{"id":2223,"date":"2010-09-09T21:35:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T21:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2010-09-09T21:35:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T21:35:05","slug":"how_much_is_two_plus_two_whate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2223","title":{"rendered":"How Much Is Two Plus Two?  Whatever I Want It To Be!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In reporting on the unemployment figures released for last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-09-09\/jobless-claims-in-u-s-decreased-27-000-to-451-000-last-week.html\">Bloomberg.com<\/a>&nbsp;reported today that:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;For the latest reporting week, nine states didn&#8217;t file claims data to the Labor Department in Washington because of the federal holiday earlier this week, a Labor Department official told reporters. As a result, California and Virginia estimated their figures and the U.S. government estimated the other seven, the official said.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So the statement that <em>&#8220;applications for U.S. unemployment benefits declined more than forecast last week, easing concern that employers will accelerate firings as the world&#8217;s largest economy cools&#8221;<\/em> is based on guesswork.&nbsp; The real numbers are not in play.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Two questions.&nbsp; Will the real numbers ever be published?&nbsp; Why publish anything if you don&#8217;t have reliable information?&nbsp; I am truly amazed at this report.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reporting on the unemployment figures released for last week, Bloomberg.com&nbsp;reported today that: &#8220;For the latest reporting week, nine states didn&#8217;t file claims data to the Labor Department in Washington because of the federal holiday earlier this week, a Labor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2223\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}