We have a new unemployment rate, 8.5%. This number is an unmitigated lie and is an affront to the facts. The unemployment rate is being dropped by simply saying hundreds of thousands more long term unemployed just stopped looking for work and have accepted their new life of poverty.
Here are the facts. Net, millions more American workers are unemployed than were last year and no matter how many ways the lie is told this fact remains unchanged. They say 200,000 jobs were added in December. By the so called experts’ own assertions, it would take 250,000 jobs to keep the unemployment rate at an even keel in keeping up with our young people entering the workforce. Now this is not to mention the tens of thousands of illegals crossing our borders every month.
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