Posted on 03/04/2016 3:46:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The jobs report could mean bad news for Donald Trump.
The impressive non-farm payrolls of 242,000 and an unemployment rate that remained at 4.9% put even more downward pressure on what's known as the "Misery Index," an unofficial economic measure calculated by adding the unemployment rate and inflation.
This indicator, created by economist Arthur Okin, has become a staple of election-year commentary and has an impressive record of predicting the outcome of U.S. presidential elections since the middle of the last century. The current index, at a 25-year low, suggests the Democrats will retain control of the White House this year, according to Bloomberg's Chief U.S. Economist Carl Riccadonna....
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One way or another, it's time to drain the swamp.
“The impressive non-farm payrolls of 242,000 and an unemployment rate that remained at 4.9%”
All good and well with a SUBJECTIVE measure of unemployment. We have also DOUBLED the number of Americans on FOOD STAMPS, at a huge cost in government spending, by the way.
How does DOUBLING the Food Stamp recipients square with everything being hunky-Dorie?
“Just take your bucket to the radio.”
Those numbers are so cooked they have long fallen off the bone.
Good math. Leftists believe you can make math mean anything.
...doesn’t mean Shiite if you’re unemployed or under-employed.
Exactly, and their numbers are BS.
While the employment numbers may look good, most of the new employment hires have been for minimum wage jobs. So yeah, we have a rise in employment, but wages are going down.
Well, what’s important is that you feel good about your answer.
Nice gif
the illegals will be voting, the dead will be voting, the eibt crowd will be voting. Which purple staet6s are going red?
Iowa, North Carolina, West Virginia, Florida, etc.
Public schools in Wichita post the five pillars of Islam and students memorize the Koran. Things are much more down the rabbit hole and there is no news media to report.
Hopefully you are right about the election. Most republicans are head in the sand types who can't see how there are only a few states that will be contested in the general.
Whoever gets the GOP nomination needs to stop the dems from taking Ohio, PA and Florida. Cruze does not have a message that will turn out the vote any more than the vote for ROmney or MccCain. Cruze can't stop the dems from swelling the vote but trump can get dems to vote for him.
We are past the point of no return and the conservative/liberal rhetoric by cruze and his team is old hat. We are into the Christian vs Non-Christian line of thinking. Its going to get more pointed and much worse.
The conservative brand is derided by the dems and the low information voters who don't know the name of the Vice President. Cruze is a red herring and his campaign manager, Jeff Roe, from Kansas City, and who runs dem and republican campaigns nationwide, is the only one who will profit in the short run.
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