Hey and they re-wrote and re-organized the BLS reports. Cool. ...
I am sure that is just updating to make the ‘new improved’ report high tech, don’t you?
Sure ... and I have a slightly used bridge to sell you.
As best as I can figure, another ~110,000 were dropped from the civilian labor force, and BLS is using 'seasonal adjustments' that assume lots of the job losses were temps hired for the Holidays. Despite the seasonal adjustment, another 880,000 are unemployed for a total of 16,147,000.
Now this is not counting independent workers, those working part time who need full time work, or those who took early SS to get some money in but need full time work. And what really galls me is that per PEW 8 million illegal aliens have jobs, and over 2009 another 1.5 million legal workers were brought into the country.
To 'help' the unemployment situation, at the DHS
Napolitano Invites More Countries To Use H-2A/H-2B Visas
Shadowstats.com put unemployment at 22% before this report; I can't wait to see their new figures.
No doubt about it the numbers are being cooked.
We have a bunch of illegals working around here, new trees on the roads, which we really needed right now. Sane people would work on getting real productive jobs instead of planting trees.
Thanks for the link to Shadowstats.com, do you believe what they say? Can they be trusted?