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U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%[W: 831]

Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

Keep diverting to that which you cannot control and posting numbers that have nothing to do with the present nor were they the numbers in the 2004 campaign but that is what you do, divert, distort, and totally ignore current economic performance.

Stop lying, Con. Those were the numbers at the time of the 2004 election.

Jan/2001: 10,497,400
LF: 143,800,000
U6: 7.3%

Oct/2004: 14,335,921
LF: 147,793,000
U6: 9.7%

Difference: 3,838,521

You supported that but now you bitch and moan because Obama lowered that number by only 1 million.
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

Holy ****! :doh

The only reason we have 21 million unemployed/under employed/discouraged workers is because of Bush. He handed 22 million them to Obama.

Exactly what part of that are you incapable of comprehending?

Since the numbers are monthly, "your" President has done nothing but spend money and get very little return on that spending, another liberal success story
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

Stop lying, Con. Those were the numbers at the time of the 2004 election.

Jan/2001: 10,497,400
LF: 143,800,000
U6: 7.3%

Oct/2004: 14,335,921
LF: 147,793,000
U6: 9.7%

Difference: 3,838,521

You supported that but now you bitch and moan because Obama lowered that number by only 1 million.

He lowered the employment number by 3 million with a stimulus program that was supposed to improve the employment numbers, apparently a liberal success story. Your standards really are very low so I can see why you need Obama
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

Since the numbers are monthly, "your" President has done nothing but spend money and get very little return on that spending, another liberal success story
Here's yet another lesson in civics for ya ... if you're an American, he's "your" president too.

You don't have to like it, but you do have to live with it.

And for another 3 years, 9 months, and 1 week.
:2wave: :lamo
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

He lowered the employment number by 3 million with a stimulus program that was supposed to improve the employment numbers, apparently a liberal success story. Your standards really are very low so I can see why you need Obama
Who knows what numbers you're making up now? :shrug:

Employment numbers are up by over a million on his watch. They're up by over 2 million in the private sector.
 
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Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

Here's yet another lesson in civics for ya ... if you're an American, he's "your" president too.

You don't have to like it, but you do have to live with it.

And for another 3 years, 9 months, and 1 week.
:2wave: :lamo

"Your" means you voted for the incompetent, I didn't
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

Who knows what numbers you're making up now? :shrug:

Employment numbers are up by over a million on his watch. They're up by over 2 million in the private sector.

Let me know when we get back to 146 million working Americans for that is what it was when the recession began. You really do have a very selective memory based upon your partisanship
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

Let me know when we get back to 146 million working Americans for that is what it was when the recession began. You really do have a very selective memory based upon your partisanship
It was 142 million on Jan 20, 2009 when Obama took office and 140 million when the Great Bush recession was over in June.
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

It was 142 million on Jan 20, 2009 when Obama took office and 140 million when the Great Bush recession was over in June.

Yes, and Obama was hired to fix the "mess" and the results show today that he has failed. We are almost 4 years after the end of the recession, have a growing population and yet the employment is less than when the recession began and the labor force isn't growing as much as it was during the Bush term. Poor leadership and economic policies will be the Obama legacy. You can defend the incompetent but all that does is make you look foolish and immature.

Further performance is judged not against terrible numbers but against the numbers prior to the recession. So employment increased 1 million in four years and you want to give him credit for getting the employment level back to what it is today, 3 million less than December 2007? Bet your boss wouldn't think you did that good of a job if you generated those kind of numbers.
 
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It was 142 million on Jan 20, 2009 when Obama took office and 140 million when the Great Bush recession was over in June.


BHO's failure is not to have caused the recession, but to have institutionalized its results as a "new normal.":cool:
 
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BHO's failure is not to have caused the recession, but to have institutionalized its results as a "new normal.":cool:

Exactly, liberals willingly accept the new normal of high unemployment, high debt, high govt. dependence, low economic growth. To a liberal low standards are the norm not the basis upon which this country was built, self reliance and exceptionalism
 
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BHO's failure is not to have caused the recession, but to have institutionalized its results as a "new normal.":cool:
That isn't true at all, if you look at the graph the increases are roughly at the same rate as President Bush.


Bureau of Labor Statistics Data
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

That isn't true at all, if you look at the graph the increases are roughly at the same rate as President Bush.


Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

You can post those numbers until hell freezes over but the fact remains there are 143 million employed today vs. 146 million when the recession began so the best you can come up with is comparision to when he took office not what he promised to do.. When you increase numbers over the worst numbers that percentage increase is going to be high but not anywhere near what the numbers were when the recession began. That is what good performance would be, not Obama's performance. You see, cost doesn't matter to you or any other liberals.
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

Let me know when we get back to 146 million working Americans for that is what it was when the recession began. You really do have a very selective memory based upon your partisanship
146 million? Hell, it wasn't even that high when Bush handed the economy to Obama.
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

You can post those numbers until hell freezes over but the fact remains there are 143 million employed today vs. 146 million when the recession began so the best you can come up with is comparision to when he took office not what he promised to do.. When you increase numbers over the worst numbers that percentage increase is going to be high but not anywhere near what the numbers were when the recession began. That is what good performance would be, not Obama's performance. You see, cost doesn't matter to you or any other liberals.
The fact is that the recession began when Bush was president and YOU don't want to accept the 4 million losses that occurred when he was the president.
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

Yes, and Obama was hired to fix the "mess" and the results show today that he has failed.
Conservative standards ...

A Republican president takes over with 4.2% unemployment and leaves us in a massive recession which leads to 10% unemployment.

The 22nd Amendment should be repealed so that president can serve another 4 years.

A Democrat president takes over with 7.8% unemployment which rises to 10% due to the recession he inherited and brings the unemployment rate back down to 7.6% ... and HE'S the failure.


:doh :doh :doh
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

Exactly, liberals willingly accept the new normal of high unemployment, high debt, high govt. dependence, low economic growth. To a liberal low standards are the norm not the basis upon which this country was built, self reliance and exceptionalism
Conservative's stardards...

When Bush left office, unemployment was higher than it is now. The rate at which debt was accumulating was higher than it is now.

And you said you would vote for Bush for the 5th time if he could run again.


:doh :doh :doh
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

146 million? Hell, it wasn't even that high when Bush handed the economy to Obama.

Didn't have to be, but that is what good leaders do, take a bad economy and improve on it and the improvement bar is 146 million, not a labor force that lost 500,000 and just got back to where it was when he took office. What did he add 6 trillion to the debt for if that is the best he can do?
 
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The fact is that the recession began when Bush was president and YOU don't want to accept the 4 million losses that occurred when he was the president.

You are right, Obama inherited a recession and after adding 6 plus trillion to the debt we are back where we started when he inherited those terrible numbers over 4 years ago. That is liberalism and its low standards.
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

You can post those numbers until hell freezes over ...
Say, Con ... aren't those the numbers you post here every day of your life?? :lamo

NOW, you suddenly have a problem with them?? :lamo
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

Say, Con ... aren't those the numbers you post here every day of your life?? :lamo

NOW, you suddenly have a problem with them?? :lamo

I have no problem with them at all, but Bush wasn't on the ballot in 2008 when those numbers were generated, Obama was. You gave him a chance and he failed. You voted for him for a second term and the numbers aren't any better or don't even come close to the bar set by the beginning of the recession. Your standards are very low as are your expectations.
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

You are right, Obama inherited a recession and after adding 6 plus trillion to the debt we are back where we started when he inherited those terrible numbers over 4 years ago. That is liberalism and its low standards.

Liberal history only extends back to the last year or two of the Bush Presidency.

They seem to genuinely believe that America has never had it so good, despite the clear evidence of record debt, the doubling of food stamp use, institutionalized unemployment, a failing educational system, an every growing bureaucracy, and that's just the domestic problems.

It is very difficult to debate someone's beliefs.
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

Didn't have to be, but that is what good leaders do, take a bad economy and improve on it and the improvement bar is 146 million, not a labor force that lost 500,000 and just got back to where it was when he took office. What did he add 6 trillion to the debt for if that is the best he can do?

But, Con, your idea of a good leader is one who nearly doubles unemployment and nearly doubles the debt. By your standards, Obama is a superb leader.
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

But, Con, your idea of a good leader is one who nearly doubles unemployment and nearly doubles the debt. By your standards, Obama is a superb leader.

About time you figured that out!:mrgreen:
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

You are right, Obama inherited a recession and after adding 6 plus trillion to the debt we are back where we started when he inherited those terrible numbers over 4 years ago. That is liberalism and its low standards.

It wasn't just a recession, it came very close to a depression, the financial system was in chaos, phony derivatives found their place far and wide, credit markets were frozen.

You seem to imply that the $6 million plus added to the debt was through spending, as I explained yesterday a good chunk (I don't know how much) was due to the loss of FIT and payroll taxes because job losses the Bush recession caused.
 
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