Job growth an anemic 115,000; jobless rate ticks down
The American economy added a lackluster 115,000 jobs in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate dropped to 8.1 percent.
The only good news in the report is that job estimates for previous months were revised upward, meaning more jobs had been created than initially thought.
For example, the initial March release reported 120,000 jobs created; the revised figure is 154,000.
The February number, originally reported at 227,000, has been revised upward twice and now stands at 259,000.
If that pattern holds for April, today’s numbers will also be revised upward. But such revisions won’t be enough to turn a disappointing number into a strong number. This continues to be a long, hard slog.
– Jay Bookman
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Mighty Righty
May 4th, 2012
10:23 am
If the BLS numbers are BS as many of us suspect, then the Republicans should prosecute them to the fullest extent of he law.
Doggone/GA
May 4th, 2012
10:23 am
” contrived number made up”
Got proof of that?
JamVet
May 4th, 2012
10:23 am
kayaker 71
May 4th, 2012
10:15 am
Reported 8.1% unemployment…… a contrived number made up
Please show your work to prove otherwise.
TaxPayer
May 4th, 2012
10:24 am
WIthout those regulations the economy would be a lot worse off.
Actually BP and the Koch crooks, et al, would be better off and I think that must be the point that the Republicans are trying to make with the de-regulation argument.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
May 4th, 2012
10:24 am
jamvet
you are right!
the 1% are not worried
they are dropping $50k per plate at Obama Fundraisers
UNCLE SAMANTHA
May 4th, 2012
10:25 am
jamvet
Please show your work to prove otherwise.
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/02/whats-the-real-jobless-rate/
JamVet
May 4th, 2012
10:25 am
Good job, Doggone!
(Of course, he doesn’t. He almost never does.)
Recon 0311 2533
May 4th, 2012
10:25 am
“I got nothing but emotionalism and contempt.”
You certainly have and you can add to those delusional thinking.
ByteMe - Political thug
May 4th, 2012
10:26 am
Precisely why Oblama needs to go. The Chinese freedom fighters world wide say he’s a hero. They know more than you PRESUME to know. You are so ARROGANT.
I’m arrogant, but you’re the one who’s sure you’re right about this. I know this, though: foreign policy for a country should NEVER be about one individual. That’s just stupid policy. Foreign policy is about two countries doing things together for maximum advantage for your own side.
So let’s go down your road for a moment: WHAT EXACTLY do you want the government to do for this one Chinese individual and what are you willing to give up — that the Chinese want — to see that happen?
TaxPayer
May 4th, 2012
10:26 am
The calculation of “contrived numbers” under the Obama administration are more accurate than they were under Bush. Take the off-budget funding of the Iraq war as a case in point.
paulo 977
May 4th, 2012
10:26 am
USinUK
It may not be robust growth … but it is growth – and that’s what matters
_________________________________________________
Of course ….. this was going to be a long hard climb BUT it is climbing!!
Adam
May 4th, 2012
10:26 am
td: Can you pull out your numbers and explain to all of us why there are 1 million less jobs in our economy today then there was the day Obama took office and how at the same time those numbers you cite keep going down?
Sure. Here’s the data presented in terms you can understand:
Baseline, number of total jobs on January 2009: 133,561,000
Total Change as of January 2010: -4,282,000
Total Change as of January 2011: -3,105,000
Total Change as of January 2012: -1,100,000
Total change as of April 2012: -572,000
Notice a pattern yet?
Steve
May 4th, 2012
10:27 am
I hate Obama (Obozo, Oblama, Bozo) the Muslim from Kenya who wasn’t born here SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much!
(and George W Bush was an awesome, intelligent man)
kayaker 71
May 4th, 2012
10:27 am
Bookman 10:21,
“We have a million more jobs today than when the Stimulus was signed in 2009″. That’s not nearly enough to make the numbers go down. We need 185K jobs/month just to stay even. It’s been about 42mos since Bozo took office. At rate, we would have needed about 7.7 million jobs just to keep us in the status quo. A million is pocket change.
Joseph
May 4th, 2012
10:27 am
A long hard slog made harder by a failed president along with a failed dem run Senate…..
Jefferson
May 4th, 2012
10:27 am
The GOP record, just run on that. Get President Bush to work with Romney and talk about their record.
JamVet
May 4th, 2012
10:27 am
UNCLE, I don’t understand the point you are trying to make.
Please expound.
ByteMe - Political thug
May 4th, 2012
10:27 am
the 1% are not worried
they are dropping $50k per plate at Obama Fundraisers
Damn socialists….
Adam
May 4th, 2012
10:29 am
If the BLS numbers are BS as many of us suspect, then the Republicans should prosecute them to the fullest extent of he law.
Call Congressman Issa.
ByteMe - Political thug
May 4th, 2012
10:29 am
We need 185K jobs/month just to stay even.
*WHISTLE* Moving the goalposts. 5 yard penalty. Repeat the down.
Steve
May 4th, 2012
10:29 am
I love how the whining and the squirming and gnashing of teeth is accelerating as clearly, Romney is going to lose to Obama in 2012, and you guys know it.
Carry on…
JamVet
May 4th, 2012
10:29 am
they are dropping $50k per plate at Obama Fundraisers
UNCLE,
The fat cats have always helped out their fellow fat cats.
This is newsworthy, how?
Jay
May 4th, 2012
10:29 am
If the BLS numbers are BS as many of us suspect, then the Republicans should prosecute them to the fullest extent of he law.
Agreed. And if you have NO evidence of such manipulation, you ought to stop acting foolish by pretending otherwise.
Steve Atl
May 4th, 2012
10:29 am
The democrats give us 8.1% and the Republicans are pushing 15.1%. I whipped up a quick algorithm that takes the midpoint of the party bias and calculated 11.6% UNEMPLOYMENT rate.
Quite simple…but probably the most accurate number out there.
TaxPayer
May 4th, 2012
10:30 am
Talking of contrived numbers, those Republican calculations of jobs “created” by that Keystone pipeline project went from tens of thousands to hundreds. Just imagine giving the Republicans a truly complicated math problem. They’d probably conclude that the earth is in the midst of a global cooling as a result of all the increased temperatures reported and all the ice melting.
getalife
May 4th, 2012
10:31 am
The global economy is slowing again.
Not good..
JamVet
May 4th, 2012
10:31 am
A long hard slog made harder by a failed president along with a failed dem run Senate…..
Says the reality averse guy who wrote, “And I mean never heard President Bush openly criticize democrats while in office. Not even Dick Cheney did that.”
UNCLE SAMANTHA
May 4th, 2012
10:32 am
JamVet
May 4th, 2012
10:27 am
UNCLE, I don’t understand the point you are trying to make.
Please expound.
THE 1% IS BOTH PARTIES
they fool you in this PLUTOCRACY to think that THE OTHER SIDE is the evil ones
Obama is the 1% and represents the 1% just like Romney, Kerry, Gore, Bush, Clinton etc…..
Recon 0311 2533
May 4th, 2012
10:32 am
“The unemployment rate dropped to 8.1 percent.”
example given of inaccuracy
Steve
May 4th, 2012
10:32 am
I bet you conservatives don’t even know what “Plutocracy” means…
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/opinion/krugman-plutocracy-paralysis-perplexity.html?_r=2&hp
paulo 977
May 4th, 2012
10:32 am
USinUK
and the fact that people with pre-existing conditions can get health insurance
_____________________________________________
AND have their kids on their insurance till they are 26 …. sigh of relief for my grandson still in college
Adam
May 4th, 2012
10:33 am
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801 @ 10:10a: As I Have REPEATEDLY pointed out, the “real unemployment number” thing you keep bringing up is an attempt to reframe things and make people think things are getting worse, when in fact each and every BLS number is trending downward. For example, that 9.9% figure? Pulled DIRECTLY from BLS (it’s metric U-5, in case you were wondering). If you’re going to use U-5, fine,. Let’s use it.
What was U-5 in January 2010? 11.2%
January 2011? 10.7%
January 2012 (or the time you mentioned)? 9.9%
April 2012? 9.5%
Notice a pattern yet??
They BOTH suck
May 4th, 2012
10:33 am
“Call Congressman Issa.”
Exactly…….. All these “fake” numbers that many want so bad to believe and some of their fav pundits feeding them talking points to instill that belief and no one is wondering why the Republicans in the Senate and House are not calling for hearings to call out the Administration……….
While the economy has a ways to go……… They numbers are what the are……….. period
Steve Atl
May 4th, 2012
10:33 am
Jay – If it were George Bush reporting the drop in unemployment…you would be trying to explain it away.
Stop acting all high and mighty.
Adam
May 4th, 2012
10:34 am
Here is a news flash. We do have 15% unemployment, actually more than 15 percent caused by the Obama Gusher Down Poverty program.
Actually, it’s 14.5%, down from 15.1% in January, 16.1% in January 2011, and 16.7% in January 2010.
NOOOO!!! FACTS!!!! (hisssss)
ByteMe - Political thug
May 4th, 2012
10:34 am
The global economy is slowing again.
This is the biggest risk out there, yes. Most of Europe is in a recession already. China is forcing their economy to slow. Not good for our exports.
Don't Tread
May 4th, 2012
10:34 am
“We have a million more private-sector jobs today than we did in February 2009″
Ok, so let’s do some simple math: $787 billion + interest (owed to China) / one million jobs / average salary for those one million jobs = SO not worth it.
Paul
May 4th, 2012
10:34 am
Mighty Righty
“After three years this is Obama’s economy. No amount of distortion will change that.” etcetcetc
If you didn’t want to say under whose watch the recession began and under whose watch the bulk of time was spent correcting it, you could have just said so.
“The economic numbers this year show a worsening economy. ”
Really?
You have a source, hmmmmm?
You may want to start with Jay’s 10:21 “We have a million more private-sector jobs today than we did in February 2009, when Obama signed the stimulus bill.”
I’m sure you’ll find others from BLS or Treasury or Rush or Sean that’ll tell how we’re in a worse situation than we were when Pres Obama took office.
Oblama
May 4th, 2012
10:35 am
I do hope that by some miracle this economy recovers. Then both sides can take claim for the recovery that they had little to do with. Just like they don’t take the blame now for this disaster. Politicians, on average, are ignorant to how the world economy works since they live in the Disney Land called D.C. Just think – we have Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid as experts on the economy. Lord help us!
Jay
May 4th, 2012
10:35 am
“A million (jobs) is pocket change.”
Hmmm. Well, given that we had just 600,000 fewer private sector jobs in January 2009 than we did eight years earlier, when Bush took office ….
Joseph
May 4th, 2012
10:35 am
I wonder when the American people will finally realize how the dems and Obama are cooking the books on the jobless numbers. It’s shameful that they are intentionally manipulating these numbers only to try and make his failed policies look better… Thank GOD that the majority of the country can still somewhat comprehend the lack of integrity of the Obama regime…
ByteMe - Political thug
May 4th, 2012
10:36 am
Notice a pattern yet??
What they’re left with is: my guy would have made it better faster… but I won’t tell you how or how I can be so sure of myself.
nomoobama
May 4th, 2012
10:36 am
Here is a better reason not to vote for Obama…his new campaign slogan “Forward” was and is a prominent slogan for communists and marxists all over the world. Google it. Also, Obama’s re-election campaign kicks off officially tomorrow, May 5. Do you know who was born on May 5? Obama’s hero…Carl Marx. Are you people not getting this? WAKE UP! You all cannot be this naive…
TaxPayer
May 4th, 2012
10:36 am
The unemployment rate is 8.1%. I’d say that is quite accurate given that it is reported to one decimal place.
Steve Atl
May 4th, 2012
10:37 am
Well said Joseph @10:35…
UNCLE SAMANTHA
May 4th, 2012
10:37 am
HELLO MCFLY’S
both parties are manipulating #’s and cooking books and doing all they can to keep in power
you can argue its one side or the other but its BOTH
Adam
May 4th, 2012
10:37 am
Also, for my first post about change since January 2009, if you make it change since February of 2009 instead, you can add 724,000 to each number cited, making April 2012 a period in which from February 2009 to April 2012 a net job growth of 152k so far. Yes, not actually a good number. But it IS a positive one.
ByteMe - Political thug
May 4th, 2012
10:37 am
Well said Joseph @10:35…
Well, Steve Atl, can you add some facts to back up his fact-free rant?
TaxPayer
May 4th, 2012
10:38 am
If a million jobs is pocket change then 6000 jobs must be chump change.
ByteMe - Political thug
May 4th, 2012
10:38 am
Here is a better reason not to vote for Obama…his new campaign slogan “Forward” was and is a prominent slogan for communists and marxists all over the world.
There’s a communist under your bed! BOOO!!!!!!
They BOTH suck
May 4th, 2012
10:38 am
Neil Cavuto on Fox News……… just now
The unemployment rate will be below 8.0% by the election……… He didn’t mention contrived numbers or the media working to get the numbers down for Obama as asserted on this blog………… and NEVER backed up
He mentioned the race will be close but several important “swing” states have seen significant job growth which could be helpful for Obama
Jay
May 4th, 2012
10:39 am
“I wonder when the American people will finally realize how the dems and Obama are cooking the books on the jobless numbers. It’s shameful that they are intentionally manipulating these numbers only to try and make his failed policies look better… Thank GOD that the majority of the country can still somewhat comprehend the lack of integrity of the Obama regime…
Joseph, that’s a lie. If it’s not a lie, show some evidence for that claim. ANY evidence at all. You have none.
Clearly, you live in a fact-free world in which reality does not exist or at least is not acknowledged. If you need a “fact” to confirm the illusions that you find so comforting, you simply create that “fact” in your own mind and treat it as reality.
You are your own personal holodeck.
larry
May 4th, 2012
10:39 am
I guess if the unemployment rate numbers under this administration are fake, then i guess the so-called great unemployment rate numbers under the previous administration are fake too.
Not like they would have made anything up………. like say , going to war or terriorist threat alerts five days before the 2004 election.
ByteMe - Political thug
May 4th, 2012
10:39 am
The unemployment rate will be below 8.0% by the election
Survey of 32 economists said so yesterday. At least he’s being honest and reporting it
UNCLE SAMANTHA
May 4th, 2012
10:40 am
and JAMVET
you are running from accepting that unemployment is way higher than 8%
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/02/whats-the-real-jobless-rate/
both parties have manipulated the use of unemployment and inflation because they want you to believe they are effective
Adam
May 4th, 2012
10:41 am
Steve Atl: Quite simple…but probably the most accurate number out there.
Your numbers are pulling from two different metrics in two different months. Here’s the real data:
U-3 (official rate): 8.1%
U-6 (the rate you are trying to cite as 15.1): 14.5%
U-5 (the one you were trying to say is actually 11.6%): 9.5%
real john
May 4th, 2012
10:41 am
Jay,
So do you think this is just a blip, or a sign of a longer term trend that the economy may be slowing down again?
Also, on a totally different subject, I think the Presidential election in France right now is a potential very important barometer. You have Sarzoky who favors austerity vs the Socialist candidate who is vowing to raising income tax rates to 75% for those making over $1 million euros.
Many economists I have read say that Sarzoky is the safe bet for those who are looking at the long term health of France and the Euro. The Socialist candidtate is for those looking at what the government can do for themselves personally, but could hurt France long term. The Socialist candidate is predicted to win. I think this could say a lot about who we, as Americans, choose as a President in the future (and I not talking necessarily about Obama). I’m just saying in general, will people accept necessary austerity measures, or will they vote for the candidate who promises them the most?
UNCLE SAMANTHA
May 4th, 2012
10:41 am
hey jay
read this
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/02/whats-the-real-jobless-rate/
they dont lie or make up numbers
they manipulate them
Generation$crewed
May 4th, 2012
10:41 am
Jay
May 4th, 2012
10:21 am
But yet since Obama took office the total employed has went down by 700,000+.
So you are correct that Private sector has increased but the reality is there are nearly 3/4 of a million less people going to work, collecting a check and paying taxes on that income than there were when Obama was sworn in. These figures were of March 2012.
http://mollysmiddleamerica.blogspot.com/2012/04/private-govt-jobs-gained-lost-obama.html?m=1
Adam
May 4th, 2012
10:42 am
HELLO MCFLY’S
SO not helping your cause… again.
Peadawg
May 4th, 2012
10:42 am
“A long hard slog made harder”
Sooo many jokes going through my mind right now…
They BOTH suck
May 4th, 2012
10:42 am
“Joseph, that’s a lie. If it’s not a lie, show some evidence for that claim. ANY evidence at all. You have none.”
But, but, but I read it in Newsmax, WorldNetDaily and American Spectator as well as Rush, Hanitty, Boortz and Medved repeating it like a broken record every day……
It must be true, It must be , it must be ………
Doggone/GA
May 4th, 2012
10:42 am
“you ought to stop acting foolish by pretending otherwise.”
What makes you think he’s acting?
Jay
May 4th, 2012
10:42 am
And to review the numbers:
In the eight years in which Bush was president and in which GOP economic theory was in play, we lost more than 600,000 private sector jobs.
Since Bush left office, we have gained 35,000 private-sector jobs.
As I’ve said in the past, trying to gauge a president’s performance by such measures is pretty silly. But if you want to play the game, those are the numbers. Deal with them.
Recon 0311 2533
May 4th, 2012
10:43 am
What’s trending downward is job creation and GDP growth. Metrics that are very important in determining the health of our economy.
Brosephus™
May 4th, 2012
10:43 am
until the banks are cleaned up or cleaned out…….. and the foreclosures are processed………… consumer demand will not pick up
I don’t think that will have any effect on consumer demand. People need money to spend first. That requires jobs and not cleaning up banks and/or real estate.
Mighty Righty
May 4th, 2012
10:43 am
It is clear there are a number of people who do not know the Department of Labor is part of the Obama Administration. The president appoints the Secretary of Labor who is in charge of the Department of Labor and is a member of the presidents cabinet. If the president were to be voted out of office, the Secretary of Labor would lose his job as well. The unemployment number is a report card on the president. Now for those who were confused, can you see a possible conflict of interest?
Gale
May 4th, 2012
10:43 am
I read a commentary the other day about people who are out of work and stopped looking; the uncounted ones. A number of these have “gone back to school”. They said that if they don’t find a job when they finish, they will just go back to school again. I am wondering how and when they expect to pay back the student loans they are living on?
Adam
May 4th, 2012
10:43 am
You are your own personal holodeck.
AHAHAHA love it.
Oscar
May 4th, 2012
10:43 am
e mentioned the race will be close but several important “swing” states have seen significant job growth which could be helpful for Obama
—————–
Six months to go. A lot can happen. But looks like Obama gets re-elected unless something really unexpected happens.
Thomas
May 4th, 2012
10:43 am
Notice a pattern yet?
Adam- please no more facts as it ruins the drunken love fest
Jay
May 4th, 2012
10:44 am
Which is it, Generation?
Are public-sector jobs real jobs, or aren’t they?
Jefferson
May 4th, 2012
10:44 am
So God doesn’t say “you’re welcome” to liars, eh.
Steve Atl
May 4th, 2012
10:44 am
ByteMe…I live “the facts” daily.
- My home value is down 20%.
- My 401k is down significantly.
- I pay $3.80 a gallon for gas.
- I watch the debt clock grow to astronomical numbers.
- I see more people on welfare than ever before.
- I see banks that won’t lend to people with 800+ credit scores.
What else do you need?
Adam
May 4th, 2012
10:45 am
GS: But yet since Obama took office the total employed has went down by 700,000+.
And in January 2010 it was 4 million total lost, and on January 2011 it was 3 million total lost, and on January 2012 (this year) it was 1 million lost, and in the month you cited, 700k lost. Now it’s 572k lost as of the April 2012 numbers.
So what does that tell you?
larry
May 4th, 2012
10:45 am
But yet since Obama took office the total employed has went down by 700,000+.
I wonder how many of those were government workers.
I also wonder how many government jobs were created last month , if any.
They BOTH suck
May 4th, 2012
10:46 am
“Now for those who were confused, can you see a possible conflict of interest?”
If you have proof that the numbers are manipulated why not call every Republican you can to demand hearings
Why hasn’t one elected Republican mentioned manipulated numbers? Many do go after Obama for the economy, but I keep missing the manipulated numbers theories…..
Fill us all in……… wise one
Michael G.
May 4th, 2012
10:46 am
Jay- show where you got your numbers @ 10:21 and 10:36 or STFU. You just make yourself look silly spouting Democratic talking points.
ByteMe - Political thug
May 4th, 2012
10:46 am
So you are correct that Private sector has increased but the reality is there are nearly 3/4 of a million less people going to work, collecting a check and paying taxes on that income than there were when Obama was sworn in. These figures were of March 2012.
Wait… are you complaining because GOVERNMENT is getting smaller??
And you know where those job losses are greatest, right? I’ll give you a hint, the legislatures and governor’s offices of those states are run by a party known to love cutting government spending.
Votes have consequences.
Adam
May 4th, 2012
10:46 am
I see more people on welfare than ever before.
Pics or it didn’t happen. Make sure you get a good shot of them using their iPhone and driving away in their Escalade
Mighty Righty
May 4th, 2012
10:46 am
Jay,Jay,Jay, free enterprise and capitalism are American policies not Republican policies. Deal with it.
Joseph
May 4th, 2012
10:47 am
Jay:
The fact the participation rate of people in the workforce is dropping. That is a fact. Neither you nor any of your foaming at the mouth followers can deny that. That is the only reason the unemployment rate is dropping. FACT! Dispute the numbers and show me proof Jay! It’s simple math… Tell me this? When you deduct from the job pool and say that you’ve created jobs is simply false and that’s exactly what the Obama administration is doing… Fact!!!
They BOTH suck
May 4th, 2012
10:47 am
“My 401k is down significantly.”
I suggest you either fire the person helping you do your investing or if you are doing it yourself……….. hire someone……….
Thomas
May 4th, 2012
10:48 am
Bookman- you are the Skip (rude) Caray of blogging.
Move on to your Friday song thing- highest and best use of your time
Adam
May 4th, 2012
10:48 am
larry: I also wonder how many government jobs were created last month , if any.
Change is -15k from March to April.
JamVet
May 4th, 2012
10:48 am
UNCLE SAMANTHA,
Oops, sorry, I wasn’t clear.
Vis a vis the 1% being comprised of both parties, I could not concur more. That is not even debatable.
I meant the unemployment article you linked…
ByteMe - Political thug
May 4th, 2012
10:48 am
- My home value is down 20%.
– My 401k is down significantly.
– I pay $3.80 a gallon for gas.
And you want to blame this all on the President, like Joseph? Seriously? The president made you buy a house, invest poorly in your 401k and overpay for gas??
They BOTH suck
May 4th, 2012
10:49 am
Joseph
Huff and puff all you like if that makes you feel better…..
People falling off the rolls is a valid point, however the calculations for unemployment are the same as they were before Obama took office
Speaking of fact…… That is FACT
Oblama
May 4th, 2012
10:49 am
According to Huckabee last week : Oblama set a new all time record for fund raisers (124) beating Clinton’s old record of 94 and he still has several months to go. Oblama has collected an all time high cash handout from lobbyists, big corporations, Hollyweird, Planned Parenthood, labor unions AND foreign sources (is that legal?). What got my attention was that 20 + of these “fund raisers” were done OUTSIDE of the U.S – mostly from socialist and dictator run governments.. The question is “What has been promised to these foreign sources to get them to hand over their cash?”.
getalife
May 4th, 2012
10:50 am
Thomas,
Yes, cons are so polite in their comments.
Whine much?
EJ Moosa
May 4th, 2012
10:50 am
Well, you cannot say I didn’t warn you.
The rate of profit growth has fallen to less than 1.8% for companies over the last thirteen weeks down from 19.43% one year ago.
Profits at Retail Clothing stores have fallen for not one but three consecutive quarters. The most recent quarter is down more than 20% year over year.
The news does not get any better on jobs for the rest of the year.
They BOTH suck
May 4th, 2012
10:50 am
“And you want to blame this all on the President, like Joseph? Seriously? The president made you buy a house, invest poorly in your 401k and overpay for gas??”
Guess the “Personal Responsibility” mantra has changed
Joseph
May 4th, 2012
10:50 am
How can you deny these numbers Jay?
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2012/05/LFP%20Rate.jpg
Brosephus™
May 4th, 2012
10:51 am
Are public-sector jobs real jobs, or aren’t they?
ByteMe - Political thug
May 4th, 2012
10:51 am
According to Huckabee last week
So I guess it must be true since you heard it on TV or the radio, huh?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Some of you are just too funny for words.
Curious
May 4th, 2012
10:51 am
You may not like Obama, but Romney is so weak, Obama will be re-elected.
Interesting how we decide which statistics are phoney and which are accurate.
Obama needs to identify and those folks putting out correct numbers.
ByteMe - Political thug
May 4th, 2012
10:52 am
Guess the “Personal Responsibility” mantra has changed
Cognitive dissonance. They can’t keep their ODS in their head at the same time as the mantra.
getalife
May 4th, 2012
10:52 am
“or STFU. You just make yourself look silly spouting Democratic talking points.”
cons are crying today.
Paul
May 4th, 2012
10:53 am
Mighty Righty
“The president appoints the Secretary of Labor who is in charge of the Department of Labor and is a member of the presidents cabinet. If the president were to be voted out of office, the Secretary of Labor would lose his job as well. ”
And 16,847 other Labor Department employees would carry on while the new president is sworn in.
“The unemployment number is a report card on the president. Now for those who were confused, can you see a possible conflict of interest?”
Nope. ‘Cause they have all these things called operating instructions and regulations and manuals that tell them how to run their calculations and issue their reports so what they are reporting is consistent with prior time periods.
Adam
May 4th, 2012
10:53 am
Hilarious. “Man, my chart of unemployment doesn’t look good. I’m a Republican or supporter. Do I:”
A) Make up data and present it as fact
B) Use other data and pretend it’s bad
C) Use data that I have never used before to make things look bad
D) Recognize that I have failed to make my point and admit it