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Weisbergkevin

(39 posts)
Tue Feb 14, 2012, 01:51 PM Feb 2012

Romney uses regular unemployment numbers when referring to his Massachusset years...

Mitt Romney uses a variant of the unemployment rate, when referring to the national statistics during the Obama administration. Unemployment is 15% when used in this manner, instead of 8.3% if used according to the regular measurement.

But Factcheck.org reports that Romney is a hypocrite, who uses the REGULAR rate, which sounds smaller than the variant, when bragging about the numbers during his tenure as Massachussets Governor. So he's not only a flip flopper but a slick hypocrite. Mitt Romney makes me want to puke:

The quote: "We should note that Romney has often boasted of the unemployment rate when he was governor of Massachusetts. Whenever he cites that number, it has always been the U-3 figure, never the U-6 that he recently called the “real unemployment rate.”

http://factcheck.org/2012/02/whats-the-real-jobless-rate/

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