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Abbott and Costello – Who’s Out of Work?

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This is an update on Abbott & Costello’s famous “Who’s on First?” routine updated to show the lunacy of the Government’s method of calculating Unemployment Numbers. The original skit follows.

Abbott_CostelloCOSTELLO:  I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America  .

ABBOTT: Good Subject.  Terrible Times.  It’s 5.6%.

COSTELLO:  That many people are out of work?

ABBOTT: No, that’s 23%.

COSTELLO: You just said 5.6%.

ABBOTT:  5.6% Unemployed.

COSTELLO:  Right 5.6% out of work.

ABBOTT: No, that’s 23%.

COSTELLO: Okay, so it’s  23% unemployed.

ABBOTT: No, that’s 5.6%.

COSTELLO:  WAIT A MINUTE. Is it 5.6% or 23%?

ABBOTT: 5.6% are unemployed.  23% are out of work.

COSTELLO: If you are out of work you are unemployed.

ABBOTT:  No, Obama said you can’t count the “Out of Work” as the unemployed.  You have to look for work to be unemployed.

COSTELLO: BUT THEY ARE OUT OF WORK!!!

ABBOTT: No, you miss his point.

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Romney’s Roost – Tagging and Bagging Trump

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You just have to respect the tenacity and mendaciousness of the GOPe in their quest for self-immolation.  From The Washington Post we find, “At Romney summit, anti-Trump Republicans in exile ponder their party’s future“.

PARK CITY, Utah — At this time four years ago, Mitt Romney ­summoned the leading figures in the Republican Party to this mountain resort at the start of Trump_Univited_To_Partyhis general-election campaign. He was then the standard-bearer of a party united and seemingly confident about its future.

Today, the GOP is divided and anxious, and as many of these same people gather with Romney once again, they now represent a party in exile, retreating to the political wilderness of Deer Valley and powerless in what has become the party of Donald Trump.