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It’s just you -- the economy is doing great!
by Kevin Good, Unknown News
May 21, 2007
This administration may suck at foreign policy but they have assembled a ‘crack’ team of
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statisticians and accountants lacking the personality to become statisticians, to promote the booming US economy approaching $10 trillion dollars in debt. The job application for this team had only two questions,
'Are you a loyal Bushie?' and 'What is 2+2?' Successful candidates answered, 'Yes’ and 'What do you want it to be?'
The new team assembled this spider graph as proof to prove the true greatness of our great booming economy with the disclaimer that some citizens may plot outside the optimum range of this graph, but that’s just you.
It’s just you experiencing inflation. The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Indexes, using "Old Series" pre-1998 weight and item structure
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excluding food, clothing, shelter and energy, announced inflation is at all time record lows.
It’s just you who can’t afford a home … or can you? Sub-prime lending also called "B-Paper," "near-prime," or "second chance" lenders to the rescue! You too may achieve the American dream of home ownership! But IT’S PEOPLE who get to live in the home of their dreams for a couple of years before the lender grinds them up into Soylent Green.
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It’s just you that got ‘right sized’. (INFOBABBLE! right sized = fired to cut costs.) Look at the bright side. The company you no longer work for reported a profit, minus your income. They turned your bankrupt pension plan over to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation that is run by the same Government that guarantees your Social Security benefits and
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all this pushes the stock market to record highs.
It’s just you who can’t find a job that pays as well as the one you were ‘right sized’ from. Swallowing your pride, you apply for the unemployment compensation that you have been paying for. You are added to the unemployment statistics and discover the Catch-22 system.
If you take a job that pays a fraction of what you made in the past because you want your family to live indoors with food to eat, you are dropped from unemployment.
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If you turn down a job that pays a fraction of what you made in the past, you are dropped from unemployment. Either way the Bureau of Labor Statistics boasts record unemployment proving the economy is doing great!
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in·fo·bab·ble
Pronunciation: INFOBABBLE!
Function: noun
1: the failure to communicate or the ability to misrepresent knowledge or intelligence
2: the attribute inherent in and communicated by one of two or more alternative sequences or arrangements of something (as nucleotides in DNA or binary digits in a computer program) that produce specific effects or a signal or character (as in a communication system or computer) representing data.
3: something (as a message, experimental data, or a picture) which justifies change in a construct (as a plan or theory) that represents physical or mental experience or other construct.
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