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MattSh

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2. That 5% jobless rate only counts those they want to count...

Reply to TBF (Original post)

Sat Jan 2, 2016, 04:35 PM

Jan 2016

Can you imagine what would happen if everybody counted? And the real rate was known? There'd be millions of Americans demanding action and we can't have that, now can we? Especially from this congress.

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