Those of you who have become so hopelessly out of
work that you've stopped looking over the past four weeks might be interested
to know that the Department of Labor doesn't count you as actually being among
the unemployed. And it was recently that
the Gallup organization provided a hard-hitting commentary by Jim Clifton
exposing the truth behind the 5.6% unemployment rate that Barry “Almighty” and the
boys on Wall Street are so busy pointing to as proof that the economy is in full
recovery mode. Gallup goes so far as to
call the unemployment figure a "big lie" as it doesn't take into
account those individuals who have completely dropped out of the job
market.
Gallup said, “None of them will tell you this: If
you, a family member or anyone is unemployed and has subsequently given up on
finding a job -- if you are so hopelessly out of work that you've stopped
looking over the past four weeks -- the Department of Labor doesn't count you
as unemployed. That's right. While you are as unemployed as one can possibly
be, and tragically may never find work again, you are not counted in the figure
we see relentlessly in the news -- currently 5.6%. Right now, as many as 30
million Americans are either out of work or severely underemployed. Trust me,
the vast majority of them aren't throwing parties to toast "falling"
unemployment.”
Gallup went on to say, “There's another reason why
the official rate is misleading. Say you're an out-of-work engineer or
healthcare worker or construction worker or retail manager: If you perform a
minimum of one hour of work in a week and are paid at least $20 -- maybe
someone pays you to mow their lawn -- you're not officially counted as
unemployed in the much-reported 5.6%. Few Americans know this.” This is in stark contrast to the propaganda that
has been continually delivered by the White House in an attempt to portray to
the American people that our economy is far stronger than it actually is. And what they are doing is all one big lie.
The White House went so far as to create the very spiffy
little graphic at the top of the page to bolster their claim that it’s because
of the decisions that have made and the policies that have been put into place
by Barry, that the unemployment rate has dropped much faster than predicted. Of course, what the snazzy graphic fails to mention
is the astonishing number of Americans who have just given up on even trying to
get a job in Barry’s economy. Today our
workforce has 90 Million fewer participants than it did when Barry first
assumed office. And neither fancy
graphics nor outrageous claims being endlessly made, will alter that fact.
Gallup defines a good job as 30+ hours per week for
an organization that provides a regular paycheck. Right now, the U.S. is
delivering at a staggeringly low rate of 44%, which is the number of full-time
jobs as a percent of the adult population, 18 years and older. We need that to
be 50% and a bare minimum of 10 million new, good jobs to replenish America's
middle class. I don’t think that most of
us need anyone, even someone like Gallup, to tell us that the numbers that we
are constantly being presented with, regarding our continuing unemployment
situation, are anything other than a work of pure fiction. And Barry has to know we’re just not buying
them anymore.
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