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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.
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KEYWORDS: gallup; unemployment
To: IBD editorial writer
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posted on
02/04/2015 4:56:17 AM PST
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: IBD editorial writer
Time for a nice IRS audit.
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posted on
02/04/2015 4:57:50 AM PST
by
struggle
To: IBD editorial writer
“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”.
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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.")
To: IBD editorial writer
How do you know when the Obama Administration is lying to you? When their lips start moving.
To: IBD editorial writer
unfortunately, here on FR we've known it for years... but better late than never
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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)
To: IBD editorial writer
Remember when 5% under Bush was considered REALLY BAD and the MSM's were harping on it every day.
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posted on
02/04/2015 5:18:11 AM PST
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: IBD editorial writer
“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)
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posted on
02/04/2015 5:21:21 AM PST
by
Flick Lives
("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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.
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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.
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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!)
sidebars, FINOs hardest hit:
- Gallup: Americans Consistently Rate Honesty, Ethics of Police Higher Than Elected Officials
- Why Are Millennials More Pro-Life Than Their Parents' Generation?
- Obama Loses Support Among White Millennials
- Gallup: Record 63% Say Having Gun Makes Home Safer
- Gallup: Less Than Half of Americans Support Stricter Gun Laws
- Gallup Poll: Muslims Most Supportive of Obama; Mormons, Least
- Gallup: Israel's critics are younger, less educated, less informed and more Democratic
- Gallup: Obama Approval Plunges with Working-Class Whites to 27 Percent
- Gallup: Voter opposition to Obama at 16-year high, worse than Bush, Clinton
- Gallup: Harry Reid hits a new high in the eyes of Americans -- in unpopularity (only 21% favorable)
- The Trend Line: More Americans Align With Republican After Election
- Democratic Party Favorable Rating Falls To Record Low
- New Gallup Poll: Public wants GOP Congress, not Obama, to set the country's agenda
- Gallup: GOP holds 23 point lead over Democrats as party best able to keep US safe
- Poll: Republicans preferred to keep America prosperous (49%-40%)
- Gallup, Battleground, and Conservatism: Conservatives in America outnumber Liberals 58-37
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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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