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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Srexley who wrote (552675)	3/16/2004 8:05:46 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

... this silly strategy that says even if something is good ... What is "good" about a phony number? Here are the numbers that matter : Household bankruptcies at record high (despite low interest rates) : economictimes.indiatimes.com Consumer debt at record highs (so we know where the spending is coming from) : washingtonpost.com Manufacturing job losses at record highs (3.3 million jobs in the last 6 years; 2.8 million in the last 3 years) uswa.org So, as a result, the REAL unemployment numbers are much higher than the phony 5.6% touted by the government (and everytime it goes higher, they leave out another batch of unemployed folks -- as if they don't matter)