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1 posted on 04/03/2004 1:57:22 PM PST by GailA
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2 posted on 04/03/2004 1:58:06 PM PST by Support Free Republic (Don't be a nuancy boy)
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3 posted on 04/03/2004 1:58:20 PM PST by GailA (Kerry I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, but I'll declare a moratorium on the death penalty)
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Maybe Heinz can send some more jobs overseas to offset it. Then again, drilling in ANWR will create plenty of jobs and bring down energy costs.
4 posted on 04/03/2004 2:00:13 PM PST by wagglebee
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I (either read in WSJ or saw on CNBC yesterday) that this month was the first month since the recession that manufacturing jobs have not been lost. They stayed the same but did not increase.
5 posted on 04/03/2004 2:10:08 PM PST by OneTimeLurker
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10 posted on 04/03/2004 2:22:42 PM PST by Smartass
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I'm sure getting tired of this long-faced blow-hard railing about jobs!

During the late 1990s, hundreds of thousands of non-productive jobs were added willy-nilly at as frantic a pace as the technology bubble was inflating.

When the bubble burst, those speculative jobs vanished as rapidly as the do-nothing companies at which they were counted.

Bottom line is that there were too many speculative jobs and the equilibrium has come back to normal.

More manufacturing jobs were lost during the Clinton years than during Bush's tenure.

Manufacturing jobs have been hemmoraging at a steady pace in the USA for 40 years.

The same people looking for work in 2004 were looking for work in 2000.

Those who lost their jobs when the bubble burst have found other employment.

There are more people at work now than in 2000.

More people own their own homes and net wealth per family is at record levels.

Last I looked, nobody was starving out there.

If anything, too many people have it too soft and the obesity problem has ballooned.

11 posted on 04/03/2004 2:24:05 PM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (I don't believe anything a Democrat says. Bill Clinton set the standard!)
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21 posted on 04/03/2004 3:02:22 PM PST by binger
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Pass the word.
27 posted on 04/03/2004 6:05:23 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: GailA
Simple facts:
8.5 million Americans are on the DOL unemployed list. (5.6%)
Kerry is promising 10MM new jobs in 4 years.
The economy can only support about 3.5 to 4 percent unemployment without causing significant inflation.

According to Kerry by the end of his first term as President we would have less than 1%, and possibly negative, unemployment. The economic impacts of such a situation are actually significant and would drive our economy into a critical state. 100% employment is neither feasable nor desirable in a free market.

In short: The socialist dream lives! The sad part is that reporters are printing this without commentary or question. Not surprising, just sad.
43 posted on 04/03/2004 8:56:21 PM PST by BlueNgold (Feed the Tree .....)
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