Strong Factory Growth Boosts Hiring (to highest level in 31 years)

Reuters via Yahoo ^ | 06/01/2004 | Eric Burroughs

[zencat]

U.S. manufacturing chugged to a full year of expansion in May, pushing factory hiring to its highest in 31 years, a survey released on Tuesday showed.

[Coop]

Of course it is. Tax cuts - whether from Dubya, Kennedy or Reagan - stimulate economic growth.

Or was that sarcasm?

[johnb838]

Have you noticed that all the reports of economic despair are anecdotal these days?

[rebel_yell2]

Yeah, it's a shame all those blacksmiths have been put out of work by evil Government policies that are hostile to the manufacturing sector. You need to go back to square one and read "Wealth of Nations" so that you'll have a clue.

[Phantom Lord]

I am hoping the state will pay for re-training this summer while I am on unemployment.

Ya. Why take care of yourself when you can pick someone elses pocket to pay for it.

[Xenalyte]

Great news, but it only helps us if EVERY GOP talking head goes out and promotes it over and over. The MSM will never do it for us.

Our message recently has been splintered. If we coordinate it better, W can open up another lead over JFnK.

Which will happen about five minutes after I introduce you to the monkey that will soon be flying out of my butt.

[johnb838]

Ah... there it is... we're not successful until we've 'created' 3 million jobs to make up the deficit from the Clinton years, and another three million to make Mexico happy.

[johnb838]

Sorry, I was being sarcastic.

[zencat]

I might as well go bankrupt, but even still, I wont have enough money to pay rent!

It's no wonder you can't find a job with that attitude. Your pessimism can be spotted a mile away by any worthwhile HR recruiter.

[rb22982]

Um, we start bag boys at 7/hour down here in NC.

[Salvation]

The dimocrats will be eating their own.

[Willie Green]

"The ISM index is compiled from monthly responses by purchasing executives at more than 400 industrial companies, ranging from textiles and chemicals to paper and computers."

Yes... PURCHASING managers, NOT manufacturing managers.
The survey is skewed by these companies taking full credit for their finished product, despite ever-increasing proportion of foreign componts that are purchased rather than manufactured domesticly. As our Trade Deficit races to astronomicly absurd levels, the ISM stats continue to give a distorted perspective of "manufacturing" that is rapidly morphing into mere warehousing and distribution.

[Phantom Lord]

Perkn elmer has a couple openings, I applied but they are paying only $15 an hour for someone to train to be a supervisor, and that is 40 miles each way for me, that is over $260 in gas a month! And my truck is 18 yars old, I cant do that and take the cut in pay like that and expect to pay bills

If you can not afford $260 a month in gas and your bills on over $30K a year, you have faild to control your spending and debt accumulation. Or live in expensive housing that could be downscaled. Maybe move closer to the job to reduce gas costs.

Or do what I and countless millions of others have done.

1) MOVE to where opportunity is greater
2) Go into business for yourself (even as a side project to bring in additional income.

[SierraWasp]

It sure fits the situation! I stole the key word for my new tagline!!!

[null and void]

FWIW, The San Jose Mercury New's want ads are very thin. The ENTIRE section is only 6 pages. One of those pages is filled with pannel ads saying how wonderful the Merc's Career Builder section is.

This news article might be from an alternate universe. It ain't from around here!

[Wyatt's Torch]

Headline: Bush Economy worse than Nixon...

[Stagerite]

As our Trade Deficit races to astronomicly absurd levels

The secret within capitalism is the wealth generation inherent in what Adam Smith calls "The division of labor," where, for instance, finished cloth is produced by machines that have replaced labor intensive devices such as spinning wheels and hand looms.

It is that creaton of wealth inherent in capitalism that makes nations wealthy -- that makes nations able to buy more than they sell (a "balance of payments deficit") -- that essentially blesses people within that nation.

[OldFriend]

In other words, no facts will deter your whining.

[Willie Green]

It is that creaton of wealth inherent in capitalism that makes nations wealthy -- that makes nations able to buy more than they sell

Our nation's illusion of wealth is being propped up with irresponsible defict spending and an unfathomable National Debt.

The Outstanding Public Debt as of 01 Jun 2004 at 07:13:27 PM GMT is:
$7,208,201,257,532.02
The estimated population of the United States is 294,199,936
so each citizen's share of this debt is $24,500.42.

I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

~ Thomas Jefferson

"I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country."

-- President Andrew Jackson - (1824)

[RetiredArmy]

But, this means nothing. There are no $100,000, all benefits, all medical, all retirement, six days off per week, 4 months french long holidays, Christmas, New Years, Bastille day, all paid for here. Means nothing. Nothing here. Move along. More people will lose their little $5.50 jobs because of the evil rich. Move along or I will give you the finger! Signed: Flip Kerry.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Oh man-o-man... I LIKE IT!!! KERRORISTS!!!

Wow. Now that is a beautiful line.

Any follower must then be a Kerrorista?