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Excellent report of the severely conflicting job reports for July. 629,000 read it again... 629,000 new jobs, in July only, according to the household survey! (vs. "32,000" in the establishment survey).

Down with the establishment!! Up with households!!

1 posted on 08/07/2004 9:50:25 AM PDT by unspun
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To: unspun

I am shocked that NYT would even mention the other side.


2 posted on 08/07/2004 9:57:06 AM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: unspun

This is a hide in plain sight article. It is published on a Saturday when the fewest people will read it. Think I'm wrong? Ask yourself if this would ever be published front page above the fold on a weekday, say Monday morning.
Articles like this enable the minded fools to delude themselves into think that the ratmedia isn't bias.


4 posted on 08/07/2004 10:07:15 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 ( Kerry's not "one of us": catholicsagainstkerry.com. needs your help.)
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To: unspun

Here's my own personal survey. I'm a family law attorney and always need to know what my clients do for a living. It seems to me that a lot more of them are working for themselves or for small businesses.. and they're doing ok. They're consulting, repairing, doing hair, remodeling, selling real estate, etc. In other words, the economy is adjusting in its own way because midamerican middleclass people are hard workers and welfare isn't tempting them to do otherwise.


5 posted on 08/07/2004 10:11:36 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: unspun

Yeah I was shocked to see this in the NY Times, too. Perhaps the shareholders have been grumbling about the Times' plummeting credibility.


6 posted on 08/07/2004 10:12:58 AM PDT by thoughtomator (I question the timing of this post)
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To: unspun

I don't know if I'm going to have to don asbestos here or not.....but something has been rolling around in my mind for sometime now about all this whining about loss of jobs.

To me it is not the job of the President, or any other government entity to create jobs....that is the job of the private sector. To me if government is creating jobs it means that government is GROWING.

Mybe I'm missing something, but I don't want the government creating jobs - I just want it to create an atmosphere for the private sector to do so - particularly by less onerous taxes and regulations.

Am I totally off base here????


8 posted on 08/07/2004 10:22:07 AM PDT by Gabz (Ted Kennedy's driving has killed more people than second hand smoke)
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To: unspun
Republican administrations tend to produce better household numbers - perhaps reflecting a better environment for the self-employed. Democratic administrations tend to show better establishment figures. [reflecting a better environment for the corporate or government employed]

Just one of the major reasons I'm a Republican. The self-employed tend toward creating small businesses, which is the largest employer of all. The Democrats only hold on small business is the income tax. And the Democrats know it and they use it.

11 posted on 08/07/2004 10:36:08 AM PDT by elbucko (A Feral Republican)
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To: unspun

I am bracing for the August numbers.

We could see negative job numbers.

August of last year saw negative numbers in the establishment survey before going up in Sept. and higher in October.


25 posted on 08/07/2004 11:34:52 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (BYPASS FORCED WEB REGISTRATION! **** http://www.bugmenot.com ****)
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To: Darth Reagan

ping


28 posted on 08/07/2004 12:29:44 PM PDT by marblehead17 (I love it when a plan comes together.)
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