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Offline Holden McGroin

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Political Rhetoric Quiz:
« on: February 24, 2004, 01:53:46 PM »
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(Quote 1) Total employment was essentially unchanged at 135.999 million, seasonally adjusted, in January.

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(Quote 2) Employment rose in January to a total employment of 138.566 million the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today.


Which quote is 2001, and which is 2004?  Keep in mind that common political rhetoric of today says, ”George W Bush will be the first president since Herbert Hoover to preside over a term with a net job loss.”
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« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2004, 03:14:36 PM »
So that means I lost my job at 6:30am on Jan 15th, but I gained it back on 6:00am on Jan 15th?

What kind of messed up system is this?

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« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2004, 03:19:58 PM »
i lost my job when clinton was prez.

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« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2004, 05:01:45 PM »
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Originally posted by Polaroid
So that means I lost my job at 6:30am on Jan 15th, but I gained it back on 6:00am on Jan 15th?

What kind of messed up system is this?


How did you decipher this?  I am confused about your confusion.

Holden posted that 136 million worked in one January, and 136.5 million worked in another January.

How do you get Jan 15 at 0630 out of that?

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« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2004, 06:04:50 PM »
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How did you decipher this?  I am confused about your confusion.

Holden posted that 136 million worked in one January, and 136.5 million worked in another January.

How do you get Jan 15 at 0630 out of that?


How I dechphered it is as follows...

There are Sixty thousand things can that go wrong with taxes by just picking up a pencil. So I took that and divided it by the time of my old work start on each day. Then I multiplied it by the ammount of times I have thought about sex today and came up with the figure 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. So I took this and broke it down using this formula X=C*S{y/z*g-f*r/e}/j and it broke down to the round sum of 4320. This Broken down equals 630 or 6:30 in time incraments.... Wait what were we talking about again?