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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFreepers LOVED the fake-assed job creation numbers under Bush, but when they'e OBAMA'S numbers...
Freepy-thread: December 2011 BLS Employment Situation Report: 200 K jobs created, Unemployment rate down to 8.5%
Freep-hole responses:
All Praise Our Messiah, Hussein!
6 posted on Fri Jan 06 2012 06:02:27 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by Recovering_Democrat
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To: C19fan
A shrinking workforce is part of the reason for the decreasing unemployment rate, plus, I suspect, special sauce being used by BLS. As others have stated, the numbers will be managed to show an improving economy and help Obama. The Ministry of Truth will issue regular updates.
9 posted on Fri Jan 06 2012 06:04:26 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by Truth29
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To: SumProVita
I just finished the paperwork for one of husseins stimulus money projects, American Recovery Act or some such nonsense.
According to the forms I created quite a few jobs. Of course they only lasted a month and they are all laid off now but it looked pretty impressive on paper.
Smoke and mirrors.
10 posted on Fri Jan 06 2012 06:04:51 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by shelterguy
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To: C19fan
More downward massaging of that number toward the magical 7%.
All hail Premier Hussein!!!
13 posted on Fri Jan 06 2012 06:07:06 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by ScottinVA (Liberal logic: 0bamacare mandate is acceptable... but voter IDs are unconstitutional.)
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To: C19fan
The establishment is starting to early with the fudging. They may peak to early to help Bammy.
15 posted on Fri Jan 06 2012 06:08:24 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: C19fan
From now until the election the official reported numbers for jobs and economy will keep ticking up... Perception equals reality....
Did they use the number of Unemployment Benefit Claims spin again?
16 posted on Fri Jan 06 2012 06:10:49 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by Mechanicos (Why does the DOE have a SWAT Team?)
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To: C19fan
These phony BS statistics are brought to you by the re-elect Barry in 2012 campaign which so far has been funded by US taxpayers. Wait for a week or two and the numbers will be revised quietly back to higher unemployment levels.
29 posted on Fri Jan 06 2012 06:26:55 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by kevinm13 (Tim Geithner is a tax cheat. Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)They're insane. They so easily gulp down Bushshit, and do it happily backed by nothing but blind Nazi-style loyalty to their Fuhrer, but when they receive FACTS from a Democratic president, especially a black Democratic president, it's suddenly all suspicious and untrue.
How do they ever expect anyone to take their idiot ramblings seriously when they have this holier-than-thou attitude against everyone else?
I wish there were a cure for stupid. There wouldn't be a single TeaBagger or Rightie left in the world were that the case.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Living in exurban Georgia it's hard not to, in fact I can't think of any actual liberals I know in real life.
What's really scary is a lot of the right wingers are far from stupid about things other than politics and more than a few are genuinely nice people.
Things just aren't as simple as we would wish they are.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)of "These numbers don't reflect the number of people who have quit looking for jobs" and "For the number of jobs to have any real effect, the new hires must be over X to mean job growth" ...
You know, stuff that wasn't heard in the "liberally-biased media" under Bush43 unless it was on the few shows in the media hosted by an actual liberal ...
jody
(26,624 posts)sendero
(28,552 posts)... exactly. They are ALL fake bullshit as everyone will see in the coming months. How many of these bogus "trends" have we seen in the last 3 years?
The info is out there if you want to find it. The 200K number is bollocks by about 40K. All of the adjustments that are made make the numbers all but meaningless, and ADP has a solid history of announcing these blips that are not later confirmed by any other data.
Even if the 200K was legit, it is still a tiny fraction of the number that we need to climb back to reasonable unemployment levels. Recork the champagne, this is not news.
Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)...but I'm glad you're interested.
You can try to twist what I said all you'd like, but you can't change the fucking words I posted...can you?