Posted on 02/19/2008 11:49:09 AM PST by traumer
WASHINGTON — Bill Clinton's campaign famously defined the 1992 election with the phrase, "It's the economy, stupid." Today, "It's the jobs, stupid."
The latest employment figures, released in late January, showed a 52-month streak of job creation ending with a loss of 17,000 jobs in January. The Bush administration acknowledged the contraction, but pointed to the national unemployment rate of 4.9 percent to say that the labor market wasn't a harbinger of recession.
A closer look at unemployment data by McClatchy, however, found that jobless Americans are spending more time looking for work and that those who can't find work now make up a greater share of the unemployed.
(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...
So I wonder if the same data was valdated by McClatchy (of whatever they were called by in the 90’s) when their her0 was President.
So how I doubt it.
So that’s it. There may not be many jobless but those who are are really, really jobless.
If anybody wants me, I’ll be curbside setting up my apple stand. Wearing my ribbons, of course...
Yep!!
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. — M Twain
OK, but they are unemployed from low paying jobs anyway right? So so what? They are just exercising their right to not do the jobs Mexicans want to do.
That political propaganda, not Journalism, you are printing their McClatchy.
Why look real hard for a job when Uncle Sam pays them to not find one?
That’s about the size of it.
I remember the ‘worst economy in 50 years’. (1991)
What a load of BS. Maybe idiots are spending more time searching because they are buying into some kind of utopian crap about you must find your perfect job, and then quit after a year because it just doesn’t feeeeeeeel right. I have known several men who in the last 2 years have dragged their families around to at least 3 different cities in three different states, seaching for that “perfect” job. Newsflash: Most of us won’t find it, but will find decent jobs that put food on the table and don’t mess with the family.
The unemployment rate in Midland County, Texas has been 2.3% for years now.
If you have a pulse, you can have a job.
If you have a strong back and can pass a drug test, you can make $100,000/yr in the oil field.
Sorry, not buying it.
I’m curious -
If I can pick up 100K for being alive and willing to hump drill pipe......
What does a loaf of bread cost locally? Gallon of milk? And a ‘tube’ of Pringles (Please don’t laugh, it’s a legit benchmark.
And finaly - the cost of a 3 bdrm/1.5 or 2 bath house you would live in - there in town?
Thanks in advance.
“What does a loaf of bread cost locally? Gallon of milk? And a ‘tube’ of Pringles (Please don’t laugh, it’s a legit benchmark.”
Only one I know is milk, and it’s $3.49 at Sams yesterday; grocery costs are really the same as Houston, or maybe Dallas. Gasoline is $2.87 yesterday, and that was after going up .10 because we blew up our local refinery.
Housing is about the same as Houston. Here is a typical realtor.
http://www.midlandtexas.com/denise.htm
I’m a little north of Midland, and I’ve seen billboards up here advertising for people to go to Midland to work, with apparently all kinds of jobs available.
They are all cheaper than they are in Alaska, my FRiend.
The view isn't as nice, and coyotes don't make as nice as pictures as moose.
But the economics is right. You can bring your snowblower down, put it in the front yard and have people stop and ask "what's that?"
Gee, there must be a ‘Pubby in the Whitehouse...
We’re pretty desperate for workers.
I actually saw some Alaska plates yesterday at Sams.
Someone had their fill of winter, I think.
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