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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

Calling the fire, police and military as "on the dole" is honest numbers?


At  11/9/2008 09:43 AM,bob ford wrote:
> What numbers are wrong, specifically?
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> --- On Sun, 11/9/08, Rob <becida AT comcast.net> wrote:
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> > From: Rob <becida AT comcast.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Homestead] Half of U.S. "on the dole"
> > To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Date: Sunday, November 9, 2008, 10:38 AM
> > At  11/9/2008 09:18 AM,Don  Bowen wrote:
> > >This is mostly a miss reading.  Maybe over half of the
> > population is taking
> > >government checks but look at the distribution of that
> > half.  You have not
> > >just welfare recipients but military, local police and
> > fire, government
> > >employees, etc.
> > >
> > >Don Bowen  KI6DIU
> >
> > Just spin, lot's of that going on these days. Much
> > better bad numbers
> > when you include the cop down the street and the fireman as
> > "on the dole". These days maybe you should
> > include half of the Wall
> > Street bankers?
> >
> > It's really hard to have a useful discussion on
> > anything when you
> > start out with distorted numbers, that is a sign of the
> > times for our
> > society these days.
> >
> >
> >
> > Rob
> > becida AT comcast.net
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