Anyone in the private sector knows there has been no real improvement in either the economy or the job market since 2008. The monthly government statistics are a fantasy designed for media propaganda and in no way represent the true state of the economy. We are in an economic depression. The GOP should start calling it what it is everyday in the same way James Carville and Bill Clinton pounded George H. W. Bush on the terrible state of a much better economy in 1992.
Unfortunately it is too much to expect the GOP to formulate a message and keep repeating it even when it is handed to them.
Questions for all:
How does one go about getting the CBO to crunch numbers on anything? Can a single congressperson hook it up?
I’d like an elected official to ask the CBO to use the current unemployment calculations to re-figure the unemployment rate for every Republican administration since Reagan first took office, then use those numbers as an apples-to-apples comparison with Zerobama’s numbers.