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theprof00 on 04 February 2012
osamanobama said:
fastyxx said:
The only people that find the report less than hopeful are those who want Obama to fail. There is nothing but good news in those numbers.

*They are all "real" jobs (i.e. not holiday gift-wrappers or short-term Census takers).
*They are in every important sector - retail, manufacturing, etc. - so it's across the board.
*The number of government jobs shrank again, so these are all private sector jobs.
*The numbers also got revised upwards for November and December, meaning the gains made then were actually better than we thought.

The idea that in any way shape or form the economy was going to instantly jump back to pre-2007 levels overnight is so ridiculous and naive, it's absurd.


employement went up because more than a million people left the work force because they couldnt find a job.

the CBO says unemployement is actually much closer to 10%.

and when you factor in all the people who stopped looking for jobs, and those that are severly under-employed the rate goes well northward of 15%.

really theres not much good news at all in these numbers, except for wishingful thinking and people who stick theri heads in the sand.

 

as for the bolded, i dont think anybody thought that. Over night. NO, but in 3+ years. YES. instead things have got worse.

given all the under the table jobs, illegal aliens working, I'd say that number goes back down to 5%.

Is this like somethign you're talking about? Well look, it's still going down.



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blkfish92 on 04 February 2012

So Obama is a boss??



           

man-bear-pig on 04 February 2012
blkfish92 said:
So Obama is a boss??

Yep.



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

blkfish92 on 04 February 2012
man-bear-pig said:
blkfish92 said:
So Obama is a boss??

Yep.




           

NintendoPie on 04 February 2012
blkfish92 said:
man-bear-pig said:
blkfish92 said:
So Obama is a boss??

Yep.


LOL! Oh you and your pigeons. Is that what you keep on your HD instead of porn? ;-P



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blkfish92 on 04 February 2012
NintendoPie said:
blkfish92 said:
man-bear-pig said:
blkfish92 said:
So Obama is a boss??

Yep.


LOL! Oh you and your pigeons. Is that what you keep on your HD instead of porn? ;-P


LOLOL, just a simple lucky google search =D



           

osamanobama on 06 February 2012

also there were 132,952,000 people working in December and 130,456,000 in January. So there were 2.5 million fewer jobs in January, and we are really expected to believe the unemployment rate went down?
So the increase of 233,000 jobs, is really a complete bullshit sugar coated, massaged number.

and even if the unemployement rate really is 8.3%, it only took us over $5 trillion to get their.

and for the record, as bad as a president, that Bush was, the average unemployment rate under him was 5.2%. it once went as high as 7.3%, and that was coincidently (not) the very last month that Bush held office, when businesses had to deal with the falling out of obama taking office.

What happened to unemployment wont go above 8% if we pass the stimulus? i guess he meant it wont go below that, until hes out of office.



Marks on 06 February 2012

That's good news. And it's good to see that it's actual job growth, not just the goverment taking money from one area and putting it into a different area to "create jobs".



osamanobama on 06 February 2012
Marks said:
That's good news. And it's good to see that it's actual job growth, not just the goverment taking money from one area and putting it into a different area to "create jobs".


its really not, read my post right above yours



Marks on 06 February 2012
osamanobama said:
Marks said:
That's good news. And it's good to see that it's actual job growth, not just the goverment taking money from one area and putting it into a different area to "create jobs".


its really not, read my post right above yours


Good point. I knew it was still down from the Bush era but didn't know it was that bad.