01 July 2009

Unemployment figure - deliberate lie

The Australian government's officially published result for the jobless is at this point in time, is at a rate of 5.7%, a figure which is deliberately fraudulent.

One way of 'rigging' the actual figures is that if an unemployed person is:

  • on a course,
  • on a 'work for the dole' project,
  • in temporary employment, but generally unemployed,
  • has been breached and NOT receiving payments,
  • in the 12 weeks period prior to payment of unemployment benefits,
  • and other scenarios.
then they are classified as NOT unemployed.

The government deliberately plays down the real amount in order NOT to alarm the general public.

Fact: Economists always use a figure of 50% more than the officially government quoted percentage,

thus the more realistic figure of unemployed people is Australia is 8.5%

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