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RUSH: It is not often that I admit what I\u2019m going to admit. It\u2019s only because it doesn\u2019t require me to admit it. There\u2019s very little that I will admittedly not know. So when there is something that I don\u2019t know, it is somewhat of a red flag moment. It\u2019s somewhat unique. Maybe someone in this audience will have the answer to the question. How does the Department of Labor decide that people have ‘given up looking for work,\u2019 and how do they know how many people that number is? This is important to know since it\u2019s how they decide to drop people out of the workforce and make the workforce smaller. <\/p>\n

Now, maybe somebody out there knows the answer to this. I have seen it suggesting that… It used to be if you were out of work for more than two years, you were considered to have given up looking for work. I\u2019ve also heard it said that when you\u2019re unemployment benefits expire, that they then consider you to have dropped out of the workforce. But we\u2019re now paying unemployment benefits for 99 weeks, and I really don\u2019t know how this number is calculated. That can\u2019t be the yardstick anyway if it ever was. How do you know, once the last month of unemployment benefits have been used, the person is still not looking for work? <\/p>\n

Is it just something that they figure, they just assume it? That after all of the unemployment benefits have been spent (paid, granted, what have you), they then just take those people out of the workforce? In the past, jobless reports from the AP, for instance, they have often tacked on this paragraph at the end: ‘The unemployment rate fell as more people out of work gave up on their job searches and left the labor force. People who are no longer looking for work aren\u2019t counted as unemployed.\u2019 Now, that\u2019s a very handy technique, but how do they know what the number is? In other words, you have U3. The U3 unemployment number is today 8.9%. <\/p>\n

The U6 number is around 16 to 17%, and it consists of those people who are out of work and who have ‘given up looking,\u2019 but how do they know? How does the Department of Labor decide people have given up looking for work? It can\u2019t be person-to-person interviews. (interruption) No, Snerdley, I did not find out the answer to my question yesterday. Well, if somebody sent me the answer, I didn\u2019t see it. But I didn\u2019t have a lot of time to scour e-mail last night, so I don\u2019t know if I got the answer. The question yesterday was silly, but it goes back to the days I had to do my own laundry. It goes back to the days when my mother did my laundry. I played Little League basketball, had grass stains. <\/p>\n

My mother couldn\u2019t ever get the grass stains out of there — and yet everyday the St. Louis Cardinal\u2019s uniforms were spic-and-span clean after blood, dirt, mud, gunk, who knows what, tobacco juice. They looked brand-new! It\u2019s all rooted around how come there\u2019s stuff that some people can get to clean their clothes that you can\u2019t find anywhere? So I simply wanted to know: How do these football teams on Sunday look like they\u2019re wearing brand-spanking new uniforms? And I did get one guy said, ‘They are, Rush. These are NFL teams, these are sports. They wear new uniforms every week.\u2019 No, they\u2019re not. I know this. <\/p>\n

When I worked for the Kansas City Royals, players got two home jerseys and two road jerseys. That\u2019s it. And they would sew patch the pants. They will actually sew patches into the pants. You can\u2019t see it (you might be able to now on HD if you get a close enough shot), but, no, they\u2019re not brand-new every game, particularly baseball, but even in football they\u2019re not. So no, I didn\u2019t get an answer to it. It\u2019s a silly question anyway, but it\u2019s rooted in the fact that I like to be able to get things that are not widely available. Like… I don\u2019t know. I just got a big thrill out of being able to get coconut oil when nobody can. Now it\u2019s available. You can get coconut oil at Walmart now, and I probably am one of the reasons why. <\/p>\n

There probably wasn\u2019t a demand for it. But I\u2019m one of these weirdo guys: Popcorn in the movie theater is better than anywhere else, and no matter what I did I was never able to make it taste that way at home. So I wanted to find out what was different about it. Most people couldn\u2019t care less. I, El Rushbo, did care. I went out and I found out what it was. It was coconut oil, and it took me a number of years because most everybody I would ask had no clue what I was even talking about. That\u2019s how I know. I think it has to do with… (sigh) Dare I say this? I am profoundly curious about those things that interest me. <\/p>\n

Now, the things I don\u2019t care about I couldn\u2019t care less about in real terms, but those things that interest me I have an insatiable curiosity — and I\u2019m interested in a lot of things. I also have a thirst and quest for knowledge overall. I\u2019m kind of like the Kennedys, you know, who prided themselves on getting Cuban cigars after THEY implemented the embargo. Well, it\u2019s a well known fact among cigar aficionados that JFK sent his aides out to pick up as many Cuban cigars as possible (in the thousands) when he decided he was gonna embargo products from Cuba so that he would have some before the embargo went into effect. (interruption)<\/p>\n

Well, Snerdley, if I had the power to do that I\u2019d do it, too. I most certainly would. Like the iPad 2. The iPad 2 has got this new feature called ‘video mirroring.\u2019 It\u2019s video mirroring — with 1080p output. Video mirroring allows you to connect an AV adapter to a new port that\u2019s only available on the iPad 2, and virtually everything on your screen — whatever\u2019s on your iPad screen — you can watch on a television set (regardless how big or how small) on a projector or what have you. It\u2019s not wireless, it\u2019s wired. So I have already instructed my AV guys to start drilling under my floors to make it possible connect the wires to be able to do this, because I can\u2019t wait to be sitting in front of my 16-foot HD screen in my media room and looking at what\u2019s on my iPad. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be able to play 720p movie at 1020 out! So a little bit of up convert if I want to go that way, if I want to do it. Or whatever: a Web page or pictures that I\u2019ve taken, put \u2019em up there. That\u2019s as I\u2019m using the iPad. This is different from airplay, which is, you know, comes from iTunes. This is actual out from the iPad, and the iPad comes out in March. Well, that\u2019s when they start taking orders for it or selling it. Now, you know me. I\u2019m angling behind the scenes: ‘How can I get one on March 10th?\u2019 I mean, after all, I\u2019m a power, influential member of the media. So I must have 15 people out there trying to get their hands on an iPad. It\u2019s like I wanted to know what made movie popcorn taste the way it did, I\u2019m just trying to get hold of these things. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s like the unemployment number: How do they know? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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