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There are going to be a bunch of weird numbers posted this month because of the hundreds of thousands of workers affected by the government shutdown.
Everyone here claiming to know what they are talking about DOESN'T! Its hilarious watching all you people trying to spin this job report into a good or bad report when you have absolutely no freaking clue about the chaos going on with those numbers.
Wait a month or two until things get sorted out. And to Republicans, try to not cause another government shutdown. This is the ruckus that such reckless behavior creates!
" And to Republicans, try to not cause another government shutdown." You are misinformed. The Repub controlled House OFFERED to FUND the ENTIRE gov't for 1 year IF Obama would delay the Individual mandate for 1 year AS HE DID THE BUSINESS MANDATE.That is when Obama AND Reid came out and sid, "NO COMPROMISE.
By REFUSING to even discuss extending the mandate, it was the DEMS who caused the partial shutdown.
" And to Republicans, try to not cause another government shutdown." You are misinformed. The Repub controlled House OFFERED to FUND the ENTIRE gov't for 1 year IF Obama would delay the Individual mandate for 1 year AS HE DID THE BUSINESS MANDATE.That is when Obama AND Reid came out and sid, "NO COMPROMISE.
By REFUSING to even discuss extending the mandate, it was the DEMS who caused the partial shutdown.
Leave it up to the Republicans in Congress, and millions of Americans would remain uninsured.
The only reason Republicans wanted to do delay the start of the ACA was to push it out just far enough so it would happen during Nov 2014 election.
The ACA was already signed into law, and a plan for implementing it was in place, so there was no reason to delay it any longer.
Republicans simply can't stand the fact that the ACA was passed, so they continue to throw roadblocks in it's way every chance they get, even if it meant THEIR OWN ACTIONS would result in a government shutdown.
Obama and Reid stood their ground ... as they should!
The Republicans were the ones to blame for the shutdown!
Drew Matus, an economist at UBS in New York, said that without the distortions from the 16-day shutdown, the jobless rate would have dropped to 7.0 percent in October and the labor force participation rate would have held close to 63.2 percent.
I'm pretty certain a senior level economist like Drew Matus understands the BLS reports better than most people here!
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Originally Posted by HappyTexan
If that's the case then it should shoot right back up there next month.
There are going to be a bunch of weird numbers posted this month because of the hundreds of thousands of workers affected by the government shutdown.
Everyone here claiming to know what they are talking about DOESN'T! Its hilarious watching all you people trying to spin this job report into a good or bad report when you have absolutely no freaking clue about the chaos going on with those numbers.
Wait a month or two until things get sorted out. And to Republicans, try to not cause another government shutdown. This is the ruckus that such reckless behavior creates!
Well Dems are pushing "Ted Cruz Was Right" legislation to try & save their butts in 2014.
I was just saying that because so many of the conservatives here were in support of the shutdown. It was a very bad and completely unnecessary thing. Gotta love how none of the people whining about last months unemployment numbers came back to this thread to admit they were wrong. Lol
I didn't see too many people actively supporting the shutdown, however, even so they had nothing to do with that political theater.
Not sure which "whiners" you mean either. Anybody would be reasonably confused given the BLS's self-created "distortions" and conflicting explanations.
It has nothing to do with my agreeing with anything. The government shutdown greatly distorts who is counted in the labor force or not. What I am saying is that next month and the month following there will be corrections made to the numbers. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw our labor force increase by 700,000 next month because that is the craziness that gets created when you put half a million people out of their job temporarily!
You don't read or comprehend well do you? There have been numerous posts telling you the folks affected by the shutdown were NOT included.
" And to Republicans, try to not cause another government shutdown." You are misinformed. The Repub controlled House OFFERED to FUND the ENTIRE gov't for 1 year IF Obama would delay the Individual mandate for 1 year AS HE DID THE BUSINESS MANDATE.That is when Obama AND Reid came out and sid, "NO COMPROMISE.
By REFUSING to even discuss extending the mandate, it was the DEMS who caused the partial shutdown.
GOOD! Republicans need to shut up about the ACA. Americans are DONE with our old healthcare system. Too many people have been victims and it is no more. Republicans will not win an election from here on out if they preach going back to our old disastrous healthcare system.
You don't read or comprehend well do you? There have been numerous posts telling you the folks affected by the shutdown were NOT included.
Wrong! A government employee is considered not in the work force if they are out for only one week. That is why our labor force appeared to be shrunk by so much last month. Sheep and crow republicans on this forum were squawking about how terrible the employment report was when it only appeared bad because of the government shut down that THEY caused!
You clearly don't read or comprehend well! The government shutdown caused all sorts of distortions in our unemployment rate and the crows were sqawking last month that our unemployment report was bad when it was in truth very good.
Now, those crows have been proven WRONG!
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