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8.3% unemployment has only one basis in reality, that being it is part of BO's re-election campaign.
1 posted on 02/03/2012 7:10:30 AM PST by Rennes Templar
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To: Rennes Templar

Beatcha!


2 posted on 02/03/2012 7:12:26 AM PST by Sudetenland (Anybody but Obama!!!!)
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obama regime trick figures may look to improve the unemployment rate but unlike a true recovery, that will not translate to more tax revenues.

Only productive citizens pay taxes. People who drop out of the labor force are not paying taxes, they are eating them.


3 posted on 02/03/2012 7:14:38 AM PST by silverleaf (Common sense is not so common- Voltaire)
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So they get the smaller percentage by dishonestly reducing the numerator of the equation.


4 posted on 02/03/2012 7:17:21 AM PST by circlecity
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To: Rennes Templar

No one is looking for work according to the liars, and everyone who wants a full-time job has one. The unemployment rate is -47.56%. Full employment. According to the Ministry of Truth.


5 posted on 02/03/2012 7:18:21 AM PST by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
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6 posted on 02/03/2012 7:24:24 AM PST by PMAS (Romney = Democrat tested, Soros approved)
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We are making slow and steady progress destorying America.


7 posted on 02/03/2012 7:26:57 AM PST by Leep (It's gonna be a Newt day!)
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Lowest labor force participation rate in 30 years.

But don't worry. We're all doing great. I'm feasting on bogus statistics, and I'm fat and happy.

9 posted on 02/03/2012 7:31:45 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (When the night falls, it falls on me, and when the day breaks I'm in pieces.)
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But the civilian employment to population ratio is STILL 58.5%, the same level as the Carter-era Malaise.

Administration claims the 1 million plus is false since there is a seasonal adjustment and actually 75,000 people were ADDED to the labor force.

But even with that rigging of the data, the employment to population ration remains at 58.5%.

http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/unemployment-rate-drops-to-8-3-but-median-duration-of-unemployment-increases-to-21-1-weeks/


11 posted on 02/03/2012 7:39:03 AM PST by whitedog57
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The feds should stop putting out these almost useless employment stats which are abused by both parties. We should start a new set of stats that actually tell us something. Maybe stats that account for all working age Americans:

1. Full time employed
2. Temporary or part-time employed
3. Unemployed and seeking work
4. Unemployed no longer seeking work
4. Those not working and on welfare
5. The independently wealthy who do not need employment

Those categories probably need some refinement, but the feds need to be stopped from their game playing and required to provide meaningful stats concerning the employment/unemployed/living off the government situation.

And maybe some stats to indicate the status of our retirement age population.


17 posted on 02/03/2012 8:11:32 AM PST by Will88
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I just called the Labor Dept and told them to quit fudging the numbers.

I was told that part of the sampling was due to an adjustment in the annual benchmark where fewer companies are sampled so any increase in employment will result in a larger drop of unemployment percentage. The actual unemployment rate including those that gave up looking in 15.1%.

There was 137 million available jobs in Jan. 2009 but today they only calculate 135 million “available” jobs.

21 posted on 02/03/2012 8:24:32 AM PST by tobyhill (Obama, The Biggest Thief In American History)
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The MSM won’t care about bad numbers until a Republican’s in office.


25 posted on 02/03/2012 8:44:20 AM PST by GOPJ (GAS WAS $1.85 per gallon on the day Obama was Inaugurated! - - freeper Gaffer)
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Obama is still counting on the stupidity of the majority of the country. Hey! An American Idol re-run is on! Gotta go!


27 posted on 02/03/2012 8:49:47 AM PST by crosshairs (Liberalism is to truth, what east is to west.)
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Another 10 million dropping out by November will get the rate under 7% and happy days are here again.


29 posted on 02/03/2012 10:11:02 AM PST by AU72
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http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

You can pick the time span at the top of the page.

30 posted on 02/03/2012 10:17:39 AM PST by Chgogal (WSJ, Kristol, Krauthammer, Rove et al., STFU. Thank you.)
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Related:

US jobless rate falls, but labor force shrinks (Labor Dept. fudges numbers)

31 posted on 02/03/2012 10:24:51 AM PST by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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not watching FOX so I have tried to watch CNN in the morning,
how on this earth can anyone take that channel seriously, they were all cheering up the unemployment figures, yesterday the debt has gone down, yea it is now only being spent 1.2 tril instead of 1.3 tril.

You’d have thought everyone was doing well if you watch the MSM, funny how they did not mention any of the real figures.

We all knew the MSM was going to fudge numbers and not report the real figures to help their messiah.
This is another reason why we need someone with balls in that whites house and it is not Romney, we need an investigation into the MSM working with this white house to get him elected and covering for him and ten have it go public.


32 posted on 02/03/2012 10:47:31 AM PST by manc (FOX, DRUDGE, HAS BEEN DISGUSTING IN THEIR BIASED ATTACKS V NEWT. I HATE OUR BIASED LIBERAL MEDIA.)
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Hmmmm....The workforce participation rate drops by 1.2 million in a month.

Wow!!! At that rate the population of the country would go to zero in less than a decade.

33 posted on 02/03/2012 11:19:17 AM PST by NRG1973
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Now this is way so complicated for some; like talk show guy, Hughes H. Changing denominators and such, not withstanding the mathmatically challenged, this _is_ a significant reason USG unemployment is getting better, so quickly, too.


37 posted on 02/06/2012 12:48:41 PM PST by veracious
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