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4. You mean like this?

Reply to doc03 (Reply #3)

Sat Jul 6, 2019, 05:00 PM

Jul 2019

"Not a real recovery, phony numbers" 9/7/12
"We can rev up this economy like it should be, not with false numbers" 8/11/13
"... totally phony number." 5/31/14
"Nobody has jobs ... it is not a real economy. It is a phony set of numbers." 10/11/15
"The terrible jobs report that just came out... phony numbers" 11/4/16

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I can also dig up where he claimed there were 94 million jobless Americans and that the real unemployment rate is around 40% (100% minus Labor Force Participation Rate at the time).

Well, it's now 96,057,000 jobless Americans (it was 94,389,000 in the inaugural month of January 2017)
Not In Labor Force http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS15000000
(Age 16 and above, including centenarians)

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In its 29 months, the Trump economy has created 810,000 FEWER jobs than Obama's last 29 months [View all] progree Jul 2019 OP

To hear the Trumkpsters talk there wasn't ever a job made under doc03 Jul 2019 #1

Yup. Although I thoroughly checked all the number with the official BLS statistics progree Jul 2019 #2

Remember those numbers were fake under Obama, the un-employment was doc03 Jul 2019 #3

You mean like this? progree Jul 2019 #4

Wow he said 40% and 40% of America beleived it. doc03 Jul 2019 #5

25%? LOL. I remember them trying to tell me it was over 70%. Downtown Hound Jul 2019 #7

Trump shouldn't get any credit for any jobs created in 2017. moose65 Jul 2019 #6

I'm all for a one year lag too -- besides for the reasons you say, that would help Obama's record progree Jul 2019 #9

How many of tRumpys 5.6million jobs are/were second or third jobs for the individual NoMoreRepugs Jul 2019 #8

Thank you - I was able JustAnotherGen Jul 2019 #10

Thanks for letting me know :-) I'm glad to hear n/t. progree Jul 2019 #11