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Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« on: June 02, 2018, 12:53:37 pm »
June 2, 2018
Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
By Rick Moran

The New York Times headline reporting on the May jobs numbers that came out yesterday might go down in history:

    "We ran out of words to describe how good the jobs numbers are"

    The real question in analyzing the May jobs numbers released Friday is whether there are enough synonyms for “good” in an online thesaurus to describe them adequately.

    So, for example, “splendid” and “excellent” fit the bill. Those are the kinds of terms that are appropriate when the United States economy adds 223,000 jobs in a month, despite being nine years into an expansion, and when the unemployment rate falls to 3.8 percent, a new 18-year low..

    “Salubrious,” “salutary” and “healthy” work as words to describe the 0.3 percent rise in average hourly earnings, which are up 2.7 percent over the last year — a nice improvement but also not the kind of sharp increase that might lead the Federal Reserve to rethink its cautious path of interest rate increases.

Did aliens slip some mind altering drug into the brains of New York Times editors?

No, but someone needs to give Nancy Pelosi a happy pill.

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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2018, 12:58:31 pm »

We don't want people working!
We want more people on welfare, dammit!
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2018, 01:19:21 pm »
No, employment means little, but defending the honor and integrity of MS-13 murderers is essential. 10631
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2018, 01:20:17 pm »
The unemployment figure is as rigged today as it was during the Obama regime. 
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2018, 01:23:40 pm »
Quote from: Oceander on June 02, 2018, 01:20:17 pm
The unemployment figure is as rigged today as it was during the Obama regime.

So you agree with Pelosi that things are worse now then under Obama?
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2018, 01:24:52 pm »
Quote from: Oceander on June 02, 2018, 01:20:17 pm
The unemployment figure is as rigged today as it was during the Obama regime.

 :bigsilly:
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2018, 01:25:03 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on June 02, 2018, 01:23:40 pm
So you agree with Pelosi that things are worse now then under Obama?

/snicker

Put the bottle down Frank. 
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #7 on: June 02, 2018, 01:32:46 pm »
Quote from: Oceander on June 02, 2018, 01:25:03 pm
/snicker

Put the bottle down Frank.

Yeah, because that question was irrelevant and over the line.

If your thermometer has been off 12 degrees for the last 9 years, does that mean you don't have any hot days anymore? That is what you are saying because Obama started using U3 or U2 numbers and we are using the same now to measure Trump. It is still usable to measure positive and negative.

BTW if you use U6 number they are still way better now than just a couple years ago. We went from 9.4 at the end of Obama to 7.6 today for total unemployment.
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2018, 01:37:24 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on June 02, 2018, 01:32:46 pm
Yeah, because that question was irrelevant and over the line.

If your thermometer has been off 12 degrees for the last 9 years, does that mean you don't have any hot days anymore? That is what you are saying because Obama started using U3 or U2 numbers and we are using the same now to measure Trump. It is still usable to measure positive and negative.

BTW if you use U6 number they are still way better now than just a couple years ago. We went from 9.4 at the end of Obama to 7.6 today for total unemployment.

Put the bottle down, Frank.
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2018, 01:44:28 pm »
Quote from: Oceander on June 02, 2018, 01:37:24 pm
Put the bottle down, Frank.

I'm sure Frank will when you do.
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #10 on: June 02, 2018, 02:36:16 pm »
 Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'

I am sure she believes this.
She thinks weak employment numbers mean a lot more.
It gives her the opportunity to give out more Fedgov goodies (aka; our money), thereby increasing the likelihood that she will be re-elected over and over again.
Without that, she wouldn't have lasted this long.
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #11 on: June 02, 2018, 02:40:57 pm »
Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on June 02, 2018, 01:44:28 pm
I'm sure Frank will when you do.

[unnecessary insulting language removed. -- Mod1] 
« Last Edit: June 03, 2018, 01:04:45 pm by Mod1 »
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #12 on: June 02, 2018, 02:56:20 pm »

One thousand dollars! Are you kidding me!? I have my government servant wipe my government ass with a government $1000 dollars. One thousand dollars is what I spend on a government hair cut. I piss on $1000. That is just breakfast money. When you work for the government, and you actually 'make', in a literal sense, money. Then money no longer has any meaning to you.
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #13 on: June 02, 2018, 03:22:17 pm »
Well lucky for her we don't have strong employment numbers. Otherwise her statement would sound even more foolish than it already does.
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #14 on: June 02, 2018, 03:46:04 pm »
Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on June 02, 2018, 01:24:52 pm
:bigsilly:

It may be funny to you but it ticks me off.  The reliable, unending negativity of a few people on this board makes me forget it's Saturday and we have a puppy.
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #15 on: June 02, 2018, 03:48:40 pm »
Quote from: Oceander on June 02, 2018, 01:20:17 pm
The unemployment figure is as rigged today as it was during the Obama regime.

Yup.  U3 has to be the most cooked book in the lot.  Didn't believe it then, don't believe it now.  That said, the other books that are not as cooked (like U6) are looking better too.
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #16 on: June 02, 2018, 03:51:35 pm »
Quote from: Emjay on June 02, 2018, 03:46:04 pm
It may be funny to you but it ticks me off.  The reliable, unending negativity of a few people on this board makes me forget it's Saturday and we have a puppy.

That puppy abounds with kyootness, too.   ^-^
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #17 on: June 02, 2018, 03:53:51 pm »
Quote from: Emjay on June 02, 2018, 03:46:04 pm
It may be funny to you but it ticks me off.  The reliable, unending negativity of a few people on this board makes me forget it's Saturday and we have a puppy.

Then go spend time with your puppy. 
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #18 on: June 02, 2018, 03:54:59 pm »
Quote from: Oceander on June 02, 2018, 02:40:57 pm
Ahhh yes, you and Frank, drunk as skunks even when you’re sober as church mice.

Enough of that.
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #19 on: June 02, 2018, 03:58:14 pm »
Wasn't it somewhere in the 90's when the U3 number became the "official" number?
1992-1994 maybe?
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #20 on: June 02, 2018, 03:58:30 pm »
Quote from: txradioguy on June 02, 2018, 03:22:17 pm
Well lucky for her we don't have strong employment numbers. Otherwise her statement would sound even more foolish than it already does.

Yeah, they're government numbers, so there's good reason to doubt them.  That's why I like looking at the ADP numbers that also come out about the same time.  ADP is a private payroll company, they've been showing positive growth over the past year or so, and they also had crappy numbers while Obastard's Labor Department was lying through their teeth about employment.

(Full disclosure:  ADP is the company that processes my paychecks.)
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #21 on: June 02, 2018, 08:24:04 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on June 02, 2018, 12:58:31 pm

We don't want people working!
We want more people on welfare, dammit!

That witch should get on her broom and ride far, far away!
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #22 on: June 02, 2018, 08:26:37 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on June 02, 2018, 03:58:30 pm
Yeah, they're government numbers, so there's good reason to doubt them.  That's why I like looking at the ADP numbers that also come out about the same time.  ADP is a private payroll company, they've been showing positive growth over the past year or so, and they also had crappy numbers while Obastard's Labor Department was lying through their teeth about employment.

(Full disclosure:  ADP is the company that processes my paychecks.)

I am always doubtful about the accuracy. 
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« Reply #23 on: June 02, 2018, 08:30:13 pm »
Quote from: Chosen Daughter on June 02, 2018, 08:26:37 pm
I am always doubtful about the accuracy.

You and I are of a skeptical bunch....
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Re: Pelosi: 'Strong employment numbers mean little'
« Reply #24 on: June 02, 2018, 08:30:56 pm »
Quote from: Chosen Daughter on June 02, 2018, 08:26:37 pm
I am always doubtful about the accuracy.

Due to the terminal TDS of the MSM, there's no way the Trump administration would put forth phony numbers.

Only when the media glows and praises an administration should the numbers be suspect.
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