>Tom,
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>>Take it as you wish. I have heard two figures for the number of employees returning from the grocery strike in Southern California. 75,000 and 125,000 – choose your own number as there is no consistency from these media reports.
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>I think I'll take it as the good news that it clearly is. A few hundred thousand new jobs (give or take 125,000) IS good news. (Unless you are in the opposition party and need some bad economic news to boost your candidate.)
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>>Hearing that employment is occurring is good news to me. I would like to know why strikers were added to the role of the employed for the first time? It does improve the "numbers", but few people care to hear anything other than how many new jobs were created.
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>I don't have a clue about that, but would like to know how those situations have been counted in the past. Did the government suddenly change their method of counting, or has it always been done this way? Good questions...
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>>Like Boby McFerrin sang, “Don’t worry – Be Happy”! :)
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>Was that his song? I had no idea. Saw him on PBS doing a concert thing with some classical orchestra a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it.

A lot of people do not know that Bobby has won 10 Grammy’s. His mother and father are classically trained, as is he. Lots of talent in one person and doing things that no one else has ever done.