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EconProf I just can’t imagine that 320,000 +/- people (the percentage of people that would amount to the .3% of people in question) just stopped looking for work. It just doesn’t make sense. Even in a strong economy I can’t imagine that high of a percentage of the unemployed would just drop off the map. I think the government will see some major fundamental problems with the way they track unemployment if and when we get out of this mess.

[socrattt]

EconProf I just can’t imagine that 320,000 +/- people (the percentage of people that would amount to the .3% of people in question) just stopped looking for work. It just doesn’t make sense. Even in a strong economy I can’t imagine that high of a percentage of the unemployed would just drop off the map. I think the government will see some major fundamental problems with the way they track unemployment if and when we get out of this mess.

[socrattt]

EconProf I just can’t imagine that 320,000 +/- people (the percentage of people that would amount to the .3% of people in question) just stopped looking for work. It just doesn’t make sense. Even in a strong economy I can’t imagine that high of a percentage of the unemployed would just drop off the map. I think the government will see some major fundamental problems with the way they track unemployment if and when we get out of this mess.

[socrattt]

EconProf I just can’t imagine that 320,000 +/- people (the percentage of people that would amount to the .3% of people in question) just stopped looking for work. It just doesn’t make sense. Even in a strong economy I can’t imagine that high of a percentage of the unemployed would just drop off the map. I think the government will see some major fundamental problems with the way they track unemployment if and when we get out of this mess.

[socrattt]

EconProf I just can’t imagine that 320,000 +/- people (the percentage of people that would amount to the .3% of people in question) just stopped looking for work. It just doesn’t make sense. Even in a strong economy I can’t imagine that high of a percentage of the unemployed would just drop off the map. I think the government will see some major fundamental problems with the way they track unemployment if and when we get out of this mess.

[socrattt]

[quote=EconProf]
The current work force is about 153 million, of which about ten and one-quarter million are unemployed. 6.7%
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EconProf, thanks for all the info, much appreciated. Now lets talk numbers real quick. November’s report just came with 533,000 jobs lost and pushed the unemployment rate up two tenths of a percentage point. By your facts above that should have pushed the rate over one half of a percentage point. This leads me to believe that there is a fundamental flaw in this system.

I had no clue that door knocking was the how the unemployment was determined. Maybe the bus got stuck in Rancho Santa Fe this past year. All in all I just don’t buy it! There are millions more that are unemployed that the government fails to acknowledge. I think the numbers are clearly left lower to control any sort of panic that may have happened in the Great Depression.

[socrattt]

[quote=EconProf]
The current work force is about 153 million, of which about ten and one-quarter million are unemployed. 6.7%
[/quote]

EconProf, thanks for all the info, much appreciated. Now lets talk numbers real quick. November’s report just came with 533,000 jobs lost and pushed the unemployment rate up two tenths of a percentage point. By your facts above that should have pushed the rate over one half of a percentage point. This leads me to believe that there is a fundamental flaw in this system.

I had no clue that door knocking was the how the unemployment was determined. Maybe the bus got stuck in Rancho Santa Fe this past year. All in all I just don’t buy it! There are millions more that are unemployed that the government fails to acknowledge. I think the numbers are clearly left lower to control any sort of panic that may have happened in the Great Depression.

[socrattt]

[quote=EconProf]
The current work force is about 153 million, of which about ten and one-quarter million are unemployed. 6.7%
[/quote]

EconProf, thanks for all the info, much appreciated. Now lets talk numbers real quick. November’s report just came with 533,000 jobs lost and pushed the unemployment rate up two tenths of a percentage point. By your facts above that should have pushed the rate over one half of a percentage point. This leads me to believe that there is a fundamental flaw in this system.

I had no clue that door knocking was the how the unemployment was determined. Maybe the bus got stuck in Rancho Santa Fe this past year. All in all I just don’t buy it! There are millions more that are unemployed that the government fails to acknowledge. I think the numbers are clearly left lower to control any sort of panic that may have happened in the Great Depression.

[socrattt]

[quote=EconProf]
The current work force is about 153 million, of which about ten and one-quarter million are unemployed. 6.7%
[/quote]

EconProf, thanks for all the info, much appreciated. Now lets talk numbers real quick. November’s report just came with 533,000 jobs lost and pushed the unemployment rate up two tenths of a percentage point. By your facts above that should have pushed the rate over one half of a percentage point. This leads me to believe that there is a fundamental flaw in this system.

I had no clue that door knocking was the how the unemployment was determined. Maybe the bus got stuck in Rancho Santa Fe this past year. All in all I just don’t buy it! There are millions more that are unemployed that the government fails to acknowledge. I think the numbers are clearly left lower to control any sort of panic that may have happened in the Great Depression.

[socrattt]

[quote=EconProf]
The current work force is about 153 million, of which about ten and one-quarter million are unemployed. 6.7%
[/quote]

EconProf, thanks for all the info, much appreciated. Now lets talk numbers real quick. November’s report just came with 533,000 jobs lost and pushed the unemployment rate up two tenths of a percentage point. By your facts above that should have pushed the rate over one half of a percentage point. This leads me to believe that there is a fundamental flaw in this system.

I had no clue that door knocking was the how the unemployment was determined. Maybe the bus got stuck in Rancho Santa Fe this past year. All in all I just don’t buy it! There are millions more that are unemployed that the government fails to acknowledge. I think the numbers are clearly left lower to control any sort of panic that may have happened in the Great Depression.

[socrattt]

Am I losing my marbles or is DWCAP and Esmith only taking numbers away from the equation? Esmith you seem to be arguing in favor of what I am saying. If you want to tell me that we should drop the employable age to 14 then that would essentially add numbers to the bottom line therefore decreasing the unemployment rates I am stating. When we remove a stay at home mom or an early retiree from the employable group we have an unemployment percentage that would be even higher.

My point is simply that US numbers are completely out of whack creating a false sense of security in this country. I truly believe that unemployment is already over 11% nationally, but that this government is doing everything in their power to have us think otherwise. It is simple math. Not many think outside the box, they just watch the news.

[socrattt]

Am I losing my marbles or is DWCAP and Esmith only taking numbers away from the equation? Esmith you seem to be arguing in favor of what I am saying. If you want to tell me that we should drop the employable age to 14 then that would essentially add numbers to the bottom line therefore decreasing the unemployment rates I am stating. When we remove a stay at home mom or an early retiree from the employable group we have an unemployment percentage that would be even higher.

My point is simply that US numbers are completely out of whack creating a false sense of security in this country. I truly believe that unemployment is already over 11% nationally, but that this government is doing everything in their power to have us think otherwise. It is simple math. Not many think outside the box, they just watch the news.

[socrattt]

Am I losing my marbles or is DWCAP and Esmith only taking numbers away from the equation? Esmith you seem to be arguing in favor of what I am saying. If you want to tell me that we should drop the employable age to 14 then that would essentially add numbers to the bottom line therefore decreasing the unemployment rates I am stating. When we remove a stay at home mom or an early retiree from the employable group we have an unemployment percentage that would be even higher.

My point is simply that US numbers are completely out of whack creating a false sense of security in this country. I truly believe that unemployment is already over 11% nationally, but that this government is doing everything in their power to have us think otherwise. It is simple math. Not many think outside the box, they just watch the news.

[socrattt]

Am I losing my marbles or is DWCAP and Esmith only taking numbers away from the equation? Esmith you seem to be arguing in favor of what I am saying. If you want to tell me that we should drop the employable age to 14 then that would essentially add numbers to the bottom line therefore decreasing the unemployment rates I am stating. When we remove a stay at home mom or an early retiree from the employable group we have an unemployment percentage that would be even higher.

My point is simply that US numbers are completely out of whack creating a false sense of security in this country. I truly believe that unemployment is already over 11% nationally, but that this government is doing everything in their power to have us think otherwise. It is simple math. Not many think outside the box, they just watch the news.

[socrattt]

Am I losing my marbles or is DWCAP and Esmith only taking numbers away from the equation? Esmith you seem to be arguing in favor of what I am saying. If you want to tell me that we should drop the employable age to 14 then that would essentially add numbers to the bottom line therefore decreasing the unemployment rates I am stating. When we remove a stay at home mom or an early retiree from the employable group we have an unemployment percentage that would be even higher.

My point is simply that US numbers are completely out of whack creating a false sense of security in this country. I truly believe that unemployment is already over 11% nationally, but that this government is doing everything in their power to have us think otherwise. It is simple math. Not many think outside the box, they just watch the news.

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