Posted on 05/04/2012 2:54:18 PM PDT by Mark Landsbaum
More wonderful job news. Just kidding. Yeah, officially the unemployment rate nationwide declined another tick to 8.1 percent.
So much for officialdom. The fact is, the reason unemployment is slightly down this month is the same reason unemployment has been declining ever so slightly for a while: every month hundreds of thousands of people give up looking for work.
Yeah, unemployment is getting better, if you dont count all those unemployed people the government doesnt count any more...
(Excerpt) Read more at orangepunch.ocregister.com ...
I have posted this on four threads today and no one is understanding, or cares I guess.
IF YOU WORK ONE HOUR IN THE WEEK OF THE 11TH OF THE MONTH, YOU ARE COUNTED AS EMPLOYED.
Oh well, if anyone cares, I am here to explain.
Summer of Recovery, V3.0!
Double ++ good. /newspeak
What it amounts to is that Bozo's numbers are false. Period.
He’s having a fun ride spending $1.40 for every $1 in revenues, just like a family riding a “prosperity” wave of credit cards and helocs.
When the day of reckoning comes, pray that Baraq gets full credit.
Hype and Blame. Media Propaganda. They’re playing games with the employment numbers. If he’s re-elected they’ll report it as STILL “Bush’s Fault”.
This country is so demoralized, I’ve never seen it in such a mess as this.
Because when you claim UC, you have to report any income. That one day is subtracted from you UC benefit. There by you are employed. Its not enough to close your claim, but is written off as the person is employed. Thats how they fudge the numbers.
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