Attention people who work with the Kerry campaign

[NNN0LHI]

On all the cable news channels I keep hearing over and over that 400,000 unemployed people "have quit looking for work" since the latest jobs report came out. As though these 400,000 people all of a sudden got lazy and don't want to work any more.

This is an outright lie the media keeps repeating over and over again. These peoples unemployment insurance has run out. They have not quit looking for work. Kerry needs to clarify this ASAP before this lie becomes truth. He has the megaphone right now and this is not the kind of lie that is good to have repeated every five minutes by the media without someone calling them on it now.

Just a press release should do the trick. I realize that Kerry has a lot on his plate right now but this is very important. This needs to be said. Thanks for listening.

Don

[osaMABUSh]

1. It'll also point the sham of the 5.6% unemployment rate

What the hell is everyone thinking about the unemployed? Oh, my UC ran out so fuck it I don't need any money anyway?

[gristy]

2. Good point.

But are you sure? What you are saying is that the gov't simply defines someone whose unemployment insurance has run out but still isn't working as having stopped looking for work. That is such a stretch that I wonder if it can be true.

[NNN0LHI]

3. I was talking about the media. Not the government n/t

[silver state d]

4. I listen to NPR so.................

I have never heard it spun that way. My impression was that people who give up are despondent because there are no job to be had. The implication is that the "out sourcing" of jobs is leading to a permanent economic disenfranchisement and that this particular stat is one of the most damning indictments of the W era of mis leadership. But maybe thats just the voice in my head talking.:nuke:

[Crachet2004]

5. It wouldn't hurt if Kerry or a representative

took a few minutes to point out to the public what a phony misconception this (5.6) number conveys...

Point out at the same time the reason Bush won't pass an extension, is because some of the ones who aren't being counted now, would go back into the statistic...5.6 would be at least 5.8.

Cynical, huh?

Yeah, the GOP is just like that.