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To: TonyInOhio

The Soviet Union used to report 100% employment. If you include the labor camps, I guess that was true.


29 posted on 04/06/2012 7:33:14 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Socialism isn't going to work this time, either.)
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To: popdonnelly

So did Nazi Germany


48 posted on 04/06/2012 12:02:31 PM PDT by Merta (Lurker)
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To: popdonnelly
The Soviet Union used to report 100% employment. If you include the labor camps, I guess that was true.

There were a lot of "make work" type jobs, many of which still exist in the FSU today. Go to a public restroom in Ukraine for example and you'll see one lady whose job it is to collect admission to the restroom and another lady whose job it is to distribute about 8" of toilet paper to each paying customer. A third lady cleans the restroom and a fourth lady supervises the three employees.

I saw this at the enormous train station in Kiev. Soviet "full employment" was no lie.

72 posted on 04/07/2012 8:59:57 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: popdonnelly
The Soviet Union used to report 100% employment

And China has growth of ten percent per year for decades compounded. This is the "Ministry of Truth" at work. It sank the USSR, it will sink China, and it is now for the first time, in full noxious bloom in the USA.

No one has ever failed to take government announcements with a grain of salt. But this is the first administration that has simply made up false numbers out of whole cloth and peddled them as truth through the ministrations of colluding media, worthy of the USSR's wonderful reports on their five year plans.

73 posted on 04/07/2012 8:07:28 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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