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  • Fuck are we in another wave of the red scare?

    If we don't vote for Tea Party bigots we're gonna fall into communism!!!!11!1!1
  • DeepPurple
    DeepPurple Member Posts: 201
    The US has always measured unemployment in terms of unemployment claims rather than in terms of those out of work -- it is the same gimmick that was used in the early 80s to make unemployment during the Reagan recession look lower than it really was... both parties play this trick because at the end of the day, they are both just shills for the land holding corporate aristocracy that wants the common man to think that things here aren't as bad as they are in France or Italy.

  • CuntWaffle
    CuntWaffle Member Posts: 22,500
    Well we know who is in charge of the Jesus_Christ handle.
  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680

    Well we know who is in charge of the Jesus_Christ handle.

    Hi Harv!
  • Well we know who is in charge of the Jesus_Christ handle.

    The devil made me do it
  • Well we know who is in charge of the Jesus_Christ handle.

    Hi Harv!
    You think you know, but you don't.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,039 Founders Club
    Fremont


    The tea party is racist. Everyone says so
  • death2ducks
    death2ducks Member Posts: 991
    edited January 2014

    The US has always measured unemployment in terms of unemployment claims rather than in terms of those out of work -- it is the same gimmick that was used in the early 80s to make unemployment during the Reagan recession look lower than it really was... both parties play this trick because at the end of the day, they are both just shills for the land holding corporate aristocracy that wants the common man to think that things here aren't as bad as they are in France or Italy.

    First part wrong.

    The rest wrong. 1980? You obviously weren't there. Reagan took over with interest rates at 23.5% PRIME RATE. But now 30 years later, revisionists blame that recession on Reagan?

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  • DeepPurple
    DeepPurple Member Posts: 201
    edited January 2014

    The US has always measured unemployment in terms of unemployment claims rather than in terms of those out of work -- it is the same gimmick that was used in the early 80s to make unemployment during the Reagan recession look lower than it really was... both parties play this trick because at the end of the day, they are both just shills for the land holding corporate aristocracy that wants the common man to think that things here aren't as bad as they are in France or Italy.

    First part wrong.

    The rest wrong. 1980? You obviously weren't there. Reagan took over with interest rates at 23.5% PRIME RATE. But now 30 years later, revisionists blame that recession on Reagan?
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    Prove the first part wrong. When has unemployment NOT been reported that way in the US? Ever take a course in Econ?

    Oh... so it was the fault of the guy before Reagan? Thought blaming the previous guy wasn't allowed?