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Employers add no net jobs in Aug.; rate unchanged

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How much more productive would small businesses be if they had to pay higher costs for American made goods? How much more productive would small businesses be if they produced labor intensive low grade consumable goods such as plastic cups instead of alloy casts for the production of jet engines?

David Ricardo.

As we now make chopsticks for China and small business has no growth ... GE is exporting advanced tech to China ... unemployment is 9% ... government has lost revenues ... increased demand on social services, perhaps you can explain how we are better off with free trade?
 
As we now make chopsticks for China and small business has no growth ... GE is exporting advanced tech to China ... unemployment is 9% ... government has lost revenues ... increased demand on social services, perhaps you can explain how we are better off with free trade?

You are confusing structural with cyclical unemployment. Globalization creates short term structural unemployment, but that's really just a "no ****" comment.
 
That's what I thought ... bringing up comparative advantage ... when it means absolutely nothing. Nice try.

It means nothing to those who have a mercantilist POV. To each their own i guess.
 
You are confusing structural with cyclical unemployment. Globalization creates short term structural unemployment, but that's really just a "no ****" comment.

So will you quote trade openness next and how it will create x amount of jobs? There is nothing cyclical about the export of GDP and manufacturing jobs ... short term? They been being exported since the creation of NAFTA.
 
So will you quote trade openness next and how it will create x amount of jobs? There is nothing cyclical about the export of GDP and manufacturing jobs ... short term? They been being exported since the creation of NAFTA.

Low skill, labor intensive jobs have been exported for lower cost goods since capital has been mobile.
 
It means nothing to those who have a mercantilist POV. To each their own i guess.

There is nothing mercantilist about a theory that points out the reality of observation that comparative advantage does not work with low wage economies. Austrian theory could be called mercantilist using the same rational.
 
Low skill, labor intensive jobs have been exported for lower cost goods since capital has been mobile.

Actually tariffs were the roadblock to GDP exports and the importance of having free trade allows the access to the American market.
 
How do you know? You don't even know what he promised.

He didn't promise what he delivered

Obama economic results in 2011, .4% GDP and 1% GDP growth in 2011, 25+ million unemployed or under employed Americans in 2011, 4 trillion added to the debt in less than 3 years, and a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. Rising Misery index 7.83 to 12.67. First President in U.S. History to have our credit downgraded on his watch! 38-41% JAR and well over 50-55% disapproval ratings.
 
I'm not ignoring your citations, I'm laughing at them. You are under the delusion that Barney Frank single-handedly shut down the Republican-led majority House and prevented Republicans from passing oversight.

Did Frank prevent H.R.1461 from passing in the House in 2005 (the same year as the video you posted)? Yes or no?

Are you telling me that Barney Frank and the Democrats weren't promoting home ownership for the poor and minorities? Keep looking backwards which prevents you from seeing the results of today

Obama economic results in 2011, .4% GDP and 1% GDP growth in 2011, 25+ million unemployed or under employed Americans in 2011, 4 trillion added to the debt in less than 3 years, and a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. Rising Misery index 7.83 to 12.67. First President in U.S. History to have our credit downgraded on his watch! 38-41% JAR and well over 50-55% disapproval ratings.
 
Actually tariffs were the roadblock to GDP exports and the importance of having free trade allows the access to the American market.

It's a bit of a pointless argument because protectionism won't work. It would only end up driving inflation through the roof.
 
Another strawman. When did i compare this country's economy to China? When did i compare this country's wages with that of China?

It is besides the point. If you want to destroy my credibility, you must do so in the context of our discussion; more specifically, by the content of my posts.

Okun's law, fiscal multipliers, the growth rate relative to the rate of stimulus spending, and the output gap.

WTF are you even talking about. Not sure what the Chinese current account has to do with the topic at hand.

Consumer confidence will continue to closely mirror the credit conditions of consumers, and the solvency of global financial systems. When put into the proper context, how is the credit condition of consumers and the solvency of the global financial system?

Well excuse me but did you not make the following post and if so why even mention China if you didn't want to compare this stimulus to theirs?

The Chinese implement a stimulus package of about $586 billion (or 11.2% of GDP) for which $222 billion (4% of GDP) was attributed to public works.

The United States implements a stimulus package of $787 billion (5.6% of GDP) for which $111 billion (0.8% of GDP) was attributed to public works, nearly three months after the Chinese stimulus package.

What is so astounding is the success of such policy in China, even though the Chinese have a savings rate (which is critical to estimating the effectiveness) greater than the U.S. by many multiples.
 
It's a bit of a pointless argument because protectionism won't work. It would only end up driving inflation through the roof.

We only have hundreds of years of history proving protectionism does work. And protectionism is selective ... low wage economies are where comparative advantage is lost. Also note the last money printing spree by the FED drove up hard assets ... not inflation.
 
My posts are filled with logic, common sense, and review of facts. Until you are comfortable with the theory that underpins our economic system, it will continue to be painfully troublesome for you to actually understand my arguments, much less provide a valid response.

WE are in a liquidity trap. Fiscal policy combined with reformed immigration legislation is really the only way to circumvent such a reality.

It was small in a both a relative sense and economic sense. But you actually have to have a strong understanding of the macroeconomy in order to put it together.

Holy strawman. WTF does saving state jobs have to do with the post which you replied to? If you want to talk about state jobs and what not, start a thread. It is bad form to consistently interject random issues on a whim.

Sorry, see no logic and common sense in any of your posts along with zero facts to support your claims. All are text book definitions and references which have nothing to do with the actual results generated. You need to get out in the real world and actually create something. Still waiting for your proof of your experience to even discuss the free market economy. I see an economists out of touch with reality.

I do however see the results of liberalism and claims that the stimulus package didn't spend enough but never what that spending actually did. Let me help you

Obama economic results in 2011, .4% GDP and 1% GDP growth in 2011, 25+ million unemployed or under employed Americans in 2011, 4 trillion added to the debt in less than 3 years, and a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. Rising Misery index 7.83 to 12.67. 38-41% JAR and well over 50-55% disapproval ratings.
 
We only have hundreds of years of history proving protectionism does work. And protectionism is selective ... low wage economies are where comparative advantage is lost. Also note the last money printing spree by the FED drove up hard assets ... not inflation.

The world is a very different place now than it was then. You can't do selective protectionism. As soon as you put up trade barriers everyone else will retaliate by throwing up their own barriers.
 
He didn't promise what he delivered
Again, you don't know what he promised so you don't know if he delivered.

Let's start with you providing quotes of what you think he promised.
 
Did Frank prevent H.R.1461 from passing in the House in 2005 (the same year as the video you posted)? Yes or no?

Are you telling me that Barney Frank and the Democrats weren't promoting home ownership for the poor and minorities? Keep looking backwards which prevents you from seeing the results of today
Who cares what they were promoting? They were in the minority party and couldn't prevent the Republican-led majority from passing oversight.

I asked you a "yes" or "no" question, are you going to answer it or are you going to run away from it ... ?


Did Frank prevent H.R.1461 from passing in the House in 2005? Yes or no?
 
The world is a very different place now than it was then. You can't do selective protectionism. As soon as you put up trade barriers everyone else will retaliate by throwing up their own barriers.

Here is being selective ... the recession was caused by trade with China and outsourcing. Don't trade where there isn't reciprocity. Don't slouch on the benefits of trade like VAT's. Reciprocity. If you thought of America like a business ... then we almost went bankrupt on Aug 2 ... all because our business is losing hundreds of billions by maintaining a business relationship with China ... What got into the head of the Chairman of the Board of America ... did he forget he has stockholders?
 
Again, you don't know what he promised so you don't know if he delivered.

Let's start with you providing quotes of what you think he promised.

I believe if you checked his campaign promises as well as the comments made by his administration you will see what he promised. I just showed what he delivered. Think he promised these results?

Obama economic results in 2011, .4% GDP and 1% GDP growth in 2011, 25+ million unemployed or under employed Americans in 2011, 4 trillion added to the debt in less than 3 years, and a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. Rising Misery index 7.83 to 12.67. 38-41% JAR and well over 50-55% disapproval ratings.
 
I believe if you checked his campaign promises as well as the comments made by his administration you will see what he promised. I just showed what he delivered. Think he promised these results?
Either you can quote promises he made or you can't. So far, you haven't.
 
Who cares what they were promoting? They were in the minority party and couldn't prevent the Republican-led majority from passing oversight.

I asked you a "yes" or "no" question, are you going to answer it or are you going to run away from it ... ?


Did Frank prevent H.R.1461 from passing in the House in 2005? Yes or no?

I've already been down that road with him. If memory serves he came up with one prediction by Biden -- not Obama, another by Obama that was mostly true, and another link that had no prediction from anyone.
 
Who cares what they were promoting? They were in the minority party and couldn't prevent the Republican-led majority from passing oversight.

I asked you a "yes" or "no" question, are you going to answer it or are you going to run away from it ... ?


Did Frank prevent H.R.1461 from passing in the House in 2005? Yes or no?

Frank voted no on the Legislation. Suggest you find out why, now we cannot have regulations and control over Fannie and Freddie, can we?

Bill Summary & Status - 109th Congress (2005 - 2006) - H.R.1461 - CRS Summary - THOMAS (Library of Congress)
 
Why are you so terrified to answer the question I asked? I didn't ask you how Frank voted, I asked you ...

Did Frank prevent H.R.1461 from passing in the House in 2005? Yes or no?

He tried to prevent it which was a vote NO, why did he vote no and what did he do when the Democrats took control of the Congress in January 2007 and why didn't they try and prevent the housing crisis that occurred in 2008?
 
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