tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post2929432726021451483..comments2024-01-16T03:55:26.266-05:00Comments on Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!): YES! THEY LIE! (The Truth About That Fraudulent Job-Creation Number - 216K? HA!) The New American DreamCirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-54634753848246447172011-04-11T09:59:18.775-04:002011-04-11T09:59:18.775-04:00Thanks, Snave,
I've been a Noam woman for dec...Thanks, Snave,<br /><br />I've been a Noam woman for decades and I also read George Lakoff whenever I have the opportunity.<br /><br />I really appreciate your taking the time to comment. Welcome to our poor world.<br /><br />Tom,<br /><br />I think they are lying for several purposes: 1) to reduce embarrassing numbers under the "new" leadership so they can start off the 2012 campaign by saying that they reduced unemployment when they only increased it among those who are now uncounted, and 2) to stop paying those unemployment benefits immediately to states that pay according to those numberss.<br /><br />As a result of these fake numbers NC has just lost the unemployment payments that its long-term unemployed were still getting in the extended benefits group.<br /><br />The problems arising from this course of action are unknown. What is going to happen when more thousands and thousands (I have no idea exactly how many are affected yet by this decision that just took place) of unemployed are added to the safety net numbers who need immediate assistance?<br /><br />And NC has been overwhelmed with calls for aid from its non-unionized populace for years already.<br /><br />There is a reason they had Halliburton build those prisons and hire and "train" new thugs as enforcement officers.<br /><br />Stay tuned.<br /><br />SCirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-33879302801050244662011-04-10T22:00:13.849-04:002011-04-10T22:00:13.849-04:00Great posting. I believe Chomsky is a great think...Great posting. I believe Chomsky is a great thinker, and if more people listened to him we would have fewer problems with the idiots in our country. More people ought to listen to George Lakoff too, for that matter!!Snavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13763424943041003098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-84741668579113125332011-04-10T15:36:15.837-04:002011-04-10T15:36:15.837-04:00They can lie with statistics to tell us whatever t...They can lie with statistics to tell us whatever they want us to think at this moment. Right now they probably want us to think jobs are being created because the Republicans captured the House and are "putting America back on track."<br /><br />If they want to make Obama look bad, they'll come up with different unemployment statistics to show us how socialism is ruining America.Tom Harperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05610417770240609022noreply@blogger.com