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To: Kaslin

Combine the two, and you have a Misery Index of 12.9 — up 21% this year and a stunning 64% since Obama took office.”

Even my beeber is stuned.


3 posted on 09/15/2011 4:22:23 PM PDT by jessduntno (Obama shanks. America tanks.)
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To: jessduntno

They’ve changed the way inflation is measured since Carter.

If you use the same process now as used back then, current inflation is running around 11%. Add 9% unemployment which is also calculated differently (lower than reality) and you end up with a 20% misery index...

Look at the second graph at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2779161/posts


11 posted on 09/16/2011 2:03:19 AM PDT by DB
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