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Jan. 12, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 12, 2012, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Did you see an abandoned baby was found, uh, ladies and gentlemen at Washington, D.C.'s occupied Tent City.
There's a lot going on out there, and I don't know if you heard about this or not.
Oh, geez.
Happy birthday to you.
You might want to kill the theme music so that the audience can hear what's going on.
Happy birthday, El Rospo.
Well, 62 you.
How old are you now?
What's that?
How old are you now?
61 years older than 61.
And you know what?
I've often said I've in my whole life.
I've always said I always want to be older.
15, always wanted to be older.
20, always wanted to be, because I knew that life is going to get better as I got older.
And I still haven't gotten to the point where I wish, gee, I wish I was younger.
I'm still looking forward to next year.
Still looking forward to getting older, even at 61.
And you know what?
What?
No, and that has nothing to do with Social Security.
Nothing I did, but here is this white trash cake.
White trash.
And that's an affectionate term when you're talking about cake.
Don't misunderstand.
So you only put two candles on it.
Six out of one.
We couldn't fit 61 candles on the cake.
All right.
Okay.
Well, uh normally this kind of stuff embarrasses me and bothers me.
You know, I the birthdays I've I've I've told the staff for 23 years, don't do it, and every year they do it.
So and now I'm not mad.
I'm not upset.
I am not embarrassed.
I guess I'm getting better at receiving.
So um I make a wish here.
Let me let me hold the cake up for those of you watching on the uh on the ditto cam.
This I better not drop this.
All right, there it is.
There's the cake for those of you to see, and for those of you in the media watching to be misquoted later.
There it where you going, Brian.
I'll be right back.
Is there a problem back in broadcast?
No.
Okay, so I'll make a quick wish here.
And then I will blow out the two candles.
And then Snerdley and Dawn, who are in here to get back to the uh gig.
Here we go.
Three, two, one.
Yeah!
Right on, right on right on.
Okay, take that into the uh kitchen and slice it up.
Okay, as I was, as I was saying here, uh, and by the thanks to everybody that sent me an email uh birthday greeting today.
Literally tens of thousands of them, and I can't possibly respond to all of them personally, but I I do appreciate it, I really do.
Now, an abandoned baby was found at the Washington, D.C. Occupy Tent City.
I didn't even know the Occupy Tent City was still going in Washington.
I've been so focused on other things, and now we find out that there was an abandoned baby found.
Well, I guess you forget, but I didn't know.
I had no clue that John Edwards was still involved or was involved at all of the Occupy movement.
But when you got an abandoned baby, you have to figure, well, maybe the Breck girl's involved somehow.
It's a 13-month-old baby girl been left alone for at least a half hour.
A uh a man said that he was her father was charged with attempted second degree cruelty to children.
Where do you get these charges?
Second degree attempted second degree cruelty to child.
How do you how do you do attempted cruelty?
You either are or you uh or you aren't.
I I would think that the biggest danger to the kid was the rat infestation that they always have in that park.
And I mean the real rats, not not just the occupied people.
Okay, here we go.
The unemployment news is out, and by the way, I don't know that you've seen any of this in the drive-by media.
I don't know on television if you've seen it.
Have you seen it, Snertley?
You seen any reports on the unemployment news?
Well, it's amazing here.
The number of Americans applying for first-time jobless benefits rose today, reversing a recent decline, suggesting the labor market remains brittle.
Unemployment claims jumped to 399,000 the first week of 2012, the highest in six weeks from an upwardly revised 375,000 the prior week, the four-week average of claims also marched higher to 381,000 from 374,000.
And if you read the story further, you find out that it was seasonal hiring.
Seasonal hiring that accounted for the latest generation of the economies turned a corner, the seasonal hiring in November and December that gave us all that wonderful unemployment news.
And the media never bothered to tell us.
I did, but the media never bothered to tell us it was seasonal employment taking place.
So somebody got fired.
Somebody has been fired.
Somebody got fired, and it wasn't Romney.
You know, Romney didn't fire him.
He'd like to, but he didn't.
So yeah, they got fine.
The Christmas season to boot.
So Obama won the future for about a month.
Except the fact is that Obama didn't win anything.
Because don't forget the polling data.
By two to one, people were asked, we have this earlier this week.
By two to one, people were asked, what's the greatest fear you have going into 2012?
By two to one people said Obama's re-election.
Somehow we got to get that news to the Republican Party.
Somehow we got to get that news to the leadership in the House and the Senate to the Republican National Committee.
They're the ones that don't think Obama can lose.
They're the ones that don't think Obama can be beat.
The American people are telling them every day we don't want any more of Obama.
We don't want Obamacare to be enacted.
We don't want all this spending.
We don't want all this debt and we don't want a president who doesn't like a country.
And our side doesn't want to admit what we're dealing with.
That's just the normal natural ebb and flow of politics, Rush.
The Democrats are going to win some and we're going to win some.
And what we really want to do is get ourselves back in charge of the money, which is what their objective happens to be.
And also about the unemployment number, note that miraculously.
Miraculously, if I'm looking here at Christopher Rugaber, who is the official unemployment reporter at the AP.
399,000.
Notice how often the initial new claims number hits 399.
Just under the dreaded 400,000 job cutoff.
And uh you can bet on the fact that this 399,000 number is going to be quietly revised upwards, and it will not be reported on.
So, well, Snurdly is asking me if the unemployment rate will go up.
No, uh my guess is the unemployment rate will not go up.
What's going to happen is that the university jobs will continue to shrink.
Uh the job total number of jobs available will be reported to have uh shrunk.
Shrinked for you and Rio Linda.
And that would keep the uh in fact, unemployment may even fall.
That's what's been going on.
As unemployment claims go up, the unemployment rate has been falling.
Miraculously so.
So what do we know?
At 8.5%?
You well, but we're gonna be in the high sevens by the time we get to November.
You watch.
You look at if Obama can make a recess appointment when we're not in a recess.
What's jingleing a few numbers at the Department of Labor?
Also, retail sales rose at the weakest pace in seven months in December.
Uh it was not big.
We thought it soared.
They told us it soared at the time.
And this is, of course, what people remember, but the truth of the matter is, but if it weren't for what was it, um, this would be a negative number of two percent of 0.2% down if it weren't for one, what was it?
Automobiles, I think automobile, if it weren't for automobile sales, the whole retail sales number would be a loss of 0.2%.
But retail sales post a gain of 0.1% as holiday buying fades, retail sales rose at the weakest pace in seven months in December, as consumers pulled back late in the holiday shopping season, cutting Purchases at department stores and spending less on electronic gadgets.
Totally we were not told that.
I'm at all.
During the month of December, we're told exact opposite.
I haven't seen those reports.
I've only seen this report.
What do you mean you've seen reports that retail sales are soaring?
AP report in your stack.
Record breaking.
Record bringing.
At the top of your stack.
Retail sales barely rose in December, but the gain was enough to push sales to a record level for 20%.
Is that what you're talking about?
Okay, well, sorry, uh the CNBC report does not take the record line that AP reports.
Snerdley story is AP.
Retail sales barely rose, but the gain was enough to push sales to a record level for 2011.
Now, wait a minute.
A record level for 2011 was nothing to write home about in 2011.
To put this in perspective, a one-tenth of one percentage point increase equals a record for the whole year is the way to look at this.
One tenth of one percent increase in retail sales, the gain was enough to push sales to a record level for 2011.
It was the largest annual increase in more than a decade.
That's not good news.
It's 0.1%.
Now the I think to put this in perspective, uh the the week's unemployment applications with seasonal adjustments is disappointing.
Without seasonal adjustments, and this is the real number.
Without seasonal adjustments are just wild guesses based on what they think is going to happen because it's Christmas.
The seasonally adjusted number, 399,000 unemployment claims this week, up from last week's 375,000.
399, right?
Just magically below 400,000.
In the real world, however, without seasonal adjustments, the initial claims were 642,381 in one week.
That's the unadjusted number.
And the seasonal adjustment, again, is just a wild guess.
Based on historical data and expectations given the time of year, in this case, the uh holiday season.
Since we're dealing with numbers, some fascinating numbers coming out of the New Hampshire primary.
Now, there are 1,144 delegate votes needed to win the Republican nomination.
That's the total necessary.
1,144.
After two.
Well, you can't really have to say one because the Hawkeye Calckeye does not produce delegate votes.
But after after two skirmishes, we'll count the Hawkeye Cawkeye as a primary just for the sake of this discussion.
After Iowa and New Hampshire, Romney has 12 delegate votes.
12 out of 1,144.
Ron Paul has 10.
He lost two primaries, but he's got 10 delegate votes.
He's two votes behind Romney.
And they're telling us the race is over.
The Republican establishment, it's over.
Everybody's going to implode in South Carolina, and it's up for grabs, but nothing.
I mean, it's a they're telling us that the presumptive nominee is Romney, it's over.
Okay, she had 1,144 delegate votes to wrap up a nomination.
Romney's got 12, and they're telling us it's over.
Ron Paul has 10.
Santorum's got seven.
Huntsman 2, Gingrich 2.
Even even Rick Perry has two.
Even Rick Perry has two delegate votes right.
He's only 10 behind Romney.
And they're telling us that the race is over.
They are.
It's the same thing that happened in 2000.
Yeah, he's coming, yeah.
He's come in Dangerously, dangerously high in a number of uh well, in both in both places.
He was on the verge of winning in Iowa until intelligent people took him out.
You know, I love busting myths.
I just love especially medical myths.
Yeah, I just I take great satisfaction in telling people that things they believe, you know, cockamy BS that they believe for years, was made up.
This one, though, is going to hit people hard.
This next one is really going to hit you hard.
How many of you?
I first saw it in 60 minutes.
How many of you have believed and have thus been living your life under the notion that red wine prevents heart disease and heart attacks and all that.
Red wine is something in red wine, particularly if you consume it with protein, like the French do with cheese.
You know, the French are not fat, the French don't die of heart attacks, the French don't have clogged arteries, and they drink wine over it.
There's some magical ingredient in red wine.
You've heard this, right?
People who drink red wine tell you this.
In fact, people who drink red wine, a lot of them who drink red wine use that as their justification.
It's almost like they're taking medicine.
Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da.
Hartford, Connecticut, a University of Connecticut researcher known for his work on red wine's benefits to cardiovascular health, falsified his data.
In more than 100 instances, university officials announced yesterday.
UConn officials said nearly a dozen scientific journals are being warned of the potential problems after publishing his studies in recent years.
The researcher, Dr. D.Pack does, did some studies of resveratrol, an ingredient in red wine that's shown potential for promoting health.
But another researcher, whose team conducts uh reservatrol research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York, told EAP that Dr. DPAC does is not a major figure in the field.
The new allegations will not make a material difference to Rosveratrol research was being conducted extensively around the world.
This guy ought to be transferred to the global warming research community.
He just made it up.
He literally just made it.
And guess who's investigating?
Something called, you ever heard of this?
The U.S. Office of Research Integrity.
How can there be such a thing in the U.S. government?
How can any government have a bureaucracy called research integrity?
Who even knew that it existed?
And why aren't they investigating climate gate?
Why are they out there investigating this red wine guy?
So they have found 145 instances where this scientist has fabricated falsified and manipulated data on red wine.
I'm sorry to inform you folks, but it's all been a myth.
Really, I ought to correct myself.
Fat chance.
Documented to be almost always right, 99.6%.
By the way, still waiting on the uh uh special new opinion audit should have been in last week from the Sullivan Group.
It's not here yet, which means they're working diligently on this.
Uh so uh accurate to say, uh still documented to be almost always right, 99.6% of the time.
Uh we've got another great soundbite roster today, and again, I'm featured throughout it, uh, discussed on cable news frequently yesterday and last night.
Again, I didn't watch any last night, but I do have the soundbite roster, and we'll get into some of those.
Actually, it's a great soundbite roster throughout.
Uh and we'll get to that.
We'll start in on that in the uh in the next segment.
In the meantime, another little story here that I just love these kinds of stories where I've been right all along.
The U.S. auto industry remains unsold over the future of green cars like electrics, which are coal-driven, And hybrids.
The automobile makers are struggling with the first steps in a market that most degree shows promise over the long.
No, there is not general agreement that there is promise in the green car industry in the long term.
Automakers wheeled out a variety of new hybrids and plug-in electrics driven by coal.
The annual Detroit Auto Show this week touting their great energy savings along with new freshened designs.
But despite that apparent commitment behind the scenes, the manufacturers remain split between doubts and optimism over the what is the what's the doubt?
Nobody wants these.
The only way you end up with them is if it's a uh like wearing an age ribbon.
Look at me, I'm better than you.
I care more than you.
See this ribbon, that means I'm better than you are.
See me in this hybrid, that means I care more than you.
A vanity buy is it.
People aren't buying these things.
They have to be paid to buy them.
GMs had to recall every volt that they've ever made, and they all depend on higher gasoline prices.
Hmm.
That's what Obama's for.
Half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man.
The doctor of democracy, America's truth detector.
All combined in one harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
Snerdley, you'll love this.
Stop screening for a minute.
I want to show you how good you have it.
C SPAN needs you.
They're getting hammered today with prank calls about.
This Bain business has just now it's gone.
Looney tunes.
Heck, let me just read it to you.
Uh from it's from the mediaite website, C SPAN, not typically a place where one can expect to find the sort of gaffes and fights and general shenanigans running a rampant on other politically minded networks.
But lately, it's had to contend with a couple of prank callers.
Actually, it's more than a couple.
They have a video at the website, and Judd Gregg is the guest, there's a still shot of the video of Judd Gregg looking absolutely appalled because and I've sent the audio up to up to Cookie to have her prepare it for us.
And by the way, if uh I don't want to give too much of this away, but if you are made uncomfortable by the discussion of body parts below the waist, tune out.
I'll give you five seconds to go somewhere.
Because I don't, we're not here to shock anybody, and we're not here to offend anybody.
If you don't want to hear it, I'm gonna give you time to if you don't leave and you end up being offended, you can't complain.
Nobody will care, nobody will listen to you because you've been warned.
Five, four, three, two, one.
Okay.
Everybody who doesn't want to hear this is now gone.
In the video that's been posted at MediaIde, a caller poses a serious question to Judd Gregg about Gingrich's campaign and what he's doing vis-a-vis Bain Capital and so forth.
And as the conversation uh takes place, the caller eventually asks Judd Gregg what he thinks of the size of Mitt Romney's penis.
On C-SPAN.
It's on C-SPAN.
We're trying I'm gonna try to get the audio, and I just sent it up to Cookie.
C-SPAN does not know how to deal with this.
I I guarantee they're probably pulling their heads out.
So there's an orchestrated campaign now.
This has become a just a sad thing.
It's become a joke.
In fact, let's take this occasion to go to the audio sound bites.
This is last night on uh Fox, their show called The Five.
A co-host Bob Beckle is uh speaking with the other co-host Eric Bowling about the Republican primary and attacks by Newt and Perry on Romney.
Bowling said, You're starting to see it.
You're seeing the conservatives on the right, Tea Party, Nikki Haley, Jim Dement, some of the other Tea Party activists spoke last night of surrogates for Romney, no less starting to coalesce around Romney now.
Is that what we're seeing, Bob?
The attack by his opponents by Gingrich and Perry on Bain backfired in a big way.
And if you look at what Rush Limbaugh and some of these others who have not had nice things to say about Romney, came strongly to his defense by saying, What are you doing?
Why are you playing the Democrats' card out?
I'm delighted they are.
I wish they would do it long to One of those things that happens to you in presidential politics when your opponents take you on in your own party and they give you an opening to grab another demographic.
Well, what Beckel here is basically saying is sort of echoing uh my initial reaction to Newt and Perry going going after Romney on this on this Bain business, using the exact language that the left would use, uh, and denouncing capitalism.
Uh and so Beckus, if you look at what what Limboss and others here are saying, uh, what are you doing?
Why what and and it's uh it's a question that um uh everybody on the conservative side now and various elements of conservative media is is starting to ask.
It's just it's it's amazing, actually, that that this is given who's in the White House.
Given if you want to start attacking people for not understanding capitalism, just go to the Oval Office.
We have somebody in the Oval Office who actively opposes it.
He and his wife reject it.
As I said yesterday, that the what what the people try to come up with these convoluted explanations to the that explains Obama's motivation.
It's not complex.
It's very simple.
We have a guy, either by virtue of the way he was educated, uh ill-informed, malinformed, who cares?
We have a guy who believes that the founding of this country is unjust and immoral.
The founding.
This guy believes that the one percent founded the country, the one percent has run the country since its founding, the 99% have been exploited, they have been used, they have been abused.
This has been a country of an imperialist military which has conquered other people, stolen resources.
It's the only reason we're a superpower.
They think this is an illegitimate, unjust, immoral country.
And his sole purpose is to take as much as he can from these he thinks are the one percent and redistribute it.
And there is no such thing as lawlessness when he's in the process, because he is simply equalizing things.
So a recess appointment when there is no recess doesn't matter.
He's got a higher calling.
He is trying to correct evil, unjust immorality.
Uh if if if Arizona wants to uh have a law to protect the border because the U.S. government will not enforce its own laws, what's he do?
Sues Arizona.
And there's uh give you countless examples of Obama governing and ruling, if you will, against the will of the people of this country.
It is the belief why will you take over General Motors?
This is why I cringed yesterday.
When when you know Romney's defense to what he did, to the attacks against him at Bain Capitol, he basically was scorched earth, ran in there, took over these companies, fired people left and right for his own personal benefit.
Romney said, Well, yeah.
Oh no.
What's next?
Well, yeah, but that's just what Obama did.
Obama went in.
He tried to save the business of General Motors.
Uh he tried to lay people off.
He had to streamline it.
No, that's not why Obama took over.
He didn't take it over to save it.
He took it over to steal it.
Same thing with Chrysler, the bondholders, the people who were the legitimate investors who had first dibs on any corrective financial measures or go to told to pound sand.
Obama gave it, gives it to the unions, the quote unquote workers, the 99% who have been shafted since the days of the founding of the country.
And their union leadership runs it.
They don't care.
It's government-owned.
They don't have to turn a profit.
It was Obama that shut down a bunch of Republican dealerships at General Motors when he took over.
But he for for Romney to equate what he was doing at Bain Capitol with Obama, uh is mystifying to me.
Now, I uh I understand it in one regard, and it's an attempt to inoculate himself from criticism because if he can uh uh uh say to the media, well, hey, you know, your favorite son, Barack Obama did nothing different than what I did.
He's thinking maybe he can nullify some of their criticism.
It's not gonna work.
They're gonna criticize him no matter what.
Um, he starts at a disadvantage.
He's a Republican.
Therefore, he's a mean spirited, racist, bigoted extremist.
Obama's a liberal Democrat means he's tolerant, patient, compassionate, kind, understanding, all those cliches.
But to draw an analogy, a comparison to yourself and your private equity firm to Obama, having the government take over two automobile companies.
But this is the outgrowth or the result of the attacks.
It is curious to me that you have Romney on his second tour.
How much money he's got, but it's a lot.
To not have anticipated this line of attack when it did happen in 2008.
I mean, they went after Bain in this way.
For there to not be a flip card response to this, wherever it comes from, be it from Gingrich or Perry and the Republican side, or wait for Obama the Democrats to do it.
You have to know that at some point, if you're Romney in this campaign, either to primary the general if you happen to be the nominee, they're going to come after you as a rich Republican extremist.
Don't care about the little guy.
You only want to enrich yourself.
I mean the cliche is there.
You have to have, I would think, a prepared, solid, prepared response or answer to it.
If if well, I was just doing what Obama did.
Oh, because Obama's Romney didn't go in and destroy any companies.
He wanted to save them.
He went in his motivation is profit for the investors at the same time to save these companies.
But he they're they're these companies that Bain and other places like Bain buy are purchased in the first place because they're in trouble.
And therefore they're cheap.
They're available.
And then the assessment's made.
Can we save this place?
If we can, how?
If not, do we sell it all off, shut it down, and move on?
Those are legitimate questions and legitimate decisions made in free market capitalism.
But that's not at all what General Motors and Chrysler takeover was about.
That was that was pure and that was Obama saying, see, that those two automobile companies are an example of the unjust immorality of this country in the first place.
The people that really made those count those companies work are the ones getting shafted.
The workers, the union workers.
They're the ones that have to go on strike for a decent wage.
They're the ones that have to protest for health care.
Meanwhile, the management, you know, the whole Michael Moore routine.
And that's not what Romney's about.
Romney doesn't have the same view of the country that Obama does.
So anyway, Beckle is now happy, and understandably so, because the Republicans are doing what Obama, the Democrats were planning on doing later on down the line.
The only upside to this is that it does provide Romney, if he is the nominee, an opportunity to come up with a defense for this.
And it's an opportunity, by the way, in the primary process for people to see.
Voters to see how he is going to deal with this.
Now, I just uh I just learned uh this is from CNN, a Perry donor is defecting to Romney and is citing Perry's attacks on Bain Capital, one of Rick Perry's leading financial supporters in South Carolina is defecting to Romney, told CNN today that Perry's sharp criticisms of Romney's a vulture capitalist were the main factor in his decision.
What, nobody went after Bain in 2008?
I got a note saying nobody went after Bain and just somebody did, because I remember might not have been major, but Romney's always been hit on this Mr. Monopoly money bags guy.
Maybe none of the Republicans did, but he wasn't in it long enough for that to happen.
And anyway, I got to take a quick break here, folks.
We'll get to your phone calls in mere moments as uh well as the ever-exciting increasingly popular soundbite roster.
And I haven't heard from Cookie yet, so I don't know if she has that C-span audio ready to go.
But if she does, we'll have it for you when we have it.
Yeah, according to the political, in 2008, none of the rival campaigns focused much on Romney's days at Bain Capitol, uh, either in their public comments or back channel communications with reporters.
Ted Kennedy did big time, uh, when Romney sought his Senate seat.
Back in 2008, the Republicans did not go after Ban Campus.
This is new.
But I still maintain that that the Romney campaign has to at least plan on this coming from the Democrats at some point nonetheless.
At least I would think by now you'd be prepared for it.
And then maybe maybe the Obama and s I exactly right.
The whole Occupy Wall Street movement was created because the Democrats think Romney's gonna be the nominee.
The whole Occupy movement's an Obama creation, a campaign creation to run against Romney as Mr. Wall Street.
And remember, we had the soundbite yesterday.
Obama was on Ted Baxter's show back in December.
And he he uh offered the same defense.
I didn't just did what Obama did.
Um he had to save General Motors, he had to go in there and delay some people off.
He had to trim the size of the company.
He's trying to save the business.
Obama doesn't have the slightest idea what that's Obama doesn't think in the in terms of saving businesses.
He wouldn't know the first thing about saving a business.
Obama wouldn't know the first thing about creating a business, either side of this.
Let me grab a phone call.
Ron, in Enon Valley, Pennsylvania, great to have you on the EIB Thank you very much.
Great to be with you as well.
You know, I know that you want to educate your audience, and I know that's a very important part of it.
And I hate to be the bearer of maybe slightly bad news.
And that is your comment about uh seasonal adjustment being just a guess, it's a little off.
And I think it's sort of uh I I was compelled to call you simply to correct you.
It's well, but let me before you correct, but the reason that I made the statement is because the actual unemployment number, the initi the actual number of initial claims in the report period is six hundred forty-two thousand, seasonally adjusted to three hundred ninety-nine thousand.
Correct.
Correct.
Now that's a huge game.
It is, but but if you once you understand what that actually is, you'll you'll know why it is that they do that.
It's it I know that there's an awful lot of other manipulations.
They've redefined unemployment over the years to protect themselves.
I mean, I'm not trying to defend what they're currently doing with unemployment.
In fact, I think that there's it's it's ridiculous.
And it's intended to keep the people in power in power.
But seasonal adjustment is a statistical technique that allows you to compare numbers across weeks or months over an entire year, because what what you can do, and this stuff is not, it's not just pulled out of a hat someplace.
You actually run it through this econometric models, and you statistically test whether or not it's a consistent thing, if it's a long term, if it's a changing, and so it adjusts itself as as you do the modeling, the statistical analysis, and you keep it to a very high level confidence interval, well above 99 percent.
So do these adjustments just allow you to use these numbers across time.
Okay, do this for me to help me learn.
Tell me exactly what seasonally adjusted means, and if you can.
I've got about a minute.
Can you tell me how you get from six hundred and forty-two thousand to three hundred ninety-nine thousand?
Yeah, what happens is that uh every month of the year or every week within the year, um, because of holidays and because of weather and because of uh schools and because of of a lot of jobs that are seasonal, people that are roofers and people that are uh, you know, Santa Clauses in Christmas.
Every year you're gonna have people hired and laid off because of the seasonal factors.
And so what they do is they use the the equations, the models, the the statistics, to look at these things and say which portion of the employment or unemployment in this month is not due to the seasonality of what happens every year.
And what portion of it is actually we'll take out the seasonality and we'll look at all these numbers from it makes it comparable.
I got you.
Okay, so you you you take so basically the difference six hundred and forty-two thousand three hundred and ninety-nine thousand is those jobs were temporary, they're not permanent, you shouldn't count them anyway, either way, up or down, because they don't matter.
Correct.
And next Month you'll find another seasonal adjustment, which will probably be the opposite direction.
Yeah.
Well, it should be, but with this bunch, you don't know.
Which I mean, they look at how they're messing around with the whole job universe number just to get their unemployment rate down.
Anyway, thanks for the call, Ron.
I appreciate it.
We'll be back.
Our last caller, obviously a statistician, he's very concerned with the integrity of his profession.
That's why he's upset with me saying the numbers are made up.
Um just to clarify, folks, my focus on on this always is with the media and how they choose to report this stuff.
And there is no doubt in my mind that there's no way they're going to use a number 642,000 if they can avoid it, and they're going to portray the 399,000 as real and they're going to underplay the seasonally adjusted business.
It's all part of the scam that's that's part of this regime.
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