Didn't the Department of Labor announce Friday, May 2, that job losses for April was 20,000? [Link]
The numbers cited in the above article against 20,000 "official" job losses do not jive! On Thursday, May 1st, another jobless statistic came out that was quickly buried by the media. [Link]
01T131422Z_01_N01347937_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-ECONOMY.xml says, "The number of workers applying for jobless benefits surged last week in gloomy news for the labor market, but personal spending in March was stronger than expected, government data on Thursday showed. Initial claims rose by 35,000 and the number of workers remaining on jobless benefits climbed to a four-year high, the Labor Department said..."

The article says that "initial claims" (for the third week in April) rose by 35,000 yet the "official" job losses number is 20,000! Maybe some of the "initial claims" aren't all legitimate claims, but anyone living in america knows how hard it is to get unemployment benefits there. In most cases, you can't file for benefits if you quit your job. This means that most "initial claims" are legitimate!

But hey, it gets worse! On Friday at 10:00 (Amsterdam time), CNN announced that "economists" were expecting the job loss numbers for April to be 70,000. During an interveiw with CNN Economics editor Todd Benjamin at 12:11, a graphic came on that said economists expected 30,000 job losses. The Dept. of Labor's report was released as a ticker-tape on CNN at 2:33 and somehow the economists got it wrong because the number was lower than predicted! More, at 15:00 on CNN, there was a ticker tape saying that economists had expected 75,000 job losses. Do you see the in-discrepancies here? I watch this stuff meticulously because I'm an economist and my ex-husband used to rape me with those kinds of false economic statistics (http://atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/3686/81/)

It's obvious that the puppet masters have co-opted vital economic facts again. More, the "economists" were wrong because the government figure is so vastly different.

As with everything, there is a B-O-B (Behavior-Outcome-Benefit) to this! The "good" economic "news" (propaganda) made the stock markets rise and the dollar rise in strength thus making the price of oil fall.

And what happens to all the people who were not counted in the statistics but suffer just the same?

They're supposed to find some dark corner out of the way and die there a lone only because they have become redundant to society and to its industry, plus it costs "society" money to keep them alive when these people have no value to the status quo.

Added: Sun, 04 May 2008 09:17 EDT