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To: P-Marlowe
For whatever reason the economy is apparently taking a turn for the better ...

And your basing that on what exactly? The BLS numbers? They're bogus!

Do you know what the birth/death rate is with respect to the published BLS numbers? This is a part of the formula they use to come to their fictitious numbers. They literally GUESS that there must have been x number of new small businesses formed last month in the US economy and y number of small businesses that have folded. So by manipulating the GUESS they can make the final number employment numbers say anything they want.

123 posted on 02/03/2012 8:23:15 AM PST by JohnG45
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To: JohnG45

The BLS manipulates the numbers all the Hell. Such as, they remove from those counted as unemployed that have not sought work in the past 30 days. Also, they claim to interview the same 60,000 people each month, yet, where are those people? Which States and industry sectors? That “polling”, in itself, is manipulation.


125 posted on 02/03/2012 8:27:55 AM PST by CodeToad (NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!!)
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To: P-Marlowe

See this thread explaining how 1.2 million people have dropped out of the labor force.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2841974/posts


126 posted on 02/03/2012 8:30:18 AM PST by JohnG45
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To: JohnG45; xzins; Paradox
And your basing that on what exactly?

Morning and afternoon commute times.

I thought I made that clear.

There is a lot more traffic this year than there has been in the last 2 years. To me that is the LEADING economic indicator. When the time it takes to get to work is increased, then the logical conclusion is that there are more people going to work along with you.

So by manipulating the GUESS they can make the final number employment numbers say anything they want.

What if the economy IS improving? Would that upset you? Is our only weapon to use against Obama the fact that the economy is worse than when George W Bush left office? What are we going to do if the Stock Market is above 14,000 and unemployment is below 8% come November?

What will our campaign strategy be then?

138 posted on 02/03/2012 9:00:26 AM PST by P-Marlowe (NEWT!!! The Anti-EstablishMITTarian Candidate)
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