[TomServo]

Welcome to FR.

[MHGinTN]

Well, try asking soemthing that doesn't require a socialist-typical answer to suit you. Employment is a function of successful industry/businesses, not a responsibility of the central authority. [BTW, welcome to FR ... watch out for the Viking Kitties.]

[spoonfork2000]

What are you tlaking about? The economy is fine! Haven't you been paying attention? Take your fear-mongering to another message board.

[woofie]

What not to do?

Be Whatodo

[ambrose]

Welcome.

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[Spruce]

There are no jobs. None.

[Reagan Man]

How about a link to the article.

Who wrote it?

Who published it?

Who are you? LOL

[Eala]

Welcome to FreeRepublic

[chudogg]

How do we get the economy back on track?

Kind of a redudant question when the economy is not off track.

[11th Commandment]

The Government numbers are wrong on job creation. They are missing emerging business doing the majority of hiring. The reason 309,000 dropped off the roles is because the people who never intended to go back to work, their unemployment benefits ran out. That is why is was stupid for congress to extend the unemployment benefits.

In the 90's many older worker delayed retirement and many women jumped into the workforce to earn quick money. When they got layed off, they collected unemployment- of course, as long as they were "looking" for work. When the congressional extended benefits ran out, they were all of the sudden, not looking for work.

[chudogg]

HOLY! DID I JUST SEE A LIVE ZOTTING! MY LIFE IS COMPLETE

INCOMING..

ZOT!!!

[Lael]

First of all, recognize that the "Official" end of the recession, October 2001, is bogus, based only on a "rebound" in the Hydonically cooked GDP.

Best to use the Stock Market in it's leading indicator role.

The SM bottomed in October 2002, ans retested the lows in March, 2003.

Using standard "Leads and Lags", we should recognize that the Economy hit bottom sometime in the 2 Quarter 2003 to the 4 Quarter 2003.

Hence, we are 'bumping along the bottom' employment wise, and probably will for the rest of 2004.

This outlook Jibes with the most recent Federal Reserve Board Minutes from October [always delayed 45 days], where the consensus is that significant hiring won't occur until well into 2005.

BTW, I have had considerable experience with these things since we were responsible for forecasting Commercial and Industrial Loan demand, as well as forecasting the Asset and Liabilities Accounts for several New York Banks.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

I held back until the zot was official this time. I DID NOT write this, just so you know.

You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas, I'll bet you couldn't pour p!ss out of a boot with instructions on the heel.

You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.

You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done. I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you.

You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell? Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly.

You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood.

May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs. You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you.

You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?

You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile, one-handed, slack-jawed, drooling, meatslapper. On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool.

You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill.

You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away.

I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I'm sorry. I can't go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me.

After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don't have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh. The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped away most of what you wrote, because, well... it didn't really say anything.

Your attempt at constructing a creative post was pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal" people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known, that this was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldn't have been "right". Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you.

[TommyUdo]

One Willie is enough.

You have violated Robot's Rules of Order and will be asked to leave the Future immediately.

[PISANO]

Clearly this is George Bush's fault...... as is global warming, 911, the federal DEBT, world-wide terrorism and phen phen.

[M Kehoe]

What good is a high stock market if people aren't working?

Oxymoronic statement that. (No insult intended).

People have to be working if there is a high stock market.

Otherwise, there would be no stock market at all.

Welcome to FR. T'is a good place to learn something.

5.56mm

[tubebender]

Shouldn't the question be "What Happened to the 309,000" people that dropped out of the work force. Did they find work but weren't counted in the survey by any chance...

[Preech1]

Die Troll Scum!

[ExSES]

Just an anecdotal comment based upon personal observation in the Central Florida area:

Many of the "strip malls" I have observed with declining tenant occupancy are now FULL and the parking lots as well. Since the DOL stats on jobs come from the receipt of data from cooperating firms (read OLD LINE LARGE), the job stats have become increasingly a marginal indicator.

John & Jane "Six-Pack" are becoming small-scale entrepeneurs and are not even in the DOL data universe!

This is why the jobs figures obtained through the Commerce Census Bureau surveys are increasingly at variance with those of DOL's Bureau of Labor Statistics!

A point worth keeping in mind!!!