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Heard the same from neighbors whose companies are trying to hire. Said that they were flooded with applicants a few years ago but just a handful coming in now. Several applicants pulled their resumes recently, stating they had changed their mind about moving to NC.
Good to know. Might be time to look for a new job in the next year if demand is there and supply is low.
And Trump is going to have Mexico build the wall, taking jobs from Americans.
Wrong!
He is going to have Mexico PAY for the wall.
And he'll do it by currency manipulation, or by putting a tariff on Mexican products, or something to that effect. All good. I for one am SICK of illegal immigration.
The economy has improved. It certainly is NOT "liberal rhetoric." Jobs are not as secure or as well-paid as they used to be, but that's the result of Wall Street demanding growth every quarter and the 1% thinking their needs are paramount over the welfare of the average citizen. Large corporations are still sending jobs overseas and manipulating the tax codes to avoid paying their fair share.
But it's not as impossible to get a job as it was five years ago. In recent months the jobless rate held steady at 5%, down from 2009's peak of 10%. The Dow is up and business foreclosure filings have fallen to near a 10-year low. Throughout the recovery, inflation for consumers has remained low and gas prices have been very low this year.
Of course there are still problems to address. Wages are still stagnant. The Federal debt has not been lowered significantly beyond the terrible rise it took during the Bush Administration. The tax code remains a mess despite the fact that corporations are finding it harder to beat it under Obama. Bill Clinton remains the modern president who has added the least to the Federal debt. Finally, we continue to demand that young people get college educations yet do nothing to help them financially. And the debt they incur makes it harder for them to become homeowners, something that has always been a hallmark of our middle class.
Hey lady -- Obama has run up more debt by far than any other president.
Sooner or later you have to stop blaming George W Bush for everything.
Thing is he is skilled at complaining and writing silly posts on City-Data...not exactly skills someone will pay for.
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Originally Posted by Jukesgrrl
The economy has improved. It certainly is NOT "liberal rhetoric." Jobs are not as secure or as well-paid as they used to be, but that's the result of Wall Street demanding growth every quarter and the 1% thinking their needs are paramount over the welfare of the average citizen. Large corporations are still sending jobs overseas and manipulating the tax codes to avoid paying their fair share.
But it's not as impossible to get a job as it was five years ago. In recent months the jobless rate held steady at 5%, down from 2009's peak of 10%. The Dow is up and business foreclosure filings have fallen to near a 10-year low. Throughout the recovery, inflation for consumers has remained low and gas prices have been very low this year.
Of course there are still problems to address. Wages are still stagnant. The Federal debt has not been lowered significantly beyond the terrible rise it took during the Bush Administration. The tax code remains a mess despite the fact that corporations are finding it harder to beat it under Obama. Bill Clinton remains the modern president who has added the least to the Federal debt. Finally, we continue to demand that young people get college educations yet do nothing to help them financially. And the debt they incur makes it harder for them to become homeowners, something that has always been a hallmark of our middle class.
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Originally Posted by BeerGeek40
Hey lady -- Obama has run up more debt by far than any other president.
Sooner or later you have to stop blaming George W Bush for everything.
Yes, she was wrong on GW running up the debt.
Beside the political overtures of your post to jujegrrl, how do feel about the rest of her post?
Hey lady -- Obama has run up more debt by far than any other president.
Sooner or later you have to stop blaming George W Bush for everything.
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Originally Posted by MongooseHugger
George W. had run up more debt than any President before him. Then Obama came along and outdid him.
The national debt is complicated. First and foremost, do you count the increase in the debt in terms of dollar increases or percentage increases? There is a difference. Furthermore, when a president is elected, he doesn't even have a budget his first year in office. He deals with the previous president's budget and commitments. Like WAR for instance. Wars that one president started and another president is left to deal with. So to say one president has increased the debt more than another president can always be countered with another way of measuring.
Oh, and by the way, where's the shout-out for President Bill Clinton? He had the lowest increase in the national debt — no matter how it's measured — of any modern president, including REAGAN. Because he balanced our budget and didn't start any wars. But but but ... Monica!!
I think when everyone talks about job growth, most of that is in health care. If they were to eliminate that from the equation, I wonder where we would be?
Any major job cuts announcement helps Trump. People are just fed up with the establishment especially big business that offshore a lot of money and jobs like Intel.
If you look at every product Intel makes, it is either Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, etc. They are going to expand to even poorer nations to just keep cost down so the upper ranks can rake in more money. You could be some processor or circuit designer for intel with advance degree in math but put on the chopping block when they got what they needed from you and pass on the work to cheaper labor overseas.
Hillary loves Transpacific Agreement, she supported it before and now backtracked to get votes. You know if she's elected she'll change position again and say it's Good for America to send more jobs to the Pacific.
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