How are we worse off? Everything is good around my way. Local economy is picking up. We are expanding at work. How are things worse? In 2008 we laid people off right before Christmas. We have hired over 15 new people since 2011 and are hiring at least 10 more in the next few months. What am I missing?

Isnt summer always a good time of year for unemployment to go down and Winter when jobs are lost?

You can't be serious, we are worse off then when he took over, but the mainstream media won't tell you that. Health Care, EPIC FAIL. :ohbrother:

 

However, I respect your opinion.

While we are no where near worse off then when the POTUS took office I am very hesitate to claim we are rebounding and things are heading in the right direction. Housing is still in the toilet and I think every piece of our economy is hanging on by a thread.

Unemployment rate up about 6%

Debt up almost 50%

 

Since Obama took office.

Unemployment rate up about 6%

Debt up almost 50%

 

Since Obama took office.

 

How do you come up with those numbers?

How do you come up with those numbers?

 

Unemployment rate 7.6 to 8.1 is 6.6%

 

Debt from just under 11 trillion to almost 16 trillion is about 47%

Unemployment rate 7.6 to 8.1 is 6.6%

 

Debt from just under 11 trillion to almost 16 trillion is about 41%

 

I see, I thought you meant the unemployment rate was 2% before 2009. :lol:

I see, I thought you meant the unemployment rate was 2% before 2009. :lol:

 

Sorry. Just meant the rate of increase, not the absolute increase.

U.S. companies in March posted the highest number of job openings in nearly four years, a sign that hiring could strengthen in the coming months after slowing this spring.The Labor Department said Tuesday that employers advertised 3.74 million job openings in March. That's up from a revised 3.57 million in February and the most since July 2008, just before the financial crisis erupted.

The increase in U.S. job openings suggests that weaker hiring gains in March and April could be temporary. It usually takes one to three months for employers to fill openings.

Even with the increase, roughly 12.7 million people were unemployed in March. That means an average of 3.4 people competed for each open job. While that's far better than the nearly 7-to-1 ratio when the recession ended. In a healthy job market, the ratio is usually around 2 to 1.

Last week the government said employers added just 115,000 jobs in April and 154,000 in March. That was a sharp decline from December through February, when the economy added an average of 252,000 jobs per month.

 

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And you get your info from??? Rush?

 

Have never once listened to him. I like Mark Levin. We can all find different "outlets" to justify our comments and say, "I am right, you are wrong". Bottomline....Govt. needs to get out of our way and follow the 10th Amendment.......The Tenth Amendment states the Constitution's principle of federalism by providing that powers not granted to the federal government nor prohibited to the States by the Constitution are reserved to the States or the people.

 

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Private sector has averaged growing 200k jobs per month since October. Staying at the pace would drop the UE rate to 6% sometime in 2021.

Isnt summer always a good time of year for unemployment to go down and Winter when jobs are lost?

 

Used to be because of student hires. Now unemployed are fighting for the jobs around here that students used to get.

So the fact that employers posted 3.74M jobs gets no play in here?

^ I've said all along that things were on the uptick.