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Liberal Doublethink – Jobs

<p><strong>dou&middot&semi;ble&middot&semi;think<&sol;strong> <em>dəbəlˌTHiNGk&sol; noun<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; <em><strong>the acceptance of or mental capacity to accept contrary opinions or beliefs at the same time&comma; especially as a result of political indoctrination&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The latest unemployment statistics show a 4&period;9&percnt; rate&period; Looks good&comma; but we are not supposed to think so&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Why is Hillary talking so much about jobs&quest; &nbsp&semi;In the past&comma; &&num;8220&semi;full employment&&num;8221&semi; meaning that everyone who wants to be employed&comma; is employed&comma; has been between 3 to 5&period;5&percnt; depending on which economist you ask&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And yet Hillary&&num;8217&semi;s perception is that people are still hurting for jobs&period; Why is that&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Despite the Obama Administration&&num;8217&semi;s declarations that the economy has recovered&comma; perhaps we still have some issues here&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For example&comma; if you look a the percentage of the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;data&period;bls&period;gov&sol;timeseries&sol;LNS12300000" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>total U&period;S&period; population who are working<&sol;strong><&sol;a> you&&num;8217&semi;ll find in 2008 it was 63&percnt;&comma; now it is only 59&period;7&percnt;&period; If you look at the low in 2009 of 58&period;6&percnt;&comma; you see from this perspective we have only recovered a third of the way back&period; In other words we are still in a depression&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Why does the unemployment rate look to be only 4&period;9&percnt;&quest; Because so many people have dropped out of the work force&period; They are not counted any more&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A contributing factor is an exceedingly low GDP grow rate&period; Obama may be the first President in history to never have a GDP growth rate over 3&percnt;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&&num;8211&semi; Hillary expects you to accept that the economy is doing great because her former boss&comma; Obama&comma; is the best&comma; and she will give you more of the same&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&&num;8211&semi; But Hillary also expects you to accept that jobs are desperately needed and she is the only one to get them for you&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Are you willing to accept both of these position&quest; Can you keep them both in your head at the same time and agree with them both&quest; That&&num;8217&semi;s <em><strong>doublethink&excl; <&sol;strong><&sol;em>Welcome to Orwell&&num;8217&semi;s <em><strong>1984<&sol;strong><&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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