06-09-2008, 10:42 AM
[quote MacMagus]> The unemployment rate is LOWER than it was from 1980-1996.
STF for my post on "Pollyanna Creep."
The way that the unemployment rate is calculated has changed.
If figured in the manner that it was in the 1980's, unemployment would be around 12% now. It's MUCH higher than it was in the 1980's and 1990's.
The people who use charts that are useless without correlation to methodology of statistical input have no interest in truth.
They are after supporting a political point of view; it won't matter to them what you point out, they'll disregard it.
STF for my post on "Pollyanna Creep."
The way that the unemployment rate is calculated has changed.
If figured in the manner that it was in the 1980's, unemployment would be around 12% now. It's MUCH higher than it was in the 1980's and 1990's.
The people who use charts that are useless without correlation to methodology of statistical input have no interest in truth.
They are after supporting a political point of view; it won't matter to them what you point out, they'll disregard it.