The March of Lies

[garbon]

The official number they are forced to report to the relevant EU authority on the subject is around 8% but that's still fudged.

Yeah, you've made a really good case for that.

[Slargos]

The official number they are forced to report to the relevant EU authority on the subject is around 8% but that's still fudged.

Yeah, you've made a really good case for that.

No, I just realized after my initial burst of outrage that any effort in detailing the situation is wasted here.

[The Brain]

Why do you get upset, Slarg?

[Crazy_Ivan80]

I know an awful lot of 16 year olds through to college-aged without jobs, too. You want to count that in your unemployment numbers with your stay-at-home parents? What about the early retirees?

heh, those have a different number where they're accounted in.
iirc, it's called something like total employment-rate which basically measures the amount of people of working age that have a payed job.

[The Brain]

I yell at unemployed people.

[Malthus]

I would have thought that the important thing was to have a definition that was consistently applied between countries and across time periods, for comparison purposes. Whether "unemployment" totals 18% or 5% is meaningless as an absolute figure. 

[Slargos]

I would have thought that the important thing was to have a definition that was consistently applied between countries and across time periods, for comparison purposes. Whether "unemployment" totals 18% or 5% is meaningless as an absolute figure.

Yes and no.

When 5% is touted as "we're doing fine, really, there's nothing to worry your pretty little heads about. Infact, we probably need a couple of hundred thousand more people to get to a healthy level of employment" it is a meaningful subject. 

Mostly though, it's the way that public discourse in this country has turned to lies and deception as a matter of course.

An attitude of "some white paint and spackle and no one will be the wiser!"