Mortimer Zuckerman: Those Jobless Numbers Are Even Worse Than They Look

Wall Street Journal, ^ | September 7, 2012 | Zuckerman

[2ndDivisionVet]

19% is Great Depression or Weimar Republic territory. Why do some polls show Barrack Hussein Obama in the lead in this contest with conditions being what they are? How is he even competitive with Mitt Romney?

[CaptainK]

Mortimer Zuckerman was a big Obama supporter in 2008. He has buyers remorse now.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Why do people believe BS polls which utilize BS methodology?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks george76.

[GeronL]

This is Obama’s Depression with leftwing policies that will extend it until after WW3

[Dallas59]

If we were all in Unions we we would all have jobs!

[Psycho_Bunny]

Zuckerman’s an idiot who couldn’t see the obvious stupidity of his supporting Obama.

[cynwoody]

Mortimer Zuckerman was a big Obama supporter in 2008. He has buyers remorse now.

Zuckerman's disillusionment set in relatively early for someone as "progressive" as he. Example dated 2010-01-19: He's Done Everything Wrong. He concluded:

I can’t predict things two years from now, but if he continues on the downward spiral he is on, he won’t be reelected. In the meantime, the Democrats have recreated the Republican Party. And when I say Democrats, I mean the Obama administration. In the generic vote, the Democrats were ahead something like 52 to 30. They are now behind the Republicans 48 to 44 in the last poll. Nobody has ever seen anything that dramatic.

[PGR88]

Zuckerman’s an idiot who couldn’t see the obvious stupidity of his supporting Obama.

After an article full of damning statistics, his recommendations at the end of the article are just idiotic - "find the money for retraining?" Is that the best he could think of? Spoken like a true, brain-dead Keynsian central-planner. Talk about re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The number for August reflects only people who have actively applied for a job in the past four weeks, either by interview or by filling an application form.

These is a small problem with this method, you get a call back on perhaps 5% of the resumes you send out and many companies no longer let you fill out application forms. It is very possible to be hunting actively for work and yet go four weeks with neither of those things happening.

[RC one]

Because the Democrats are excellent LIARS.

[volunbeer]

I agree. Exactly what jobs do they want people to train for?

Obama’s stimulus was a complete success if you were one of his friends and donors. They made out quite nicely by my calculations....

[Fully Awake DAV]

You are correct! Many of the alleged jobs created are not in reality jobs companies will actually fill. These are positions they “fish” for applicants and collect resumes for possible future positions.

Overqualified for min wage jobs and entry level...yes..oh...over 50 and disabled.....no response (some companies interview just for reporting statistic’s)

The BLS stats are pure rubbish!

[Beowulf9]

[Lancey Howard]

Mortimer Zuckerman was a big Obama supporter in 2008. He has buyers remorse now.

He will vote for Ubama again - - take that to the bank.

[okie01]

After an article full of damning statistics, his recommendations at the end of the article are just idiotic - "find the money for retraining?" Is that the best he could think of? Spoken like a true, brain-dead Keynsian central-planner.

In the end, Mort is still a liberal.

Nary a peep about tax cuts. Though he does allude to reduced regulation...

[Sgt_Schultze]

...of the 163,000 jobs "added", 429,000 was based on purely statistical fudging.

[2ndDivisionVet]

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