I keep forgetting it’s only liberal opinions that matter! Because we all know that the ’war on women" and the “war against blacks” and religious freedom laws are a “war against homosexuals”. Talk about your “faux” wars.
Actually that would be democrats and their “it’s a good thing if everyone owns a house” policy. How you can afford it, doesn’t matter. By don’t let facts get in the way of your hate!
Weaker than desired growth, well thank Republicans stalling legislation for six years, trying to make Obama a one-termer, even though Bush lost millions of jobs with their help, hey, the one-percenters are still making capital gains, and not paying taxes!
Basically, to be unemployed you must have applied to at least one place that was hiring and must not have gotten even an hour’s work. That’s been the definition for a century or so, and the numbers compare like to like. But, of course, they don’t count the person who got an afternoon’s work shoveling the day after the big blizzard and didn’t get any more work the rest of the month. And they don’t count those who have already applied to every place in town and can’t find any more places to which they can apply..My text said that a rate of about 4.5% is ‘frictional’ and means there are jobs for those 4.5% but they’re looking at all of them and deciding. When there are plenty of jobs, people take longer looking to pick the best one..But a rate of 5% or more means the real rate is more than 5%, because there are the discouraged workers and the involuntary part timers..Then, instead of the old ‘frictional’ of 4.5%, they came up with a new definition of full employment called NAI of about 6%. When the official rate hit 12% under St Reagan, they pointed out that 6% was 0%, add to that those looking for better jobs, and those just out of school or the military, and that’s another 6%, so under St Ronnie, the real rate was 0% (the nominal 10% under Carter had been a real rate of 20%, see how Reagan saved us, reducing the real rate from 20% to 0%?)..So unemployment statistics are a bit complicated, and forcing comparisons of like to like is impossible wrt the rwnjs.
Actually all that matters is that 90 million working-age adults are not working(highest ever) and the median household American income is the lowest since Jimmy Carter almost 40 years ago.That’s all. Thanks Democrats!
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member about 9 years ago
That’s OK FOX will report multiple times and come up with all the reasons Obama caused it.
HabaneroBuck about 9 years ago
Once you’ve been out of the work force for too long, they no longer count you. Convenient way to cook the books and make everything look “normal”.
llgassert about 9 years ago
Yes but would you rather work at Burger King or Hp? That’s the diff.
FishDog93 about 9 years ago
Might want to take your own advice!
FishDog93 about 9 years ago
I keep forgetting it’s only liberal opinions that matter! Because we all know that the ’war on women" and the “war against blacks” and religious freedom laws are a “war against homosexuals”. Talk about your “faux” wars.
FishDog93 about 9 years ago
Actually that would be democrats and their “it’s a good thing if everyone owns a house” policy. How you can afford it, doesn’t matter. By don’t let facts get in the way of your hate!
Dtroutma about 9 years ago
Weaker than desired growth, well thank Republicans stalling legislation for six years, trying to make Obama a one-termer, even though Bush lost millions of jobs with their help, hey, the one-percenters are still making capital gains, and not paying taxes!
Mickey and Delia about 9 years ago
Basically, to be unemployed you must have applied to at least one place that was hiring and must not have gotten even an hour’s work. That’s been the definition for a century or so, and the numbers compare like to like. But, of course, they don’t count the person who got an afternoon’s work shoveling the day after the big blizzard and didn’t get any more work the rest of the month. And they don’t count those who have already applied to every place in town and can’t find any more places to which they can apply..My text said that a rate of about 4.5% is ‘frictional’ and means there are jobs for those 4.5% but they’re looking at all of them and deciding. When there are plenty of jobs, people take longer looking to pick the best one..But a rate of 5% or more means the real rate is more than 5%, because there are the discouraged workers and the involuntary part timers..Then, instead of the old ‘frictional’ of 4.5%, they came up with a new definition of full employment called NAI of about 6%. When the official rate hit 12% under St Reagan, they pointed out that 6% was 0%, add to that those looking for better jobs, and those just out of school or the military, and that’s another 6%, so under St Ronnie, the real rate was 0% (the nominal 10% under Carter had been a real rate of 20%, see how Reagan saved us, reducing the real rate from 20% to 0%?)..So unemployment statistics are a bit complicated, and forcing comparisons of like to like is impossible wrt the rwnjs.
ConserveGov about 9 years ago
Actually all that matters is that 90 million working-age adults are not working(highest ever) and the median household American income is the lowest since Jimmy Carter almost 40 years ago.That’s all. Thanks Democrats!