16 Feb 2016 5:00 pm
I see he's sticking to his lies. Not surprised. GB will hang on to his lies like a dog on a bone.onlyaladd » 16 Feb 2016 4:42 pm » wrote: Except he lied and called it "the real unemployment" to slip one past the fox crowd and get them fired up. I've explained this.
The Donald has actually been saying this since last September, when the unemployment rate was 5.1%.
And yes he was talking about the official unemployment rate. The figure issued by the BLS which counts people that are willing to work and actively seeking employment.
Not the amount of people in the country who don't work and are not seeking work.
I guess GB didn't bother to read what I posted before he started bloviating.
During the televised press conference in which he announced his tax plan, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump returned to a claim he has made before -- that the official unemployment rate -- currently 5.1 percent -- woefully undercounts the percentage of people who are unemployed.
During the Sept. 28, 2015, media event, Trump described an unemployment rate in the range of 5 percent as "such a phony number."
"The number isn't reflective," he said. "I've seen numbers of 24 percent -- I actually saw a number of 42 percent unemployment. Forty-two percent." He continued, "5.3 percent unemployment -- that is the biggest joke there is in this country. … The unemployment rate is probably 20 percent, but I will tell you, you have some great economists that will tell you it's a 30, 32. And the highest I've heard so far is 42 percent."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter ... e-42-perc/
The official U.S. unemployment rate is 5.1% the lowest in seven years, but Donald Trump calls that a "joke."
On Monday, he claimed he'd seen numbers that show America's real unemployment rate is as high as 42%.
Donald Trump's wild claim: Unemployment is 42%
Donald Trump Says the “Real” Unemployment Rate Is 42 Percent"Don't believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 and 5% unemployment. The number's probably 28%, 29%, as high as 35%, in fact, I even heard recently 42%," Trump stated.
Trump: Don't Believe Unemployment Is 5%, As High As 35, 42%