** PING *** Make sure you click on the map !!!
Putting the map in motion looks like a cancer growing from late 2008 through 2009.
Interesting. It shows that Bexar County, Texas has gained 14,251 jobs since 01/06, but I lost my job 12/09 along with many others.
“As early as August 2007, for example—several months before the recession officially began—jobs were already on the decline”
Bush’s Fault!
August 2007 = Bush’s Fault! (It is Slate.com after all)
I thought for a long time that part of the recession started in FL, due to a massive rise in Homeowner’s insurance.
Back in about 2003 suddenly the jump was huge, from about $600 for me to $2400 (This on a very small, inexpensive house not near the ocean.) I heard horror tales of places like churches jumping from 8K to 60K. It was something of a crisis, and people were jumping off cliffs here.
It wasn’t really from the hurricanes; it was more the sinkholes that were almost a scam. You could end up with more than the value of your house if your found one; People would actually look for one and rejoice if they found one. There were big billboards all over from attorneys who specialized in recovering from ins for sinkholes.
In any case, I remember at the time I sold my house, because I told my friends people are going to stop buying down here. In fact, I was so convinced of this I sold on the cheap side just to get rid of it very fast even though housing was at record highs. Why come to FL to escape taxes when your insurance was equivalent? It was like another major tax.
The house market plummeted at that time and I always thought insurance was the spark. FL is so dependent on the construction industry it followed soon after.
However, the thing that has always jumped out at me is that by August of 2008 it really became obvious that Obama was going to beat McCain. The conventions were over, and McCain didn't have it.
And all across the country, businesses started hunkering down, cutting the fat, and getting ready for 4 lean years. It all started accelerating as soon people knew that Obama was going to be president.
bttt
This map proves what I’ve contended all along. The Dems poisoned the pond to get 0bama elected, and their socialist programs pushed through.
Somewhere, there is a detailed matrix showing what needed to be done in order to cause the downfall and the, then, (un)necessary stimulus to be passed.
/Um, does this tin foil hat make me look phat?
Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Hillary etc studied the Alinsky strategy to conquer capitalism and wrestle the flow of money from the private sector into government control.
Every time someone loses a job the liberal politicians get a big thrill because they just got another dependent to control.
the only problem with the economy is our government
Interesting! It really highlights where the trouble spots have been all aong.
But how can we have more jobs lost since 10-2008 than from the year before, when there’s been loss overall that entire time? Maybe it means “as of” that date, not “since” that date?
Definately the hope and change is working.
I'm now working for a company that's doing very well financially (no debt, vast cash reserves) and instead of increasing the American workforce, they are doing most new hiring in India.
Former company bought and sold a few times, used to be a cash generating machine, but with all the changes now loses money. American IT workforce (middle class)completely replaced by Indian workers - to my knowledge, involving at least 500 jobs formerly held in the USA (company is retail USA, sells nothing overseas). Not to mention any new hiring is done outside the USA.
It's like the 'perfect storm' with the greedy financial deals including the mortgage scams and the 'leveling' of the playing field with the 'global economy' replacing American workers with foreign workers. It's really greedy and short sighted and as a country we need to wake up before it gets even worse and not fixable. But we like those 'cheap' throwaway goods, nice returns on our 401k's and the $$$ that exchanges hands within our own government. Especially love those big Asian loans!
I especially get a big kick out of companies supposedly looking ahead to the next middle class consumers in other countries - needed to purchase their products - but they don't pay them enough to ever reproduce what American consumers can and did purchase.
Very short sighted and stupid, the whole thing. I'm disgusted.
I feel ill.
Notice how Washington DC is turning blue again on the map.
These numbers are not necessarily accumulative for each month, but stand for the total numbers during that particular one-year period of time. It's a "sliding one-year picture" of what's happening with the overall gains and losses here.
And then, also, I've put in the "Amount of Change" from the one-year rolling numbers -- to the following month and its one-year rolling numbers. The "Amount of Change" shows which way things are going, either up or down.
-- From 2006 to 2007 Amt Change Numbers Gain/Loss One-year Period running -- Bush Administration (blue is "gain" and red is "loss") -- [ xxx,xxx] 2,625,193 jobs gained (from January 2006 to January 2007) [- 298,315] 2,326,878 jobs gained (from February 2006 to February 2007) [+ 70,059] 2,396,937 jobs gained (from March 2006 to March 2007) [- 652,634] 1,744,303 jobs gained (from April 2006 to April 2007) [- 76,451] 1,667,852 jobs gained (from May 2006 to May 2007) [- 83,174] 1,584,678 jobs gained (from June 2006 to June 2007) [- 43,030] 1,541,648 jobs gained (from July 2006 to July 2007) [- 689,269] 852,379 jobs gained (from August 2006 to August 2007) [+ 406,589] 1,258,968 jobs gained (from September 2006 to September 2007) [- 831,750] 427,218 jobs gained (from October 2006 to October 2007) [+ 475,364] 902,582 jobs gained (from November 2006 to November 2007) [- 866,785] 35,797 jobs gained (from December 2006 to December 2007) -- From 2007 to 2008 Amt Change Numbers Gain/Loss One-year Period running -- Bush Administration (blue is "gain" and red is "loss") -- [+ 730,616] 766,413 jobs gained (from January 2007 to January 2008) [- 282,854] 483,559 jobs gained (from February 2007 to February 2008) [- 290,723] 192,836 jobs gained (from March 2007 to March 2008) [+ 835,152] 1,027,988 jobs gained (from April 2007 to April 2008) [- 564,156] 463,832 jobs gained (from May 2007 to May 2008) [- 365,996] 97,836 jobs gained (from June 2007 to June 2008) [- 142,705] 44,869 jobs lost (from July 2007 to July 2008) [- 44,384] 89,253 jobs lost (from August 2007 to August 2008) [- 640,611] 729,864 jobs lost (from September 2007 to September 2008) [- 62,975] 792,839 jobs lost (from October 2007 to October 2008) [-1,312,591] 2,105,430 jobs lost (from November 2007 to November 2008) [- 475,884] 2,581,314 jobs lost (from December 2007 to December 2008) -- From 2008 to 2009 Amt Change Numbers Gain/Loss One-year Period running -- Bush Administration/Obama Administration (Obama took office January 20th) -- [-1,353,106] 3,934,420 jobs lost (from January 2008 to January 2009) -- Obama Administration (blue is "gain" and red is "loss") -- [- 262,951] 4,197,371 jobs lost (from February 2008 to February 2009) [- 827,409] 5,024,780 jobs lost (from March 2008 to March 2009) [- 61,101] 5,085,881 jobs lost (from April 2008 to April 2009) [- 217,053] 5,302,934 jobs lost (from May 2008 to May 2009) [- 258,098] 5,561,032 jobs lost (from June 2008 to June 2009) [+ 21,849] 5,539,183 jobs lost (from July 2008 to July 2009) [- 14,452] 5,553,635 jobs lost (from August 2008 to August 2009) [- 393,556] 5,947,191 jobs lost (from September 2008 to September 2009) [- 215,645] 6,162,836 jobs lost (from October 2008 to October 2009)
SOURCE: Local Area Unemployment Statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Article - When Did Your County's Jobs Disappear?
It’s BS. If the data was true, we would have no unemployment. Maybe they are counting government jobs added, but not subtracting real jobs lost.
Very interesting......
Obamanomics at work. I consider the last quarter of 2008 as Zero’s economy as well, with the financial crisis brought on by his party’s policies and the handwriting on the wall that he’d probably win the election, as early as August/September of 2008.
Nice work, Zero! FReegards....GG