[lelio]

In August, economist Charles Schultze, chairman of the CEA under President Carter, looked at the number of jobs lost to outsourcing.

What Schultze (and by extension Bartlett) miss is the unseen. While they have their own data to show that jobs aren't being lost to outsourcing, they just have to look at the 40k a month job growth over the past 4 years (100k below what's needed to keep up with workforce growth) to see what's not being done, and that's job growth.

[John O]

While they have their own data to show that jobs aren't being lost to outsourcing, they just have to look at the 40k a month job growth over the past 4 years (100k below what's needed to keep up with workforce growth) to see what's not being done, and that's job growth.

This flies in the face of the fact that more Americans are working now than ever before.

The 'job report' numbers don't include the self employed or a large number of small businesses. And this is where the major job growth is at.

If jobs weren't being created the unemployment claims number would be skyrocketing, But it's either falling or staying lower than it's been for 12 years now. (It's lower than at anypoint in Clinton's term)

The econmy is in great shape and getting better all the time. Of course there are companies that fail even in the best of times. That's what we have Willie Green for, to make sure these get posted