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NM_Birder

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6. That number gives a false sense of what is really happening
Fri Apr 4, 2014, 09:44 AM
Apr 2014

in the ability of people to secure employment.

It isn't fake, but it just isn't factually truthful. If you have 100 dollars, and lose 20 dollars in the park, then find 5 dollars on the way home, the truth is you have gained 5% of your original value. However you are still 15% down from your original savings.

Some people cheer blind accounting, some don't. People who no longer get unemployment benefits, and are not employed, and are not counted among the "unemployed" numbers ........ probably are not cheering this fantasy.

but meh ....... who cares about them anyway, it's not like they are going to vote or anything.

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