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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%

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.

I didn't vote for Bush in 2008 because he wasn't on the ballot. Unlike you I have higher standards that apparently you do. Obama has yet to meet the bar or even come close due to poor or zero leadership and terrible economic policy that rewards people who aren't working and penalizes those who are. That is liberal economic 101
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

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.

Your opinion noted, how did this recession affect your and your family? A close to depression affects everyone. I contend high inflation, high unemployment, and high interest rates affect everyone.

The loss of FIT is due to the inability of Obama to implement an economic plan to provide incentive to the private sector to grow. Obama said he had the answers to the problems that he helped create by being in the Congress. Seems people like you always claim that Bush is responsible for all the problems we have but Obama has no blame in the economic results we have today. Your expectations are always too low which is why you are a liberal.
 
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

So what? Unemployment remains at 7.6%, and is only that low because so many have dropped out of the labor force. BHO has institutionalized mediocrity.:cool:
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

So what? Unemployment remains at 7.6%, and is only that low because so many have dropped out of the labor force. BHO has institutionalized mediocrity.:cool:

A true liberal's dream economy, high dependence means permanent power.
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

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.

The Great Recession came nowhere near a depression.

A depression generally needs the following (though the definition varies):

'a decline in real GDP exceeding 10%, or
a recession lasting 2 or more years.'

Depression (economics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Neither was remotely true in this case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_United_States


And as for the banking system chaos?

Way overrated IMO.

Sure, lots of banks messed up and got themselves in trouble. But roughly HALF of all banks failed during the Great Depression. 1/2! This time? Half a dozen maybe...I am not sure, but hardly any.

The banks spread most of the hype and panic about the banking system to scare the public into getting the governments to bail them out.

And the moronic media and gullible public fell for it and the banks got trillions from taxpayers - worked like a charm.


Sure, the banking sector was in chaos. And if they had been left alone, several would fail, others would take their place and the problems would be resolved.

Fear is a bad thing for macroeconomics.
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

So what? Unemployment remains at 7.6%, and is only that low because so many have dropped out of the labor force. BHO has institutionalized mediocrity.:cool:

It's not only that he has insitutionalized it, he has personified it.

The man had no single qualification for being President, not one. No experience at business, administration, foreign policy, nothing.

How could the bar possible be lowered any further? When it is said that anyone in the US can grow up to be President, I'm not sure they had someone like BH Obama in mind, but he certainly does make that case.
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

It's not only that he has insitutionalized it, he has personified it.

The man had no single qualification for being President, not one. No experience at business, administration, foreign policy, nothing.

How could the bar possible be lowered any further? When it is said that anyone in the US can grow up to be President, I'm not sure they had someone like BH Obama in mind, but he certainly does make that case.

Gives me hope that my own candidacy might not be so implausible.:lol:
 
Again, he's playing politics. There is an objective reality
that is not dependent on what anyone says. I might say I can fly without mechanical aid, but the reality is I cannot. Do you want factual truth, or to play rhetorical games?

You are incapable of arriving at any semblence of "factual truth" because your first priority is defending this President and the bankrupt ideology that he's beholden to.

Who's fault will it be in 2015 when we're still struggling with a shrinking economy and record dependence ?

Its the most alien concept to you Obama supporters that investors and Corporations and small bussinesses could actually be responding to a Preqsident who taken a threatening tone with them and has passed laws that mandate their expenditures.

Oh but no way that has anything to do with the record amount of money the are currently sitting on.

Some of you are so deprived of any integrity you actually blame this on Bush.
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

So what? Unemployment remains at 7.6%, and is only that low because so many have dropped out of the labor force. BHO has institutionalized mediocrity.:cool:

Thanks for you partisan uninformed opinion, but the reasons are complex, for one thing Bush had the advantage of a good number of public sector jobs, whereas under President Obama those numbers are shrinking because of the loss of income taxes at the local level.

Labor force is a problem of demographics, the baby boomers are retiring and more and young adults are choosing to get an education.

Civilian labor force participation rates by age, sex, race, and ethnicity
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

Thanks for you partisan uninformed opinion, but the reasons are complex, for one thing Bush had the advantage of a good number of public sector jobs, whereas under President Obama those numbers are shrinking because of the loss of income taxes at the local level.

Labor force is a problem of demographics, the baby boomers are retiring and more and young adults are choosing to get an education.

Civilian labor force participation rates by age, sex, race, and ethnicity

Ahem. You need to check your own link. It shows labor force participation among 65-and-older (baby boomers these days) to be up, not down. Participation generally is down because BHO has discouraged job seekers.:cool:
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

Ahem. You need to check your own link. It shows labor force participation among 65-and-older (baby boomers these days) to be up, not down. Participation generally is down because BHO has discouraged job seekers.:cool:
Yeah, I've made that mistake before, but the rate for college age people are way down (-17%). And yet again, you make a partisan unsubstantiated claim. Also, a person can be considered employed by working as little as 1 hour a week and volunteer jobs are also counted.
 
Yeah, I've made that mistake before, but the
rate for college age people are way
down (-17%). And yet again, you make a partisan unsubstantiated claim. Also, a person can be considered employed by working as little as 1 hour a week and volunteer jobs are also counted.

You keep blaming the current economic meltdown on "baby-boomers" and a loss of public sector jobs.
And young people "getting an education"

What you folks are willing to do to to make sure you never have to say "I was wrong" just blows my mind.


Your every post so far from you, has been a mistake.
 
You keep blaming the current economic meltdown on "baby-boomers" and a loss of public sector jobs.
And young people "getting an education"
What you folks are willing to do to to make sure you never have to say "I was wrong" just blows my mind.
Your every post so far from you, has been a mistake.

Your lack of comprehension does not serve as a rebuttal...
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

I didn't vote for Bush in 2008 because he wasn't on the ballot. Unlike you I have higher standards that apparently you do.
No, your standards are much lower than mine. In fact, you have just one standard -- vote for which ever candidate runs as the Republican. That's it. Doesn't matter what their record is, doesn't matter if they served time for raping children. They put an "R" after their name and they can count on your vote.

And the evidence of that is in the honesty of your admission that you didn't vote for Bush because he wasn't on the ballot. Despite nearly doubling unemployment, despite nearly doubling the debt, despite crashing the housing markets, credit markets, and stock market, despite giving the U.S.A. its first trillion dollar deficit, despite spiraling the economy into the Great Recession ...

... the ONLY reason you didn't vote for him is because his name was not on the ballot.


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Obama has yet to meet the bar or even come close due to poor or zero leadership and terrible economic policy that rewards people who aren't working and penalizes those who are. That is liberal economic 101
I can only hope you're capable of understanding why I give zero weight to the opinion of someone who would have voted for Bush for an insane fifth time if only he put his name on the ballot again after what he did to this country. But I'm not really banking on it.
 
You keep blaming the current economic meltdown on "baby-boomers" and a loss of public sector jobs.
And young people "getting an education"

What you folks are willing to do to to make sure you never have to say "I was wrong" just blows my mind.


Your every post so far from you, has been a mistake.
The economic meltdown occurred near the end of 2008; it was the fault of the financial sector on Wall Street, it's no wonder you mind is "blown" as you say.
 
You are incapable of arriving at any semblence of "factual truth" because your first priority is defending this President and the bankrupt ideology that he's beholden to.

Who's fault will it be in 2015 when we're still struggling with a shrinking economy and record dependence ?

Its the most alien concept to you Obama supporters that investors and Corporations and small bussinesses could actually be responding to a Preqsident who taken a threatening tone with them and has passed laws that mandate their expenditures.

Oh but no way that has anything to do with the record amount of money the are currently sitting on.

Some of you are so deprived of any integrity you actually blame this on Bush.

The insult isn't dealing with anything factual. As I've said, no president controls the economy: not in 2004; Not today; not in 2015.

I also repeat, I've never blamed Bush for the economy. So when arguing with me, it might help to stay with what I've said.
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

Your opinion noted, how did this recession affect your and your family? A close to depression affects everyone. I contend high inflation, high unemployment, and high interest rates affect everyone.

The loss of FIT is due to the inability of Obama to implement an economic plan to provide incentive to the private sector to grow. Obama said he had the answers to the problems that he helped create by being in the Congress. Seems people like you always claim that Bush is responsible for all the problems we have but Obama has no blame in the economic results we have today. Your expectations are always too low which is why you are a liberal.
Yeah, sure, Con. The private sector has exerienced no growth at all. :roll:

Oh, wait ... rather than take your word for it, let's take a look at the actual numbers, shall we ... ?


Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2010 -17 -26 111 170 102 +94 103 129 113 188 154 114
2011 +80 243 223 303 183 177 206 129 256 174 197 249
2012 323 265 208 120 152 +78 177 131 118 217 256 224
2013 164 254(P) 95(P)


BLS: Total private (monthly change)

Hey, would ya look at that, Con? We're now in our 37th month of consecutive growth in the private sector. During that period, the private sector has added 6½ million jobs. Only Bill Clinton has ever added more jobs within a 37 month streak of growth in the private sector.

THAT is what Conservatives thinks is causing the loss of FIT.
:roll:
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

No, your standards are much lower than mine. In fact, you have just one standard -- vote for which ever candidate runs as the Republican. That's it. Doesn't matter what their record is, doesn't matter if they served time for raping children. They put an "R" after their name and they can count on your vote.

And the evidence of that is in the honesty of your admission that you didn't vote for Bush because he wasn't on the ballot. Despite nearly doubling unemployment, despite nearly doubling the debt, despite crashing the housing markets, credit markets, and stock market, despite giving the U.S.A. its first trillion dollar deficit, despite spiraling the economy into the Great Recession ...

... the ONLY reason you didn't vote for him is because his name was not on the ballot.


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I can only hope you're capable of understanding why I give zero weight to the opinion of someone who would have voted for Bush for an insane fifth time if only he put his name on the ballot again after what he did to this country. But I'm not really banking on it.

So by your standards why did you vote to re-elect Obama? What economic numbers warranted that vote?
 
You are incapable of arriving at any semblence of "factual truth" because your first priority is defending this President and the bankrupt ideology that he's beholden to.

Who's fault will it be in 2015 when we're still struggling with a shrinking economy and record dependence ?

Its the most alien concept to you Obama supporters that investors and Corporations and small bussinesses could actually be responding to a Preqsident who taken a threatening tone with them and has passed laws that mandate their expenditures.

Oh but no way that has anything to do with the record amount of money the are currently sitting on.

Some of you are so deprived of any integrity you actually blame this on Bush.
Yeah, I can't imagine investors or private corporations or private businesses responding at all???

But then again, when we look at the actual numbers ....

Seems people are investing more than ever ... the market since bottoming out from Bush's Great Recession ...

DJIA ............ 14,865 (UP 127%) -- 1 pt under all-time high
NASDAQ ........ 3,295 (UP 160%)
S&P500 ......... 1,589 (UP 135%) -- 5 pts under all-time high

Now let's look at the actual numbers of private corporations and private small businesses ....

Seems the private sector is also booming since the labor market bottomed out from Bush's Great Recession ... hmmm, 37 consecutive months of growth, adding an impressive 6½ million jobs.

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2010 -17 -26 111 170 102 +94 103 129 113 188 154 114
2011 +80 243 223 303 183 177 206 129 256 174 197 249
2012 323 265 208 120 152 +78 177 131 118 217 256 224
2013 164 254(P) 95(P)


I'll just file your post in the "Conservatives say the darndest thing" bin.


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

Ahem. You need to check your own link. It shows labor force participation among 65-and-older (baby boomers these days) to be up, not down. Participation generally is down because BHO has discouraged job seekers.:cool:
Not because more aren't retiring, but because more people are entering the age of retirement than ever before. Also, for the first time since the baby boom generation began, more of the baby boomers are dying off, shrinking that age range in population and increasing the LFPR of those 65 and older who remain employed.
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

Not because more aren't retiring, but because more people are entering the age of retirement than ever before. Also, for the first time since the baby boom generation began, more of the baby boomers are dying off, shrinking that age range in population and increasing the LFPR of those 65 and older who remain employed.

Did you think before you posted this? Obviously not. Any one who uses the baby boomer retirement numbers to explain the LPR need to explain why we are not encountering a workforce shortage unless you would argue that the jobs retired from simply vanished...
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

So by your standards why did you vote to re-elect Obama? What economic numbers warranted that vote?
Because I felt he did a pretty decent job with the hand he was dealt. And I didn't hear anything from Romney that gave me the impression he could do any better. And like most others, I felt Bush was more responsible for the state of the economy than was Obama.
 
Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%

Did you think before you posted this? Obviously not. Any one who uses the baby boomer retirement numbers to explain the LPR need to explain why we are not encountering a workforce shortage unless you would argue that the jobs retired from simply vanished...
Umm, where did I say that was the only explanation for the drop?? :shrug: There's also a decrease due to more people going to school rather than work and there also a decrease due to more people collecting disability rather than work and there's folks entering the discouraged category and there's areas in the country where jobs truly are hard to come by.

The point is, there are many reason why the LFPR rate is dropping -- and in many cases, it's by choice.

In many cases it's because companies are outsourcing more. In many cases, it's because technology is replacing people.
 
Yeah, I can't imagine investors or private corporations or private businesses responding at all???

But then again, when we look at the actual numbers ....

Seems people are investing more than ever ... the market since bottoming out from Bush's Great Recession ...

DJIA ............ 14,865 (UP 127%) -- 1 pt under all-time high
NASDAQ ........ 3,295 (UP 160%)
S&P500 ......... 1,589 (UP 135%) -- 5 pts under all-time high

Now let's look at the actual numbers of private corporations and private small businesses ....

Seems the private sector is also booming since the labor market bottomed out from Bush's Great Recession ... hmmm, 37 consecutive months of growth, adding an impressive 6½ million jobs.

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2010 -17 -26 111 170 102 +94 103 129 113 188 154 114
2011 +80 243 223 303 183 177 206 129 256 174 197 249
2012 323 265 208 120 152 +78 177 131 118 217 256 224
2013 164 254(P) 95(P)


I'll just file your post in the "Conservatives say the darndest thing" bin.


:coffeepap

What you see here is liberal compassion, we have 3 million fewer employed people today than when the recession began, 500,000 dropped out of the labor force last month plus another 100,000 in Feb, we have over 6 trillion added to the debt to generate those numbers and that is a liberal success story. Wow!! Now wonder we are in a mess as liberals have such low standards
 
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