Posted on 02/05/2015 10:41:04 AM PST by navysealdad
The number of full-time jobs, and thats what everybody wants, as a percent of the total population, is the lowest its ever been
The other thing that is very misleading about that number is the more people that drop out, the better the number gets. In the recession we lost 13 million jobs. Only 3 million have come back. You dont see that in that number.
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Those 3 million that came back went to illegals and H1Bs.
Gallup says the unemployment figures are a big flat lie:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3253888/posts
Everyone knows things are bad — the jobs go to foreigners, not Americans. The numbers are all fake. We’re in a Depression, but we’re supposed to act like we don’t notice.
I am one of them that finally just gave up. Over 55 and could only get temp positions.
$hithead must be happy over that.
Feudalism here we come!
I’m trying to hang in there for 16 more months, when I’ll be 62. I’ll take early SS, and my small pension, and work part time. My income will be close, and the BS will be out the door. Good luck to you.
I had no idea what a sound choice I was making seventeen years ago, when I started my own business.
At 61, I'm not in danger of being forced out of a long-term job, or being forced to accept low paying work that is beneath my hard earned worth as a person.
“I am one of them that finally just gave up. Over 55 and could only get temp positions”
Me, too. I was just shy of 62 so no age discrimination
So while Bush benefited to the tune of 4 or 5% from the fake numbers, Obama is seeing a 10% plus gap between the real numbers and the reported ones. No wonder he won re-election.
Yeah, I was watching Fox Business channel this am, and Charlie Gasparino was adamant that anyone who says we are still in a recession is lying and they don't know what they are talking about.
This after the stat about 13 mil losing their jobs in 2008, but only 3 mil have gotten a job since. I believe that is 10 mil of people who haven't gotten back a job they lost. Not to mention all the full-timers who may have a job now, but it is part-time (just heard my friendly barista complaining about that, "I just want one full time job that pays me the same as my two part-time jobs").
I turned the t.v. off after Gasparino said that, as life is too short to listen to New York based people who really need to travel, by car, and visit the rest of the United States.
I remember in 2006, everyone I knew had a job and was doing OK. And they said: "I have a job. I'm doing OK. My neighbor is doing OK. Even my lazy brother-in-law is doing OK. However, I see on the news that Bush is ruining the labor market and giving people McJobs. He has to be stopped! I'm voting for Nancy Pelosi and her friends."
And in 2012, it went like this: "I have a job but my wages are flat. My neighbor doesn't have a job --he's been out of work forever. My brother-in-law lives under a bridge. I just thank God that Obama is in charge, because the TV tells me it would be much worse with Republicans in the White House. I'm voting to give Barack a second term!"
Excellent post, wish we had a like button!
Congrats keep up the good work!
LOL
Thanks. At this point, not having enough work is the least of my problems. I can hardly keep up sometimes, but I'd rather be harried and tired, than worried over whether some other man will allow me to work.
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