Just think: if everyone worked for the state, there would be no unemployment, ever.
Source link: http://blog.mises.org/10423/no-job-losses-in-government/
No Job Losses in Government
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reading “economic calculation in the soviet society” by tjb hoff (thank you mises.org) shows up how grave the unemployment situation was in the ussr. the internal passport laws made sure these jobless hordes were kept from the towns, from which statistical information was gathered. expel the vagrants to save the numbers.
Jeffery
Can you post this table, showing U6 and comment on it?
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm
Thanks, Walt
newson, that sounds a lot like what Yuri Maltsev has said about Soviet hospitals.
In order to lower the death rate to something within the “approved target” the hospitals would eject those patients that were on their deathbeds. A similar thing happens in Cuba, where to get a low infant mortality rate, hospital officials only count babies after 6 months of life. So if a child was stillborn or died of some disease before they are 6 months old, they do not affect the infant mortality stats.
It’s all just statistical games with regressions and other contrived nonsense to achieve a pre-determined result.
Following on with what J. Cortez just said about healthcare statistics in socialist countries.
http://www.wizbangblog.com/content/2009/07/26/ezekiel-emanuel-deny-coverage-to-elderly-and-disabled-for-the-greater-good.php
“According to Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, health care advisor to President Obama, the elderly with dementia and the young who have neurological disorders should be sacrificed for the common good.”
Betsy points out a 1996 Hastings Center article in which Emanuel wrote this:
“This civic republican or deliberative democratic conception of the good provides both procedural and substantive insights for developing a just alloca- tion of health care resources. Procedurally, it suggests the need for public forums to deliberate about which health services should be considered basic and should be socially guaranteed. Substantively, it suggests services that promote the continuation of the polity-those that ensure healthy future genera- tions, ensure development of practical reasoning skills, and ensure full and active participation by citizens in public deliberations-are to be socially guaranteed as basic. Conversely, services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia. A less obvious example Is is guaranteeing neuropsychological services to ensure children with learning disabilities can read and learn to reason.”
Does anybody know if this is true?
I would love to post an intelligent and civil comment but these statist progressives drive me to drink and bay at the moon. None of which is very intelligent. So, excuse my rant.
And if everyone is educated according to the agenda set by the government there would be no uneducated!
These are meaningless numbers about definitions that are completely meaningless. Employment that destroys liberty is not real work but rather it represents acts of injustice. Brag about that!
Education which shuts down the entrepreneurial spirit by falsifying all of the branches of the social sciences is ignorance. Which bimbo ego-driven interpreter is proud about that?
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