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Obama Cooks the Books On Unemployment Rate; 11 Million Jobless, Not Considered

jr 2012/02/19 20:10:32
Desperate to win reelection, Obama is resorting to underhanded tactics to put lipstick on the pig of the economy he has created. The chart below will enlighten as to our real unemployment disaster created by the Obama administration, by looking at the percentage of working age Americans that have jobs.

Excerpts, Read More @ Daily Caller
The increasingly visible statistic shows that roughly 11 million
working-age Americans are being excluded from the nation’s formal tally
of 13.75 million unemployed Americans.


Given the nation’s working-age population of 240.5 million, that 4.5
percent drop means that roughly 11 million Americans have fallen out of
the workforce. They are excluded, however, from the nation’s formal
unemployment rolls — which document only 13.75 million unemployed
Americans.
By excluding those non-working Americans, the White House can claim that
the formal unemployment rate has fallen to 8.3 percent in January 2012,
down from a peak of 10 percent in 2009.


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  • Dandydon 2012/02/19 20:24:10
    Dandydon
    +37
    Main Stream Media....The real American terrorist.
    If Obama was a Republican president,he wouldn't have made it through the first year.
    That's how much lying is done to cover him.

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  • Mr. Won... Doc 2012/02/22 04:19:14
    Mr. Wonderful
    Did I once say it did?
  • Doc Mr. Won... 2012/02/28 20:24:52
    Doc
    Nope, you're too busy fussing about Bush spending 1.6 billion a day to worry about Obama's spending 5 billion a day.
  • Ken 2012/02/21 02:25:51
    Ken
    +2
    Obama wouldn't lie like that. Would he?
  • JustTheFacts 2012/02/21 02:22:47
    JustTheFacts
    +3
    This is a preview of the upcoming election.

    Now, obama lies, because he can get away with it with the media in his pocket. When he gets an actual opponent it will be about more lies and diversion about that person.
  • NPC JustThe... 2012/02/21 18:13:51
    NPC
    +1
    What kind of hope and change is this when Barry has no resume.
  • JustThe... NPC 2012/02/22 01:36:00
    JustTheFacts
    We tried to tell them....they didn't listen. They're still not I'm afraid.
  • Wayne 2012/02/21 00:50:17
    Wayne
    +4
    Everyone has caught this lying President and will not be fooled by the propaganda again! His record now tells us who he really is. He is truth impaired!
  • Mr. Won... Wayne 2012/02/21 04:31:25
    Mr. Wonderful
    My dear boy, the Bush-Cheney team took the art of lying to new levels. Have you right wing idiots already forget the laundy list of excuses the evil bushie neo cons used to invade Iraq? Forcing Gen. Powell to lie in front of the United Nations. Want me to continue? I doubt it.
  • Eastexn25 Mr. Won... 2012/02/21 05:03:38
    Eastexn25
    +3
    Wrong President, wrong decade... Time to catch up!!
  • Mr. Won... Eastexn25 2012/02/21 15:16:59
    Mr. Wonderful
    You simple-minded right wing buffoons keep pretending when one president's term ends and the next one starts, he gets a clean slate. No way doofus. If you don't like the mess, blame the SOURCE, not the guy trying to clean it up, you partisian putz.

    1.Who started two wars?
    2.Who begged for money to bail out the banks?
    3.Who let the auto industry almost go belly up?
    4. Who let a terrorist blow up the World Trade Center, attack Pentagon?
    5. Who let floating bodies remain in the streets of New Orleans?
    6, What president sat on his thumbs while 750,000 employees in a single month saw that jobs vainish?

    Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush and Bush again!

    You will not get away with trying to rewrite history. I'll rub your nose in it.
  • Eastexn25 Mr. Won... 2012/02/21 18:29:07
    Eastexn25
    +2
    1. Bush Jr, Clinton, Obama is about to enter his 3rd possibly 4th in his term.
    2. Bush, Democrats, Republicans and Obama. Who went back for more and more bailouts? Obama
    3. The management team of GM and Chrysler. Building cars people didn't want. The unions for holding the companies over a barrel year after year with ridiculous demands they disguised as benefits.
    4. Clinton twice actually. "You simple-minded right wing buffoons keep pretending when one president's term ends and the next one starts, he gets a clean slate. No way doofus." Do you not hold to your own standards??
    5. Ray Nagin and Kathleen Blanco did. Oh also all the idiots shooting at the rescue helicopters played a hand in that... Do you not remember Blanco telling the Fed to stay out because she had it all handled?? The feds took control away from her AFTER it became a clear cluster f%ck!! BTW, they are both Democrats.
    6. Bush was President but once again you fail to understand what caused the recession. What President ignored the economy collapsing further while he had Congress concentrate on a pet project for a whole year that had NOTHING to do with creating the jobs we so desperately needed??
  • Mr. Won... Eastexn25 2012/02/21 20:59:27
    Mr. Wonderful
    Trying to reason with a right winger is like expecting a response from a brick wall. A Pointless exercise. Damn fun though to make you right wingers look stupid, you guys always provide all I need to accomplish that. Thanks!

    The republican controlled Congress has been playing political games for two years. I guess you being an ignorant right winger haven't noticed.
  • Eastexn25 Mr. Won... 2012/02/21 21:48:15
    Eastexn25
    +2
    Yes, I have noticed. I also noticed this ploy had really gotten bad back in '06.
    What little tidbit of information did you supply that would make me look stupid? You lamely attempted to blame Bush for EVERYTHING under the sun. Do you really think that the Iraq or Afghanistan war caused the recession we were in in '08/'09 but still struggle with? Please tell me you are not that far gone down the deluded trail!
  • Mr. Won... Eastexn25 2012/02/21 21:57:02
    Mr. Wonderful
    Bush reminds me of Pat Sajak spinning the Wheel on Wheel of Fortune and picking an excuse of the day to invade Iraq.
  • Mr. Won... Eastexn25 2012/02/21 21:59:11
    Mr. Wonderful
    Unlike you silly right wingers that clap your hands everytime Bush did something stupid I don't automatically agree with everything Obama does or how he does it.

    I'll make it real easy for you. If you were president right now, what would you do different. Be specific.
  • Eastexn25 Mr. Won... 2012/02/22 15:48:34
    Eastexn25
    +1
    I would be more stringent on Ahmadenijad and al-Assad! This passive BS will get us nowhere with these wackos. Iran is posturing for war and Obama is ignoring them. UN is threatening to enter Syria and asking for help but Obama is not responding. He is wishing it would all go away. One thing about Bush is he was responsive, over responsive at times.
    So what do you think about Obama lowering the corporate tax rate even lower than Bush did? Will we be hearing angst against Obamas tax cuts from you guys on the left or will you still be blaming Bush? What's your opinion on Obama defunding Social Security under the guise of a tax cut? Obama snuck in an executive order that will cut the amount of SS benefits we get when we hit retirement age. He is cutting out SS. You OK with that? I would never de-fund SS/medicare. It is already suffering. I would reel in spending as much as possible, then, if there is still a deficit I would increase PERSONAL taxes on those making $300K or more to 40% over $1M would be 50%. Repeal NAFTA and invoke an import tariff. level the playing field on import/export. Make it more cost effective to make products here again.
  • JustThe... Eastexn25 2012/02/22 01:39:43
    JustTheFacts
    +2
    This one is a little far from the concept of reality, I'm afraid, to deal with I'm afraid E25. Anyone who thinks that Bush is a worse president than oblunder really has no clue.
  • Mr. Won... Eastexn25 2012/02/24 04:15:55
    Mr. Wonderful
    I only blame Bush for what he did and didn't do.
  • Eastexn25 Mr. Won... 2012/02/24 05:12:18
    Eastexn25
    What do you blame Obama for?? Since he is the only ACTUAL President who controls policies right now...
  • Wayne Mr. Won... 2012/02/22 17:25:45
    Wayne
    Your the only one that looks stupid, check your raves idiot.
  • boneman1 Mr. Won... 2012/02/24 19:36:21
    boneman1
    I've noticed that every time somebody takes one of your posts apart by showing you the facts you immediately resort to name calling. The thing to do might be to look at the facts and consider that you might be wrong.
  • Mr. Won... Mr. Won... 2012/02/24 04:15:08
    Mr. Wonderful
    Notice no right winger ever addresses real facts like above, they just run away.
  • Eastexn25 Mr. Won... 2012/02/24 05:11:16
    Eastexn25
    I addressed them. I am still awaiting a mature counter argument from you... You haven't put forth ANY facts yet just ridiculous talking points that have no basis of fact. What caused the recession of '07-'09 on your honest opinion?
    Do you even know what part Kathleen Blanco played in Hurricane Katrina and the failure of relief? Do you even know who she is with out doing a search? How about Ray (I want a chocolate town) Nagin. Why did Nagin refuse to use all of the school buses at his disposal after the Feds told him to take command of them prior to Katrina hitting landfall? What was the real reason why the Feds and FEMA did not take control until 3 days after Katrina hit? What law prevented them from stepping in and whose authority prevailed at first?
    What about Obama cutting funding of SS/Medicare and cutting the corporate tax rate to a lower level than Bush did?
    Where are all of your answers to the facts I provided or questions I asked previously?
    Oh yeah, you only have name calling left in your debating arsenal...
    Run away??? LOL, I'm right here, still waiting!!!
  • gvc Mr. Won... 2012/02/21 05:31:00
    gvc
    +2
    No need to continue, any one that says "evil bushie neo cons" clearly has nothing of value to add to the conversation.
    Poor soul!
  • Mr. Won... gvc 2012/02/21 15:18:13
    Mr. Wonderful
    Yeah, you can't handle the truth, can you.
  • gvc Mr. Won... 2012/02/21 15:43:52
    gvc
    +1
    Like you would know the truth. ummmm I think not.
  • Mr. Won... gvc 2012/02/21 21:00:18
    Mr. Wonderful
    History confirms everything I've said. When the truth is on your side, no need to lie. A lesson right wingers never learn.
  • gvc Mr. Won... 2012/02/21 21:02:56
    gvc
    +1
    Maybe your time would be better spent reviewing the record of your chosen party.....hardly stellar!
  • lori gvc 2012/02/21 16:50:38
    lori
    +2
    I agree with you whole heartly, he Mr. Won(left winger) has nothing to offer. Bush gets blamed for everything, that Obama has managed to do successfully. At least Bush was a Christian and an American. He wasn't the perfect President Obama has buried us with a mess across the board. three times of what Bush did. Obama promished hope and change, he didn't say what kind. If you ask a liberal ONE thing Obama has done they will dance around the question. What i would say about Obama he appears to be a good father and husband.
  • gvc lori 2012/02/21 17:35:04
    gvc
    I agree, he does seem like a great father and husband.
  • Mr. Won... lori 2012/02/21 21:07:54
  • kcoat Mr. Won... 2012/02/21 06:27:29
    kcoat
    +2
    Left wing troll and stupider than most.
  • Mr. Won... kcoat 2012/02/21 15:18:38
    Mr. Wonderful
    Big talk from just another right wing slug. Please...
  • kcoat Mr. Won... 2012/02/21 17:13:23
    kcoat
    +2
    Not talk just fact stupid old fart.
  • gvc kcoat 2012/02/21 17:36:03
    gvc
    +2
    What I don't get is the teenage talk from someone who is retired. Must have fried all his brain cells somewhere along the way.
  • kcoat gvc 2012/02/22 05:18:55
    kcoat
    +2
    The more he posts the more the evidence proves your supposition!!!
  • Mr. Won... gvc 2012/02/24 04:19:40
    Mr. Wonderful
    I guess you haven't figured out SoadHead is for FUN. I'm having a hoot!
    You might be younger than me, but you are the old grump.
  • kcoat Mr. Won... 2012/02/24 05:17:14
    kcoat
    +1
    Better agrump than a stupid old fart.
  • gvc Mr. Won... 2012/02/24 05:23:14
    gvc
    I have figured out a lot in the last few weeks about SH....I'm not a grump, I just expected more from a man of your advanced years. ZING.....NOW THAT'S FUNNY!!!!
  • Mr. Won... kcoat 2012/02/24 04:18:27
    Mr. Wonderful
    You can't handle facts. I keep posting facts about Bush and done of you idiots right wingers address them you just run away. Cowards.

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