Posted on 07/07/2012 6:04:57 PM PDT by Brown Deer
Is it possible that the Unemployment numbers are higher than we’ve been told? No, couldn’t be.
Does the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics count illegal alien workers and those being paid under the table?
Ain’t counting me.
Good work, thanks!
Off the books, black market and grey market, just like a third world country. No one’s prosecuting them, so it begins to seem that this is deemed desirable, although I don’t know why, given our current tax-happy control freak bureaucratic idiocracy.
You’d think they’d already shoved through a national sales tax or something. I’m sure that’s down the road, what with so much “revnue” left lying on the table.
Sounds simple enough, but when I was a younger man (1950's, '60's), I could either find in a newspaper a job that started the next day or the nearest Monday ... or I could walk around "industrial areas" (factories) and walk in, ask if there was a job, interview and start tomorrow or soon after.
The point is, there were places DOING things that needed labor ... skilled, semi-skilled or none at all.
America was hiring because America was building stuff.
I've extruded plastic into bags, bottles and caps.
I've worked with (no kidding) celophane when you could save cigarette wrappers, send 'em in and some kid or GI got an artificial limb made from the stuff.
I've bagged mattresses, worked on an addressograph, run a TREE mill, bench and engine lathes, drilled gun barrels.
Hell, there used to be work EVERYwhere.
My point is, we don't manufacture like we used to (for any and a number of reasons) and THAT is where workers should be.
In a factory ... MAKIN' shit.
I'm no wizard, but from what I read, Gummint regulations (and gummint sanctioned agencies) and taxes have killed all this manufactureing and PRODUCING enterprize and have reduced our "work" to, Do you want to biggie that?
Did you compile this yourself? Good work, you get a solid ten out of ten for this. I will, with your permission, copy and refer to these numbers from time to time.
I remember when Oakland, CA was full of FACTORIES where actual, physical things were being made.
What happened?
I am not defending the bullshit numbers. They are twisted like a pretzel.
But, I will defend the sampling process. A well done sample will come pretty close. I don’t know how they select the sample, but in general practice, you can make accurate generalizations.
Of course, figures lie, and liars figure.
Probably, most survey calls go out to the land lines of those paid well for a long time.
We always knew that true numbers don’t lie. We also knew that Obama always does!
Back to the bedroom in the parents house or newly renovated basement living space until work becomes available.
This is a great analysis. Thanks for all the hard work.
This needs to be distributed in a larger population than just fr. Who can you send it to? Anyone at FBN? Cavuto? Stosselman?
Liberals lie? Say it ain't so..
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