Actual jobs numbers

[rogue06]

In the run-up to the mid-terms old Joe and the Democrat's based much of their claim that the economy was doing well on the claim that over 1 million jobs had been created during the previous quarter (March through June 2022).

The White House released a statement in July crowing that

[i]n fact, the 1.1 million jobs created in the second quarter—an average of around 375,000 jobs per month — is more than three times more jobs created than in any three-month period leading up to a recession.

Biden himself declared "Our job market remains historically strong, with unemployment at 3.6% and more than 1 million jobs created in the second quarter alone."

Now, a couple of months after the mid-terms, we learn that this was utter bovine scat.

And the numbers weren't just off by a little bit.

The Philadelphia Federal Reserve just released a report finding that earlier reports were off a bit. Basically, of the million jobs that were said to be created, they were off by about a million.

That's right. The report found that only "10,500 net new jobs were added during the period rather than the 1,121,500 jobs estimated by the sum of the states."

10,500, not 1,121,500.

So far the Big Three networks haven't found that worthy to report.

[Cow Poke]

Hold on, I'm watching the local news from an ABC affiliate - they're about to break this critically important news story....


just hold on a minute...

[Mountain Man]

This is, like, totally shocking and unexpected. I mean, who would have ever thought that old Joe was telling bald faced lies? That's totally out of character for him. No, really.

[Sparko]

Obviously the Philly Fed is a front for some White Supremacy Right-Wing Christian Nationalist Terrorist cult.

[rogue06]

Hold on, I'm watching the local news from an ABC affiliate - they're about to break this critically important news story....


just hold on a minute...

Funny how the initial claim of a million jobs was given so much coverage, but when it's exposed as balderdash...

[Mountain Man]

Funny how the initial claim of a million jobs was given so much coverage, but when it's exposed as balderdash...

The way newspapers used to handle embarrassing retractions was to publish a tiny disclaimer on the back pages where most people would never see it.

[rogue06]

The way newspapers used to handle embarrassing retractions was to publish a tiny disclaimer on the back pages where most people would never see it.

But in this case it wasn't the MSM's fault. They were simply reporting what they were told. They had no trouble putting it on the front page something that Trump had earlier told them and was later shown to be questionable or flat out wrong.

[Sparko]

As another famous Joe once said:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” -- Joseph Goebbels

[rogue06]

As another famous Joe once said:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” -- Joeseph Goebbels

His brother Joseph said something similar.


That explains the necessity of the FBI's involvement in censoring Social Media.

[Mountain Man]

Who would have ever dreamed that the ideals of some of the most evil men in history would be found in our own government.

[Cow Poke]

Who would have ever dreamed that the ideals of some of the most evil men in history would be found in our own government.

Certainly not the founding fathers.