Posted on 10/28/2025 7:51:58 PM PDT by dpetty121263
I know many claim things are better but the there are 0.97 open jobs to every 1 unemployed...Businesses are closing right and left..Banks are in trouble, repos are at record levels, Credit Card defaults are at atmospheric levels. Beginning to look like 1929...the beginnings of it anyway...Let them eat cake I guess...
October layoffs Amazon 30,000+ UPS 46,000 Target 1,800 Paramount 1,000 Applied Materials 1,400 Sika 1,800 And many more
xplain
shut up
Period?
[Republicans vote 13 times to fund SNAP,
and Democrats vote 13 times to block it?]
Dang, we’re up to 13 times now?
#DEMOCRATChuckSchumerShutdown
This all just happened...right....the economy has been starving for many years..
I have five children all employed well. That may end. But there is no sign of it. I think many businesses are looking for good people. And I think a lot of stupid jobs no longer exist. And if you are in HR you have one of them. Yes there are people getting rid of extra employees. But there are a lot of foreigners who are going home. So keep trying to get a job. It will work out in the end. This is the cost of setting things right. The market is up. Houses are selling. Businesses are profitable. Taxes are lower. And prices are not going up as much as they have over the past few years.
are you in a blue district?
every down here in FL is going strong.
i haven’t seen a vacant storefront in a long time.
A.I and automization.
This is fair to discuss and debate, but with all this AI and automation going on I think a large amount of jobs would be gone rerdless of election
When your government is literally half your economy (total 17 trillion) cutting government (7.4-8.4 trillion spending) is going to raise unemployment. That’s as obvious as train coming down the tracks. Cutting that spending requires huge infusions of jobs and manufacturing and investments with TIME.
Trump has been in for roughly 9 months, he has done more to fix the US economy than any POTUS in my lifetime in such a short period. Hadn’t the government been shutdown, we would be seeing an improvement across the board. Maybe we already are if you eliminated government spending from economic growth analysis. Your concerns are valid, but the pain of fixing 12 years of Obama-Biden is going to be real, and I don’t see 1929.
It is not due to Trump’s economy, it is due to AI. And it will get worse.
I was born in 1964, got my first job with a W2 in 1980 (McDonalds) and have never been either unemployed or fired - despite earning a double-major baccalaureate and a PhD. Yes. I worked throughout my undergraduate career and was a paid graduate researcher, so worked through my schooling. Have I never really worked?
Period? ? ? ?
And I’ll add, since seeing some similar comments, my wife is an ‘exempted’ federal employee, so was paid for only 7 of the 10 da6s she worked for the pay period ending 03 October and was just paid for 0 of the 10 days she worked for the pay period ending 17 October. As I type this she is preparing to leave for work and helping one of our five children get ready for middle school - his bus arrives at 0630. We have one in elementary and three more in high school. I work but not for the federal government so I am still getting paid, for now.
Her work requires her to work in a federal building and that was never not so. She worked in a federal building throughout the last administration, not from home. She’s never been fired either. Is she another one of the people you believe never worked??
The quote comes from dpetty121263's comment. I merely copied it to head my comment about it.
As to the shutdown, Belgium went through a political shutdown which lasted 589 days. The noise about this shutdown -- all departments as directed by the President, and all state, county and municipal governments operating -- is greater than its effects so far.
Except for the politics of it, as the media and Democrats -- meaning the same thing -- holler.
Hopefully, Trump's efforts to bring back the jobs that were offshored will make up for that.
Ah, mea culpa.
Concur.
I’ve never been fired from a job and I did the same thing for 44 years (programmer). I retired and was even asked to come back.
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