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Jan. 17, 2016
Look again, you hear these phony jobs numbers? People that gave up looking for jobs? They are considered employed.
Feb. 9, 2016
Don't believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 and 5 percent unemployment. As high as 35 as in fact, I heard recently, 42 percent.
March 12, 2016
The numbers are phony. These are all phony numbers. Numbers given to politicians to look good. These are phony numbers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/10/19-times-trump-called-the-jobs-numbers-fake-before-they-made-him-look-good/?utm_term=.21f19eca1d2f
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May 24, 2016
You hear a 5 percent unemployment rate. It's such a phony number. That number was put in for presidents and for politicians so that they look good to the people.
July 7, 2016
The phony 5 percent numbers that we hear about with the unemployment.
Aug. 8, 2016
The 5 percent figure is one of the biggest hoaxes in modern politics.
Nov. 4, 2016
The terrible jobs report that just came out
you can see phony numbers, 5 percent.
Dec. 8, 2016
The unemployment number, as you know, is totally fiction.
Make7
(8,543 posts)moondust
(20,006 posts)so can I, by God!"
Suddenly everything is looking rosy! As if by magic!
malaise
(269,157 posts)he's quoting them these days.