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US Job Market Loses Steam

apdst said:
Oh, really?
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March was one of the smaller hiring months for the census, as it has been historically.

CensusImpactApril20101.jpg
 
apdst said:
Your documentation, please?
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My mistake 202 000 jobs were lost in the government sector for july

Employment Situation Summary

Government employment fell by 202,000 in July, largely reflecting the loss of
143,000 temporary workers hired for Census 2010. Employment in both state and
local governments edged down over the month
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Goldenboy219 said:
That's... not an answer.
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Ok...please, tell us where private sector money comes from? From the private sector?

or, are you about to try and sell us the song and dance about how government can create wealth?
 
apdst said:
Ok...please, tell us where private sector money comes from? From the private sector?

or, are you about to try and sell us the song and dance about how government can create wealth?
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Good, now we can safley assume the money all comes from the same place.:lol:
 
drz-400 said:
Good, now we can safley assume the money all comes from the same place.:lol:
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There's no assumption. It's a fact: wealth is created by the private sector, not by the government.
 
There have been an estimated 614,000 private sector jobs created since January 2010.

Source
 
apdst said:
The lengths you boys will go to to defend Obama's dicked up policies is amazing.
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Red herring much?

The same source confirms that around 100k jobs were created in 2008.

The more you know!:2wave:
 
Goldenboy219 said:
Red herring much?

The same source confirms that around 100k jobs were created in 2008.

The more you know!:2wave:
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A whole 100,000? What about the 7 million jobs that have been lost since 2008? :rofl

I hope you're not bragging.

Red herring, you say?
 
apdst said:
A whole 100,000? What about the 7 million jobs that have been lost since 2008? :rofl

I hope you're not bragging.

Red herring, you say?
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Bragging? Nah, just providing you with facts so you cannot deny them in future threads regarding employment numbers.

BTW, my comparrison to 2008 was to reference how far labor markets have come. Partisan politics are of no interest to me.
 
Goldenboy219 said:
Bragging? Nah, just providing you with facts so you cannot deny them in future threads regarding employment numbers.

BTW, my comparrison to 2008 was to reference how far labor markets have come. Partisan politics are of no interest to me.
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Let me get this straight, we lose 7 million jobs; there have been less than a half million jobs created in the market, since. Obviously, the market hasn't come very far.
 
apdst said:
Let me get this straight, we lose 7 million jobs; there have been less than a half million jobs created in the market, since. Obviously, the market hasn't come very far.
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It went from losing 600k private sector jobs per month to gaining 70k.
 
Goldenboy219 said:
It went from losing 600k private sector jobs per month to gaining 70k.
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Except, that there weren't actually 70,000 jobs created.

It's trick math. It's like that rediculous commercial that suggest a freight train can haul one ton of cargo 400 miles, on one gallon of fuel. I guess P.T. Barnum was right.
 
apdst said:
Except, that there weren't actually 70,000 jobs created.

It's trick math. It's like that rediculous commercial that suggest a freight train can haul one ton of cargo 400 miles, on one gallon of fuel. I guess P.T. Barnum was right.
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You can document this claim of course.
 
Redress said:
You can document this claim of course.
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The job numbers? I already have, try and keep up.

As far as P.T. Barnum being right, one only has to read this thread.
 
apdst said:
The job numbers? I already have, try and keep up.

As far as P.T. Barnum being right, one only has to read this thread.
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No you have not. You pointed out a few thousand census workers who are already mostly off the payroll.
 
Redress said:
No you have not. You pointed out a few thousand census workers who are already mostly off the payroll.
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There werwe 130,000 jobs lost in July. 40,000 of those jobs were census jobs. That leaves 90,000 jobs. That doesn't equate to a gain of 70,000 jobs.

The government is playing tricks on some of you and you're falling for it.
 
apdst said:
There werwe 130,000 jobs lost in July. 40,000 of those jobs were census jobs. That leaves 90,000 jobs. That doesn't equate to a gain of 70,000 jobs.

The government is playing tricks on some of you and you're falling for it.
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Where you are confused is with the notion of private sector and public sector jobs. Overall, we lost jobs, since the government shed workers. However, the private sector gained 71k jobs in July. So, Goldenboy is correct, and your objection based on census workers is absolutely wrong, since census workers are not private sector employees.
 
This is slightly off-topic, but it seems to be that the Bush tax cuts to the very wealthy (which are still in effect) did not increase jobs one iota.
 
Middleground said:
This is slightly off-topic, but it seems to be that the Bush tax cuts to the very wealthy (which are still in effect) did not increase jobs one iota.
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They did not to any degree

Most of the money the wealthy retained went into financial investments or were invested offshore rather then to productive investments in the US which would have increased jobs domestically.
 
Middleground said:
This is slightly off-topic, but it seems to be that the Bush tax cuts to the very wealthy (which are still in effect) did not increase jobs one iota.
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From the summer of 2003 when the tax cuts for everyone went into effect, until the housing and financial markets went belly up, those tax cuts created over 8 million jobs. (See image below)

Why don't you check the statistic from the BLS website and get back to me.
Bureau of Labor Statistics Data
 

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