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U.S. Adds 217,000 Jobs in May, Unemployment Rate Stays at 6.3%[W:218]

No, I understand what these numbers reflect, and more importantly, what they don't reflect.

Fortunately, the nation has figured out the BS being spewed, and it's being entirely ignored. That's what happens when you don't tell the truth over and over and over and over and over about everything.

People know the puke running the show, and they've tuned him out.
This is just more boilerplate rhetoric. It's getting easier and easier to spot folks who are flying by the seat of their pants on this stuff.
 
Yes, they plainly are. If what you claim were true, than months in which the bureau reported a negative number would suggest that not a single job was created. This is painfully obvious.



The BLS has not altered their methodology since Obama took office. You simply have zero clue what you're talking about. I doubt you've so much as read up on what and what is not included in the numbers.

If one net job is created, and three kids graduate from college, and 10 people were applying for that job.......what have you accomplished?

Learn an iota about real-world economics, and stop investing in shell-game reports.
 
And that doesn't equal the number of kids that will graduate from college this month. So what?
So, it means you were wrong. That's what it means.

Meanwhile, the number of people receiving government welfare is skyrocketing.
I guess when confronted with being wrong, it's far easier to present red herrings than to simply admit your error.
 
Obama's success must be killin' you guys! LOL! :lamo

37.2%: Percentage Not in Labor Force Remains at 36-Year High | CNS News


The percentage of American civilians 16 or older who do not have a job and are not actively seeking one remained at a 36-year high in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In December, April, and now May, the labor force participation rate has been 62.8 percent. That means that 37.2 percent were not participating in the labor force during those months.

Before December, the last time the labor force participation rate sunk as low as 62.8 percent was February 1978, when it was also 62.8 percent. At that time, Jimmy Carter was president.

Media outlets work overtime to spin bad economic data | Fox News

Media outlets work overtime to spin bad economic data

are you guys working overtime?


Obamas ability to be portrayed as a winner is staggering given the facts shows just how incompetent he actually is.



ONE THING IS FOR SURE the drudgereport is your friend.
 
This is just more boilerplate rhetoric. It's getting easier and easier to spot folks who are flying by the seat of their pants on this stuff.

No, I just refuse to believe anything my government wants me to. Open your damn eyes. People are hurting, the same people your party claims to care about and you have brainwashed to support you.
 
If one net job is created, and three kids graduate from college, and 10 people were applying for that job.......what have you accomplished?

Learn an iota about real-world economics, and stop investing in shell-game reports.
What you're referring to is essentially the unemployment rate. The unemployment rate has dropped from its high of 10.0 in 2010 to its current 6.3.

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

So, again, you're wrong. And that's real-world economics.
 
If one net job is created, and three kids graduate from college, and 10 people were applying for that job.......what have you accomplished?

Nothing. That obviously isn't what happened though. Those 10 people, if unable to find employment, would be counted as unemployed. Those kids graduating would be counted as unemployed only if they sought employment as well. Here's a good primer for you that might alleviate what appears to be alot of confusion : How the Government Measures Unemployment
 
If one net job is created, and three kids graduate from college, and 10 people were applying for that job.......what have you accomplished?

Learn an iota about real-world economics, and stop investing in shell-game reports.

They will hire foreigner's on a visa for all three positions, and tell the american graduates to look elsewhere try Mcdonalds heard they want a 15 an hour minimum wage.
 
What you're referring to is essentially the unemployment rate. The unemployment rate has dropped from its high of 10.0 in 2010 to its current 6.3.

So, again, you're wrong. And that's real-world economics.

No, the number of people in the workforce has plummeted, which has made the numbers look better. Those people that drop out don't figure into the numbers. And that's oh-so-convenient for you. They don't count anymore.
 
So not only do you not understand how the jobs report works, you also don't seem to understand what the term "red herring" means.
Nothing. That obviously isn't what happened though. Those 10 people, if unable to find employment, would be counted as unemployed. Those kids graduating would be counted as unemployed only if they sought employment as well. Here's a good primer for you: How the Government Measures Unemployment
You shouldn't bother people with things like facts. It's so much easier for them to make up **** and pretend it's true.
No, the number of people in the workforce has plummeted, which has made the numbers look better. Those people that drop out don't figure into the numbers. And that's oh-so-convenient for you. They don't count anymore.
As I've already shown in this thread, you are wrong.

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11000000

There are more people working now than when the recession started. It's just a fact.
 
Nothing. That obviously isn't what happened though. Those 10 people, if unable to find employment, would be counted as unemployed. Those kids graduating would be counted as unemployed only if they sought employment as well. Here's a good primer for you: How the Government Measures Unemployment

No, three of those 10 applicants drop out of the workforce, and now you can claim that only seven people are unemployed. That constitutes improvement for your ilk.
 
So not only do you not understand how the jobs report works, you also don't seem to understand what the term "red herring" means.
You shouldn't bother people with things like facts. It's so much easier for them to make up **** and pretend it's true.

LOL, whatever.

My work is done here. That was fun.
 
LOL, whatever.

My work is done here. That was fun.
Yes, if I was constantly being proven to not have any idea what I was talking about and constantly being proven wrong with actual statistics, I'd want to leave also. Have a good day, and I hope the next time you discuss this topic you remember what I and others have taught you.
 
shrinkage is real the 8.8 million jobs created is :spin: . Besides they are not the good quality jobs we had at one time.
Wages have been flat since the 1970s.

There is no way for any politician to "create good jobs" other than designing a stimulus targeted for high-wage jobs. Corporations aren't going to hire programmers or accountants or engineers they don't need because of a tax break.

Also keep in mind that the "service sector" includes lots of white-collar high wage jobs -- lawyers, accountants, doctors, designers, architects, engineers, teachers and so on. Lots of good jobs are available when we transition away from a manufacturing economy to a service economy.
 
This is just more boilerplate rhetoric. It's getting easier and easier to spot folks who are flying by the seat of their pants on this stuff.

What you Obama apologists want to ignore is the reality. Here is the employment numbers and you will see that we haven't recovered yet 5 years after the end of the recession as we have fewer people working today than when the recession began. Before you point to the private sector vs the public sector you need to focus on state govt. versus Federal Govt. employees. States cannot print money and it is the states that lay off govt. employees, not the Federal Govt. Obama has had absolutely nothing to do with any job growth in the private sector nor the layoffs at the state and local govt. levels. Spin that liberal bs some place else.

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
Original Data Value

Series Id: LNS12000000
Seasonally Adjusted
Series title: (Seas) Employment Level
Labor force status: Employed
Type of data: Number in thousands
Age: 16 years and over
Years: 1980 to 2013

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2001 137778 137612 137783 137299 137092 136873 137071 136241 136846 136392 136238 136047
2002 135701 136438 136177 136126 136539 136415 136413 136705 137302 137008 136521 136426
2003 137417 137482 137434 137633 137544 137790 137474 137549 137609 137984 138424 138411
2004 138472 138542 138453 138680 138852 139174 139556 139573 139487 139732 140231 140125
2005 140245 140385 140654 141254 141609 141714 142026 142434 142401 142548 142499 142752
2006 143150 143457 143741 143761 144089 144353 144202 144625 144815 145314 145534 145970
2007 146028 146057 146320 145586 145903 146063 145905 145682 146244 145946 146595 146273
2008 146378 146156 146086 146132 145908 145737 145532 145203 145076 144802 144100 143369
2009 142153 141644 140721 140652 140250 140005 139898 139481 138810 138421 138665 138025
2010 138439 138624 138767 139296 139255 139148 139167 139405 139388 139097 139046 139295
2011 139253 139471 139643 139606 139681 139405 139509 139870 140164 140314 140771 140896
2012 141608 142019 142020 141934 142302 142448 142250 142164 142974 143328 143277 143305
2013 143322 143492 143286 143579 143898 144058 144285 144170 144303 143568 144386 144586
2014 144586 145266 145742 145669 145814

145.8 million working Americans is less than 146.3 million

What is it about liberalism that creates this kind of loyalty as well as ignorance of reality?
 
Yes, if I was constantly being proven to not have any idea what I was talking about and constantly being proven wrong with actual statistics, I'd want to leave also. Have a good day, and I hope the next time you discuss this topic you remember what I and others have taught you.

your wrong and even the BLS is stating


37.2%: Percentage Not in Labor Force Remains at 36-Year High | CNS News

(CNSNews.com) - The percentage of American civilians 16 or older who do not have a job and are not actively seeking one remained at a 36-year high in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In December, April, and now May, the labor force participation rate has been 62.8 percent. That means that 37.2 percent were not participating in the labor force during those months.

Before December, the last time the labor force participation rate sunk as low as 62.8 percent was February 1978, when it was also 62.8 percent. At that time, Jimmy Carter was president.

In April, the number of those not in the labor force hit a record high of 92,018,000. In May, that number declined by 9,000 to 92,009,000. Yet, the participation rate remained the same from April to May at 62.8 percent.

The labor force, according to BLS, is that part of the civilian noninstitutional population that either has a job or has actively sought one in the last four weeks. The civilian noninstitutional population consists of people 16 or older, who are not on active duty in the military or in an institution such as a prison, nursing home, or mental hospital.




All of this according to the BLS, hey its your :spin: .
 
your wrong and even the BLS is stating
I've not been wrong about anything. I've given sources for everything I've said.

37.2%: Percentage Not in Labor Force Remains at 36-Year High | CNS News

(CNSNews.com) - The percentage of American civilians 16 or older who do not have a job and are not actively seeking one remained at a 36-year high in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In December, April, and now May, the labor force participation rate has been 62.8 percent. That means that 37.2 percent were not participating in the labor force during those months.

Before December, the last time the labor force participation rate sunk as low as 62.8 percent was February 1978, when it was also 62.8 percent. At that time, Jimmy Carter was president.

In April, the number of those not in the labor force hit a record high of 92,018,000. In May, that number declined by 9,000 to 92,009,000. Yet, the participation rate remained the same from April to May at 62.8 percent.

The labor force, according to BLS, is that part of the civilian noninstitutional population that either has a job or has actively sought one in the last four weeks. The civilian noninstitutional population consists of people 16 or older, who are not on active duty in the military or in an institution such as a prison, nursing home, or mental hospital.




All of this according to the BLS, hey its your :spin: .
Please learn the difference between a total number and a percentage. There's a very large difference and you don't seem to understand it. It's really simple. There are more people in the workforce now than in December 2007. This is indisputable. There is also a lower percentage of capable Americans working than in December 2007. This is indisputable as well.

However, what people were saying in this thread was that fewer people in the workforce. That was 100% false, as I proved. Please pay attention to important details if you're going to respond to me.
 
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So not only do you not understand how the jobs report works, you also don't seem to understand what the term "red herring" means.
You shouldn't bother people with things like facts. It's so much easier for them to make up **** and pretend it's true.
As I've already shown in this thread, you are wrong.

Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

There are more people working now than when the recession started. It's just a fact.

No, that isn't a fact, that is a lie and I just posted the BLS chart to show it. I also explained the govt. jobs as well but as a good little soldier for the liberal ideology you will ignore it
 
What you Obama apologists want to ignore is the reality. Here is the employment numbers and you will see that we haven't recovered yet 5 years after the end of the recession as we have fewer people working today than when the recession began. Before you point to the private sector vs the public sector you need to focus on state govt. versus Federal Govt. employees. States cannot print money and it is the states that lay off govt. employees, not the Federal Govt. Obama has had absolutely nothing to do with any job growth in the private sector nor the layoffs at the state and local govt. levels. Spin that liberal bs some place else.



145.8 million working Americans is less than 146.3 million

What is it about liberalism that creates this kind of loyalty as well as ignorance of reality?

they :spin: everything!
Why is US Oil Consumption Lower? Better Gasoline Mileage? | Our Finite World

our oil consumption and miles driven have been in collapse because less people are working less period. The Main Stain Media is getting hammered in the ratings because the American people recognize the BS they are spreading and refuse to watch the :spin:
 
No, that isn't a fact, that is a lie and I just posted the BLS chart to show it. I also explained the govt. jobs as well but as a good little soldier for the liberal ideology you will ignore it
Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

We were talking about the number of people in the workforce. There are more people in the workforce now than in December 2007. As my link shows.
 
I've not been wrong about anything. I've given sources for everything I've said.

Please learn the difference between a total number and a percentage. There's a very large difference and you don't seem to understand it. It's really simple. There are more people in the workforce now than in December 2007. This is indisputable. There is also a lower percentage of capable Americans working than in December 2007. This is indisputable as well.

However, what people were saying in this thread was that fewer people in the workforce. That was 100% false, as I proved. Please pay attention to important details if you're going to respond to me.

Guess I need to post the whole articles here. I take it you did not read the article i posted or your just a paid :spin: doctor?
read along with me shall we? all the facts are in the article I posted.

37.2%: Percentage Not in Labor Force Remains at 36-Year High | CNS News

(CNSNews.com) - The percentage of American civilians 16 or older who do not have a job and are not actively seeking one remained at a 36-year high in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In December, April, and now May, the labor force participation rate has been 62.8 percent. That means that 37.2 percent were not participating in the labor force during those months.

Before December, the last time the labor force participation rate sunk as low as 62.8 percent was February 1978, when it was also 62.8 percent. At that time, Jimmy Carter was president.

In April, the number of those not in the labor force hit a record high of 92,018,000. In May, that number declined by 9,000 to 92,009,000. Yet, the participation rate remained the same from April to May at 62.8 percent.

The labor force, according to BLS, is that part of the civilian noninstitutional population that either has a job or has actively sought one in the last four weeks. The civilian noninstitutional population consists of people 16 or older, who are not on active duty in the military or in an institution such as a prison, nursing home, or mental hospital.

In May, according to BLS, the nation’s civilian noninstitutional population, consisting of all people 16 or older who were not in the military or an institution, hit 247,622,000. Of those, 155,613,000 participated in the labor force by either holding a job or actively seeking one.

The 155,613,000 who participated in the labor force equaled only 62.8 percent of the 247,622,000 civilian noninstitutional population, matching (along with the 62.8 percent rate in May) the lowest labor force participation rate in 36 years.

At no time during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, did such a small percentage of the civilian non-institutional population either hold a job or at least actively seek one.

When President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, the labor force participation rate was 65.7 percent. By the beginning of 2013, the start of Obama’s second term, it had dropped to 63.6 percent. Since January 2014, when the participation rate was 63.0,it has continued to decline, hitting a 36-year low of 62.8 percent in May.

People in the civilian noninstitutional population who did not have a job and did not actively seek one in the last four weeks are considered “not in the labor force.” The number of Americans not in the labor force has climbed by 11,480,000 since Obama took office, rising from 80,529,000 in January 2009 to 92,009,000 in May 2014.


So in short BHO jobs numbers BLOWS!

DEAL WITH IT! TOTAL FAILURE
 
Guess I need to post the whole articles here. I take it you did not read the article i posted or your just a paid :spin: doctor?
read along with me shall we? all the facts are in the article I posted.

37.2%: Percentage Not in Labor Force Remains at 36-Year High | CNS News

(CNSNews.com) - The percentage of American civilians 16 or older who do not have a job and are not actively seeking one remained at a 36-year high in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In December, April, and now May, the labor force participation rate has been 62.8 percent. That means that 37.2 percent were not participating in the labor force during those months.

Before December, the last time the labor force participation rate sunk as low as 62.8 percent was February 1978, when it was also 62.8 percent. At that time, Jimmy Carter was president.

In April, the number of those not in the labor force hit a record high of 92,018,000. In May, that number declined by 9,000 to 92,009,000. Yet, the participation rate remained the same from April to May at 62.8 percent.

The labor force, according to BLS, is that part of the civilian noninstitutional population that either has a job or has actively sought one in the last four weeks. The civilian noninstitutional population consists of people 16 or older, who are not on active duty in the military or in an institution such as a prison, nursing home, or mental hospital.

In May, according to BLS, the nation’s civilian noninstitutional population, consisting of all people 16 or older who were not in the military or an institution, hit 247,622,000. Of those, 155,613,000 participated in the labor force by either holding a job or actively seeking one.

The 155,613,000 who participated in the labor force equaled only 62.8 percent of the 247,622,000 civilian noninstitutional population, matching (along with the 62.8 percent rate in May) the lowest labor force participation rate in 36 years.

At no time during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, did such a small percentage of the civilian non-institutional population either hold a job or at least actively seek one.

When President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, the labor force participation rate was 65.7 percent. By the beginning of 2013, the start of Obama’s second term, it had dropped to 63.6 percent. Since January 2014, when the participation rate was 63.0,it has continued to decline, hitting a 36-year low of 62.8 percent in May.

People in the civilian noninstitutional population who did not have a job and did not actively seek one in the last four weeks are considered “not in the labor force.” The number of Americans not in the labor force has climbed by 11,480,000 since Obama took office, rising from 80,529,000 in January 2009 to 92,009,000 in May 2014.


So in short BHO jobs numbers BLOWS!

DEAL WITH IT! TOTAL FAILURE
You obviously didn't read my post. Your responding posts in no way address what I said. Please read it and get back to me. Thanks.
 
You obviously didn't read my post. Your responding posts in no way address what I said. Please read it and get back to me. Thanks.

You read mine first k thanks, because I high lighted everything in MY ARTICLE I posted that originally countered everything you said. YES the PERCENT IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH
and YES THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE is at an all time high.
 
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