Posted on 04/23/2010 7:46:22 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
The U.S. Census Bureau expects to add up to 750,000 workers to its payroll by May, a hiring binge that could knock the unemployment rate down by as much as a half-point.
The once-a-decade census is coming at the best possible time for President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats, who have taken political lumps for more than a year over a jobless rate that stands at 9.7 percent.
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“Note that these are temporary jobs.”
Double dip recession...the GREEEEEEEEAT recession - the obama recession...the obama depression...I know I’ve been depressed since he’s gotten into power.
11/2010
11/2012
“Also the Census will be a nightmare. People will be counted five or six times at least.”
Kind of like how the RATS count votes...pathetic, criminal enterprise. Mafiosos (I’m half Italian - so sue me.)
They will keep them doing something. Obama will never let go of 750k government jobs.
I know, that is my point. Joe Biden is out there saying we’ll have up to 500K jobs created in a month’s time...
this, I think, is WHY. But the LameStream Media will bow their knees and sing praise to Hussein.
no, people who do not send back their census get a knock on the door by an Obamabot.
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FRAUD! ON TAXPAYER COMPUTERS...
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BARNEY FRANK BLAMES GOP...
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If the Obama administration was smart, they would employ all the unemployment people and pay them the same amount a month that they get in unemployment benefits.
As you say, what goes up will come down, so what feels good in May will look worse in July closer to the mid-terms.
If all the new ‘jobs’ that Obama and Biden are promising is in the federal employees sector, then it just means we are going deeper into debt. We have to pay the salaries of all those employees.
“The U.S. Census Bureau expects to add up to 750,000 workers to its payroll by May, a hiring binge that could knock the unemployment rate down by as much as a half-point. “
The ‘unemployment rate’ is being calculated incorrectly.
The proper way would be to lump government employees in with the unemployed. We have to pay their salary, so they are like having relatives you have to take in, feed and clothe, and you don’t get any tax break for it either.
Matter of fact, you are paying your taxes and their taxes (since you pay their salary).
The new method for calculating the unemployment rate would also be a stimulus to eliminate unnecessary federal positions.
Actually, they produce a pile of statistics that help our elected officials gerrymander their districts.
“A majority of voters would not be that stupid to fall for this crap and fake job reports.”
Economy is economy. People get very knee-jerk about it, I’m afraid. I wish voters would mature more about economics and quit assuming it’s beyond their comprehension.
BUT ... this economy’s so bad that 750,000 is hardly a blip.
And I think the Post Office could have easily taken care of it ... for free”
I got 3 pieces of mail from the dimwits in Washington about the census:
First, on March 8, I got a letter telling me that census forms were coming.... Sorta like Paul Revere=the census is coming..... the census is coming....
Then on March 15, I got the actual form, which Question #1 says : ON APRIL 1, 2010, HOW MANY PERSONS WERE (past tense) LIVING IN THIS RESIDENCE? There were 9 other questions, which I answered about half. It is none of the Feds business whether I own my house or am renting. ....
Then on March 22, I got a postcard telling me that I had to hurry up and mail back my form. I cannot fill it out and send it until I determine how many people WERE living with me on April 1st!!!
That is 3 separate pieces of mail +++++ 750,000 census workers? Sheeeeesh!
A great number of registered Republicans in the county next to me never got anything. A number of Democrats reported to the local talk show host that they got 2 of everything. I can only guess how the Democrats handled that, as ACORN was very busy in Las Vegas & Reno in late 2008.
IF you have a post office box for an address, you didn’t get anything. Where I live, there are more people using post office boxes than having house delivery. TOOOOOO many thieves taking mail out of the boxes- even pried open the ‘cluster boxes’ which were supposed to deter that sort of behavior.
So, who knows how many people here in N Nevada got counted correctly?
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