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There are record number of job openings. I wouldnt put it past conservatives to purposefully not be more active in learning new skills and be more proactive in seeking employment just to spite Obama
Though I don't personally know the 6.8 million more people living in poverty now than when Obama took office, they can't All be spiteful conservatives. Can they ???
Right Wing wish list to Santa: We've been good little Conservatives again this year, Santa. We've obstructed everything that's come our way, and we've wasted millions of dollars holding numerous political "investigations" (and promise many more in the coming year). Please bring us what we really want for Christmas this year, Santa. Please, please, please cause the U.S. economy to fail. All true American "patriots" will be ever so grateful to you for such an awesome present under our tree.
Yes, this. Along with how they cheer for lower income workers to lose their jobs to automation and outsourcing.
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When the Christmas sales numbers come in at a disturbingly low number and the stock market tanks, we'll be forced to accept that there never was a recovery, that we've been in a recession for the entire Obama presidency but were able to cover it up through articial stimulus (QE programs). I'll bump this thread when the reality is accepted.
You clearly do not know the definitions of these words.
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From your link-
The unemployment rate fell in June mostly because many of the unemployed stopped looking for work, rather than found jobs. The proportion of Americans working or looking for work fell to a 38-year low.
And average hourly pay was unchanged last month from May. Pay has risen at roughly a 2 percent annual pace since the recession ended in 2009, below the 3.5 percent typical in a healthy economy.
That sluggish wage growth is likely keeping spending from increasing as much as the healthy job growth would suggest.
His link only states that the economy is not growing at the pace that most economist would deem "healthy". That however, is not saying that the economy is bad, which is what you and others are trying to claim.
Your free Beacon link gets its 94 million number from counting everyone over the age of 16 regardless of their ability, want or need to work.
your 94 million includes children in High school, young adults in college, interns who arent being paid,stay at home moms/dads, incarcerated individuals,disabled, and 30 million people over 70.
If you honestly want to have a discussion about what we should use as the unemployment number, thats fine, but that 94 million number is clearly not the one we should be using.
The premise of this thread is the right wing version of that classic SNL claymation satire in which a left-wing Santa gets ticked off at the red states.
Most Americans think that Pres. Obama has done an outstanding job in his efforts at recovering from the Bush/Cheney economic apocalypse. Just think how much further along this country would be if we were not having to also deal with a Republican party committed to America's economic failure just to spite our President.
I don't understand why so many people are just dying for the USA to go into an economic depression. Don't they live here too?
Just so they can sit in their living room and stupidly say "AH HA - TOLD YOU SO!!!"......as their lives crash down around them.
Regardless of how stupid it is to think one man has control of our entire interconnected economy of 320,000,000 people that functions for the most part outside of any sort of direct governmental control.
Economic depression is an antidote to "the rent is too damn high".
I wonder how many of those people are at or close to retirement age?
I got laid off in May, seven months before I was going to retire. I am collecting unemployment then will live off savings until I start collecting social security.
Many people my age are getting 'laid off'. I am not looking for work; I have 'Stopped Looking for Work'.
The Baby Boomers are a very large segment of the population. If that happened to me, I can assure you the same happened to millions of people, and they are doing exactly what I'm doing.
Saturday Night Live does have political moments but it is neither a political show, now is it on CSPAN.
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