Fuzzy logic is a positivist official's greatest pal: you can have it seem your degree, with epigenetic and bureaucratic excellence, has caused unemployment to stop growing even though its rating didn't go down...all because you and your nationalized (er, bailed-out on permanent basis or otherwise cravenly admiring you) echo chamber SAYS so!

This is done all the time, on the precept peoples' attention spans are so dissociative (er, short), and they've so many celbrity/gossipy/sporty distractions while not eduacted to grasp contexts to boot, they'll miss things like even though the August 2010 unemployment rate remained unchanged from the July 2010 unemployment rate, it involved a lot of folks exhausting their last extensions in the weeks before Congress (let alone Obama) renewed them to November 6 or they otherwise not getting UI or a job, with new people added to initial claims. 

 

If government would just not renew unemployment benefits again past the election (er, November 6), imagine how that could literally zero out the unemployment rate by Thanksgiving! Even if a bunch of new State or local workers were then no longer "necessary" themselves after NEW budget cuts based on reductions to those served! Just like now, when a strawman stock market swoons on news of a baloney August unemployment report as gold RISES to about $1,253 an ounce...no hot air there, huh?

 

This is how folks like the Soviet Union, China, State Islam, and Fidel Castro have been constantly "not seeing increases to State burdens" for fifty or more years, and even Scalia and Kagan urge us to adopt foreign governance protocols in the name of peace, prosperty,security, political correctness.

 

That said, I'll go back to trying to figure how in the heck little town jails are recently brimming to capacity without news reports of mass terror/deportation/criminal activity (e.g., Springfield, Oregon jail, Springfield being the size of about fifteen square miles as at http://www.ci.springfield.or.us/stats.htm, now has 1,000 inmates as at http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/updates/25254165-46/jail-springfield-court-smith-booked.csp ...nobody could have had THAT many hardcore felons in such a tiny burg and not used National Guard/Federal/State police or or a possee to clean it up).