Today the unemployment rate fell from 9.1 percent to 8.6 percent based upon a 126,000 new private sector jobs being added. That sounds good right? Not so fast. Let’s get to the facts. Here they are.
1. Let’s make an assumption that 126,000 jobs created decreased the unemployment by one half of a percent of .5 percent. That’s 9.1 minus .5 equals 8.6. Duh. I’m quoting Obama here, so you’ve got to accept the assumption.
2. From that number we can figure out the actual number of jobs in the United States. If 126,000 jobs causes the unemployment rate to fall a half a percent, math can tell us a lot. It can tell us what the total number of jobs is, Algebra baby.
3. That means the one half of one percent is 126,000 jobs. Therefore, given that there are two hundred one half of one percents in a hundred percent, all we need to do is mulitply 126,000 times two hundred to know the total number of jobs in our nation. Easy math. That number equates as follows: 126,000 x 200 = 2,520,000 jobs in the United States. This means that if 126,000 jobs gained is a decrease of .5 percent in all available jobs, then there are only 2,520,000 jobs in America.
4. Being lazy ( I couldn’t find a 2011 number), in 2009, the population was 307, 006,550 Americans.
5. That means that 8.2 percent of our entire population have jobs.
6. Yet, our population is more than 307, 006,550 people which means that 126,000 is not as significant. It means that this calculation is skewed in favor of the dark side, the liberals who claim that Obama is fixing the economy.
7. If our population is 307,006,550 and if only 8.2 percent of our population is employed (2,520,000 working folks) that means that for every person working there are 121.8 people not working. Now, I support a family of five with a wife who does a lot of heavy lifting in both family duties and income duties, but we don’t have a family of 121.8, we have five.
8. What this means is that the number is tripe on all levels. First it doesn’t count those who have quit working. Second, it doesn’t count those working part time who want more income, more time, but technically are not unemployed. Third, it makes no sense. Dwell on this, it is not a realistic number. It is a fraud statistic. Just ask your unemployed neighbor. It is a sham to promote Obama and his genius in fixing the economy. They, the evil side, will use the number, lie about the number, won’t answer questions about the number, promulgate the number, and basically bastardize the number in the falsest of senses to promote re-election of Obama.
Why? Hopefully, we don’t have every worker supporting 121 non-workers. If we do, we’re screwed. Don’t worry, we don’t.
As I’ve said in the past, our enemy is not in a party, it is in the math. I don’t think anybody, on this level, can argue math. The math says that to the extent the Obama crew argues that they’re policies are working, they are telling lies. The math says so. Period. Wake up America. Get a brain on.
Don’t buy the lie.
That’s my Reetzality for the Day.
Thanks for the read.
Brett Reetz
P.S. Why have I been gone for a while? Here’s why: I am so frustrated by the lies, misrepresentations, tripe, and B.S. that comes out of Washington, that I was just working on stuff that pays the bills, and hopefully gets me ahead of the tidal wave that is about to crash down on us. I was feeling “What’s the point?” I’m back now. Thanks for the read.