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Default Doing the numbers

On Jul 4, 3:16*pm, Vic Smith wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 11:10:27 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch

wrote:
Hmm, so the job losses in June were 479,000 jobs and they say this was
a .1% increase. *Do any Libs understand arithematic? *This means the
number of workers would have been 479,000,000. *Uh, NO. *This far more
than the number of people in the USA. *The total number of workers is
less than 200,000,000 so a loss of 479,000 would be nearly 2.5%putting
us at nearly 10% unemployment. *I have not checked their figures for
preceding months but if they lied then too, we can assume the real
unemployment is well over 10%
Its a case of "Liars, damned liars and Democrats".


They all lie about unemployment stats.
Bad news on that front nearly always drops the DJIA.
Can't have that.

--Vic


Harry is right, I meant .25%, not 2.5%. The sun has fried my brain.
However, .25% is still 2.5X the figure of .1% they gave us.