Magical unemployment figures

Ask yourself, can we believe these magical unemployment figures released today? Weekly, we see the number stagnant and weekly we see the previous week revised-generally upward. Now, 4 weeks before the election we are fed a .3 % improvement. It’s magically delicious- for the Obama reelection campaign.

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I am sick to death of being played like a fiddle. Please, just give us the truth. The bean counters could not give us July’s “real” figures until Oct. 5th? If we don’t believe there is some fancy arithmetic going on here then we deserve another four years of the deceiver in chief. We adjust these numbers, count part time employment, don’t count those who have exhausted their benefits, and the best one of all, fix the problem by employing more government workers. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. I will not be fooled again by conveniently contrived numbers that are about as real as the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I hear how many kids are on free and reduced lunches, how many people are only working a few hours a week-if at all, how many people have lost their homes and what companies are still laying off. I don’t buy these latest figures and the timing of their release. Look, the guy took a beating in the first debate and over the Libyan killings. He needs some positive press, even if he has to make it up. Richard Doonan Rotonda West, FL

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