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To: LindyBill who wrote (4525)	8/8/2003 3:16:51 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793670

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. " There's a reason for that saying. We can thank politicians mostly for it's origins. But these days, with journalistic integrity becoming an oxymoron, they can lay claim to the accuracy & damning reality of that statement. BTW, a couple of other terms; 'seasonally adjusted' & 'hard core unemployed', are making the reported unemployment statistics part of the worst kind of lie. We only get the seasonally adjusted numbers sans the hard core unemployed. The raw numbers are significantly higher every single week, which sort of makes a mockery of the "smoothing out" effect of seasonally adjusted numbers.