This is laughable. Yes it's tougher if you don't have a college education. We are the richest large country by far and our best days are ahead of us. We have millions of millionaires. If a dumb ass Cajun can do it almost anyone can.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
Total nonfarm payroll employment grew by 431,000 in May, reflecting
the hiring of 411,000 temporary employees to work on Census 2010, the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Private-sector em-
ployment changed little (+41,000). Manufacturing, temporary help ser-
vices, and mining added jobs, while construction employment declined.
COOL DUDE WE JUST GOT 20,000 PERMANENT JOBS AND 410,000 TEMP ONES.... wait.. that's BAD, because as soon as the census is done... all those people will be unemployed once more. Damn, didn't see that coming!
Of course, the government doesnt want you to be aware of these
numbers and will take every opportunity to make the actual numbers
appear much smaller. This is what we call Government Math.
Lets take the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for instance. The CPI is a
list of things that the average American needslike a gallon of gas, a
sirloin steak, etc. It used to be simple to calculate the CPI. You
simply took the price from the previous years list of goods and
compared them with the current price. However, in the late 1980s,
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and friends tweaked the model,
adding an assumption known as Product Substitution. In other words,
they assumed that people would switch to cheaper goods if the price of
any given commodity got too expensive.
They assumed that if the price of steak went up, people would buy
hamburger, and the cost of living would go down instead of up. So
instead of using the CPI to measure a standard of living, it was changed
to measure what it takes for one to survive. That way the government
could reduce everything from interest payments on the national debt to
cost of living adjustments to social security payments.
But thats not the only thing they changed on the CPI. Geometric
weighting assumes that as prices of goods got too expensive, people
would simply stop buying those goods and, as a result, were therefore
given less importance in the index. This is what is known as a Hedonic
Adjustment, which assumes that as the quality of goods improves, the
overall price in those goods declines as well.
The government also likes to play with the unemployment numbers.
Right now, the government tells us that the unemployment rate is at
9.7%. Actually, unemployment is more realistically somewhere in the
neighborhood of 22%. Thats a big difference, huh?
The problem is how unemployment figures are now calculated. The
government low-balls the number by excluding those who fall under the
contemporary definition of discouraged worker and those who can only
find part-time work.
Todays definition of a discouraged worker is one who has not found
work within the last year. Before 1994, a discouraged worker was
defined as one who had not found work within the last month. Thats a
big discrepancy isnt it, children. If we add those people back into
the equation, we come up with a more realistic unemployment rate of
right around 22%.
this has to be the most concentrated area of uneducated people in the world. i would hate for the government to look at these pages. Weed would never be legal then. This would be undeniable proof that smoking weed makes you dumb as shit. Come on, do you guys understand global economics, checks and balances, and what it would actually entail for America to become a third world country in a matter of years? Have you guys noticed that unemployment has leveled off? same with the stock market. yes we are in a recession, which is a normal economic cycle by the way
and no it is not over and more shitty stuff will happen, but it is not the end of the fucking world.
So please for the sake of legalizing weed.....stop being so stupid, people notice this lol
thank god for you telling me about this being a normal cycle! oh wait, the gulf coast is getting ready for long term evacuation... how will that effect the job market? oh and for sure the Obama temp jobs are good for the economy right? i mean people are getting paid again! waitttt a second! TEMP means... TEMPORARY? OMFG WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE JOBS ARE DONE???
you sir, do not pay attention to reality. so, how about you go sip your starbucks and ponder that.
how about all these "green jobs"? welllll that's a GREAT thing right? i mean it has GREEN in the name it must be good, oh crap, nevermind.... for ever 1 job created 4 are lost... damn they got me again!
by the way, what happens when all that "gulf coast cleanup" shit is done with? because those mother fuckers sure aren't gonna be fishing anytime soon.
i want to see you go tell them that this is a "regular economic cycle"
better start learning Mandarin...
Jesus H, people.
