[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by RWilson2526

I think that's a little harsh.....

Contrary to what you may believe Destroyer, people other than yourself are informed. We all just don't choose to consider every bit of good news as a pack of lies and all the bad news as the evil villain Obama's fault. You're hatred of the guy is starting to blind you to all information contrary to your beliefs. They have been using the same formula to calculate unemployment rates for some time I believe. I agree the number is probably not accurate to say the least but it should be relative from month to month.....will you just take an inkling of possible good news and be happy for the country and go with it and not turn it into the grand conspiracy of lies.

Naaa.. not harsh... mild really from what I would have liked to say.

Ask yourself....Are you,...are you really informed? Or are you just parrotting what you've heard from the news? It's a given fact that most of the media is controled by ultra left wing interests. Fox is just one network against CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, and several others that I'm just too lazy to name... but you get the idea. And the left just hates it and has been doing everything that it can to get it off the air. Meanwhile, you're being spoon fed only those things that they want you to hear, and anything that goes against their agenda they either destroy, create lies about or simply don't report. When you hear the same lie, over and over, from several different sources, pretty soon you start to believe it as fact. It's called propaganda and it worked really well in Germany in the 30's and 40's. You're being subjected to it right this minute and you don't even realize it because you aren't listening to or hearing any other side. It's interesting how when you hear only one side of a subject how biased you become. (And please understand that when I say "you" I mean the "royal" you, meaning the entire American public, not just any one person here on the board)

As for me, I like to think of myself as a highly conservative Independant. I vote Democratic and Republican, depending on who I think is best for the job. I read the NY Times (left wing) and the Wall street Journal (right wing). I listen to NBC news (left wing) and Fox news (right wing) I consider the future of our country and of myself and my children to be far too important to trust any one source, or any one side of a subject. As to the subject at hand, (unemployment and how it's reported) unfortunately, the not counting people whose benefits have run out started with a Republican president. The present administration has just taken it to new heights of lying to the American public. They changed the formula a few months ago so it would look like unemployment has gotten better. It hasn't..it's as bad as it has been, and if anything it's getting worse. They're lying to you.

And really, I don't hate Obama. I even admire him. The way he's been able to fool the American public, his debating skills, his complete and almost total control of the media, his being able to blank out his childhood and any records that might prove who he really is or where he really came from is skillful to an extreme. You have to admire a guy like that. I think that he's absolutely the worse president that our Country has ever had, and I worry that we may never be able to undo the damage to our freedom(s) that he's caused, but I don't hate him. I'm not blind to what or who he is. After all, in order to destroy your enemy you have to know your enemy, and I intend to do everything in my power to help destroy him in the next election. So I need to know him. I read, and I listen, and I learn. That's all I'm asking of everyone else here. Listen, I mean really LISTEN to BOTH sides before you make any decision...I think that's fair, don't you?