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**AliceFromHouston** · 04-02-2011, 04:19 PM

Relying on monthly unemployment numbers is stupid, for all the obvious reasons. I remember in 2005 when I was posting monthly employment numbers as a satire of Democrats who had just spent an entire election saying Bush had lost millions of jobs, and yet went silent when all those jobs were recovered and added on to.

And I have to say whenever I hear a govt statistic I think of the russians. "lets say the unemployment rate is 10% this month, then next month we'll say its 9% and claim it fell at the fastest rate in 53 years! the people will love us, comrades!"

04-02-2011, 04:19 PM	#11
AliceFromHouston Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 506 Senior Member	Relying on monthly unemployment numbers is stupid, for all the obvious reasons. I remember in 2005 when I was posting monthly employment numbers as a satire of Democrats who had just spent an entire election saying Bush had lost millions of jobs, and yet went silent when all those jobs were recovered and added on to. And I have to say whenever I hear a govt statistic I think of the russians. "lets say the unemployment rate is 10% this month, then next month we'll say its 9% and claim it fell at the fastest rate in 53 years! the people will love us, comrades!"
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