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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3468840" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>"The lies employed to camouflage the economic decline are legion. President Ronald Reagan included 1.5 million U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine service personnel with the civilian work force to magically reduce the nation’s unemployment rate by 2 percent. President Bill Clinton decided that those who had given up looking for work, or those who wanted full-time jobs but could only find part-time employment, were no longer to be counted as unemployed. This trick disappeared some 5 million unemployed from the official unemployment rolls. If you work more than 21 hours a week — most low-wage workers at places like Wal-Mart average 28 hours a week — you are counted as employed, although your real wages put you below the poverty line." - chris hedges</p></blockquote><p></p>