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Job growth cools slightly, recovery grinds on [W:225]

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Employers kept their pace of hiring virtually steady in December, falling short of the levels needed to bring down the country's lofty unemployment rate and pointing to lackluster economic growth in 2013.

Other data on Friday gave stronger signs of growth, with the U.S. service sector activity expanding the most in 10 months.


Job growth cools slightly, recovery grinds on | Reuters

recovery is still slow and exceptionally delicate. we aren't out of the woods yet.
 
Unemployment went back up. This is not a recovery.

Obama = worst president ever
 
We really need to reverse thrust at impulse power away from the Zero-Interest Nebulous, Commander Ryker, before it traps us with its purtiness.
 
recovery is still slow and exceptionally delicate. we aren't out of the woods yet.

The economy isn't growing. It's maintaining
 
Obama's economic team predicted we'd be at 5.2% unemplyment right now if we passed his failed stimulus.
 
The economy isn't growing. It's maintaining

It is a jobless recovery. I am not sure there is anything else the government could do, so it needs to stop making it worse IMHO for the recovery side in the name of the non-existent job growth side.
 
It is a jobless recovery. I am not sure there is anything else the government could do, so it needs to stop making it worse IMHO for the recovery side in the name of the non-existent job growth side.

The government can't create jobs.
 
Sure it can. They average $75K a year and we have binders full of them.

Then why, after trillions of dollars, are we just maintaining?
 
Then why, after trillions of dollars, are we just maintaining?

Because we haven't been hiring more bureaucrats. People who work for the government have jobs created by the government, ergo the government does create jobs.
 
recovery is still slow and exceptionally delicate. we aren't out of the woods yet.

This is a joke.. look at the u6 numbers..

Obama is a plague to destroy the USA... Obama is the Jihad..
 
Because we haven't been hiring more bureaucrats. People who work for the government have jobs created by the government, ergo the government does create jobs.

Its our money sherlock... they dont create jobs..
 
The liberals have imported forty million uneducated, poverty stricken unemployed, all with huge families. There will never be jobs for them. There will never be jobs for the inner city types. Few of them ever get educations, their culture disdains schools. Their "Jobs" are entry level jobs and employment success for them is raising the minimum wage.

That is the reason for the overall anger, malaise and depression of Americans. Just walk out the front door and you see that your once beautiful country has turned into a repository for the world dependency class. Look out the window and you see their pregnant children pushing baby carriages down the sidewalks that you paid to build, they don't pay. They have overwhelmed every single city in the United States. There is no way to change it, no way to get it back, it's gone. Obama got us, we did our best, but he destroyed all that we had built.

The reason you hear the word "Recovery" is because we have traditionally always had recoveries to prosperity. This time, the liberals have insured that we will not, there is no road back to the proud warrior America of charging lions and soaring eagles. It is taking a long time for Americans to wrap their mind around the fact that we are now a dependent, tolerant, no judgements country, filled with 3rd world types that relate to the mediocrity of Obama, the permanent mediocrity of third world worship, rage, hatred and violence.
 
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The liberals have imported forty million uneducated, poverty stricken unemployed, all with huge families. There will never be jobs for them. There will never be jobs for the inner city types. Few of them ever get educations, their culture disdains schools. Their "Jobs" are entry level jobs and employment success for them is raising the minimum wage.

That is the reason for the overall anger, malaise and depression of Americans. Just walk out the front door and you see that your once beautiful country has turned into a repository for the world dependency class. Look out the window and you see their pregnant children pushing baby carriages down the sidewalks that you paid to build, they don't pay. They have overwhelmed every single city in the United States. There is no way to change it, no way to get it back, it's gone. Obama got us, we did our best, but he destroyed all that we had built.

The reason you hear the word "Recovery" is because we have traditionally always had recoveries to prosperity. This time, the liberals have insured that we will not, there is no road back to the proud warrior America of charging lions and soaring eagles. It is taking a long time for Americans to wrap their mind around the fact that we are now a dependent, tolerant, no judgements country, filled with 3rd world types that relate to the mediocrity of Obama, the permanent mediocrity of third world worship, rage, hatred and violence.

well siad... if Obama wanted a recovery he would have announced the GWB tax cuts to be permanent 3 years ago and we would have had a chance..
 
This is a joke.. look at the u6 numbers..

Ok...Unchanged at 14.4%, down from a high of 17.1% in April, 2010. The official U3 is unchanged at 7.8%, down from a high of 10% in Oct 2009 (9.9% in April 2010 if you want a strict comparison). I fail to see why you think the U6 is more revealing...they both move in the same direction.
 
The liberals have imported forty million uneducated, poverty stricken unemployed, all with huge families. There will never be jobs for them. There will never be jobs for the inner city types. Few of them ever get educations, their culture disdains schools. Their "Jobs" are entry level jobs and employment success for them is raising the minimum wage.

That is the reason for the overall anger, malaise and depression of Americans. Just walk out the front door and you see that your once beautiful country has turned into a repository for the world dependency class. Look out the window and you see their pregnant children pushing baby carriages down the sidewalks that you paid to build, they don't pay. They have overwhelmed every single city in the United States. There is no way to change it, no way to get it back, it's gone. Obama got us, we did our best, but he destroyed all that we had built.

The reason you hear the word "Recovery" is because we have traditionally always had recoveries to prosperity. This time, the liberals have insured that we will not, there is no road back to the proud warrior America of charging lions and soaring eagles. It is taking a long time for Americans to wrap their mind around the fact that we are now a dependent, tolerant, no judgements country, filled with 3rd world types that relate to the mediocrity of Obama, the permanent mediocrity of third world worship, rage, hatred and violence.

What you say is clearly true and for the the greatest nation in the world to come to this in just a couple of generations is a helluva sad thing. The American people with their strong traditions and sense of decency, the Americans who created the country for the people of today, would not understand what happened if they were to see it now.

Solutions are not easy but one that comes to mind is the repeal of the 17th Amendment and greater State Rights.

Bill Whittle mentions it here

THE END OF THE BEGINNING - YouTube

with further information here.

Repeal the 17th Amendment – Tenth Amendment Center
 
So people in the military do not have jobs, Dr. Watson?

Technically, no...as military are not included in either the Non-Farm Payroll numbers nor in the Labor Force Survey (Active duty military are excluded from the population as are all children under 16, and people in prison or an institution).

So when looking at job growth or total employment, military are excluded.
 
Technically, no...as military are not included in either the Non-Farm Payroll numbers nor in the Labor Force Survey (Active duty military are excluded from the population as are all children under 16, and people in prison or an institution).

So when looking at job growth or total employment, military are excluded.

But they have jobs--yes or no?
 
Because we haven't been hiring more bureaucrats. People who work for the government have jobs created by the government, ergo the government does create jobs.

Whete does the money come from?
 
But they have jobs--yes or no?

As far as any measure of jobs or employment...no, they don't. The military has been excluded from every measure of jobs or employment that I can think of since 1994.
 
Whete does the money come from?

The federal mint. Didn't you collect state quarters? I suppose you can print it yourself but I wouldn't recommend it since that apparently is all illegal and stuff.....
 
As far as any measure of jobs or employment...no, they don't. The military has been excluded from every measure of jobs or employment that I can think of since 1994.

Job - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

"Definition of JOB
1
a : a piece of work; especially : a small miscellaneous piece of work undertaken on order at a stated rate
b : the object or material on which work is being done
c : something produced by or as if by work <did a nice job>
d : an example of a usually specified type : item <the limousine was a long white job>
2
a : something done for private advantage <the whole incident was a put-up job>
b : a criminal enterprise; specifically : robbery
c : a damaging or destructive bit of work <did a job on him>
3
a (1) : something that has to be done : task (2) : an undertaking requiring unusual exertion <it was a real job to talk over that noise>
b : a specific duty, role, or function
c : a regular remunerative position
d chiefly British : state of affairs —usually used with bad or good <it was a good job you didn't hit the old man — E. L. Thomas>
4
: plastic surgery for cosmetic purposes <a nose job>
— on the job
: at work
See job defined for English-language learners »
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Examples of JOB

He took a job as a waiter.
She has a high-paying job on Wall Street.
She's trying to get a job in New York.
The new factory will create thousands of jobs.
They offered him the job but he turned it down.
The blood's job is to carry oxygen to the different parts of the body.
Construction of the bridge turned out to be a bigger job than they had expected.
It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it."


Somebody forgot to tell the dictionary people that only the Bureau of Labor Statistics decides what is or is not a job because they left them completely out of the definition.....
 
The federal mint. Didn't you collect state quarters? I suppose you can print it yourself but I wouldn't recommend it since that apparently is all illegal and stuff.....

The money comes from the private sector, hence, the government doesn't create anything.
 
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