moneytalks

As of right now the government is trying to tell us that the unemployment rate is right around 6.1%. I look around and see the amount of people not working that I personally know and feel like this number is extremely deflated. Here in the United States we only count those who are receiving unemployment checks, as people who are unemployed. Does this make any sense? We have people who run out of time and no longer receive the checks and people who never qualified for unemployment for whatever reason. I’m not saying that everyone who is not working should be counted as “unemployed” because indeed there are wealthy people, retired people, stay at home people and so on. But there needs to be a better way of coming up with this stat because we are not seeing the real picture here. Not to mention that those who work a day or two of day labor are considered amongst the gainfully employed as well. We have a crisis on our hands and the government is lying to us by using misleading numbers. All we have to do is look at the local news and see the amounts of jobs that are being cut to see what is really going on. We are probably nearing great depression like numbers and may soon be seeing great depression like consequences.

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