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On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:43:57 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:13:15 -0400, wf3h wrote:

On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:38:27 -0600, Canuck57
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On 05/08/2011 7:41 AM, Eisboch wrote:
I am not very good at math.

Can someone explain that how adding 117,000 new jobs/mo (good news) when
it takes 157,000 or more/mo to keep up with the population growth causes
the unemployment rate to *drop*?

Your math is good. Fleabaggers have a weird way of polishing turds.


another racist lie, of course

unemployment number count only those LOOKING for work. if you stop
looking for work you're not counted, even if not working



So you agree the real unemployment rate is a lot worse than the
numbers. I think that is what the OP was going for.


nope. what i said was that you're too stupid to understand how it's
measured and so is he