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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) demonstrated once again that they are a one-trick pony. And what is their trick? They lower the unemployment rate while removing people from the labor force. Here are the relevant numbers.
- a paltry 115,000 jobs were added
- 342,000 additional Americans were not counted in the civilian labor force
- the participation rate fell to 63.6% from 63.8%
- the unemployment rate fell to 8.1% from 8.2%
At this point, not even the compliant idiots on National Propaganda Radio think the declining jobless rate is a sign of improvement in the economy. You can't try to pull off the same trick over and over again—it gets old. Although Hopey-Changey used to crow about the shrinking unemployment rate, you may have noticed he doesn't do that anymore. People are not entirely daft. They may be slow to get it, but if you show them the same specious nonsense over and over again, they'll catch on eventually. Well, at least some of them will.
Bonus Video — Doug Stanhope
This time last year, my senior class was able to look objectively at the mountains of evidence of where we're headed and said to me, "we're in big trouble. I'll need a good post-HS plan for myself for the future. Simply going to college and going into debt to pay for it all isn't going to work out like we've been told it would."
Fast forward to the Class of 2012. They look at everything Class of 2011 did and tell me things like, "Peak Oil? More like Peak Bullshit. There's no shortage of oil," and, "There's no shortage of clean water. Heck, we've got the Pacific Ocean right here, we'll just switch to desalinization," or, "Yeah, sure a collapse is coming. Uh-huh. While the Dow reaches for 14K? Mr. Lin you should really peddle your Chicken Little crap somewhere else."
I tell ya', I am at my WITS END with this group! The MSM and Establishment brainwashing is SO entrenched, and they've become SO innured to the system, that after 10 months of trying I can't even make a dent in their thinking. They simply refuse to even CONSIDER the POSSIBILITY of unplugging from The Matrix. It's just f%ckin' hopeless.
I need to find another line of work. There's nothing more I can do here. The invincible ignorance of America's brightest has convinced me this nation and society are doomed beyond redemption.
By the way, here is the topic for their Final Exam:
http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2011/09/america-has-abandoned-its-young-people.html
Posted by: Lin S | 05/04/2012 at 11:14 AM