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Looking For A Job? The Data Tells Us Finding Work Won’t Be Easy In 2021.
19FortyFive ^ | 1/16/2021 | Harry Kazianis

Posted on 01/16/2021 7:30:06 AM PST by Onthebrink

“In December, 15.8 million persons reported that they had been unable to work because their employer closed or lost business due to the pandemic–that is, they did not work at all or worked fewer hours at some point in the last 4 weeks due to the pandemic. This measure is 1.0 million higher than in November.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2024; blogpimp; donaldtrump; economy; jobs; kag; maga; trump; useconomy
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1 posted on 01/16/2021 7:30:06 AM PST by Onthebrink
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To: Onthebrink

The economy is so . . so Trump like. We’re going in a different direction. The people have spoken! They want more government. More spending. More taxes. More controls. And more Democrats.


2 posted on 01/16/2021 7:33:12 AM PST by BipolarBob (USA - Born July 4, 1776. Died Jan. 20, 2021 in the Year of our Covid.)
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To: BipolarBob

This is doubleplusgood brother!


3 posted on 01/16/2021 7:35:32 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Onthebrink

Sent out 9 resumes, had 3 phone interviews, one face to face, on Monday I do a ‘shadow’ for the position and will likely take the job. Time searching: One week. Will be a great 40+ hour per week position with an expanding veterinary practice. BLS prediction for the industry is it will be the fastest growing job industry through 2029.


4 posted on 01/16/2021 7:39:41 AM PST by EBH (Repent, Accept, Proclaim )
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To: Onthebrink

No worries. Any day now Biden will tell us that he’ll create 1.5 billion new jobs in his first month in office. The media will accept that claim without question. So let the good times roll.


5 posted on 01/16/2021 7:41:07 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Onthebrink
There's a lot of work in helping those who are fleeing Democrat crap holes.

How many retired and former Wall Street professionals in Florida are being sought out?

6 posted on 01/16/2021 7:42:19 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Onthebrink

Unopposed Dem policies will surely lead to a depression. But at the moment, most employers are still desperate to find people who can pass a drug test.


7 posted on 01/16/2021 7:43:36 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Onthebrink

No probably not but that means diddley squat to the evil DemoKKKrats who shut down businesses and yet are ready to fling open our border doors to the multiple thousands of illegal caravans heading our way! TO HELL WITH THE VIRUS...It’s all about building their base after all! Remember they cheated to get Biden this time they use those thousands and relocate them to red city! They have too... You can only take cheating so far until you get caught. So let the refugees enter sicknesses and all ...anyway our government is ready to do anything to get them to vote with a communist!


8 posted on 01/16/2021 7:45:01 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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If you live near Cedar Creek Lake in Texas, and you can walk and chew gum, I can get you a decent paycheck. Good help is hard to find.


9 posted on 01/16/2021 7:47:35 AM PST by waterhill (Rent-free is cool with me!)
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To: Onthebrink

I’ve been selling to the chemical manufacturing industry for almost 35 years. 2015 and 2016 were very bad years. However, since Biden was named President elect, business has been absolutely dead. This is not good at all


10 posted on 01/16/2021 7:48:23 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: Onthebrink

Why get a job? Seems like now is the time to start a business and stop depending on someone else for your sustenance.


11 posted on 01/16/2021 7:57:49 AM PST by MercyFlush (Donald Trump is my President and Free Republic is my social media!)
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To: Buttons12

You’re right about the drug tests! The FBI is having problems recruiting because ~60% of their applicants fail the drug screening. And a lot of those recruits are active duty law enforcement.


12 posted on 01/16/2021 8:00:54 AM PST by MercyFlush (Donald Trump is my President and Free Republic is my social media!)
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To: Onthebrink

Omygosh. There’s such a simple answer. Raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour and raise taxes on small business owners.


13 posted on 01/16/2021 8:04:45 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, demonicRATS would have no standards at all.)
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To: Onthebrink

I’m retired and just got offered $110,000 per year as a temp in Minneapolis. I said hell no. No way I’m working in that sh*thole.


14 posted on 01/16/2021 8:04:49 AM PST by DownInFlames (Ga)
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To: BipolarBob

[The economy is so . . so Trump like. We’re going in a different direction. The people have spoken! They want more government. More spending. More taxes. More controls. And more Democrats.]


I don’t know if the preceding was sarcasm, but Biden won a really narrow victory, considering his advantages. IMHO, the sackcloth and ashes routine is unwarranted. Trump will get to finish the job that Bannon got him to start - fire all the GOP incumbents opposed to the Trump agenda during the primary process. He’ll then have people who owe him when he returns to the White House in 2024.

You may think this is far-fetched and whistling past the graveyard. But there are solid historical reasons for optimism. Let’s assume the Democrats’ basic premise is true, i.e. that Trump lost fair and square. Trump’s loss wasn’t terrible - a couple of hundred thousand votes short in the swing states that decide the White House race. This is in the face of two outlier events - a mass casualty pandemic and the resultant economic depression representing the worst downturn since the Great Depression.

The Democrats expected a complete sweep of the states, both at the White House and Congressional levels. FDR got a 413 electoral vote victory margin. Biden’s was 74. The 1932 House elections gave the Democrats a 196-seat margin, vs the ~12-seat margin they got in 2020. The 1932 Senate elections moved the Democrats to a 22-seat margin, vs the 1-seat margin (thanks to the VP tie breaker vote) they just got after the 2021 GA runoffs. This was a blue wave a toddler could safely paddle in, not a tsunami.

If you accept the Democratic premise that Trump lost by 7m votes, that’s a Biden popular vote margin of 4%. FDR’s victory margin over Hoover? 28%.

That’s why they’re trying to prevent Trump from running again. He’s no Herbert Hoover, whose political career was over the day the results came in. The Dems aren’t afraid Trump will get the 2024 GOP nomination and lose in the general. They’re worried that one hiccup or other before 2024 will send Trump back to the White House with commanding GOP majorities, but this time cleansed of the never-Trumpers who gave him so much trouble in his first term.

If Trump intends to run again, the interval from now until presidential season should* involve the installation of Republicans who support the Trump agenda in the midterms, and the removal of those who don’t. Bannon’s quest to populate elected offices with Trump supporters needs to resume, so that when Trump re-enters the White House, his agenda is ready to go from Day 1.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_United_States_presidential_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_United_States_Senate_elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_Senate_elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections

You could also compare the numbers to those from the Spanish Flu election of 1920. Something similar happened, except this time, the incumbent Democrats lost big, with the GOP getting a 2/3 majority in the House. They would probably have gotten the same thing in the Senate, if every seat was up for grabs, rather than just 1/3. Point being that the pollsters were presumably modeling their blue wave poll results on 1920 and 1932, which were disastrous for the incumbents and resulted in ~300 and up electoral vote victory margins (i.e. winner - loser EV’s). Now that was a mandate. Whereas Biden had a ~70 EV margin, based on 1-2% popular vote margins in the swing states being litigated over. He’s skating on very thin ice.

The big question is obviously whether Trump will run. Given what we’ve seen of Trump’s decision-making process, maybe he himself doesn’t know the answer.


15 posted on 01/16/2021 8:05:17 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Onthebrink

All they have to to is look at liberal cities and there insane policies to see what will happen as this is brought to a national level


16 posted on 01/16/2021 8:06:53 AM PST by pangaea6
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To: Zhang Fei

The Democrats are trying desperately to fix it so that he can NEVER run again. I use the words “desperate” and “fix” deliberately.


17 posted on 01/16/2021 8:08:20 AM PST by BipolarBob (USA - Born July 4, 1776. Died Jan. 20, 2021 in the Year of our Covid.)
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To: EBH
People with skills and education (well some degrees) will always have work. When I used to counsel people, I would push people to get more than just a bachelors degree. I would show them stats that indicated at the worst point in the Obama economy people with Masters Degrees, per capita, had around a 3-4% unemployment rate. That may not hold true this go around as the RATS have destroyed too many business in their effort to get rid of Trump.
18 posted on 01/16/2021 8:13:16 AM PST by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me.)
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To: Onthebrink

One of the moron Senators in my state made a comment yesterday that’s not going to age well. He complained about the joblessness crisis.

It’s only going to get worse under Biden. Far worse.


19 posted on 01/16/2021 8:13:38 AM PST by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: Onthebrink
Part of the strategy of completely destroying the US economy was so when the "right" people gained power, ANY improvement, no matter how miniscule, can be hailed as historic.

For instance. If you had 100 dollars and somebody gave you one dollar, your financial situation just improved by 1%. But, if you only have one dollar and someone gives you one dollar, your financial situation has improved by 100%. Historic increase!

Get ready for it. There are lies and damned lies. And then there are statistics. But nothing beats good old percentages.

Well, technically, percentages are part of statistics. But you know what I mean.

Don't you? Please clap.

20 posted on 01/16/2021 8:15:15 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, demonicRATS would have no standards at all.)
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