Doubtful. I mean, sure, if you reduce the size of the work force as a constant, as the Department of Labor had been doing, the unemployment rate will eventually drop.
Meanwhile, in a world constrained by the laws of physics, Gallup finds a different trend.
The MSM, naturally, will report the former number and largely ignore the latter. As they begin their latest push to re-elect a Marxist to the presidency of a capitalist nation.
FOR FREEDOM!
Is PPP doing the numbers for this.
Transparency!
Oh, and Fuck Michael Moore.
Yep. (You can change the time scale down to two or five years at the top right of the chart.)
Lies, damn lies, and, well, statistics. Most of the mushy middlers don’t even understand what goes into the number anyway; it just magically appears every few weeks! They’ll neither consider, nor will the media report, that the work-force-participation is the lowest since 1984…
And feel better about having voted for Obama, natch.
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By the way bh,
I saw the excerable Howard Dean and WI state senator Snider on TV last night, Snider by telephone. And it seems that the latest version of the meme being pushed is that the “fleebaggers” are doing no more in WI than the Rethugs! in the US Senate did for the past 2 years in the various instances where they filibustered Obama and the Democrat’s legislation. I nearly puked…
I figure this must be circulating up your way, and might suggest as a rebuttal to point out that the filibustering Senate Rethugs were actually there to do so, taking part in the process, which is where the fallacious analogy of the meme breaks down.
Maybe you should circulate this counter-point amongst your GOP pals, if they haven’t already come up with it, or a more effective rebuttal, already.
Here is another numbers lie: That social security and medicare can survive…
If things do not pencil they do not pencil.
Yeah, I’ve been hearing that talking point floated quite a bit lately, Bob. The response I’ve heard is very similar to your recommendation. “One filibusters from the floor of the Senate, not across the border while dodging police.”
I don’t think they’ll get much traction with this line. It’s a spin too far.
I saw Jabba the Filmmaker in the local red-light district carrying a sign that said exactly that.
No takers.
As they begin their push to re-elect a Marxist to the presidency of a capitalist nation.
Begin? With respect, I think they’re about two years into that effort already.
Yes. That was supposed to read “their latest push”.
“Push” or “putsch”..?
Because either might work.
Or, scratch that; 2008 was the “putsch”, the MBM is trying to cement the Euro-ization of the US by helping in his re-election. Besides, as the old cliche goes, “you dance with who brung ya”. Once he’s out, a lot of their shenanigans will become evident to even the muddy middle.