The LAT and others have been arguing that we're in recession even if the statistics don't show it, at one point even suggesting we might be in a depression like the great one in the Thirties. They've been saying that the unemployment rate, which has been under 5 percent, doesn't reflect the bleak employment picture. Finally, on Friday they got what they wanted -- a half-point jump to 5.5 percent. Now the unemployment rate is important to them because it proves their point: the economy is in trouble and only a Democrat president and Congress can revive it.
The selective use of statistics to prove whatever you want to prove is fraudulent and the people who do it are frauds.
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