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To: DC Packfan
Rush should never try to explain the unemployment rate.

He can't do math and over and above that his twisted logic of not counting jobs is flat out wrong.

What the BLS doesn't count is people, not jobs or lack of jobs.

If the US labor force is 100,000,000 and 10,000,000 are unemployed then the rate of unemployment is 10%

The way the BLS cheats is by saying that 2,000,000 quit looking for jobs, so now they claim that only 8,000,000 are unemployed {even though there are still 10,000,000 out of work} so now....SHAZAAM... the new unemployment number is now....TADA... 8%.

Total bullshit but it's what we are being fed by obummer's Bureau of Labor Statistics.

I've emailed this to Rush many times, but when he gets his mind wrapped around an idea, forget it.

This would bring his Correct Rate down to 88.7%, so he will continue to ignore my emails {and I send them into his 24/7 mail box}.

12 posted on 02/17/2012 12:36:49 PM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorists savages.)
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To: USS Alaska

I heard the segment and I remember thinking: “I don’t ever remember in over 20 years of listening to Rush when he EVER botched an explanation of anything so badly”. You got it right. Thanks


19 posted on 02/18/2012 9:31:32 PM PST by JewishRighter (Anybody but Hussein)
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