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Friday, August 05, 2011

JOBS – LET’S EXAMINE THE GOVERNMENT LIES

Finally, after 50 minutes, I can access the BLS website and sift through their misinformation and lies. There are nothing like pictures to tell the real story. The percentage of Americans in the workforce is the lowest since 1984. Try spinning that one.
Here is a link to the data:
http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea03.htm
The government uses two different surveys when reporting their data. I prefer the data in the link above. The 117,000 new jobs is from them calling a bunch of businesses and then making up a birth death number from small businesses. Here are the facts from their own data:
  • The number of employed Americans was 139,296,000 in July. It was 139,334,000 in June. That sure looks like 38,000 LESS Americans were employed than in the previous month.
  • How you may ask could the unemployment rate go down from 9.2% to 9.1% when there are less Americans employed than in the previous month. You need to think like a government drone. They said that 374,000 people that were in the labor force in June decided to leave the labor force in July. How freakcking stupid do they think we are?
  • Obama has the balls to declare that he has created millions of jobs in the last year. Look at his own freaking data. There are 82,000 less Americans employed than there were last September.
  • In the last year 2,181,000 Americans have supposedly LEFT THE WORKFORCE.
  • The employment to population ratio of 58.1% and the participation rate of 63.9% are at new lows which haven’t been seen since Reagan was president.
  • The BLS has the balls to tell us that the unemployment rate has fallen from 9.5% in July 2010 to 9.1% today even though the working age population has gone up by 1,781,000 and the number of employed Americans is only up by 305,000. I want a job making up numbers at the BLS.
So you can see how your friendly government drones operate. We can reduce unemployment with a tweak of our excel spreadsheets. Once you are too depressed to look for a job and are about to jump off a ten story building, the BLS will declare you out of the work force.

Again, pictures tell the real story. Welcome to the Obama Depression.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

thanks for the fix up!

Fruitland Generic Citizen said...

Conservatives wanted less government, and they've got it - and the job losses that go with it. More than 1 million state & federal jobs have been cut in this austerity plan, and the beloved free market isn't picking up the slack.

I know many here want to argue government jobs "don't count", but those cuts mean people can't pay for services and good, and demand goes down. So conservatives have themselves to blame for a good amount of these jobs losses - you threw them out of work.

Anonymous said...

And on this same blog some want to cut unemployment benefits. Unbelievable

Anonymous said...

You liberals are just brain dead. It's know wonder this country is in the shape it's in the way you guys think or the lack there of.

Anonymous said...

12:11 that's right only I say don't just cut unemployment benefits I say eliminate them now.

Anonymous said...

It's Bush's fault!
Oh, wait.... It's the T.E.A. party's fault!