[TopQuark]

Are you going to post a leading business media report of a mass factory hiring No. I do not follow very closely these statistics, and they are made more difficult to come by because they press does not cover them.

In the last few days, on a similar thread, someone did post a compilation of hirings, but I did not copy it.

to show us what has been selectively ignored, or will you ignore that suggestion? I may not be giving you the answer you want to hear, but I am certainly not ignorign the question. You are not being fair.

I am not going to split hairs about the statistics (read the previous post where that has been addressed). The point remains valid: the times we live in are not good only in comparison to the 1990s, which were abnormally good. The current press does not reflect that. The posts on FR, icluding this thread, give a distorted picture as well. Finally, management and the "rich" are singled out as the culprits of all evil. All of this is wrong, whether the unemployement is 6.1% of 6.5%.

[Starwind]

the times we live in are not good only in comparison to the 1990s, which were abnormally good. The current press does not reflect that.

Then let's not castigate others as being deliberatly selective of bad news when bad news is primarily whats available. Capice?

The posts on FR, icluding this thread, give a distorted picture as well.

And you have declined to balance that out with reports you claim exist, an unsubstantiated claim, until you prove 'distortion', as opposed to 'reflection'.

Finally, management and the "rich" are singled out as the culprits of all evil.

That is your straw man argument. No one here categorically blames all management and all rich as evil, just like you don't categorically defend them all as innocent.