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Originally Posted by Bostonian123
I will be voting for Obama because he is doing a very good job on the economy. He has his faults but he is the best candidate in my opinion.
Since 2008, the US economy has created almost 2.5 million private sector jobs. This is more jobs created in the private sector than all 8 years of the previous admin.
At the same time, over 0.5 million public sector jobs have been eliminated.
Obama is growing the private sector and shrinking the public sector.
CARPE DIEM: Today's Employment Report: Since Jan. 2010, -500k Government Jobs, +2.5 Million Private Jobs
The President has pursued very good policies to encourage this healthy recovery. I will be giving him my vote in 2012. |
the president has had lousy policies and we are being victimized as a country by them.
first of all, national review has almost polar opposite statistics to what you posted so i will have to check that out to see what source you had for your statistics:
The Unemployment Rate in Perspective - By Veronique de Rugy - The Corner - National Review Online
here is what i DO know though. what kind of jobs are being "created"? low wage and dead end jobs, that is all. (oh, and part time jobs)
view these BLS statistics:
Hispanics comprised 49.9 percent of the foreign-born labor force in 2010, compared with 8.2 percent ofthe native-born labor force. In 2010, 26.5 percent of the foreign-born labor force age 25 and over had not completed high school, compared with 5.4 percent of the native-born labor force.
Labor Force and Unemployment
In 2010, the labor force participation rate of the foreign born was unchanged at 67.9 percent. From 2009 to 2010, the labor force participation rate of the native born fell by 0.8 percentage point to 64.1 percent. In 2010, both the number of foreign-born labor force participants (24.4 million) and their share of the U.S. civilian labor force (15.8 percent) increased after showing little change in 2008 and 2009. The share of the U.S. civilian labor force that was foreign born grew steadily from 1996 to 2007.
The labor force participation rate of foreign-born men was 80.1 percent in 2010, compared with 69.5 percent for native-born men. The gap was narrower for women; 55.7 percent of foreign-born women were labor force participants, compared with 59.1 percent of native-born women.
The labor force participation rate of foreign-born mothers with children under age 18 was 60.8 percent in 2010, well below the figure of 73.2 percent for native-born mothers.
so what do we see here?
we see LESS educated FOREIGN born getting more jobs, while the native job rate is FALLING. we can conclude then that the jobs being filled pay less and have less of a future. oh, and look at the increase in part-time, NOT FULL TIME wages. we also now see more dependent children in poverty. -with hispanic children overtaking other groups in poverty-oiver 6.1 million:
Poverty rose since Barack Obama was elected — particularly among Hispanics, who now account for the most kids living in poverty among the three largest racial groups, the Pew Hispanic Center reported, using 2010 statistics. The nation has nearly 15 million children living in poverty.
6.1 million Hispanic children live in poverty — 4.1 million of them children of immigrants. The center did not break down the number into legal and illegal immigrants, although it said 86.2% of the children of immigrants were born in the USA.
5 million white children live in poverty, as do 4.4 million black children.
“In 2010, 37.3% of poor children were Latino, 30.5% were white and 26.6% were black,” Pew said.
here is the link for the entire article:
Hispanics surpass whites in poverty « Don Surber
you might want to look at the other tables to see who pays the taxes. (the ones that fund the government
). it looks like the ones losing their jobs were the biggest taxpayers! that doesn't seem to be very good planning....
RUT-ROW!
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