[ClearCase_guy]

Gallup says the unemployment figures are a big flat lie:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3253888/posts

Everyone knows things are bad — the jobs go to foreigners, not Americans. The numbers are all fake. We’re in a Depression, but we’re supposed to act like we don’t notice.

[Sam Gamgee]

Shadow stats claims that in 1994 we stopped counting the discouraged worker. The result was about a 2 to 5% understatement on the number. The perversity of the new unemployment number is that the deception of the number widens as unemployment really takes steam. From 1994 until the end of the Bush era unemployment was relatively under control. But then it exploded from the end of the Bush years into Obama. From shadowstats you can see the pre-1994 method would actually show a slight increase in the unemployment numbers from the worst showing in Obama’s early years. The effect of the new method actually shows the number falling!

So while Bush benefited to the tune of 4 or 5% from the fake numbers, Obama is seeing a 10% plus gap between the real numbers and the reported ones. No wonder he won re-election.

[LibertarianLiz]

The numbers are all fake. We’re in a Depression, but we’re supposed to act like we don’t notice.

Yeah, I was watching Fox Business channel this am, and Charlie Gasparino was adamant that anyone who says we are still in a recession is lying and they don't know what they are talking about.

This after the stat about 13 mil losing their jobs in 2008, but only 3 mil have gotten a job since. I believe that is 10 mil of people who haven't gotten back a job they lost. Not to mention all the full-timers who may have a job now, but it is part-time (just heard my friendly barista complaining about that, "I just want one full time job that pays me the same as my two part-time jobs").

I turned the t.v. off after Gasparino said that, as life is too short to listen to New York based people who really need to travel, by car, and visit the rest of the United States.