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To: tejek who wrote (360836)	12/1/2007 5:47:55 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574489

As for the different rates of Poland's unemployment, my figure was seasonally adjusted, but I doubt the adjustment can make up the difference. Maybe Poland just doesn't have solid data and/or has different conflicting data. Either way Poland's unemployment is fairly high so its not worth having a big argument about the uncertain specifics, when the big picture is high unemployment. Fourthly, some dude complains that Poles are double dipping, claiming to be unemployed when they are really working in the UK. Well if that's true, why don't they crack down on the double dipping? Strange they would complain about it, accusing their fellows Poles of dishonesty and yet they do nothing about it. Sounds fishy to me. Cracking down isn't always easy. Also I'm not sure that the issue is double dipping. If they are collecting unemployment checks from the Polish government than its unemployment fraud and could be called double dipping, but the issue might just be that they are counted as unemployed, not that they receive benefits while working. If they don't get benefits from the Polish government while working overseas than there is nothing to crack down on but you still have a distortion of the unemployment rate. How much do you want to bet the Polish GOPers lied Yeah, any data that doesn't fit your preconceived notions has to be wrong, and not just wrong but a lie...