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and 3 million jobs created according to the BoLS

You know, I see you post this about a zillion times.

This is the raw data: January 2001 Employment - 136.0 million, January 2004 Employment - 138.566 million. The actual number is 2.566 million, not 3 million, and you also conveniently leave out that there needs to be 125,000 jobs created a month to keep up with population growth and immigration, according to the very group you cite -- the BoLS.

2.566 over the 3 year sample period = 855,333 jobs a year. 855,333 jobs over 12 months = 71,277 jobs a month.

Yet there needs to be 125,000 jobs a month just to tread water. Therefore, there is a deficit of need of 53,723 jobs a month. Over that 3 years, we are 1.934 million jobs short of what we need TO BREAK EVEN.

I hope you cease and desist in publishing your number without telling the entire story.

You know, I see you post this about a zillion times.

We have to counter the lies of the liberal media.

This is the raw data: January 2001 Employment - 136.0 million, January 2004 Employment - 138.566 million. The actual number is 2.566 million, not 3 million,...

I rounded off.

...and you also conveniently leave out that there needs to be 125,000 jobs created a month to keep up with population growth and immigration, according to the very group you cite -- the BoLS.

Population growth or not, there are 3 million more jobs now than in 2001 according to the BoLS.

2.566 over the 3 year sample period = 855,333 jobs a year. 855,333 jobs over 12 months = 71,277 jobs a month.

Yet there needs to be 125,000 jobs a month just to tread water. Therefore, there is a deficit of need of 53,723 jobs a month. Over that 3 years, we are 1.934 million jobs short of what we need TO BREAK EVEN. I hope you cease and desist in publishing your number without telling the entire story

Greenspan himself has said that he thinks we've overstated the population growth and some think the population has declined, believe it or not (although I don't believe it). So since we don't really know what the population #s have done over the last 3 years, I go with what I know and I know the BoLS show 3 million jobs created.

Thanks, Laz, for straightening that out. You sure do have a way at making an argument, albeit--this time--against a weak one; "3-million jobs!...3-million jobs!...awwwkkk!" I doubt, however, that facts and/or perceptions will get in the way of the "ostrich effect" now gripping conservatives. But, they have been warned--over and over. Not by leftists and DUers and "trolls," but by...their brethren--conservatives...here!

Bush ignores this issue at his peril. I've seen the problem. I've seen others caught up in it. I've been caught up in it myself. This IS an issue...and a BIG one. In this Colorado town hundreds and thousands will show up for one available barely above minimum wage job--of almost any kind.

We are not just exporting jobs, we are importing ferners to work for less and throw Americans out of work. We are talking about legalizing illegals, so they can have American jobs. Companies are cutting pay and benefits and raising prices in response to their windfalls, instead of creating jobs like expected.

Even if none of this were true--and this 5.6% unemployment were also really true--it would still be an issue if most of the country believes it to be. And, it is not being addressed at all, either in language or action by the Bush Administration.

The Dems are Hell when they lie. They are even more dangerous when they don't have to. I won't be happy if Kerry wins, but I sure won't share the "surpise" of the obtuse legions here, when they moan and groan about the coming sad day in November. Neither will I ever listen again to them about how to gain control back. They will have had it and lost it due to burying their heads in the sand.