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	Name:	architect -
	Subject:	WW you don't do yourself proud
	Date:	3/9/2013 10:43:56 AM (updated 3/9/2013 10:49:55 AM)

Talk about "chit"!  You are on something a lot more potent than weed to make those 3 claims...get off your fanny and check it out for yourself if you don't believe the following FACTS:

1/   "There are 89 million still unemployed"... There are 89 million not working. Can your brain grasp that "not
working" and "unemployed" are not the same (sort of like the climate change deniers with "weather" vs "climate").
my wife and daughter and next door neighbor's son are not working but they are not currently desirous
to do so. How many 18 year olds are at Auburn? Are they all "unemployed"? (BTW, MM says it's 90 million)

2/   "Lowest job participation in history"... How far back does history go? The job participation is lower today than
10 years ago to be sure...part of that is due to the recession but some of it is the big slug of baby-boomers
  who are retiring. Now to go back a little further to say 1900 or 1950 (do you consider those years part of
"history" WW?) What percentage of women do you think were in the work force in those years...could it be
possible if all those house-fraus and stay at home moms were not part of the work force that it might make for
a somewhat smaller participation rate than today. Check 1933 (is that in your understanding of history?).
Hoover is out and FDR is in and unemployment is over 25%...what was the "job participation" then? History
is a long time WW!

3/   "There are fewer people employed now than when Obama took office"...Between Jan 1009 and August 2009
   private sector employment went down by 4.4 million, from Sept 2009 through Feb 2013 private sector
   employment went up 6.5 million. WW do you know how to subtract yet?

In the immortal words Charlie Brown  "GOOD GRIEF"