Posted on 03/04/2011 5:49:08 AM PST by TSgt
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Job growth accelerated in February and the unemployment rate fell for the third straight month, the Labor Department said Friday. Total nonfarm payrolls increased by 192,000 in February. This was slightly lower than the 218,000 gain expected by Wall Street economists. The unemployment rate ticked lower to 8.9% in February from 9.0% in the previous month.
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And how many people have fallen off the books?
It’s time to play, FUN WITH NUMBERS!
“Incumbency is difficult to win against. The GOP needs a strong candidate, and their top tier of wannabes are not ‘them’.”
Nailed it!
“How much of those are govt hire? What was the private sector hiring?”
I know people who their lost job this week. I don’t know of anyone who has found a job since before Thanksgiving.
Americans know better; anyone I know who lost a job in the last 2-3 years is either still out of work or working for much less money. If they tell us unemployment is .1% and the average American earns $500K annually by November 2012, I still see the Kenyan Pirate losing all 50 states. Americans can either believe the Dem media or their own “lying eyes”. The emperor has no clothes, and everyone knows it.
I have said before, and I stand by it: Obama will not be the Dem candidate in 2012.
Answer ads on Monster, CareerBuilder, etc.; see how many responses you get (after answering the final question on most applications: race & gender). It is incredible how the number of jobs and the salaries have fallen.
“Why don’t they report it at 4.5% and be done with it?”
: )
Really!
You’re absolutely right; good luck in your search, and pray for the best. No matter what “they” say, it is getting worse; anyone with eyes can see it.
When the proponents of “recovery” point to the paper sham called the stock market, they don’t mention how many companies that may actually see their stock go up accomplished it by exchanging $20/hour employees for $.20/hour employees overseas. The “stock market” is not an indication of the economic health of American citizens; if anything the performance of the market is diametrically opposed to the standard of living of Americans. It is a good indicator for Asia, though.
“Think Obama will be easy to defeat?”
No matter what nonsense they push, everybody knows things are much worse. There will be no swing vote in 2012; the permanent underclass and most blacks will vote for the Kenyan Pirate, and EVERYONE ELSE will vote for ANYONE ELSE. I honestly don’t see him carrying a single state; then again, I honestly don’t believe he’ll be the Dem candidate in 2012. The party members further down the ballot will don’t want to take his “beatings” for him politically (as they did in 2010), and the donors won’t support a candidate who has almost no chance of winning. There’s only so much teachers’ unions and black ministers can throw into his campaign, and even if he outspent an opponent 100:1 the obvious truth about where the voters are today as opposed to 2008 will still destroy his re-election.
“there is a wave of layoffs coming amongst government employees as state coffers start running out of money.”
Here in NJ 2 of our crappiest cities (Camden & Paterson) already laid off 1/3 of their police departments; other ones (Newark & Jersey City) also laid off a lot but not on the same scale. These former government workers are entering a horrible job market with job skills which won’t be in demand here for years to come; they may vote Dem to re-start the socialist money train to put them back to work, but I don’t think that will happen here in the Northeast. The money is gone, and temporary Fed funding won’t cover the enormous costs of future benefits to these workers. The scales have fallen from our eyes here in NJ/NY, and the TEA Party-type tax revolt that put Chris Christie in the governor’s mansion here in NJ is really being downplayed in the “media”. They take a lot of shots at him, but don’t discuss how he got there. Recently, they’ve even begrudgingly conceded that his popularity is holding up well; NJ taxpayers don’t want to be priced out of their state so it can host illegal aliens, the permanent underclass, and the government workers to “tend to” them.
The “market” (publicly traded companies) improve when $20/hour employees are replaced with $.20/employees in Asia; it certainly is no indication of the well-being of “America”.
“I dumped all of my dividend paying stocks and now have them in an traditional IRA deferred account.”
Interesting; I understand your logic, but a lot of people liked the dividend stream because they felt they weren’t getting “Madoffed” with smoke & mirrors if there was a tangible return in the here & now. I remember a few years back when Microsoft starting paying dividends; I believe wary investors were concerned about simply receiving a monthly piece of paper telling them how much they were worth.
How many of these jobs are part-time seasonal positions for the upcoming spring/summer. In my area the two major big box home improvement retailers announced they were hiring several hundred people to work seasonal jobs in their garden centers.
The job reports are a scam to try to make Obama look better than the compete failure he is.
Just about everything the “media” says (and doesn’t say) is to do that; he has lost any support among the voting public, and any poll that has his popularity over 25% is nonsense. NOBODY is defending him anymore; the “media” know they lost the little credibility they had left by running interference for him, and politicians know they’re ending their careers if they’re associated with him. He certainy has no popular support, as our standard of living dips to that of Mexico. Even his black supporters are silent; they know they’re certainly no better off, and now they’re looking at a new reality with much smaller police departments in urban areas due to the fiscal disaster.
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