Hear is a little something I picked up on the grapevine about the large retail companies and the GSA and I hope one of our illustrious elected officials looks into not that they can do anything it’s just a game they all play…

First what is the GSA? Per Wiki…

GSA employs about 12,000 federal workers and has an annual operating budget of roughly $26.3 billion. GSA oversees $66 billion of procurement annually. It contributes to the management of about $500 billion in U.S. federal property, divided chiefly among 8,300 owned and leased buildings and a 210,000 vehicle motor pool. Among the real estate assets managed by the GSA are the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC, the largest U.S. Federal building after The Pentagon and the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center which had previously been the Battle Creek Sanitarium run by John Harvey Kellogg.

All that to say that the GSA is the procurement department of the government and if a company does business with the government they need to provide so many jobs and hire so many people to help pad the government job creation numbers… since a company can’t just keep hiring people they don’t need so what to do?

Well companies like Lowe’s, Home Depot, Office Max, Office Depot and other big box stores that have government contracts have to list all job opening to the public on job websites, unemployment office or they own website even if the job is nothing more than a promotion to be filled internally and once that job is filled via promoting someone within the company is counted as a “job created” – even though no one was hired, no job was filled and no job was created but the government can claim that there is one less person looking for work because Billy Bob was promoted from a “Customer Service Associate I” to a “Customer Service Associate II” because a job opening for a CSA II was posted as open… and if these companies do not play the governments game they lose their big lucrative government contracts to be a supplier of goods. Think of it as the government acting as the mob shaking down a store owner for “protection”…. it’s really no difference.

So that’s the game…

A store has a job opening for a CSA II so it was filled via an internal promotion and the store can report they created a job by filling a vacancy even though no one was actually hired and dozens if not 100 of those out of work wasted their time applying for a job that they never had a chance at getting in the first place because it was all just a game to humor the government thugs so they could claim that x-number of jobs were created when in fact there were none.

So what is the result… well Obama will run around telling the country… Hey look at me I created 5.5 million new jobs! … but somehow the unemployment number is still higher than when he took office and there are 23 million fewer people in the workforce than when he took office and we’re supposed to believe he created jobs? How does that math work?

Simple companies report jobs created that weren’t (that way they can blame the company if caught) via the internal promotion game to keep the GSA shake down thugs happy, the unemployed seeking jobs run out of benefits and come off the job seeker rolls (they disappear as jobless) at about the same rate people working are losing their jobs due to cuts and closures and going on the jobless roll… so unemployment doesn’t really change from one month to the next and the jobs being created is nothing more than something shiny for the media to look at.

What about those 23-25 million people still looking for work but are no longer on the roles? Forget them they don’t count… according to the government.

So ask your liberal friends this…

… if Obama created jobs why hasn’t unemployment gone down?
… if the workforce has shrunk by 25 million no longer counted then shouldn’t that explains why welfare and food stamps recipients have doubled under Obama?

Don’t Be Fooled, The Obama Unemployment Rate Is 11%

Shrinking US workforce masks an otherwise sky-high jobless rate