Misinformation 101 – The Jobs Report

My husband and I were browsing through a bookstore yesterday. I spotted a Barack Obama, The Out of Office Countdown Calendar. I read the title to him and a woman’s voice piped from behind, “Isn’t this sad?” I turned around to see the source of the remark and repeated, “Sad?” She replied, “Yes, very sad, as Martin Luther wrote, better to vote for a good Turk than a bad Christian. You do know who Martin Luther was, don’t you? Not Dr. Martin Luther King.”

At this point, I was trying very hard to keep my composure and ignore the insults and assaults to my intelligence. I told her, she was mistaken, and I walked away. Fighting with an ignorant liberal in the middle of a bookstore was not my idea of a fun Saturday afternoon. In the meantime, my husband disappeared behind several bookshelves. Like any bold and obnoxious liberal, the woman followed me, spewing typical progressive non-sense about the evil Christians and the good Muslims who were slaughtered mercilessly. I did not turn this time, gesturing for her to go away. We are flooded with lies by the MSM, the progressive academics, the Obama crowd, the Democrat and RINO politicians; the last place I expected to encounter indoctrination into communist talking points was at my local bookstore.

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Delusional pro-Muslim and anti-Christian liberals are everywhere, but particularly concentrated in the northeast. An informational takeover and coup of our values and of our country is waged by a small, atheist, anti-American, pro-Muslim minority with an agenda to destroy everything that millions of patriotic Americans have created in 235 years of exceptional history. Spreading misinformation and communist propaganda is the Modus Operandi of liberals. If sleepy Americans hear the same lies repeated many times, they will believe them to be true. The Department of Labor released yesterday its jobs report, claiming that 200,000 jobs were created, much more than the 150,000 needed monthly to accommodate a growing population. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate dropped from 8.7 percent to 8.5 percent. What they failed to mention was the fact that over 20 million Americans are unemployed, part-time employed, or no longer counted in the labor force. The labor force has been traditionally 126 million workers. If we do the simple math, the unemployment rate is closer to 16 percent overall. Some counties in California have 20 percent unemployment. Areas around Detroit, Michigan, claim 40 percent unemployment. Statistics can be tampered and manipulated to reveal any talking points an individual wishes to make, particularly if a lot is at stake, in this case, the re-election of a failing President. Data is revised up and down all the time in this administration, particularly up, after the intended euphoria of good news has passed. To say that statistics and data reported in the past three years have been disingenuous is an understatement. The basic unemployment data comes from a monthly survey of 60,000 households conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The results of the survey are extrapolated to the entire U.S. labor force. The “elephant-in-the-room” problem is that a large percentage of the unemployed are no longer counted if they have not sought work during the previous four weeks, the people no longer exist. These are the discouraged workers. When they give up searching for a job, they are out of the labor force, and the official unemployment rate declines. The magnitude of the problem is thus underestimated by the existence of this “hidden” or “disguised” unemployment. We are in a severe cyclical unemployment phase driven by poor and inadequate economic policies of the current administration, the expensive prospect of Obamacare, and by federal regulations that limit and sometimes prohibit job creation. I am not surprised that liberals/progressives/communists misinform Americans. I dislike the attempt to rewrite history and reality on a daily basis. Martin Luther never lived under a Muslim ruler. There is no evidence that he ever said, “I’d rather be ruled by a competent Turk than an incompetent Christian.” Scholarship disputes the claim made by Hubert Morken in “Pat Robertson – Where He Stands,” on p. 42 in which he attributes the comment to Martin Luther without any citation. As you saw, the liberal stranger I encountered had totally transformed the supposed quote to tailor her agenda. I studied Martin Luther, his 95 theses, I speak German, and I never saw such a quote. I take any information from liberal and conservative leaders or individuals, in reference to historical, literary, political, geographical, or economic data with a large spoon of salt.