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When side-jobs hurt your chances.. |
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disagree |
| Date Posted: |
08/31/2004 |
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The USDA does use sampling right now which goes against you showing me how the government has done things other then sampling. The article is, as you say, just a proposal which has not happened. Although I humored you by even debating this point the relevance to people is limited unless you plan to get a chip implanted in you that can somehow detect when you are working and when you aren't.
Can you show anything from BLS or anything other site which suggests that the government's unemployment rate (which is what you used for your article) or the nonfarm payrolls have anything whatsoever to do with weekly or monthly claims? And that you ??fall off of them after 26 weeks??? If not how can you make the claim in your article and then "stand by it"?
Can you show anything that suggests that countries listed on your site use anything other then a survey and the basic definition of unemployment that the US does? If not how can you compare unemployment rates which aren??t equal and then "stand by it"?
Can you show anything that suggests that the LATs uses anything other then "white house statisticians" (i.e. the BLS)? If you can't show this how can you suggest that the LAT's unemployment number (which is really from the BLS where I showed you) is the "highest it's been in ten years"? If you look at the 9.7% number (which was 0.3% higher then the year before) there were other times in the past ten years where it was above 10%. How do you justify saying it is at a ten year high in your article and ??stand by it???
You don't understand this topic enough to be writing articles on the subject. You can't even comprehend a dumb-downed CNN article. Both of the surveys are just that surveys. You don't "fall off" of either one after 26 months. No matter how much you dislike how the BLS works (or how inaccurate you think the surveys are) the above pieces of information which are in your article are wrong (arguing otherwise makes you look like an idiot) and they account for the majority of the article, yet you stand by them and it, why?
I couldn??t care less about your website, porn sites, or the swift boat vets (other then to point out how you are using their tactics).
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you do not agree with the article... i think you've made your point. i've supported my claims for the article and i've made my point.
you fall off the list when benefits run out. should you be lucky enough to be on the household survey (which you say rotates; and it means your chance of staying on the survey is slim for the long run) you will be counted under one of the categories.
that (however) is not what the article is about... for whatever reason this subject is so important to you i find amusing. and at this point my time is too valuable to continue this discussion.
thank you for your kind words however.
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