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U.S. Unemployment Falls to Lowest Level Since May 2008[W:489, 497]

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How negative was that GDP in the 2nd half of 2008 ?

Don't know from the figures, but by 2009 the trend downward was fully in play. These are yearly stats.
 
Texas benefiting from improving national economic conditions is not dependent upon who Texans casts a vote for....unless you have some BLS data linking those unrelated data sets. Obama won in spite of your fellow idiots.

Your opinion noted but TX operates on conservative principles and is prospering. Data is something you don't understand including BLS, Treasury and BEA
 
Advanced economies entered a period of secular stagnation at the turn of the century, as automation began replacing labor. A housing bubble masked the symptoms for a time.

Secular stagnation:

Yes, Obama has done a great job destroying incentive and promoting stagnation. The results show it as do most liberal policies of wealth redistribution and penalizing producers
 
How do you explain the FACT that I grew up a Democrat, voted for Democrats for national office for about 20 years, and now realize that the party of Pelosi, Reid, and Obama don't represent the Democrat Party that I knew and supported?

You forgot to mention, that somewhere in there you became a functioning adult. It's a natural progression, liberal to conservative.
 
You distort the numbers the same way you distort the Texas record. Lead the nation is job creation....What you didn't say is lead the nation is minimum wage job creation by handing out billions in corporate welfare while Texas health care and education are at the bottom of the country. Not so sure that is a record to be proud of Con.

Only in your world is losing hundreds of thousands of jobs better than net job gain. You worship GWB who is known as the Herbert Hoover of the 21st century (for good reason).

Sorry Con....but I'll let the numbers speak for themselves. Hint: They are not on your side. Doh!

You certainly don't understand cost of living at all including low taxes so you continue to ignore reality. I posted bls data, you haven't refuted it. You posted 2009 to the present data ignoring the Obama stimulus program for shovel ready jobs. You promote the California entitlement mentality which makes Obama a hero in your world. Debt, low job creation, slow economic growth have no place in your world. Stick to California as that is exactly what you deserve

By the way, keep ignoring the minimum wage jobs created in California. I believe that 1.6 million minimum wage jobs in California exceed the 500,000 in TX but could be wrong. I don't use liberal math
 
Your opinion noted but TX operates on conservative principles and is prospering.
Which is just rhetorical distraction from the point you did not have. Don't you remember the negative you set yourself up to prove?
Data is something you don't understand including BLS, Treasury and BEA
Whatever you need to tell yourself, Mr states rights Southern Conservative.
 
Because not only has Obummer recovered from all the jobs lost during Bush's last year, but also from the entire Great Bush Recession, AND THEN SOME.

But since you prefer to ignore Bush's recession job losses, let's just start counting the Obummer job gains from employment bottomed out.

Except that's just not true as has been shown.
 
You forgot to mention, that somewhere in there you became a functioning adult. It's a natural progression, liberal to conservative.
He never progressed, he "was always a (Southern) conservative".
 
You fail to account for the 9 million jobs lost during the recession. Why do you chose to ignore this fact?



The labor market did not reach it's bottom. Since 2010, more than 12 million jobs have been created; this is a fact that you cannot deny.



You have your years mixed up.

Yes, you are right, my apology, the year was 2009, January when the debt was 10.6 trillion
 
He never progressed, he "was always a (Southern) conservative".

No, some that never progress and get stuck in the liberal phase like to think that of others because it excuses their own lack of growth.
 
No, I was a JFK conservative and I believe JFK was from MA
Lots of Southern Conservatives voted for Kennedy, the switch was later...and this has been documented many times for you by me.
 
Lots of Southern Conservatives voted for Kennedy, the switch was later...and this has been documented many times for you by me.

I guess high debt, high dependence, stagnant economic growth are great economic results for a liberal.
 
You seem to ignore the shovel ready job stimulus program and the reality that yes we have recovered those jobs but not grown at all keeping up with population growth.

I haven't ignored anything. Job growth necessary to keep up with population growth is 110k.


In addition still waiting for you and others to address the full time part time workers because of economic conditions and the high number of discouraged workers

U6 unemployment continues to decline.

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My numbers come from the Treasury dept. Prove them wrong

Here is what you stated:

In January 2001 the debt was 10.6 trillion and today it is 18.2 trillion. Are those the result you want to tout?
Debt to the Penny (Daily History Search Application)

Do you have the stones to admit your error?

The success of the U.S. economy is not based upon whether the debt increased. If it were, the U.S. has not been successful for around 100 years.
 
We are in a great depression. The only difference between the 1930's and now is that the unemployed are supported by welfare of various kinds.

The ShadowStats Alternate Unemployment Rate for Aprile 2015 is 23.0%.

Alternate Unemployment Charts

It hasn't gotten better at all.

 
No, some that never progress and get stuck in the liberal phase like to think that of others because it excuses their own lack of growth.
I can play this game...

No, some that never progress and get stuck in the conservative phase like to think that of others because it excuses their own lack of growth.

See that?

The point was, you assumed con had been liberal, he never was liberal.
 
I haven't ignored anything. Job growth necessary to keep up with population growth is 110k.




U6 unemployment continues to decline.

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Here is what you stated:


Debt to the Penny (Daily History Search Application)

Do you have the stones to admit your error?

The success of the U.S. economy is not based upon whether the debt increased. If it were, the U.S. has not been successful for around 100 years.

Yes, I posted an apology, do you have the stones to admit it?

Debt exceeding our annual GDP is a problem, apparently not to you
 
Yes, Obama has done a great job destroying incentive and promoting stagnation. The results show it as do most liberal policies of wealth redistribution and penalizing producers

Secular stagnation has little to do with the executive, much less one who came into office 9 years after it began to take hold.
 
Yes, I posted an apology, do you have the stones to admit it?

That's cool.

Debt exceeding our annual GDP is a problem, apparently not to you

I don't look at variables in a vacuum. If debt/GDP > 100% and the economy continued to shrink, you would have a point. But it is not shrinking and neither is the labor force.
 
I guess high debt, high dependence, stagnant economic growth are great economic results for a liberal.
And instead of facing the fact that your "I voted for JFK" does not negate your Southern Conservative ideology, you shift to a worn out meme about the Bush Recession and GLOBAL economic stagnation as a result. We know what the neoliberal cuts will do, just look at nearly any other OECD growth rate.
 
No, some that never progress and get stuck in the liberal phase like to think that of others because it excuses their own lack of growth.
To add, if "progress" is having a lower IQ, being more fearful, tending towards higher rates of prejudice, more prone to authoritarianism, well that is something I do not want to grow towards.


The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood.
 
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