More people are underemployed. The rate of 4.5 unemployment might be that people aren't home anymore because they are working two or more jobs. Man that upsets me when they note -- people are employed. Right, and minimum wage at McDonald's, which is still poverty level, constitutes "employment"? Look at salaries for those people, not merely if they are "working". For another example: someone lives to 106 being a lifelong smoker. That might be a good campaign for R.J. Reynolds, except if you find he was on life support for 25 years and ate up 4.8 million dollars of medical funds to keep him alive.
Numbers aren't important if taken out of context, butt heads! Trying showing the average salary for families with one job only per person. That doesn't look so fine, now does it. I don't like half-facts, it irks me because it influences the weak minded to believe --- well, then, there isn't a problem. Subtract the golden parachute CEOs and start examining the salaries and employment, then give me some numbers.
Friday, July 06, 2007
Fluptz Putz
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cheese n rice, you're a piece of work.
"THIS NUMBER DOESN'T TELL ME HOW MUCH EGGS COST! THIS NUMBER IMPLIES THAT EGGS MIGHT BE CHEAP, BUT HOW WOULD I KNOW?!"
If you want to know average incomes, prosperity index stuff, I suggest you turn to that page of the almanac instead of bitching at the page you're on.
Bottom line, the economy is quite good right now.
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