Economy

But I got to say the numbers put out by the BLS are really hard for an average person to make sense of.

Look back at 2007 and 2008 where the BLS claimed our highest unemployment rate was 10.8%. What???? During COVID-19 the highest unemployment rate was only 14.8%? How can that low number affect anything? Every working person I knew lost their job at least temporarily. They lost their jobs and couldn't find a new one and it was only 10.8% or 14.8%. In fact Congress was so worried about a measly 10.8% unemployment they authorized 99 weeks of unemployment benefits.

That's crazy low in most people's minds. Heck there are countries that are always at 10% unemployment. The average person is not experiencing what the BLS claims.

Right now it's supposed to be 4% unemployment even before pedo Trump was tiptoeing through the numbers. How can that be? People are getting fired left and right. Jobs are disappearing as we post.

Yeah, there are all sorts of explanations for those numbers that did/do not match people's experiences. But the BLS is not a good indicator of what Americans are experiencing in the job market.

So, most Americans are just going to shrug when pedo Trump diddles the numbers to make it look like we have a functioning economy because they think the fix was in already.