Unemployment rate at 7.8

[acemona]

Wall Street is WAY up as are corporate profits. Those folks are certainly doing better than they were 4 years ago.

[Clyde]

Wall Street is WAY up as are corporate profits. Those folks are certainly doing better than they were 4 years ago.

 

Way up as record highs if I read correctly. That's a positive.

[Bluegrasscard]

 

Tonight the radio said some 'conspiracy theorists' questioned today's number. Jack Walsh, former CEO of GE, is a conspiracy theorists?

 

Next thing you know he will doubt some goofy computer created pdf file released by the White House last April is a scan from a Hawaii state document.

 

 

 

Though Jack Welsh has not gone birther. He now is accused as having so....

 

Question the government - you are a birther.

 

President Obama's team slams 'lunatics' who say unemployment stats were cooked - NY Daily News

 

"Obama campaign senior adviser Robert Gibbs called such comments “incredibly dangerous” and said Welch embarrassed himself.

 

 

“There's a number of people that believe the real unemployment report is somewhere in a safe in Nairobi with the president's Kenyan birth certificate," Gibbs said sarcastically on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.

 

Another senior adviser, David Axelrod, also compared Welch and company to right-wingers who believe Obama was not born in the U.S.

 

 

“They can join the lunatic fringe of birthers,” Axelrod said on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” calling the conspiracy theory “completely nuts.”"

 

 

 

“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”

 

 

“…you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments.”

 

 

- Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

 

 

 

[75center]

Liberal economist Dean Baker, with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, called the September rate drop "almost certainly a statistical fluke."

 

Better watch his back.

[Bluegrasscard]

Liberal economist Dean Baker, with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, called the September rate drop "almost certainly a statistical fluke."

 

Better watch his back.

 

Or who he drinks wine with...especially in LA...

[Bluegrasscard]

Obama in 2004. The numbers do not tell the story. Other questions matter. "Its way to early to claim victory."

 

 

BTW. What where the number in early 2004?

 

U.S. job growth jumps after months of weakness - Apr. 2, 2004

 

"Payrolls outside the farm sector grew by 308,000 jobs in March, the Labor Department said, compared with a revised gain of 46,000 in February. The unemployment rate, which is generated by a separate survey, rose to 5.7 from 5.6 percent. "

 

So a 308,000 gain in 2004 is not good enough. And in 2012 114,000 is a victory?

 

Strange logic.

[Michael Corleone]

I would say this big of a drop in the rate is a near miracle.

[Jim Schue]

Though Jack Welsh has not gone birther. He now is accused as having so....

 

Question the government - you are a birther.

 

President Obama's team slams 'lunatics' who say unemployment stats were cooked - NY Daily News

 

"Obama campaign senior adviser Robert Gibbs called such comments “incredibly dangerous” and said Welch embarrassed himself.

 

 

“There's a number of people that believe the real unemployment report is somewhere in a safe in Nairobi with the president's Kenyan birth certificate," Gibbs said sarcastically on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.

 

Another senior adviser, David Axelrod, also compared Welch and company to right-wingers who believe Obama was not born in the U.S.

 

 

“They can join the lunatic fringe of birthers,” Axelrod said on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” calling the conspiracy theory “completely nuts.”"

 

 

 

“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”

 

 

“…you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments.”

 

 

- Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

 

 

 

 

Kind of hard to take you seriously when you quote a guy as gospel but can't even get his freakin' name right. It's Jack Welch, and he's a freakin' loon. He doesn't want to help you, me or anybody else on this board. He's grossly rich, and all he wants to do is protect his own personal wealth, and to hell with the rest of us.

 

Here's the problem with economics today: Grossly rich people are doing great, and they'll continue to do great, because they have the means to make sure that they don't get hurt, no matter what. The rest of us are just spinning our wheels. Too many people have this wild idea in their head that what's great for the grossly rich is great for everybody else, but decades of foolishness has proven that Jack Kemp's trickle-down economics does next to nothing for the vast majority of the people.

 

Another problem: Too many Americans are ten-cent millionaires thinking that what's good for the grossly rich works for them, but it doesn't. You people in your McMansions are just as dirty and unworthy in the eyes of the Jack Welches of the world as I am.

 

Wake up, America.

[Bluegrasscard]

Saul would be proud.

[woodsrider]

Kind of hard to take you seriously when you quote a guy as gospel but can't even get his freakin' name right. It's Jack Welch, and he's a freakin' loon. He doesn't want to help you, me or anybody else on this board. He's grossly rich, and all he wants to do is protect his own personal wealth, and to hell with the rest of us.

 

Here's the problem with economics today: Grossly rich people are doing great, and they'll continue to do great, because they have the means to make sure that they don't get hurt, no matter what. The rest of us are just spinning our wheels. Too many people have this wild idea in their head that what's great for the grossly rich is great for everybody else, but decades of foolishness has proven that Jack Kemp's trickle-down economics does next to nothing for the vast majority of the people.

 

Another problem: Too many Americans are ten-cent millionaires thinking that what's good for the grossly rich works for them, but it doesn't. You people in your McMansions are just as dirty and unworthy in the eyes of the Jack Welches of the world as I am.

 

Wake up, America.

So what's your solution then?

[75center]

Solution???

[Randy Parker]

Wall Street is WAY up as are corporate profits. Those folks are certainly doing better than they were 4 years ago.

 

I saw that & very much like that news.

 

But I also recall then-candidate Obama with a recurring campaign utterance four years ago--something along the lines of how things are going well for folks on Wall Street but not so much for the folks on Main Street.

[Michael Corleone]

Kind of hard to take you seriously when you quote a guy as gospel but can't even get his freakin' name right. It's Jack Welch, and he's a freakin' loon. He doesn't want to help you, me or anybody else on this board. He's grossly rich, and all he wants to do is protect his own personal wealth, and to hell with the rest of us.

 

Here's the problem with economics today: Grossly rich people are doing great, and they'll continue to do great, because they have the means to make sure that they don't get hurt, no matter what. The rest of us are just spinning our wheels. Too many people have this wild idea in their head that what's great for the grossly rich is great for everybody else, but decades of foolishness has proven that Jack Kemp's trickle-down economics does next to nothing for the vast majority of the people.

 

Another problem: Too many Americans are ten-cent millionaires thinking that what's good for the grossly rich works for them, but it doesn't. You people in your McMansions are just as dirty and unworthy in the eyes of the Jack Welches of the world as I am.

 

Wake up, America.

 

What is grossly rich? And what is a McMansion?

[75center]

I always thought McMansion was where Ronald McDonald lives.

[Michael Corleone]

I always thought McMansion was where Ronald McDonald lives.

 

I've heard of the Ronald McDonald House but not McMansions