Comments on: Quote Of The Day http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/11/01/quote-of-the-day-91/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:42:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: HispanicPundit http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/11/01/quote-of-the-day-91/#comment-73490 HispanicPundit Sat, 05 Nov 2005 18:23:12 +0000 http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/11/01/quote-of-the-day-91/#comment-73490 Or in France, they let them run in the streets burning everything...I kid, I kid. Thanks for the link. Or in France, they let them run in the streets burning everything…I kid, I kid. Thanks for the link.

]]> By: Social Democracy Now http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/11/01/quote-of-the-day-91/#comment-73453 Social Democracy Now Sat, 05 Nov 2005 09:16:36 +0000 http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/11/01/quote-of-the-day-91/#comment-73453 'In France, for instance, the unemployment figures do not include about 1.2 million people who ... are paid a minimum income by the state. In every country run on the “European social model”, the public sector is stuffed with make-work jobs whose sole real purpose is to keep some hopeless young people off the streets.' Yes, and in the U.S. they put them in prison or in its gargantuan military - the only government make-work programme which is actually a danger to hundreds of millions of people all over the planet. The fool who is being quoted here obviously has no idea how unemployment statistics are effectively fabricated in every country that generates them. Official unemployment rates are all artificial creations reflecting whatever policies governments choose to use to keep them down to politically-tolerable levels. It is ludicrous to suggest that unemployment rates are only fabricated by such means in European countries. My own research suggests that the UK and the US are probably the worst offenders. Those seriously interested in this topic (not just interested in scoring cheap ideological points) might like to read the following interesting article as an introduction: http://www.radstats.org.uk/no079/webster.htm ‘In France, for instance, the unemployment figures do not include about 1.2 million people who … are paid a minimum income by the state. In every country run on the “European social model”, the public sector is stuffed with make-work jobs whose sole real purpose is to keep some hopeless young people off the streets.’

Yes, and in the U.S. they put them in prison or in its gargantuan military - the only government make-work programme which is actually a danger to hundreds of millions of people all over the planet.

The fool who is being quoted here obviously has no idea how unemployment statistics are effectively fabricated in every country that generates them. Official unemployment rates are all artificial creations reflecting whatever policies governments choose to use to keep them down to politically-tolerable levels. It is ludicrous to suggest that unemployment rates are only fabricated by such means in European countries. My own research suggests that the UK and the US are probably the worst offenders.

Those seriously interested in this topic (not just interested in scoring cheap ideological points) might like to read the following interesting article as an introduction:

http://www.radstats.org.uk/no079/webster.htm

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