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PowerToThePeople

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32. no, because your chart obscures compound effects

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #29)

Thu Mar 19, 2015, 12:04 AM

Mar 2015

If you have 2% growth for ten years, the end is more then 20% growth over the time frame.

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Ann Coulter said if we measured unemployment like Canada our rate would be 23% [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 OP

So she wants us to be more like Canada? Kalidurga Mar 2015 #1

She probably pulled that number out of thin air. subterranean Mar 2015 #2

She pulled this turd out of where all the con liars's pull "facts" out of..... Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #14

Or out of... 3catwoman3 Mar 2015 #38

It's the new Repuke math Politicalboi Mar 2015 #3

Whether or not the numbers are incomplete that is how unemployment has been measured "forever"... DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #5

Comparing apples to maple syrup...there is no end to the crazy train. Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #16

No, that's not true. hedda_foil Mar 2015 #31

she must be on drugs PowerToThePeople Mar 2015 #4

There is absolutely no way Canada's real unemployment is a nearly a quarter of ours... DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #7

your math is wrong PowerToThePeople Mar 2015 #10

How is my math wrong? DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #12

you are doing it backwards PowerToThePeople Mar 2015 #13

She said and I quote if we measured unemployment like Canada counts their unemployment rate DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #22

the 2008 recession PowerToThePeople Mar 2015 #25

show stats on that claim PowerToThePeople Mar 2015 #18

Productivity growth is around two, two and one half percent or so. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #24

productivity PowerToThePeople Mar 2015 #27

You have to look at it year by year: DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #29

no, because your chart obscures compound effects PowerToThePeople Mar 2015 #32

She's sort of right unrepentant progress Mar 2015 #6

Canada's official unemployment rate doesn't include "passive" job seekers but it does.. Spazito Mar 2015 #26

Okay then, what was the employment under Bush? brooklynite Mar 2015 #8

Maybe it is because Canada has a national health insurance. I doubt Canada wants Thinkingabout Mar 2015 #9

Well! TlalocW Mar 2015 #11

Maybe she doesn't move here because ... NanceGreggs Mar 2015 #17

Conservative book clubs buy up her books. It's a scam. Agnosticsherbet Mar 2015 #30

I know. NanceGreggs Mar 2015 #37

That was the first thing that came to her mind after she ordered a Canadian bacon pizza. Major Hogwash Mar 2015 #15

LOL, she was sure Canada fought in Vietnam too.. Spazito Mar 2015 #19

That was the first thing I thought of, too. :) nt pinboy3niner Mar 2015 #35

She was in the Arts school MannyGoldstein Mar 2015 #20

Ahh, take off, eh?! JHB Mar 2015 #21

Yes and when Bush was president it would have been 38% Doctor_J Mar 2015 #23

I get it...If you stop looking you are no longer counted. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #28

Did you mean to call her a man's name? n/t tammywammy Mar 2015 #36

For anyone wanting to slice and dice it, there are six measurements from the Dept of Labor's bureau stevenleser Mar 2015 #33

rec PowerToThePeople Mar 2015 #34

I would be interested to see how many jobs are part time, and how much jobs are paying, djean111 Mar 2015 #39