Posted on 03/24/2012 8:01:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
Your house.
If you are not in the labor force, you are not counted as unemployed.
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Thanks for posting this Kas. I realized something from this Post: Think of the millions of college grads who cannot find work. They cannot draw unemployment because they haven’t worked for 4 or more years and have not paid into the system. They are not counted. But, they are pissed and most say they will NOT vote for Obozo this time around. (Oh.... poetic justice; how sweet it is.)
Well, the "official" 0bama propaganda figures will show it declining dramatically before the election, and the talking heads will then declare that the economy is growing and we are coming out of recession.
The REAL story will be that the figures will be thoroughly "massaged" by the 0bama regime and what ever groups that need to be excluded will be removed and not counted, to make the lying figures work out. If you have been out of work for a while, you will magically no longer be unemployed!
I was watching a guy on a video the other night and he said that 8-9% unemployment is a big fat government lie. He said if REAL unemployed people were truly counted, it would be closer to 21-22% and possibly as high as 25%!! He said the gov’mint uses fuzzy math to bring the numbers down to dumb people down to how bad it really is out there.
According to the husseon propaganda ministry if a guy used to be a mechanical engineer making 120 thousand a year and is now working two days a week flipping burgers he is considered employed and that’s all that matters.
It is frustrating to go to the gas station or the grocery store and see how much less you get for your money. It wouldn’t be so bad if the future looked brighter but it doesn’t. The rising cost of food and energy will eat up more and more of our disposable income. Isn’t this economic recovery great?
What makes all of this even more interesting is that the disingenuous, biased media (DBM) is only just beginning to acknowledge an associated part of the problem. Many employers are now announcing that they will NOT hire anyone who has been unemployed for over 6 months!!
What makes this rather fascinating to me is this: The people who haven’t HAD any jobs to offer for at LEAST the past year, won’t hire you if you didn’t accept one of the jobs they haven’t had to offer!!
Only a liberal could come up with something this patently stupid!!
Yes, the rising prices are in effect making unemployment rise even without anyone losing their job. If ten people are working and prices rise so that all ten can only buy what nine used to buy that is the same as ten percent unemployment except that it is spread equally so each person is effectively only ninety percent employed compared to where he was before. Think about it, without inflation one could lose his job and the other nine could give him ten percent of their income and the result would be the same as with ten percent inflation except that one person would be able to stay home. Most people never think of it that way and it will certainly never be reported that way by any news service from Fox to MSNBC.
Doug Casey has said that he believes future historians will say that American living standards actually peaked in the early sixties. He may be right. Of course many will rush to point out all the things that we have now that were not available then but they ignore the things that were available then that are unavailable or unaffordable now. Casey made his statement based on the fact that most working people could support a family on one income then. It may not have included personal computers, cell phones etc. but they could live on one income. How many can do that now? In 1963 anyone making twice the minimum wage could support a family and buy that family a house to live in, at least in my neck of the woods. Twice the minimum now would be fourteen dollars and seventy cents an hour, who wants to try to buy a house and support a family on that WITHOUT ASSISTANCE now even in the lowest cost of living area of the country? This house of cards is about ready to crumble.
I own a temp service. I can tell you that men are desparate for work. There is currently no recovery in the jobs market.
Consider my input costs are rising and my profit margin heading south, do you think I’m in a position to hire?
I read the title and the Jefferson’s theme song came to mind.
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“Movin’ on up.... to the sky-y”
Interesting.
If one uses the Shadowstats data, the current “misery index” under Obama is about 28%.
From a quick check on the internet, it looks like the worst “misery index” reading we got under Carter was about 22%.
Never underestimate the value of a compliant press.
If they're looking for work, they're counted, whether they worked in the last 4 years or not.
Yup; that's what this entire article is.
“Churning” is illegal in the financial world; but VALUED in the labor market.
Anyone collecting a welfare check is considered employed because they are being paid.
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