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Gallup: Unemployment drops to new low at 7.6%

Discussion in 'Current Events' started by Iriemon, Oct 8, 2012.

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  1. coolguybrad

    coolguybrad New Member

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    The republican's were right. The best way to improve this country was to prevent Obama and the dems from doing anything in their agenda. The unemployment rate has dropped 2.5% during the Boehner/McConnell self-imposed stalemates.

    Conservatism wins again.
     
    coolguybrad, Oct 8, 2012
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  2. Foolardi

    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Which begs the new question.How come ALL year long Every revision was downward as far as
    number of employed.Meaning original estimates were overblown.
    Now out the blue both July and August revisons are Upward meaning original
    estimates didn't count as many as they should.
    Sorry ... But this doesn't even pass the Smell/Laugh test.
    This is flat out Banana Republic Revisionism.
     
    Foolardi, Oct 8, 2012
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  3. Iriemon

    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    If we didn't have a trillion dollar deficit, I'd be fine with that plan.
     
    Iriemon, Oct 8, 2012
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  4. Iriemon

    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Iriemon, Oct 8, 2012
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  5. trucker

    trucker Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    check out this scale of truck drivers hired only breaking even wheres the uptick?
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    the trucking industry only hired 700 drivers last month? see only low skilled fast food handlers, trucking is high skilled over most lower jobs, fast food low skill has been created by obama
    and those 700 truckers are only replacements over all
    http://www.thetrucker.com/News/Stor...edropsbutfor-hiretruckingaddsonly700jobs.aspx
     
    trucker, Oct 8, 2012
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  6. Iriemon

    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Uh, sure. That makes sense.
     
    Iriemon, Oct 8, 2012
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  7. Iriemon

    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Iriemon, Oct 8, 2012
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  8. Wake_Up

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    Whoooooooooooo!!!!!! That unemployment has gone down 4 tenths of one percent! Whooooooooooooo!!!!!

    Amazingly, it only took 4 whole years....

    Still far, far too high and that is only a single part of the multi-part obama failure.

    Yawn.
     
    Wake_Up, Oct 8, 2012
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  9. coolguybrad

    coolguybrad New Member

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    Tom Coburn has identified approx $300b per year in duplication and waste in this country, and no one will even listen. They are too interested in keeping their seats.
     
    coolguybrad, Oct 8, 2012
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  10. Iriemon

    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Your statement is false again. The accurate number is 1.3 percentage points since the Republicans took over the House.
     
    Iriemon, Oct 8, 2012
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  11. coolguybrad

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    Per gallup, unemployment rate was 10.1% on Oct 1, about the time McConnell/Boehner began stating #1 objective is to just say no.
     
    coolguybrad, Oct 8, 2012
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  12. Iriemon

    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Every revision was not downward. Your smeller has just been inundated with BS.
     
    Iriemon, Oct 8, 2012
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  13. gamewell45

    gamewell45 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Perhaps the the unemployment rate is actually 7.6? and not at 4% as you'd like it?
     
    gamewell45, Oct 8, 2012
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  14. Iriemon

    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Fair point. I thought you were referring to BLS. Though the rate was 9.5% on Jan 4, when the Republicans actually took control of the House.
     
    Iriemon, Oct 8, 2012
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  15. Iriemon

    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Gallup unemployment dropped another notch today, down to a new low record (for them) of 7.5%. I guess I should have waited before starting the thread!
     
    Iriemon, Oct 8, 2012
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  16. Iriemon

    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Gallup's unemployment rate topped out at 11.3% in early 2010. That is a 3.8 percentage point drop, far more than the 4/10 you asserted.

    Which is very good news to those of us who want to see the economy recovering.

    But I appreciate it's a big yawner to those invested in failure for political purposes.
     
    Iriemon, Oct 8, 2012
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  17. Iriemon

    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    How utterly fascinating.
     
    Iriemon, Oct 8, 2012
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  18. HB Surfer

    HB Surfer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    When Barack Obama signed an executive order that removed the work requirement from Welfare recipients.... he just artificially changed the number so that willing idiots will run around spreading propaganda on the "improvement". They no longer had to apply for work through the Employment offices, thus they were REMOVED from the unemployment numbers. It was a scam. Where is the media to report it? Nowhere as usual.

    You cannot only gain 115,000 and decrease the unemployment number. 150,000 is required just to break even.


    SHENANIGANS!!!! :smile:
     
    HB Surfer, Oct 8, 2012
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  19. Surfer Joe

    Surfer Joe Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    LMAO...Based on your own chart, the castration of the trucking industry happened on Bush's watch, and then it bottomed out on 2010 and is now on the upswing, thanks to Obama's policies.
    Too bad you only see a negro in the White House.


     
    Surfer Joe, Oct 8, 2012
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  20. Iriemon

    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Ah, our friend HB Surfer does an excellent job showing how effective RW propaganda is on the masses with this "pants on fire" regurgitation of an old lie,.

    Romney: "Under Obama’s plan (for welfare), you wouldn’t have to work and wouldn’t have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check." Rated: Pants on fire.


    "But on July 12," the ad continues, "President Obama quietly announced a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements. Under Obama’s plan, you wouldn’t have to work and wouldn’t have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check, and ‘welfare to work’ goes back to being plain old welfare."

    ...

    Our ruling: That's a drastic distortion of the planned changes to Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. By granting waivers to states, the Obama administration is seeking to make welfare-to-work efforts more successful, not end them.

    http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...omney-says-barack-obamas-plan-abandons-tenet/
    I'm sure it won't be the last.
     
    Iriemon, Oct 8, 2012
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  21. Brewskier

    Brewskier Well-Known Member

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    Right, because anything good that happens is 100% due to Obama's brilliant policies, and anything bad is not due to Obama's policies at all. Did you thank Dear Leader for the sun rising, today?

    That's what you see, and it's a big reason why you white guilt liberal progressives voted for him.
     
    Brewskier, Oct 8, 2012
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  22. Brewskier

    Brewskier Well-Known Member

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    If the same percentage of the population was working today that was working the day Obama took office, we'd have close to an 11% unemployment rate in U3.

    Only in Obamaland would Iriemon argue that less people working is a good thing for the economy.
     
    Brewskier, Oct 8, 2012
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  23. HB Surfer

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    ROFL! Nice Straw Man... that was not my claim.

    My claim was that they no longer have to register with the EDD offices and thus are not counted as "unemployed" since the Executive Order.... which is true and correct.

    Thanks for your attempt and fail... it was fun to watch. :smile:
     
    HB Surfer, Oct 8, 2012
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  24. Foolardi

    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    We didn't under Bush.The new standard under Obama is Trillion + deficits.
    Bush had a Deficit of $161 Billion one year.
     
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  25. Iriemon

    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It's not?

     
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