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Steep drop in unemployment rate spawns conspiracy
Associated Press ^ | Oct 5, 2012 6:41 PM (ET) | SCOTT MAYEROWITZ and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER

Posted on 10/05/2012 5:12:51 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sasquatch might as well have traipsed across the White House lawn Friday with a lost Warren Commission file on his way to the studio where NASA staged the moon landing.

Conspiracy theorists came out in force after the government reported a sudden drop in the U.S. unemployment rate one month before Election Day. Their message: The Obama administration would do anything to ensure a November victory, including manipulating unemployment data.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: enemedia; mediabias; pravda
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The press is getting incredibly obvious in their defense of their messiah. Is there ANYONE in America who trusts them anymore?

The first two paragraphs are nearly hysterical in their defense of Obama. I simply can't believe how obvious they have become.

1 posted on 10/05/2012 5:12:56 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW
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2 posted on 10/05/2012 5:14:58 PM PDT by Brandonmark (2012: Our Hope IS Change!)
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Steep drop in unemployment rate spawns conspiracy

U6 table shows no drop at all

3 posted on 10/05/2012 5:15:25 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." - Barack Hussein Obama - Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009.)
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and now the press will report on the “conspiracy” rather than the incredibly suspect numbers . . . .


4 posted on 10/05/2012 5:16:10 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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How Alinskyesque.


5 posted on 10/05/2012 5:16:10 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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Nothing worse than seeing the AP or the MSM trying to act credible.


6 posted on 10/05/2012 5:16:18 PM PDT by Revel
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We know they’re lying. I think that most of America does.


7 posted on 10/05/2012 5:16:39 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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Of course. They’ll ignore the numbers and “investigate” anyone that questions them.


8 posted on 10/05/2012 5:18:07 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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The government's household survey says 873k people entered the workforce. But the employers' survey, the one that really counts, reveals only 114k new jobs were created with a full 10k of those in government. The difference, about 760k, were not full-time, stable jobs. What is known as the real unemployment mark, which factors in the underemployed and those too discouraged to continue looking for work, or the U6 table, remains unchanged at 14.7%.

The media goons know the recently released numbers are bogus just as well as I do. But after Zer0's abysmal debate performance last Wednesday, coupled with Crazy Joe Biden's comment that 0's misadministration wants to raise taxes by $1 trillion, Zer0 and his handlers were desperate to try and turn his sliding poll numbers around. Will it work? Only with the uninformed and the weak minded.

Anyone who believes that 14.7% number is not the real number only need ask him or herself would they believe that way if they were in that category of the underemployed? My guess is, probably not.

9 posted on 10/05/2012 5:18:15 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." - Barack Hussein Obama - Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009.)
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Sasquatch might as well have traipsed across the White House lawn Friday

They're so used to seeing the Wookie.

10 posted on 10/05/2012 5:18:33 PM PDT by bigheadfred (wowza)
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...and a shout out to Ayn Rand and George Orwell. Good call guys!


11 posted on 10/05/2012 5:18:41 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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Real employment has flatlined. Turn out the lights as you leave.


12 posted on 10/05/2012 5:20:25 PM PDT by bigheadfred (wowza)
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AEI has a really good analysis of this.

The numbers are “accurate” and “real”.

However they arise from ~600,000 people taking up second jobs or part-time jobs out of economic necessity. AEI calls these the “involuntarily employed” (or something like that).

A discussion of the analysis is going on on another thread here. It’s definitely worth the look (it completely changed how I personally view the matter), and the numbers are MUCH more damning of Obama and the Obama Economy/Recession/Depression than they’d be if they were simply cooked up.


13 posted on 10/05/2012 5:22:29 PM PDT by tanknetter
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They stop counting 870,000 people who have exhausted their benefits.

The conspiracy is the Mass Media is refusing to report that fact.


14 posted on 10/05/2012 5:23:09 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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Jack Welch on Anderson Cooper being badgered and begged to take back his accusation on Twitter that the Obama administration cooked the books. Welch says he should have ended the controversial Tweet with question mark. Other than that, he’s not backing down. He said we need to look at things like assumptions used by BLS to arrive at unemployment figures.


15 posted on 10/05/2012 5:24:01 PM PDT by kristinn (Dump the Chump in 2012)
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Obamugabe is a fraud. So is American journalism...print and broadcast and much of the “new media”. I don’t care if it is big shot network pukes in New York or D.C., or LOCAL news reporters in Left Elbow Nebraska....the entire freakin’ industry is a joke.


16 posted on 10/05/2012 5:24:01 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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17 posted on 10/05/2012 5:27:17 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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Steep drop in unemployment rate spawns conspiracy

Right headline, but the words are jumbled.

Conspiracy Spawns Steep Drop in Unemployment Rate

That's more like it.
18 posted on 10/05/2012 5:28:44 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I love to watch you talk talk talk, but I hate what I hear you say."--Del Shannon)
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The fact is they are

The Ministry of Propaganda (MOP)

And they take their job very seriously. After all, they are fully aware of who really signs their paychecks.


19 posted on 10/05/2012 5:28:44 PM PDT by Snuph ("give me Liberty...")
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Food stamp usage keeps rising in response to those people who no longer show up on the unemployment rolls.


20 posted on 10/05/2012 5:29:13 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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