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U.S. economy adds just 74,000 jobs in December

Gibberish?

Ha....... Employers are not on the dole of paying for their employees health care coverage - including the Obama mandate.

That's why the majority of jobs are part time..

Employers owe you NOTHING more than your salary - they're not in business to care for you and your family - get that through your head.

What goes around comes around employees owe employers nothing in that myopic view
 
So in Mr. Nick's world, anecdotal evidence trumps actual data.

SHORTER: "Gitcher fancy charts outta my 'reality'!"

Anecdotal evidence?

More like someone is making blanket "anecdotal" accusations and passing them off as truth just because the inept "government" and the media backs them, which compels them to believe it's truth.

If you want to portray me as an "idiot" for not believing a word the media reports and what the government(s) pander than that is up to you....

I can tell you this much - everything the media tells you is bull**** and everything the government tells you is bull****.

The only reason why they spew this garbage is to give you morale for one guy or one issue or another...

Sometimes they fail so bad they're inept to even attempt "damage control" Obamacare is a perfect example - I would love to get into that but this is not the time, place or even the thread to do that.
 
Anecdotal evidence?

More like someone is making blanket "anecdotal" accusations and passing them off as truth just because the inept "government" and the media backs them.

If you want to portray me as an "idiot" for not believing a word the media reports and what the government(s) pander than that is up to you....

I can tell you this much - everything the media tells you is bull**** and everything the government tells you is bull****.

The only reason why they spew this garbage is to give you morale for one guy or one issue or another...

Sometimes they fail so bad they're inept to even attempt "damage control" Obamacare is a perfect example - I would love to get into that but this is not the time, place or even the thread to do that.


Ohhhhh... It's all a big conspiracy and only YOU know the truth. Gotcha!
 
What goes around comes around employees owe employers nothing in that myopic view

That's why they won't hire anyone.

They don't want a bunch of kids working 20 hours a week while raping them..
 
So now progressives understand that idea? - the idea that your employee is also your customer.

Ask the government that question.... I would love to hear their answer too.

No, they're too busy throwing taxpayer money at alleged "non-profits" that drag people into vote democrat er their voting base.

I'm not a progressive. I'm in the business of supporting policy that works.

Naturally, that means dipping into both sides of the aisle.
 
Ohhhhh... It's all a big conspiracy and only YOU know the truth. Gotcha!

It's not a conspiracy..... At least not by the businesses.... I'm sure there are plenty out there who are willing to conspire against the said businesses...

Unions are a perfect example of a "conspiracy."
 
I'm not a progressive. I'm in the business of supporting policy that works.

Naturally, that means dipping into both sides of the aisle.

Doesn't matter, you either support the practices of our existing government or you don't.

Yeah I know business too...
 
It sure did where I work. I've cut all the non full timers (about 60 people) done to 27 hours a week, as mandated by my superiors, I assume in response to the new healthcare law defining full time as being 30 or more hours per week. Then hired on more part timers to compensate.

No offense but your boss sounds like a complete a jerk.
 
It's not a conspiracy..... At least not by the businesses.... I'm sure there are plenty out there who are willing to conspire against the said businesses...

Unions are a perfect example of a "conspiracy."

Unions are a democracy. I guess you consider democracy a conspiracy then.
 
So in Mr. Nick's world, anecdotal evidence trumps actual data.

SHORTER: "Gitcher fancy charts outta my 'reality'!"

You don't have any logical data..... You just think you do.
 
Unions are a democracy. I guess you consider democracy a conspiracy then.

Unions are NOT a democracy...... Funny how when the issue of "right to work" comes up the unions go into corporation mode.
 
No offense but your boss sounds like a complete a jerk.

Bosses. The higher you go, the more of them you have, until you get to rair air.

And they're not asses. They are protecting their company. We can't afford 60 full timers. Fact is, it seems to me that the affordable care act was let about medical care, and more about a federal full time hour mandate.
 
you guys know the drill. the economy is (awesome!) (horrible!), and it is the (accomplishment) (failure) of (___________.)


I don't believe any of these numbers coming out of this administration....It's all just one big dupe job.
 
I don't believe any of these numbers coming out of this administration....It's all just one big dupe job.
The administration doesn't author the jobs figures though. No administration does.
 
Relocating a family is not free. Yes, the cost involved to continually move to "Where the work is at" is going to be exceedingly difficult for people with very little to no income that are struggling just to pay the bills they have.

Somehow you think that a family with an underwater mortgage is just going to be able to uproot and move to a new location free of cost and start magically working. Doesn't work that way.

That doesn't even include what a cost to "retrain" would be. The fantasy is those thinking that people can just switch jobs and move their entire family at a drop of ahat free of charge. And you would have to think it is free of charge, otherwise where are they going to get the money to relocate and retrain in the first place?

All excuses, that is all you have to offer.

I on the other hand look for ways to prosper. Let me give you a little example, I'm out of work and have a family, what do I do. First I go where the work is, notice I said "I" and I know there is work and I will find a job. That is being what they call "positive thinking" I get a job and live in a boarding house and send money home. Once I'm established I move the family or in the meantime if work picks back up in my home town I go back. Either way I have options. One thing I will not do is sit on my ass and make excuses.

BTW moving can be free, in many cases the employer will move you for free. Especially when they need you and they need you when you go where the work is. And the reason you go where the work is, is to work so you have money for the needs of the family.
 
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Bosses. The higher you go, the more of them you have, until you get to rair air.

And they're not asses. They are protecting their company. We can't afford 60 full timers. Fact is, it seems to me that the affordable care act was let about medical care, and more about a federal full time hour mandate.

I don't know what your trade is but it's obviously hell, that or you're horrible at your job...
 
I don't know what your trade is but it's obviously hell, that or you're horrible at your job...

Retail. I work for BJ's Wholesale Club, a competitor for Sam's Club, Costco.

I've been promoted three times in the last two years, from 9 an hour, to over 50k a year after bonus. So I assume I'm not horrible.
 
Retail. I work for BJ's Wholesale Club, a competitor for Sam's Club, Costco.

I've been promoted three times in the last two years, from 9 an hour, to over 50k a year after bonus. So I assume I'm not horrible.

That's a nice story......

So I suppose I understand your anger now lol.
 
Unions are a democracy.

True, but in a very authoritarian manner. My union takes away my ability to do individual bargaining with my employer. Because of that, I get paid as little as everyone else.
 
That's a nice story......

So I suppose I understand your anger now lol.

I'm angry for a vast multitude of reasons. It could be its own thread. Things that make me angry, lol.
 
True, but in a very authoritarian manner. My union takes away my ability to do individual bargaining with my employer. Because of that, I get paid as little as everyone else.

And how's that working out for your drive, your motivation to be the best?
 
I've said nothing of the sort.



Tells what story? Because your original premise is dead in the water. The U4 rate is always higher than the U3, by definition.
The number of Discouraged workers has not increased,
while employment has. These facts do much to explain why you've glaringly failed to provide any documentation for any of your claims in the way of supporting data.




The bolding of the term currently is rather unnecessary. This is the definition that has been used for many administrations prior.


Oh good lord ... nothing more needs to be said.
 
True, but in a very authoritarian manner. My union takes away my ability to do individual bargaining with my employer. Because of that, I get paid as little as everyone else.

Thought about running for a union office to change that?
 
I don't believe any of these numbers coming out of this administration....It's all just one big dupe job.

the bull**** flows downhill as well as it ever did, but a rising tide lifts all the boats behind the dam.
 
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