Job Growth 200K + for 12 consecutive months

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Nationally, an average of 99,200 of them would have jobs. This huge increase in jobs (assuming no jobs are concurrently lost) would mean 99,300 of them would have jobs. What is your point?

How many in this fictitious town are retired? How many are too young to work? How many simply stay home to raise those too young to work or to care for those too old to work?

This is the same ignorant argument every time someone fans themselves while wondering out loud how many people have simply left the job market to drive unemployment down or cite job participation rates as if huge numbers of baby boomers aren't moving into their retirement years.

It's a very simplistic way of looking at employment if these things aren't taken into account. But the sound bite doesn't sound as damning when actual facts are used.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I see queerbait is discarding inconvenient facts.

#CherryPicking

 

[cowslinger64]

I see queerbait is discarding inconvenient facts.

#CherryPicking

What do you expect from a guy that would use a 40 year old study of 100 White and 100 Black military members, comparing their "asfab" (lol) scores to IQ tests....as a basis for ALL military members being not so smart?

He's a prime example of either a liar about his test scores, or how iq tests can mean absolutely nothing sometimes. Hell, vette got a 130!! and he's dumber than fuck.


Anyone on the right whining about the jobs paying less, should be flogged.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

How many in this fictitious town are retired? How many are too young to work? How many simply stay home to raise those too young to work or to care for those too old to work?

This is the same ignorant argument every time someone fans themselves while wondering out loud how many people have simply left the job market to drive unemployment down or cite job participation rates as if huge numbers of baby boomers aren't moving into their retirement years.

It's a very simplistic way of looking at employment if these things aren't taken into account. But the sound bite doesn't sound as damning when actual facts are used.

The BLS uses any and all excuses to disqualify workers from the U6 list. For example, if youre laid off and take a course over at adult ed to enhance your resume, youre officially unavailable for work, even if the course is at night or on weekends. Do yuh s'pose many folks are taking courses to add to their skills?

If your car is in the shop, youre unavailable to work.

Getting a set of false teeth? Youre unavailable!

Got the flu? Youre unavailable!

Gotta be home at night to take care of the kids? Youre unavailable.

The best excuse is disqualification for unemployment. Quit your job? Fired? Exhausted your unemployment? You aint going on the U6 list.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Unemployment falls to 5.5%

Good news - right?

you are not very smart...I understand.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

So, its good news, right?

 

[phrodeau]

Straight out of Obama's speeches. Does none of that matter anymore, or did you know it was bullshit when he said it?

OK, I found it for you. It wasn't a speech by President Obama, it was a press release by Jay Carney, who was quoting from a CBO report.

So it was Congress' bullshit, not the President's.

 

[RobDownSouth]

OK, I found it for you. It wasn't a speech by President Obama, it was a press release by Jay Carney, who was quoting from a CBO report.

So it was Congress' bullshit, not the President's.

*gasp*
You mean Queerbait was doing his trademark #AscriptionAgain?

 

[JohnnySavage]

The BLS uses any and all excuses to disqualify workers from the U6 list. For example, if youre laid off and take a course over at adult ed to enhance your resume, youre officially unavailable for work, even if the course is at night or on weekends. Do yuh s'pose many folks are taking courses to add to their skills?

If your car is in the shop, youre unavailable to work.

Getting a set of false teeth? Youre unavailable!

Got the flu? Youre unavailable!

Gotta be home at night to take care of the kids? Youre unavailable.

The best excuse is disqualification for unemployment. Quit your job? Fired? Exhausted your unemployment? You aint going on the U6 list.

That's pretty much the opposite of what U6 comprises.

 

[RobDownSouth]

That's pretty much the opposite of what U6 comprises.

Re-interpreting what constitutes U-6 is something of a parlor game for the looney-tunes right wing.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Re-interpreting what constitutes U-6 is something of a parlor game for the looney-tunes right wing.

None of them had ever heard of it before BHO became president, and since he became president they haven't had the intellect to find out what it measures.