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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOK, DUers. I'm betting that you can spot the gross dishonesty in the following
excerpt from a Mort Zuckerman piece.
But they're there still, in the many millions across the country—little changed in their total since the 1930s: 12.3 million today are fully unemployed, compared to 12.8 million in 1933 at the depth of the depression. The difference is that now they're invisible, because we've organized relief differently. In our "recovery," the millions are being assisted, out of sight, by the government, through unemployment checks, Social Security disability checks, and food stamps. More than 47 million Americans are in the food stamp program, some 15 percent of the total population, compared with the 7.9 percent participation in food stamps from 1970 to 2000.
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http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2013/02/28/mort-zuckerman-the-jobs-picture-is-far-worse-than-it-looks
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geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Can you point it out?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)to 12.8 million unemployed out of a population of 125 million in 1933?
cali
(114,904 posts)talk about fudging the numbers.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)the unemployed. Some serious right wing assholishness there.
Behind the Aegis
(53,956 posts)12.3 million unemployed today with a total US population of 313.85 million in July 2012, compared to 12.8 million unemployed with a total population of 125.58 million in July 1933. Yeah, the numbers are oh so close. 
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)Coming off of the great LBJ era, times were great, as was 1992-2000 the years in the second sleight of hand analogy from Zucky.
The most obvious is the difference in population between 1933 and 2013.
but the second sleight is using the great prosperity period thanks to LBJ/ending in the end of Clinton's great 2 terms
and it totally leaves out the devastation caused by 9-11 and the bankrupting of America by George W. Bush
except for those tidy facts...
(also not to forget-Bush used messed up fuzzy numbers that made zero sense, so the totals from the Bush years(unemployment, all that) are most likely 6 to 10% higher would be my guestimate.If only those numbers had been accurate, it would be far easier to see what a great job President Obama has done in just a few short years with a hostile house.