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.
(slapping forehead) Why do I even bother.
Here, let's put it in very simple terms: Lets say you needed to give 4 apples to a dragon every day to keep him from eating you. But then there was two dragons (population growth), and each needed 4 apples (necessary jobs to keep full employment). Yet you were only given 2 more apples. You may have MORE APPLES, but now you do not have ENOUGH APPLES to keep from being eaten.
Now do you get it? Your assertion that there are MORE APPLES (more jobs) ignores that you do not have ENOUGH APPLES (enough jobs for full employment).
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.
In other words, you ignore what you believe -- you know darn well the population is up, due to the massive influx of illegal immigrants alone -- thought to be 10 million in 2003 -- and the fact that the CDC still asserts that Americans have, for every two people, on average approximately 2.5 children. You know all this, and you ignore it anyways.
This is exactly the head-in-sand outlook that has totally turned me off lately. I don't know if I can wake you up. I do know some lurker out there will get it.