[Morpheus2009]

PING!!!

[DakotaGator]

It is my contention that the official “unemployment rate” has become so politicized and so manipulated that it is essentially meaningless at this point.

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When the government tells you that we are in a “recovery”, they are lying to you.

Bingo!

[cuban leaf]

The unemployment numbers are so low because thanks to improved wages, many families can return to the single wage earner paradigm!

Just practicing up for my job interview with Obama’s ministry of information. :-)

[skeeter]

Our politicians and the mainstream media are attempting to convince us that everything is just fine.

For anyone doubting the mainstream news media is all in for the Democrat party, watch how fast the economy is reported to plummet should the democrat nominee lose in 2016.

Any responsible president - read: not a democrat - will have to order the treasury to stop printing money. And when it does the stock market will plunge precipitously. And the lying media will have a field day.

[semaj]

"#3 The primary reason for the decline in the official “unemployment rate” is the fact that the government now considers millions upon millions of long-term unemployed workers to “no longer be in the labor force”. "

Lazy no-good bastards, just sitting around watching television in their mother's basement. They need to get a job. /sarc

[theymakemesick]

I've been meaning to look in to this for way too long.

From the U.S. Department of Labor here http://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA

"In the week ending March 7, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 289,000, a decrease of 36,000 from the previous week's revised level."

So here the Dept of Labor says there were 289,000 new weekly unemployment claims, again, new weekly claims.

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and

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From the Bureau of Labor Statistics here http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- FEBRUARY 2015

"Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 295,000 in February, and the unemployment rate edged down to 5.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today."

Here the BLS says we added 295,000 jobs in the entire month of February.

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So we had 289,000 new unemployment claims in one week and 295,000 jobs created in one month. This goes on and on and on. we're losing jobs at a rate four times greater than we're creating them and government somehow calls this a recovery? Unless I'm missing something, this is utter NBC.

[mulligan]

Government, the best liars without question.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

The only reason the economy is even doing as well as it is is because of the Fed’s printing and bond buying. When those bonds have to be paid back, what are we going to pay with if nothing has been fixed?

[Cringing Negativism Network]

93.7 million Americans, are now out of the job market.

That number continues to grow.