CA: Ranks of jobless swelling

Sac Bee ^ | 5/3/03 | Sac Bee Staff and wire services

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON -- The unemployment rate rose to 6 percent last month, matching an eight-year high, as the deepest jobs slump in almost 20 years continued to worsen.

The economy lost 48,000 jobs in April, the U.S. Labor Department reported Friday, ratcheting up the jobless rate 0.2 percentage points. In the last three months 525,000 jobs have disappeared. Since 1960, every loss of that magnitude has occurred during a recession.

[NormsRevenge]

The Obstructionist Party with the assistance of RINOs is winning.

Which means America is losing.

[So Cal Rocket]

Hopefully, we can add one more to the unemployment roles: Gray Davis.

http://www.recallgraydavis.com

[Drango]

End the H1B program. NOW.

[Balto_Boy]

Didn't Ross Perot predict a "sucking sound" of American manufacturing jobs going overseas if NAFTA was passed?

[Fitzcarraldo]

Job opportunities in international business - setting up and running factories and service centers in third world countries...

[cgbg]

Where is that poster who keeps assuring us that California real estate will go up forever?

Tick, tick, tick.

[FITZ]

NAFTA never made sense ---while millions of jobs were going to Mexico, millions of Mexicans were coming over here. At the same time our leaders said we didn't need low-skilled jobs they were having millions of low-skilled laborers moving in.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Construction, plumbing, electrical and auto mechanics can't be imported - or can they? What if George Brazil Plumber in LA decides to set up "little india" tent city in the Mohave with his
cadre of plumbers from Bangledesh and undercuts the price of plumbing services. It can happen.

[BushCountry]

Their is a 2.3 unemployment rate (full employment) in Gainsville, FL. What is Florida doing right that California can't?

[Balto_Boy]

So how are tax cuts supposed to help create jobs for Americans, when the products we would buy are made in other countries?

[clamper1797]

END THE !@#$%^&* H1-B/L1 PROGRAM NOW !!!!!!!!!

[Fitzcarraldo]

2.3 unemployment rate (full employment)

What is the major industry or service in Gainesville, FL?

[clamper1797]

Sorry ... But there not a real big call for gator hunters in Calif.

[clamper1797]

Construction, plumbing, electrical and auto mechanics can't be imported - or can they

Oh Yeah ??? Can't import retail jobs or cab driver jobs either right ????... but who is it that runs the 7-11's ... and cabs here now a days ???

[raybbr]

I can't feel too much sympathy for California. For almost a decade they rubbed it in our noses about how great and progressive they were. Look where all that progression got them.

[blake6900]

Anyone that knows anything about economics knows unemployment numbers are a lagging indicator of what state the economy is in. If we listen to Democrats, we hear them saying, "If we put people to work, the economy will get better." That's idiotic. Spending money creating government jobs only makes the govenment larger and it does so on the backs of taxpayers and taxpaying corporations that can use the money more efficiently.

[blake6900]

BTW...I didn't see Gray Davis' name mentioned once in this Sacramento Bee article. Curious, no?

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

What is Florida doing right that California can't?

A Republican governor?