TenuredVulture wrote:

td11 wrote:also i thought my "10 trillion" would really give away the fact that i was being sarcastic and tacitly conceding that i understand it's still not a "great" jobs report

i will say that i appreciate conservatives harping on all the negatives of these monthly reports because it has forced me to read about the difference between the 10 trillion different unemployment rate calculations

Don't worry. The Republicans are going to pass a law that will stop the government from collecting and disseminating this information. Because ignorance is fun.

Werthless wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:

td11 wrote:also i thought my "10 trillion" would really give away the fact that i was being sarcastic and tacitly conceding that i understand it's still not a "great" jobs report

i will say that i appreciate conservatives harping on all the negatives of these monthly reports because it has forced me to read about the difference between the 10 trillion different unemployment rate calculations

Don't worry. The Republicans are going to pass a law that will stop the government from collecting and disseminating this information. Because ignorance is fun.

Because the only way to acquire accurate information is for the government to collect it.

TenuredVulture wrote:To find the headline, in really big letters, go to http://www.huffingtonpost.com
It's right at the top.

Also, it comes with this cheery picture:

Also, if the government doesn't collect the data and give it out for free, who will? I mean I guess we could use a model like Standard and Poor rates creditworthiness, because that works really well. Or the way they set LIBOR. That's a good model too. Maybe we could just subcontract it all to paddypower.

mozartpc27 wrote:Even if they would distribute it for free, would we the people really want to turn over the responsibility for collecting and managing that kind of data to private interests (not to mention the authority to compel response)?

These libertarians man, Jesus Christ. I can't wait for them to go live in their Wal-Mart funded paradise.

Werthless wrote:[While some supporters of this bill may well prefer to live in ignorance, I'd imagine that a large number of private companies would rush to become the market leader in this type of data.

Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes against targets inside Syria on Friday, U.S. officials told NBC News.

It’s believed the primary target was a shipment of weapons headed for Hezbollah in Lebanon, they said. A senior U.S. official said the airstrikes were believed to be related to delivery systems for chemical weapons.

pacino wrote:8 soldiers dead in Iraq today, two from an insider attack. Why are we still there?

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