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To: gitmo
I need some statistical help with something from that debate. Kerry says we have lost 1.? million jobs under Bush. Yet more people in the US have jobs than ever in history. How exactly does that work?

Bigger population.

6 posted on 10/14/2004 4:58:50 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Graybeard58

In addition, 4000 illegal immigrants cross the border every day. Why? because they find jobs here. That's about a million jobs a year that you won't hear about, since its under the table.


8 posted on 10/14/2004 5:01:18 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: Graybeard58
Bigger population.

That can't explain it. How can more people have jobs than ever before and at the same time we have had a net loss of jobs? The two 'facts' are mutually exclusive.

gitmo

10 posted on 10/14/2004 5:03:24 PM PDT by gitmo (Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
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To: Graybeard58

The other trick in those statistics is that they count anyone who was unemployed for even one day as being unemployed. So, theoretically, you could have had three million people unemployed one day and then have them all find work the next day. This type of reporting quotes this as three million people lost their jobs.


18 posted on 10/14/2004 5:13:02 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (I'm fresh out of tags. I'll pick some up tomorrow.)
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To: Graybeard58

very quick and glib reply. not very accurate, though.


28 posted on 10/14/2004 5:39:13 PM PDT by phxaz (for now it's a cold civil war in the usa.)
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