“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.” ~ Abraham Lincoln ~ Phony Government Statistics, Detroit and Black Americans – By: Larry Walker II – One way the federal government could … Continue reading Black Unemployment Rate Closer to 37.9%
Are you better off today than four years ago? – By: Larry Walker, Jr. – According to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the official unemployment rate for all Americans rose by 1.3% since Barack Obama took office. But over the same period, the unemployment rate for Black Americans jumped by 10.9%, … Continue reading Black Unemployment Jumps 10.9% on Obama
Another 522,000 left the labor force in April 2012. April’s Bogus Unemployment Rate * By: Larry Walker, Jr. * Now that economists, media pundits, and the Obama administration have weighed in with half-hearted and inaccurate theories respecting April’s decline in the U.S. unemployment rate, it’s time to set the record straight. We learned yesterday, … Continue reading Manipulation 401 : U-3 vs Real Unemployment
The Great, Obama Unemployment Rate Scam * February 9, 2012 | By BoomerJeff * Political communication in America is largely an effort to influence the perceptions of those who pay little attention to politics by stripping complex concepts and issues down to easily understood statistics and simplistic soundbites. In each of his first 33 months … Continue reading The Great, Obama Unemployment Rate Scam | LibertyWorks
*“Mene, Mene, Tekel u-Pharsin” ~ Book of Daniel, Ch. 5 * * By: Larry Walker, Jr. * The writing’s on the wall! The massive decline of new entrants to the civilian labor force, which is shown graphically in the chart above, directly impacts the unemployment rate, making the employment situation appear far better than it … Continue reading Manipulation 201: Playing With Unemployment
* Fake it until you make it. * * By: Larry Walker, Jr. * The following passage is from my last post, “Labor Force Contraction with Obama – And other hidden truths” : “Most of the electorate understands that as the size of the labor force shrinks the unemployment rate declines. But is anyone really … Continue reading Manipulation 101: The Real Unemployment Rate
– Courtesy of Liberty Works * The following charts track the unemployment rate and the size of the labor force. * The chart above shows that over the first 25 months of the current recovery the unemployment rate has declined from 10.1% to 8.5% while the size of the labor force is virtually unchanged even … Continue reading Charts: Unemployment Rate vs. Size of Labor Force
Excuse Me. You created how many jobs? By: Larry Walker, Jr. Yesterday, while Mr. Obama was shouting at a childish crowd in Philadelphia, which included streakers and book throwers, he mentioned something about he and Joe Biden having created 3 million jobs in the last nine months, or some foolishness. So we decided to visit … Continue reading Obama’s New Reality: Black Unemployment
Port of Savannah Maybe Trump Gets It -By: Larry Walker II- This year-to-date, the United States has imported $267.7 billion in goods from China, while exporting just $65.4 billion in goods to China. That amounts to a current year trade deficit of $202.3 billion, in the first seven months alone. Looking back over the last … Continue reading 30-Year Trade Deficit with China
What the Individual Mandate means for you and your family :: By: Larry Walker II :: Under the Affordable Care Act, beginning in 2014, State governments, insurers, employers, and selected individuals are supposed to share in the responsibility of providing health insurance coverage. The Act’s shared responsibility provision, also known as the individual mandate, requires … Continue reading Affordable Care Excise Tax, Part I
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