Numbers Game

You can always tell when we're in the middle of an election cycle --

The stuff that comes out of the southbound end of a northbound bull just gets deeper and deeper.

Consider:

Today's release of "official" May job numbers.

The government is cheering the "creation" of 431,000 new jobs in May.  Legacy media outlets are climbing aboard the "Happy Days Are Here Again" train.

Just a couple of minor problems --

Temporary government jobs accounted for 95% of the increase; temporary census jobs accounted for 411,000 of the announced increase of 431,000 jobs in May.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (yet another worthless government entity that cost taxpayers a cool $645.4 million this year alone -- the Internal Revenue Service already creates the numbers that the BLS "re-creates") has invented an odd method of "creating" jobs -- they call it the Current Employment Statistics (CES) Net Birth/Death Model (only bureaucrats could invent something like this...).  Their calculations, based upon this CES Net Birth/Death Model, somehow show an additional 215,000 jobs "created" in May.

Additionally, government figures show another 31,000 jobs "created" in the "temporary help services" sector (think Gulf of Mexico oil disaster clean-up helpers and similar temporary "jobs").

Now... stay with me.  This is (I am sure by governmental design) a little complicated.

Government reports the "creation" of 431,000 jobs in May.  Of those, 411,000 are temporary government positions created by the 2010 Census effort. 

So... 431,000 minus 411,000 = 20,000 real jobs added to the economy.

But wait.  There's more.

20,000 minus the 215,000 non-existent "jobs" magically "created" by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' number crunchers =  <195,000> jobs "created."  <195,000> minus the non-existent 31,000 "jobs" claimed in "temporary help services" = <226,000>.

That's right --

The United States actually LOST 226,000 jobs last month, despite the rosy scenario our increasingly-desperate Democrat "leadership" is trying to paint for us.

Additionally, 322,000 people stopped looking for work in May, which, despite the huge increase in actual jobs lost, contributed to the national unemployment rate ticking down two tenths of a percent from 9.9% to 9.7%.

As the Census winds down, the rate of "job creation" will again decline dramatically, driving the national unemployment rate higher once again.  Just in time for the elections.

Add to that the sheer ineptitude displayed in the government's handling bungling of the Gulf oil disaster coupled with the obvious contempt the Democrats have for "We, the people" - examples:

• Pushing through healthcare "reform" that a large majority of Americans were adamantly opposed to, STILL oppose even after its passage, and want to see repealed. 
• The ongoing attacks on the state of Arizona for enacting a law on the state level that replicates EXISTING Federal law, albeit less harshly.  Despite a majority of Americans supporting the Arizona law (and a "super majority" -- 70% -- of Arizonans supporting it), Obama and the Democrats continue to trash the Arizona law and blatantly -- disgustingly play the "race card" in their transparent effort to woo Hispanic voters.
• The "never waste a good crisis" mindset of Obama's string-pullers to try and capitalize on the BP oil disaster and use it to ram through their economy and job-killing Global Warming Bill -- er... Cap and Trade Legislation -- er... the now-renamed American Power Act. 
• The push to grant amnesty to 12-20+ million law breakers DESPITE the vast majority of Americans wanting the border controlled BEFORE attempting to address the problem of the multitudes of miscreants flooding into and residing illegally in our country.
• The Obami attempting to resurrect yet again their tired "blame Bush" mantra to explain away all things negative.

Not exactly what the distressed Democrats want to see as we inch ever closer to November.

This November, we MUST begin to erase the horrid national mistake made by the electorate in 2008.  Not to sound overly dramatic but, nothing less than the fate of the nation hangs in the balance.

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