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Old 03-08-2010, 07:43 PM   #1
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The unemployment rate announced today is the "official" rate that has been used for years....the U3 rate.

It considers three factors: 1) those who were not employed during the reference period, 2) those who were available for work at that time and 3) they made specific efforts to find employment sometime during the reference period.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

The U6 rate, which is reported as well, has never been the "official" rate, but for political reasons, those on the right want to start using that rate now. What a surprise.

So now its "lies, lies and kabuki theater" to use the same official rate as previous administrations?

There's a partisan opinion if I ever heard one.
Tell it to the newly 36,000 unemployed last month. Oh, so funny right? Where are the jobs?
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Old 03-08-2010, 09:21 PM   #2
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Tell it to the newly 36,000 unemployed last month. Oh, so funny right? Where are the jobs?
The fact remains you were just spewing your usual rhetoric of "lies and more lies by Obama" and once again, you were wrong.

No one likes the job losses except perhaps those who take glee in wanting Obama to fail.

The number of jobs lost has gotten smaller in each of the last 6-8 months.....that is how you turn the economy around...one month at a time...not with a magic bean that goes from losing 779,000 jobs last January (when Obama took office) to the latest numbers.

In fact, with the exception of a few monthly blips, the last two months have had the smallest number of monthly jobs lost in nearly two years.
http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/Surv..._view=net_1mth

IMO, that is a good trend and attributable in part to the stimulus program, but we'll never know what the jobs lost would have been w/o the stimulus.

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Old 03-08-2010, 09:40 PM   #3
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The fact remains...

No one likes...

In fact...

IMO...
Where are the facts? What Gov't body has published data to support your comments? IMO??? Really? Your opinion? Means shit.

HOLD IT!!!!! Hold it!!! This is crazy! Why ridicule such a brilliant political commentator? This person is a genius! Everything based on fact from reliable sources and nothing ever based on fallible opinion! I admit it, I am wrong and redux is right! All hail redux! fuck stick
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Old 03-08-2010, 09:53 PM   #4
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Where are the facts? What Gov't body has published data to support your comments? IMO??? Really? Your opinion? Means shit.

HOLD IT!!!!! Hold it!!! This is crazy! Why ridicule such a brilliant political commentator? This person is a genius! Everything based on fact from reliable sources and nothing ever based on fallible opinion! I admit it, I am wrong and redux is right! All hail redux! fuck stick
The BLS data is as factual as any you can find ...or, at the very least, if you dont trust govt data, was compiled the same way as previous administrations.....so Merc's suggestion that Obama was lying when using the same official standard (U-3) as Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan... was simply wrong. That is a fact.

The rest was my opinion...which is no shittier than yours or Mercs.
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Old 03-08-2010, 10:04 PM   #5
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The BLS data is as factual as any you can find ...or, at the very least, if you dont trust govt data, was compiled the same way as previous administrations.....so Merc's suggestion that Obama was lying when using the same official standard (U-3) as Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan... was simply wrong. That is a fact.

The rest was my opinion...which is no shittier than yours or Mercs.
Merc who? No idea what you are talking about.

I don't read this forum. I just like baiting stupid assholes. You are making this way too easy! PS. Merc must be really cool to get you going like this!
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Old 03-08-2010, 10:06 PM   #6
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Old 03-09-2010, 11:22 PM   #7
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You've been drinking again, haven't you.
xoB you know me so well.

Actually, I was in a wanker of a mood. Long hours at work trying to avoid the unemployment line (yes I read other forums in the cellar!) and blah blah blah...<2 hours later - the redux method> just finally decided to called it like I saw it.

Nothing personal against anyone who would use a moniker that is synonymous with airplane glue (which explains A LOT!). Damn, I just can't help myself!
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