[sam_paine]

PROPAGANDA: Jobless Claims Rise a Bit

REALITY: Initial unemployment claims rose by 2,000 to 439,000 in the week

The number of people SUBTRACTED from the total EMPLOYED == 439,000!!!! ... the "2,000" is meaningless.

We were at 15,000 feet and falling at 630 MPH last month.

We're now at 10,000 feet and falling at 632 MPH!!

So the Propaganda from the pilot and stewardesses is that we've only accelerated 2 MPH toward the ground???

[Red Badger]

You are about ready to break the sound barrier................

[LearsFool]

Heh. That’s a good point. (Though calculus still makes my head hurt.)

Hmm, I wonder why they don’t put it like this:

“The bad news is that we’re still hemorrhaging jobs. The other bad news is that we’re hemorrhaging jobs faster than last week. The good news is that we only hemorrhaged 439,000 jobs this week, which is just ‘a bit’ more than last week.”