a) The unemployment rate rose to 6.1%.
b) Number of open jobs is at an all time high.
How's that possible?
Answer: Government stimulus checks.
When being unemployed pays more than getting a job, is it any wonder many are refusing to join the workforce.
Your Tax Dollars At Work
Government is making economic recovery harder by unwisely spending more money than it should, but will now use the excuse of slow recovery to spend even more money in the name of creating more jobs. Jobs are already there. People aren't filling them.
There are several reasons for the unemployed not going back to work despite an unprecedented level of job openings going unfilled. But this one deserves special attention:
"Employers complain that enhanced unemployment benefits are keeping workers on the sidelines."
No kidding!
And right on cue:
Axios: "Democrats and progressives are convinced that the weak pace of job growth only serves to underscore the necessity of massive government spending to boost the economy."
These are addicts we are dealing with. No evidence can make them kick the habit.
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Why Journalists Have Little Credibility When They Quote 'Science!'
What the enclosed paragraphs say about SARS-CoV-2 virus can be said about many other areas of modern research, including Climate Change.
Was SARS-Cov-2 Created in the Wuhan Lab?
At this point there are serious doubts about 'natural emergence' of SARS-Cov-2 virus. Natural emergence seems like a fiction created and promulgated strenuously by China and virologists affiliated with China funded research.
This is why scientists are not always the best judge of societal risks of their work. Work on genetic mutations needs to be guided by a higher level of wisdom than seems to be at work at some of the labs around the world.
For tens of millions of Americans, frustration with the 2020 election and the desire to believe that there was electoral fraud is so high that they can fall easy prey to con artists who prey upon that frustration.
2. There are things we know quite well by now about the 2020 election, things we don't know, and things that are unknowable. Being skeptical is absolutely justified. Being certain is not.
3. Election irregularities by way of questionable rule changes implemented in swing states under questionable authority are well known by now, and are absolutely something that needs to be fixed by state legislatures. Some states are already doing that.
Great.
But it still doesn't prevent fraud in vote-counting centers. If someone drops a 100,000 prefilled ballots into a ballot pile and removes a 100,000 of real filled ballots and throws them away, before ballots are run through a tabulator, a perfect crime has been committed.
By perfect crime I mean there is no way on earth that such a crime can be detected, let alone corrected, no matter how many times you audit the ballots after the above mentioned swap. Why? Because current systems have absolutely no way to detect that such a swap was done.
Until the above loophole is plugged by law, by mandating a barcode (or some other identification mechanism) that ties a counted ballot to the envelope the ballot was mailed in, the potential for undetectable fraud will always exist. No state is fixing this so far.
An Undistorted View Of January 6, 2021
📌Trump did not incite any violence
📌Trump behaved atrociously after the protesters stormed the Capitol and turned violent
📌Democrats and the media concocted a false "insurrection" narrative by blaming unrelated deaths on Capitol rioting
There's a reason most Americans may never get an undistorted version of the history of that day. The minute-by-minute timeline of events is critical for an accurate understanding of what really transpired that day. And no prominent voice seems both willing and able to provide it.
So much happened on January 6, 2021, that with the slightest partisan inclination or bias toward one player or another, any historian can write a deeply heartfelt objective account of that day which will still be completely misleading, if you skip over just a few crucial details.
GOP has a mail-in voting problem. GOP will lose many more elections mindlessly unless it recognizes that mass mail-in voting is here to stay, embraces it wholeheartedly, and fixes what makes it so fraud-prone.
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2. Republicans: Please stop butting your heads against the wall on broad-scale voting by mail. There is nothing you can do to stop mail-in ballots from being a regular feature of future elections. Nor should you. Mail-in ballots are not the problem. Fraud is. Fix the latter.
3. Accept and welcome mail-in voting. Until Republicans leaders do that, they will have a self-imposed disadvantage against the Democrats that is mindless and hurtful without any redeeming qualities whatsoever. Don't penalize voters for systemic process problems that need fixing.
Census data show a lower black-white turnout disparity in Georgia than in New Jersey.
2. "We have classic voter suppression,” declared Kamala Harris last fall, and Democrats keep making the charge. Yet new Census voting data show these claims are as meritless as what the Democrats refer to as The Big Lie.
3. Census figures released Thursday show that turnout in 2020 reached a near-historic high for a presidential election, with 66.8% of voting-age citizens casting ballots—0.9 percentage-points shy of the 1992 record.