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The 5.6% Unemployment Rate Is A 'Big Lie,' Gallup Boss Says
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 02/02/2015 | Terry Jones

Posted on 02/04/2015 4:54:05 AM PST by IBD editorial writer

We at IBD often get lambasted for our gloomy take on the monthly jobs data that emerge from the government. After all, if the government puts it out, it can't be inaccurate, can it? And it must be honest, right?

Well, we're not alone in casting aspersions on the dicey employment numbers.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


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1 posted on 02/04/2015 4:54:06 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
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To: IBD editorial writer

It is to be believed.


2 posted on 02/04/2015 4:56:17 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: IBD editorial writer

Time for a nice IRS audit.


3 posted on 02/04/2015 4:57:50 AM PST by struggle
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“The 5.6% Unemployment Rate Is A ‘Big Lie,’ Gallup Boss Says”

...as are most of the government statistics involving the economy, global warming, or any EPA “study”.


4 posted on 02/04/2015 4:59:33 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: IBD editorial writer

How do you know when the Obama Administration is lying to you? When their lips start moving.


5 posted on 02/04/2015 5:07:25 AM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: IBD editorial writer
unfortunately, here on FR we've known it for years... but better late than never
6 posted on 02/04/2015 5:12:12 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: IBD editorial writer
Remember when 5% under Bush was considered REALLY BAD and the MSM's were harping on it every day.

7 posted on 02/04/2015 5:18:11 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
(1984)


8 posted on 02/04/2015 5:21:21 AM PST by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: From The Deer Stand

Orrin Grant Hatch, an Obama enabler, has been known to do this too, but people in UT think he is “the greatest”, like Ralph Kramden thought of Alice.


9 posted on 02/04/2015 6:32:29 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: IBD editorial writer

More like 12-15%, truth be told.


11 posted on 02/04/2015 8:25:44 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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sidebars, FINOs hardest hit:
12 posted on 02/05/2015 12:54:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary men)
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