[Poohbah]

Don't believe this, unemployment is at 1,000,000% and we're all DOOMED!

[ClearCase_guy]

Third presidential debate is on domestic issues. I think Bush has not responded strongly to Kerry's little soundbite: "First president in 72 years who lost jobs". I think Bush has ammunition that he hasn't used yet. He's got one final chance to explain to 50 million Americans that the job situation is extremely good.

[harpu]

Thanks for half of the story...it't nice to be teased with only a fraction of the whole story and its facts.

I know, it's not your fault but thanks anyway.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I've read that farm jobs, government jobs and home-based self employment work is not counted in the numbers.

I also would like see more reports about the high number of women who have returned home to raise their children. Their departure from the workforce can be counted but it should not be considered as a lost job.

[Sadie789]

The Democrats have got to stop blaming Bush for our manufacturing jobs going overseas. After all it was the Democrats who brought overseas into the United States to take our jobs. The Democrats started wars in Vietnam, Bosnia, and Somolia then brought refugees by the hundreds of thousands to fill our manufacturing jobs.

So, “Wake up America! Overseas is here, inside our country, taking our manufacturing jobs. Protest that! Protest the issuing of HB1 and HB2 Visas. No more HB1 and HB2 Visas should be issued for at least ten years. Americans need these jobs.”

[FreedomPoster]

A lib we do battle with in a neutral forum, is a power-seller on eBay, and would only show up on the Household Survey. Nevertheless, he quotes the payroll survey numbers.

There are none so blind, as those who will not see.

[kcvl]

Thursday, September 9th, 2004

Cheney on economic numbers: Don’t forget about eBay
By Associated Press

. Indicators measure the nation’s unemployment rate, consumer spending and other economic milestones, but Vice President Dick Cheney says it misses the hundreds of thousands who make money selling on eBay.

. “That’s a source that didn’t even exist 10 years ago,” Cheney told an audience in Cincinnati on Thursday. “Four hundred thousand people make some money trading on eBay.”

. San Jose, Calif.-based eBay Inc. is an Internet auction site where anyone can sell just about anything, including clothing, cell phones, jewelry, memorabilia, trinkets and automobiles.

. Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards responded that Cheney’s comments show how “out of touch” he and President Bush are with the economy.

“If we only included bake sales and how much money kids make at lemonade stands, this economy would really be cooking,” Edwards said in a statement.

[tubebender]

My new neighbor (2 years) works from his home as a Industrial Designer. Another neighbor is a at home bookkeeper and tax preparer and cares for their two small children. My brother-in-law and his son are full time day traders from their homes. More and more of my friends and neighbors are newly retired...

[Willie Green]

The U.S. economy is undergoing a structural change as more people become self-employed or form partnerships, rather than working for large corporations...

Yeah, the WSJ is once again trying to put a happy-face on a pile of dung.
When people are given the corporate axe, they have to become self-employed at lower wages and benefits to support themselves somehow. It's all part of the ever-increasing job-churn and decreasing economic security we're experiencing as we spiral downward to parity with Third World "prosperity".