Interesting Unemployment Stats
9% That’s an unemployment figure. That’s how high our current leadership said our unemployment figure would go if we did not quickly pass their stimulus plan earlier this year.
7.9% That’s how high our leadership said unemployment would rise if we would just give them over $750 billion dollars to stimulate our economy. So the American people did, and ….
9.8% That’s our latest unemployment figure. Looks like the stimulus is working, .8% higher than had we not injected the stimulus. Some say this figure would be 17% if we excluded workers who lost their full-time jobs and settled for part-time work.
#1 As in Rule No. 1. Elections have consequences.
Source: http://boortz.com/nealz_nuze/2009/10/fun-with-numbers.html
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