What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?

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Brittney Griner To Be First Openly Gay Athlete To Sign With Nike–And She’ll Be Modeling Men’s Apparel.

Congratulations Brittney. You’re an inspiration to many.

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[IrezumiKiss]

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[mercury14]

Whoop de doo...thank you Mr. President:

THREE-MONTH AVERAGE OF JOB CREATION PLUMMETS

by JOHN NOLTE 7 Jun 2013, 6:55 AM PDT

The American economy has created 78,000 fewer jobs per month over the last three months as compared to the previous three months. Between December of 2012 and February of 2013, 699,000 jobs were created; for an average of 233,000. Between March and May of 2013, however, the economy created only 466,000 jobs; for an average of 155,000 jobs.

NBC News' Chuck Todd deserved credit for reporting this troubling fact on his MSNBC show "The Daily Rundown," but another troubling fact is that most of the media are celebrating today's numbers in a vacuum when the overall trend is a little chilling. There were also revisions to the last two months that resulted in a net loss of 12,000 jobs.

Also, now that the unemployment rate has crept back up (7.5% to 7.6%), the media have suddenly discovered the labor participation rate, something they all but ignored when the unemployment rate was going down -- not due to job creation, but because millions were giving up in their search for work. Now that a fraction of those who fled are returning, the media are claiming the rise in the unemployment rate is good news!
See how this works? Whether the unemployment rises or falls Obama freakin' rules!

Anyway, there are other signs the economy is heading in the wrong direction. Manufacturing shrunk in May to a four-year low, consumer spending (a big driver of the economy) declined in April, wages and wealth remain stagnant.

Regardless, what we can all agree on is that things need to be better and could have been better had Obama done what Ronald Reagan did to get us out of Carter's malaise and not instead chose to explode the size of government and the drug of dependency that goes with it.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern...ets?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Some of the reasons for the dismal performance here:

http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/07/news/economy/may-jobs-report/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

And you're flat-out ignoring the fact that you've been holding up the labor force participation rate as the key factor in unemployment. Now that the rate has increased for the past two months you're running from your own belief system, pretending like you never said it matters. Now it's all about raw numbers.

You just cherry pick whatever metric you think backs your narrative and then act like there was nothing else in the BLS report.

 

[Busybody]

You just cherry pick whatever metric you think backs your narrative .

surprise!

 

[Busybody]

And you're flat-out ignoring the fact that you've been holding up the labor force participation rate as the key factor in unemployment. Now that the rate has increased for the past two months you're running from your own belief system, pretending like you never said it matters. Now it's all about raw numbers.

You just cherry pick whatever metric you think backs your narrative and then act like there was nothing else in the BLS report.

cause peeps are SO DESPERATE now

they needa look

 

[IrezumiKiss]

You just cherry pick whatever metric you think backs your narrative and then act like there was nothing else in the BLS report.

yuppers!

 

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[IrezumiKiss]

And you're flat-out ignoring the fact that you've been holding up the labor force participation rate as the key factor in unemployment.

yuppers again.

 

[mercury14]

Do you think the numbers of Americans not looking for work has gone down?

The percentage (wf participation rate) has increased over the past couple months. Raw numbers allow you to distort reality by removing context. Use rates bro.

Actually you've been using rates until the last couple months when rates stopped backing your narrative.

 

[Busybody]

The percentage (wf participation rate) has increased over the past couple months. Raw numbers allow you to distort reality by removing context. Use rates bro.

there is that WORD again

 

[koalabear]

And you're flat-out ignoring the fact that you've been holding up the labor force participation rate as the key factor in unemployment. Now that the rate has increased for the past two months you're running from your own belief system, pretending like you never said it matters. Now it's all about raw numbers.

You just cherry pick whatever metric you think backs your narrative and then act like there was nothing else in the BLS report.

The government revised the job figures for the previous two months. April's gain was lowered to 149,000 from 165,000. March's was increased slightly to 142,000 from 138,000. The net loss was 12,000 jobs.

 

[mercury14]

The government revised the job figures for the previous two months. April's gain was lowered to 149,000 from 165,000. March's was increased slightly to 142,000 from 138,000. The net loss was 12,000 jobs.

12k jobs over two months isn't worth mentioning though really. Unless you're desperate for some doom n' gloom.

 

[koalabear]

12k jobs over two months isn't worth mentioning though really. Unless you're desperate for some doom n' gloom.

Of course it isn't, it would make you look stupid. Stick with your imaginary lil gains.

 

[JohnnySavage]

The President is getting ready to speak. You guys had better log onto Breibart to see what he said.

 

[koalabear]

The President is getting ready to speak. You guys had better log onto Breibart to see what he said.

They are the only ones dumb enough to cover a speech of his.

 

[RobDownSouth]

The percentage (wf participation rate) has increased over the past couple months. Raw numbers allow you to distort reality by removing context. Use rates bro.

Actually you've been using rates until the last couple months when rates stopped backing your narrative.

Being able to turn on a dime is one of the trademarks of a right wing whackadoodle.
Hey koala bear, quote me if you really want your loved ones to die in a fire!

 

[Busybody]

The President is getting ready to speak. You guys had better log onto Breibart to see what he said.

I see

Ronnie

Working to become a

Leslie

 

[Busybody]

The THREATSstart, the THUGS are out

White House Deploying “Navigators” To Enforce Obamacare Implementation In States With High Levels Of Opposition To Law…




We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.

Via Watchdog.org:


In those states where there is a significant level of hostility toward ObamaCare, trained “navigators” will be on the ground to ensure the program is successfully implemented, senior administration officials said Thursday during a conference call.

With the open enrollment period for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, set to begin on Oct.1 and through March 2014, White House officials made it clear in their remarks that the partnerships set up in California to promote the federal health care program could serve as model for the rest of the country. [...]

While the focus of President Obama’s comments Friday will be on California, administration officials said in response to reporter questions that the White House would rely upon ObamaCare navigators and community health centers to make inroads in states like Florida and Texas, which have been resistant to implementation.

“When you think about states like Texas and Florida, the other thing to understand is that even though there might not be some support in the state capitals, this is going to be a very community based and regionally focused enterprise,” a senior administration official said. “For example, community health centers are really going to be really at the core of local efforts where there is going to be someone trained in each one of them, in each state one of those states across the country to walk people through the process…mayors very involved, state legislators very involved, sports teams very, very involved, churches, community based organizations.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Bad news for glibertarians!



Political extremism can be moderated by asking people a simple question

The magic question:

How would your proposed policy solutions would work in the real world?

When confronted with that simple question, most people realize two things:

1. People generally know less about public policies than they think they do
2. Once they realize their lack of knowledge, they tend to moderate their views.

LINK

I admit I've had a lot of fun with this technique in the past, particularly with anti-abortion miscreants: I like to ask them "If abortion is declared by law to be murder, then should women who get abortions be subject to first degree homicide charges? Yes or no?"

They will never answer that question....they'll rail about abortion doctors instead. I remind them that people who pay for hit men to commit murder for them are considered just as guilty of first degree murder as a hit man, but Lordy, they'll hem and haw about that when it's a woman paying for an abortion.

 

[richard_daily]

Please note that the Vettebigot is using PatriotMath once again. Reagan's first term job growth was 100,000 per month, not one million LINK

Reagan did create more jobs than President Obama in his first term (although it's worth noting that Reagan didn't have to deal with a Congress devoted to sabotaging his agenda).

Also worth noting is that President Jimmy Carter had twice as many jobs created per month in four years than Reagan did.

Quoted for the cowardly lyin.

 

[Busybody]

Bad news for glibertarians!



Political extremism can be moderated by asking people a simple question

The magic question:


LINK

I admit I've had a lot of fun with this technique in the past, particularly with anti-abortion miscreants: I like to ask them "If abortion is declared by law to be murder, then should women who get abortions be subject to first degree homicide charges? Yes or no?"

They will never answer that question....they'll rail about abortion doctors instead. I remind them that people who pay for hit men to commit murder for them are considered just as guilty of first degree murder as a hit man, but Lordy, they'll hem and haw about that when it's a woman paying for an abortion.

here is a nutter question

"If the word CHOICE were replaced (with no consequence to the woman or Dr, with.....KILLING THE BABY, would you still advocate for it?"

 

[RobDownSouth]

here is a nutter question

"If the word CHOICE were replaced (with no consequence to the woman or Dr, with.....KILLING THE BABY, would you still advocate for it?"

You're a brave little man, why don't you answer my question...Would it be first degree murder and should a woman therefore face the death penalty if abortion were criminalized?

A simple yes or no will suffice.

 

[richard_daily]

You're a brave little man, why don't you answer my question...Would it be first degree murder and should a woman therefore face the death penalty if abortion were criminalized?

A simple yes or no will suffice.

Here's another question, if abortion truly is murder, why aren't wingnuts rioting in the streets to stop it?

 

[Busybody]

You're a brave little man, why don't you answer my question...Would it be first degree murder and should a woman therefore face the death penalty if abortion were criminalized?

A simple yes or no will suffice.

yes