The Quest for the True Number

Wherein Wing-Admiral Eno gets cross-examined by some lowly ensign or J.G. [1] over to the WhightGuard Officers Mess

WHAT ABOUT THE CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE? In one of your previous posts you indicated that this is the real number that we should be worried about. Where do we rank against other states with that number? (...) by: Patrick @ Thu Mar 15, 2012 at 03:50:31 AM UTC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOT SURE ON 2011 NUMBERS PATRICK But from November of 2008 to December of 2011 we were 39th in growth of the civilian labor force. I said it was A number, not THE number. I actually agree with [Comrade Housing Commissar G. P.] Bialecki [’82, J.D. ’85], the number of jobs is the true number we should all be looking at. by: Rob "EaBo Clipper" Eno @ Thu Mar 15, 2012 at 10:14:44 AM UTC

The comrade commisar’s remarks were addressed to WhightGuard GHQ directly, see over here. The following paragraph was then requoted by the good admiral:

We think the better measure of our success is the employment data: is our economy adding jobs? We think a lower unemployment rate is not necessarily the best measure of economic success. The unemployment rate may go down because people stop looking for work or retire or because people leave the state (this has been a problem for Massachusetts). We obviously do want the unemployment rate to go down (as it has been doing), but we believe that if our economy keeps adding jobs, then it will do so.

The last bit bears a distressing resemblence to that ever-immortal Bartlettism, "When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results" [2]. Oh, well, ’tis not as if the comrade commissar possess an M.B.A. from the H*rv*rd Victory School to be unworthy of.

Happy days.

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[1] Paddy McTammany finds it amusing to daydream that this ‘Patrick’ person *could* the Comrade Governor of us all, who has, unlike poor timorous Paddy, braved the barbed-wire entanglements thrown up around Forward Base Redstate:

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(( One of my favorite passages, that one is, especially taken as affording insight into How THEY Think. ))

If it really is His Excellency, I trust he understands, in conjunction with "libelous statements," that They can say what They like about him, _quâ_ public figure, not necessarily vice versa.

But, no, that's silly: ¿how should His Excellency *not* know libel law, him being a ’78, J.D. ’82?

[2] Calvin XXX Coolidge, supposedly Of course this is the sort of sticks-in-your-craw soundbark that easily gets fobbed off at random on Prince Bismarck, or Dorothy Parker, or M. de Talleyrand-Périgord, or Comrade Will Rogers, or . . . .