“Are You Dumber Than a 5th Grader?” The Bureau of Labor Statistics thinks you are.
Lets see, for the third month in a row, the economy LOST jobs: 18,000 in November, 85,000 in December, and now another 20,000 in January.
So, according to basic 5th grade arithmetic, the unemployment rate INCREASED right? It was about 10.2% in November, so now it’s about 10.7% right? Or, if you count the numbers the REAL way they did 40 years ago, which includes the part-timers and discouraged, its actually about 17.7%!
My god, over 17% unemployment! No, the government says, we can’t tell people the truth about unemployment the way they did back in the 1930′s, or they will realize we are truly in the Second Great Depression, and demand greater action for jobs (and JOBS PROGRAMS – not just more Obamabot handouts, tax breaks and bailouts for Corporate America). Civil disturbances, protests, attacks on corporate power, can’t let that happen.
So instead, the Department of Labor Statistics, backed up by the Big Corporate Media, just plays the same old “Are You Dumber Than a 5th Grader?” game with the American people. Because hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of Americans have become so depressed and discouraged over the job market that they are no longer looking for work, they NO LONGER COUNT as human beings for our purposes.
Depressed and discouraged? You no longer exist in the great “Corporate Matrix” then.
So, according to “Dumber Than a 5th Grader” math:
120,000 or more jobs lost since October, from a rate of 10.2% nationally = 9.7% unemployment today!!!!
Wait a minute, says the 5th grader, doesn’t more jobs lost mean a HIGHER rate?
Of course, but the government thinks you are moron, wants to treat you like a moron, so they say its just 9.7%!
It’s George Orwell’s “Doubleplusthink”: Losing more jobs means lower unemployment! “How many fingers am I holding up?”
The answer to that is one, and its the middle one.
Add to this the new statistics that show Productivity rising 6.2% in January, and the REALITY is that Americans who are still employed are being worked like dogs at increasingly lower pay.
Wake up America, you are being reduced to serfs and slaves. And the Corporate-Government plantation owners say: “you’ll take what we give you, and work you like a dog at whatever crappy wages we want. And if you don’t like it, well tough, then you just DON’T EXIST.”
