I am shocked.
SHOCKED I SAY!!!

This won't make a segment of DU happy.

Parkman completely destroys this right-winger's, and BTW, frequently DU argued, "the LPR proves the Administration is playing with the U/E numbers to hide the FACT that the economy is far worse off than we are being lead to believe", point.

six months. If during that time period, let's say you get paid to do a job not your normal chemist job, and someone gives you a check, unemployment benefits will count that as money earned and deduct if from your weekly unemployment check.

is his claim that he has any sort of intelligence.

He has a nearly 50-year-old BA in Econ from a university with no college of economics. Since then, he's sold securities and hosted a radio talk show.

Pakman's bright as hell and, I suspect, pretty sly. He exposed this charlatan by providing due deference and allowing his guest to reveal an astonishing ignorance of the mechanisms for determining employment.

Maybe this will help influence the DUers who, perhaps unwittingly, express the same repudiation of official UE stats - based on "hunches" and/or contrived data manipulation.

He seemed dumbfounded that Packman knew the subject.
But that is why you this guy needs to spend more time around intelligent people...and he may learn he is not as smart as he thinks he is.

Pakman did a great job

This popular OP was debunked:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023385470

But after that it still had support:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023388327

Fiction overcomes fact, belief wins out repeatedly. Because that's what it is, repeating a lie until it becomes true.