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Unemployment Explained: Obama's Disability Scammers

DoctorRoy Wrote: May 07, 2012 11:52 AM
So Social Security is welfare? Since it's all semantics anyway I prefer to think of it as Senior Subsidies. Tell you what though. If you want to cut me a check for all the money I have paid into the Senior subsidy program over the years plus say 5 per cent interest will call it square.

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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