Obama Administration Unemployment Stats fudged 5.8%?

I downloaded and crunched the numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for a look at the years of  2007 to 2012 thus far (ending August as of this post).  What I found was that the Obama Administration is hiding the actual unemployment rate of 13.9%  (margin of error +/- .1%, that’s one-tenth of one percent) for August 2012, while fudging / lying that it is at 8.1%.  

To get this number of a 13.9% Unemployment Rate, I use the stats of what equals a .1% increase and a 1% increase in the Unemployment numbers issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in 2006, 2007, 2008 and apply it equally to the Obama Administration.  

In March 2009 the Not in Labor Force number was 81,358,000

In August 2012 the Not in Labor Force was 88,311,000 

This is an additional removal of 6,953,000 from the labor force.

These numbers are what Obama lost the United States in jobs thus far by his anti-business practices and policies, and the addition or reduction of jobs in the monthly unemployment numbers are already part of this calculation.  

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey

Series Id:           LNU05000000 Not Seasonally Adjusted Series title:        (Unadj) Not in Labor Force Labor force status:  Not in labor force Type of data:        Number in thousands Age:                 16 years and over Top of Form Download:  Bottom of Form
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual
2002	73278	72397	72490	72848	72671	71468	71441	72300	72940	73019	73695	73934	72707
2003	74596	74421	74516	74615	74701	72897	73430	74540	75612	75252	75310	76007	74658
2004	76093	76203	76025	76497	76308	74718	74204	75511	76755	76214	76176	76763	75956
2005	77712	77392	77492	77167	76792	75584	75031	75952	76855	76655	76964	77550	76762
2006	78463	78077	77948	77990	77732	76114	75704	76702	77785	77278	77315	77537	77387
2007	78726	78955	78798	79423	79130	77460	77087	78717	79061	79200	78904	79451	78743
2008	79788	80306	79860	79990	79402	78045	77564	78719	79851	79601	80204	80686	79501
2009	81293	81109	81358	81437	81116	79734	79614	81190	82706	82915	83204	84231	81659
2010	83876	83804	83499	83418	83633	82923	82620	83421	84468	84878	85017	85733	83941
2011	86168	86216	85977	86248	85864	84951	84859	85528	86049	86181	86757	87212	86001
2012	88784	88322	88288	88879	87968	86770	86828	88311

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 Year ....Unemployment Rate....Not in Labor Force

2006. . . . . . . . . 4.6%....................77,387

2007. . . . . . . . . 4.6%....................78,743

2008. . . . . .. .  5.8%......................79,501

2009. . . . . . . . 9.3%.....................81,659

2010. . .. . ...  9.6%.....................83,941

2011. . . . . .. 8.9%......................86,001

United States Unemployment Actual percentages using the BLS own reports:

In 2009  - the reported average national unemployment rate was  9.3%

-         The actual average unemployment rate for the year was 9.3%

In 2010 – the Unemployment rate was mis-reported or fudged by the Obama Administration.

-         The reported average national unemployment rate was 9.6%

-         The actual average unemployment rate for  2010 was 10.9%

-         That’s a purposeful misreporting or falsified increase of 1.3% in the national unemployment rate for Obama’s political benefit.

In 2011 -  The reported average national unemployment rate was 8.9%

-         This decrease to the affirmative of .7% was done despite an unmistakable, and still reported  continual increase in the national unemployed by millions more.

-         The actual average unemployment rate for 2011 was 12.2%

As of August 2012,

 the reported average national unemployment rate was 8.1%

-         The actual average national unemployment rate as of August 2012 is 13.9%

These 13.9% are fully unemployed: the rate calculated by using the numbers of actual unemployed, and the same Unemployment Metric used formerly by the BLS in their own Unemployment statistics in 2007, 2008, 2009.  Increases in the number of unemployed does not decrease the unemployment rate in any legal or theoretical sense, except under Obama. 

The national number of unemployed that should be cited isn’t 24,000,000 as Clint Eastwood quoted recently at the Republican National Convention – it’s actually MUCH WORSE, at about 33,000,000. 

I encourage Certified Public Accountants and others interested in this topic to do their own research.  


[[[[[ Update: A Commercial was put out that shows the possible high end unemployment could be near 19%.   That is following the unadjusted metric for regular unemployed. If we were to have the under-employed added to the unadjusted metric,  we would be dealing with another variable that puts this nation well past an unadjusted 29% un and under-employment Depression threshold figure, not 19%. 

 It does not appear that we can as accurately account for who considers themselves as under-employed without perhaps using that statistical question as part of each Congressional voting cycle, or applying it to those increased on Food Stamps and Welfare.  Such a nightmarish figure can easily place us in or quite near the 40% range if we included those, and is so much worse than the commercial takes into account, we would be hard pressed to accept the figure, even though genuine.   Even I do not want to go there with such disparaging specifics until we have someone and some Administration looking to help America get back to work with deeds over rhetoric.




end of update ----09/20/2012]]]]]