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Romney Will Zero Out Unemployment By Ending Unemployment Insurance -----
because then you won't have to count something that no longer exists. The unemployment rate would be unknown or zero.
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Romney Will Zero Out Unemployment By Ending Unemployment Insurance ----- (Original Post)
TheMastersNemesis
Oct 2012
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russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)1. Genius I tells ya, Genius !
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)2. "We don't do body counts"
Same philosophy, different targets
jsr
(7,712 posts)3. I wouldn't put it past him.
DinahMoeHum
(21,806 posts)4. Twice the jobs at half the pay.
Igel
(35,350 posts)5. Perhaps.
If unemployment insurance had anything at all to do with how they count the unemployed or measure unemployment.
One thing it would do is compel people to take jobs that are a big step backwards on the economic ladder.