I'm not a democrat; but, I take issue with the concept of 200,000 new jobs. It isn't about the numbers of jobs, it's about the quality of them. Or perhaps everyone here has gone dense when many of us denounce the problem of the economy being the absence of good paying jobs (not jobs in general) and some retort that, 'I guess 200,000 new jobs per month..'
Stop reading your talking points and start thinking.. or is it too much to anticipate that republicans should not act like democrats when they have an agenda that's unpopular and they can't otherwise defend.
That statement will always win the argument. It means that it doesn't matter that more people have jobs, or that they're making more money, or amassing more wealth, or that they prefer their new jobs. All that matters is that these new jobs do not have the same "quality" in some mysterious ethereal sense, and it's all Bush's fault.
Nobody can ever refute that.
You said "I'm not a democrat"
Maybe you should be with your attitude of government butting into private business. Real Conservatives generally want less government.
And if Jose in Mexico can do your job for 1/2 or 1/10 as much why do you want the government to hold a gun to the owners head and force him to continue over paying you. If you could of found a job that paid 10 times as much as you were making with much better benefits I bet you would have quit in a minute.
By the way I've been laid off twice in my life, and now I'm making about 2/3 of what I used to, but thats life and I have adjusted. I don't want President Hillary taking care of me from the cradle to the grave.
"I'm not a democrat; but, I take issue with the concept of 200,000 new jobs. It isn't about the numbers of jobs, it's about the quality of them."
It's not a concept, it's a fact. 200,000 new jobs per month. Some are high paying, some in the middle and some entry level. If you have a high school education, don't apply for the CEO position. If you have a masters degree in engineering there is a high paying position available {you may have to move}. My father worked two jobs for over 40 years to support his family. He had 9 years of formal schooling. He didn't bitch and moan, he went to work, twice a day, every day. I never once heard him say a bad word about this country, he loved America and the freedon it gave him. He owned his home and was very proud of that. Not big time, but he was an honest, hard working American.
More work, less whining.