boards of FL wrote:The unemployment rate has always carried a certain degree of ambiguity. It wasn't until the most recent president that anyone ever questioned this process.
I almost wish both obama and bush both would have never been born. I'm really growing weary of every discussion revolving around these two way over-hyped individuals.
For the last few years we have now had by far the largest number of americans who are underemployed ever in the history of the country.
Millions of americans. Alongside millions struggling to make ends meet, the significance of the two lousy individuals who always dominate these discussions sickens me.
Yes, the unemployment rate has always been an ambiguous figure. But during the time when the country was fully employed with relatively few being underemployed, that ambiguity didn't matter nearly as much.
Now it does matter. I am interested in that underemployment totally apart from who the goddamn president is or was. Both of those two celebrities will always be employed and when they are no longer employed they will still be living in the lap of luxury while sucking off the taxpayer teat. And since there is no way to change that, those two celebrities are really not of interest to me.
I'm also a lot more interested in how unemployment is calculated because of that current disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street, the disconnect seaoat says does not exist.
I'm interested and concerned about that because it's a dysfunctional society which has thriving corporations and shareholders at the same time our work force is struggling to even exist. At the same time our middle class is declining.
I really could no longer care less which of those two celebrities is to be blamed or to be praised. I just wish they could stop dominating everything we talk about here because it's really just a huge distraction.