This isn’t going to be eloquent. Instead, it’s going to be pointed, direct, blunt.
The NY Times announced another 600,000 people are jobless this month. That figure’s probably low, as it doesn’t include people who have been off the system’s radar for a long time. They say it comes to 7.6% of the population. That figure’s STILL not right, because the census hasn’t been done in nearly a decade, so we really don’t know how many people we have in this nation, and these Fear Pimps certainly haven’t taken the time to calculate and adjust to reflect reality… and none of that matters one single bit. (more…)
