Originally Posted by crockett

As I mentioned above College students & retired are not counted as "employed or unemployed" by govt stats.

Meaning you can't sit there and claim college student whom are full time are un-employed while counting the 35% of retired TPers as employed.

The simple fact is only 56% of TP members are active with-in the workforce and 49% stated they or a family member was using social security. 44% were on medicare.

So when you look at the eligible numbers of TP members whom are officially counted as employed or un-employed they have the same average rate that the country has as a whole of around 9%. Yet as a whole only 56% are out there working so in reality the term get a job hits closer to home with the TP.

Originally Posted by crockett

As for OWS & and their data, I said it wasn't in that Poll.. That was a poll specific to TP members. OWS is a much newer movement and there simply isn't as much data on their member base.

yet with that said there seems to be a average of around 15-13% in the polls that have been taken on unemployment with-in the OWS movement "as a whole". That means It's about 85% "taken as a whole" whom are employed which is far higher than the 56% of the TP movement.

You can find results here for some of the various polls that come up with those numbers on OWS.. http://www.fastcompany.com/1789018/o...ics-statistics

It also claims that 26% are enrolled in school part time and 10% full time, so that would certainly lower the amount of "officially" un-employed as well. This makes both groups very similar in numbers of eligible members in the work force but OWS has a much higher percentage of people that "have a job".

Of course you will ignore any stats and have some reason it's don't pertain to your little world of 12clicks knows everything. However I think the average person that isn't delusional can see whats up.