[cripplecreek]

I live in Michigan so I'm immune to hype.

[Lazamataz]

Damn.

Well, I guess that decides it.

[TXBSAFH]

I ahve been saying this for years. And GW wants to bring in mor echeap labor.

[YOUGOTIT]

Sounds like a left-wing democrat. Everything is bad and nothing is good and they are covert democrats. That is why I canceled my subscription to NewsMax.

[Rodney King]

looks like Sonny M beat you to the punch on this one.

[Night Hides Not]

I wonder what he said about the Clinton years, when job growth was fueled by the dot-bomb economy? It seems like our economy has digested that disaster quite well.

[River_Wrangler]

And in other news....The sky is falling.


No good news to see here folks. Please move along.

[MNJohnnie]

The only misleading hype is the wretched garbage flowing out of the Maximum LOSER Paul Craig Roberts pen. Mr Roberts bet the farm on attacking Bush, he lost. He is just another irrelevant tin foil hat wearing hysteric. I am surprised anyone still waste our time posting his ignorant nonsense.

I can not figure out which is more appalling. Mr Roberts arrogant refusal to admit error or his complete lack of even the most basic grasp of Economics.

[paudio]

I used to think Paul Craig Roberts conservative.

[Smogger]

Who the Hell even works in manufacturing anymore? Gimme a break? I work for a "manufacturing" company and most of our employees are in sales or accounting or service. There are maybe 8 or 9 people actually involved in the "manufacturing".

[A. Pole]

Spinmeisters made the most out of the 215,000 jobs. Looking beyond the glitter at the real facts, this is what we see.
[...]

Bump

[Pessimist]

"Twenty-one thousand of those jobs were government positions supported by taxpayers"

If that's really true, for one month alone, that's both astounding and disgusting.

[andy58-in-nh]

Tell old Paul to get a grip. We are no longer a manufacturing economy, and never will be again. Get over it. The service jobs that he derides are better paying than his statistics show, due to higher levels of deferred compensation, profit-sharing, and other benefits. His cost-of-living numbers are cooked, too - artificially inflated by a short-term spike in energy prices. That will pass, and soon.

Our "trade deficit" is meaningless in a world economy. All those dollars invested in foreign economies are busily creating huge middle classes in places like India and the Pacific Rim - gargantuan future markets for US-based services. Companies like Wal-Mart, Microsoft, and Intel are expanding into those markets, or soon will, and their consumer purchases will flow right back into the US economy, as American investors benefit from higher earnings in their 401(k)'s and IRA's, as well as from American-based jobs servicing foreign clients. Finally, the real estate market is overheated - in very distinct spots (S.Cal, Boston, Miami) - but that's not true of the country as a whole. Too much gloom and doom, when optimism is far more warranted.

[ChadGore]

Doomed!

[pissant]

Damn, sounds like Lou Dobbs and Pat Buchanon contributed to this chicken little report.

[ChadGore]

THE REALITY IS: USA 2005 = FULL EMPLOYMENT

[ChadGore]

I call on my fellow proud Conservatives to start using the phrase that best describes the employment boom we have had, and will continue to have.

Full employment
Because it's true.

[truth_seeker]

"However, these gains are more than offset by the job cuts recently announced by General Motors and Ford."

Some of those laid-off workers will be hired by their competitors.

I sold a house to an engineer, leaving GM detroit, and moving to a California position, with Hyandai.

I think he gets employee benefits, too.

[ozzymandus]

Roberts is a bitter old has-been who decided to get a little attention by bad-mouthing Bush. He used to be a conservative, now he just bitches about "neo-cons".

[waverna]

"Very few of these jobs result in tradable services that can be exported or help to close the growing gap in the U.S. balance of trade"

Maybe they just want to feed their families.