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Unemployment Explained: Obama's Disability Scammers

Chuck Martel Wrote: May 07, 2012 7:31 AM
AHA...well this explains the Obama administration's recent edict that investigators may NOT use Facebook and social media to expose disability fraud. I can't even begin to understand the "logic" of such an appalling decision. Fraud investigators are handcuffed, while fraudsters are protected. We live in a sick, upside down world now. Obama must GO!
Luny Tune Wrote: May 07, 2012 7:43 AM
To tell Facebook and social media what they can and cannot do is a violation of the 1st Amendment which protects free speech and free expression. What's next? Masking tape across the mouth of anybody who dares speak out against the One?
Bernard83 Wrote: May 07, 2012 7:55 AM
Yes, and they use Duct tape. Masking tape isn't anywhere near up to the task.

I have to credit our own Mike Shedlock for writing about how Obama’s been able to drive down the topline unemployment number even though unemployment remains as a big problem today as it has ever been.

I’m often reluctant to piggy back on a contributor’s work, but when something is really newsworthy, I think it’s justified.

Yesterday Mish pointed out that:

In the last year, the civilian population rose by 3,638,000. Yet the labor force only rose by 945,000. Those not in the labor force rose by 2,693,000.

In the last month, actual employment fell by 169,000, but...

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