The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the US Department of Labor reported that
nonfarm payrolls fell by a whopping 533,000 jobs in November, and the official
government-approved unemployment rate rose from 6.5% to 6.7%.
There is more New Bad News (NBN) contained in November's drop in payroll
employment because, "Job losses were large and widespread across the major
industry sectors in November."
The New Bad News (NBN) to me personally is that this means that if I get fired
again, then another job will be that much harder to find, especially since my
job skills are apparently substandard, as I father from my current boss being
sure that she can train a
monkey to do my job and, as she said, "It will probably have better personal
hygiene, too!"
Since experience has shown that I am not a "people person", service industry
jobs are especially difficult for me, and there always comes a time when I
finally snap and I say, in a voice that gets louder and louder until I am
shrieking, "I'm not going to ask if you want fries with that! You shouldn't
have any fries, because you are another big fat pig who spent all your money on
fatty foods and sugared drinks instead of putting some money into gold and
silver to protect yourself from the debasement of the purchasing power of the
money thanks to the Federal Reserve creating so damned much money and credit to
fuel doomed booms and a cancerous growth of government! And yet you want to
talk to me about how you want some stupid fried potatoes, you moron? Hahahaha!"
Anyway, the report does not actually mention me by name or even wish me good
luck in getting another job, but farther down in the report we find that "Total
Unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed part time
for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all
marginally attached workers" zoomed to 12.5%! It's worse than I thought!
Personally, I am not sure how to interpret this exactly, but I know two things.
For one, unemployment figures have never been this bad, as far as I know
without doing any research of any kind; and secondly, the laughable CES
Birth-Death Model figured that, perhaps by magic, 30,000 new jobs were created
in November! Hahaha!
Part of the explanation could be that, as John Crudele of the NY Post explains,
"Right now, the unemployment rate would be more than twice as bad if you go
back to the way this figure used to be calculated" back in 1994 when "the
Clinton White House decided that the unemployment rate needed to be
modernized".
And one of the things they did was decide that from now on, "anyone who had
been out of work for at least a year was no longer counted as unemployed - they
were just too lazy and discouraged to find work"! Hahaha!
Oddly enough, there is no statistical offset for people like me, who are the
nation's over-employed, which is to say we are chronically lazy, worthless and
undependable louts who SHOULD be unemployed, but who actually have jobs!
The news media is happily parroting the official government pronouncements and
those of its minions while ignoring my tragic story of love lost, and so they
all join together to report that unemployment is 6.7%, while just up the
street, the McKinsey Global Institute says that it estimates that the
unemployment rate in the United States is actually 16.25%, and here's John
Williams at shadowstats.com putting it at 16.5%!
So it looks like a lot of people are getting fired, but on the other hand,
government payrolls went up again, for the zillionth month in a row, this time
by another 7,000 workers, bringing the total to a staggering 22.5 million
government workers out of a total 144.2 million official jobs in the whole
freaking country, which of course does not count the number of new prostitutes
and professional thieves that have sprung up in response to financial
devastation. So maybe the 30,000 new jobs assumed in the CES Birth-Death Model
in actually pretty close! Hahaha!
Welcome to the hell of inflation!
Richard Daughty is general partner and COO for Smith Consultant Group,
serving the financial and medical communities, and the editor of The Mogambo
Guru economic newsletter - an avocational exercise to heap disrespect on those
who desperately deserve it.
(Republished with permission from
The Daily Reckoning. Copyright 2008, The Daily Reckoning.)
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