known original content provider to freerepublic in your blogpimp lede excerpt, at least spell his name right!
Professor John Lott,
http://www.freerepublic.com/~johnrlott/
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/johnlott/index
Regards,