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To: WilliamIII
"More important if you admit the truth," Paul said about the latest unemployment numbers. "We quit counting people."

Precisely true.

The number of unemployed people declined to 12.8 million people in January, according to the Labor Department, but that number only includes people actively looking for work.

No, it only includes people who are on unemployment. If your benefits have run out, you aren't counted whether or not you are looking. If you just graduated from school and you can't find work, you don't qualify for unemployment and aren't counted. If you never filed for unemployment because you were living on your own savings, you aren't counted.

The whole "no longer looking for work" category is a dodge that allows them to hide the magnitude of the unemployment problem.

5 posted on 02/03/2012 8:18:30 PM PST by marron
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To: marron
Yes, but it is enough to excite democrats and the liberal media.

No cost demo commie presidential campaign advertising funded by the government.

20 posted on 02/04/2012 1:15:42 AM PST by tdscpa
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