Posted on 05/03/2014 9:30:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I think the answer is a large number of people are on some type of assistance program or probably several and simply get more "income" from those than from working an honest job...
These people are still counted as "unemployed" and the ones who actually want to work are a smaller pool, hence the need for a job fair...
The way to solve this puzzle is to have a category in the labor statistics that says "vote for a living" and the numbers will make a lot more sense...
So the whole world is going to collapse and the only thing a lot of people will feel is Foolish?
5.56mm
My son was out of work for 4 years, he finally took a job as a corrections officer in the local prison. The prison is known as the toughest one in the state, and his block is the toughest in the prison.It is where they keep the gang members. Last week two officers were hospitalized, one with a sliced face, the other with an injured arm from an inmate hitting her.
He has a job though, one thing about it, even in this obammunism, prisons are recession proof.
BECAUSE our schools have been dumbed down.
http://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam1912.html
Check out this 8th grade test from 1912, BEFORE the liberalization of our schools.
Because our education system stopped turning out engineers, and started turning out experts in womyn’s and homosexual history instead.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3151710/posts
Unemployment Drops to 0% as Last Worker Leaves Labor Force
The People’s Cube ^ | May 3, 2014 | Opiate of the People Posted by 4Liberty
Comrade Barack Obama today became the first to achieve a milestone coveted by enlightened central planners everywhere when the Bureau of Laborious Statistics announced the much-followed totally-meaningless “headline” U3 unemployment rate for last month was ZERO PERCENT! This means that the glorious economic recovery he engineered after the disastrous Bush years has now attained FULL EMPLOYMENT!
It is a tribute to Professor Obama that he was able to find the Holy Grail which eluded history’s greatest economic thinkers such as Lenin, Stalin and Mao. This landmark achievement along with his establishment of free healthcare for everyone via the Affordable Care Act cements his reputation as the Greatest Leader in this or any other universe for all time.
The dramatic moment occurred at 12:03 PM, four weeks to the day after Lyman Yilk, a pipe-fitter from Bittcling, Pa, finally gave up looking for work. Mr. Yilk has been unemployed since 2005 but was on a celebratory bender since the day after Mr. Obama’s first election and did not know that the Keystone Pipeline (which Mr. Yilk was hoping to find work on) had been cancelled due to environmental concerns. When he finally sobered up four weeks ago and learned the project was dead, he abandoned his search to find a job.
Mr. Yilk was the last worker to leave the labor force and turned the lights out as he left. According to the BLS definition:
Quote: U3: Official unemployment rate per the ILO definition occurs when people are without jobs and they have actively looked for work within the past four weeks. Without Mr. Yilk, there was no one actively looking for work any longer, hence the U3 rate was now ZERO PERCENT, praise Obama!
Gloom-and-doom naysayers were quick to note that the labor force participation rate had also dropped to zero percent which (according to them) was not a good thing as it meant no one was employed. Comrade Nancy Pelosi countered their racist, straw-man argument brilliantly by observing that it also meant no comrade was any longer “job-locked” and each was free to be an artist, writer, hooker, etc, and pursue their passion.
“There is no underestimating this tremendous achievement of Barack Obama” said Paul Klugeman, an expert on hiding declines and fudging economic statistics as well being the self-proclaimed “Conscious Liberal”. “Comrade Obama has achieved the socialist dream of freeing all of The People ™ from the slavery of work and permitting them to live off of someone else’s dime as god, if he existed, would’ve wanted.”
Dr. Klugeman was asked if a problem would arise due to the fact that since no one was working, there would also be no one to pay for the benefits that all the non-workers were collecting.
“Nonsense”, he proclaimed. “The Fed will simply print money for artists and writers and hookers to use to buy things from China! What could go wrong?”
It seems so simple now, it’s a wonder no one ever thought of it sooner.
“The genius of Dear Leader Barack Obama lies in his simplicity”, said Dr. Klugeman.
We agree.
What is even more amazing than the results, the poll was conducted and edited by the Obozo loving/adoring ComPost and ABC!
She sends it to the left wing fishwraps in her state when the liberals who control her state, county and city start whining about needing more for the poor.
bkmk
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