Going Rogue

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by joeydb

It was released a couple of weeks ago that if you include those who have given up looking for a job, the figure is around 17%. The unemployment statistic, going back to Carter, always has a time limit (6 months, a year, I forget which). So before you chuckle too much, that number has some validity, given the proper context.

LOL. Any number has validity given "proper context". I can say unemployment is at zero percent...given the context that everyone that works in my buidling has had a job since yesterday when the survey was taken.

The number that counts is the one given out monthly by the US govt...right or wrong. That is the number Mr. Bush use to tout...before the jobs started going away. Last month, that number was at 9.8%.