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big_country90

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If d'tard and the other libs will boast about the jobs report like they have for the last several years.
 
As long as the out of the work force number stays astronomically high the unemployment numbers will always be BS. I don't care who the President is.

The biggest problem with jobs right now are the underemployed. People that due to necessity take jobs that they make way less money and also less benefits than their previous jobs. So technically they are employed so they don't count in the unemployment numbers but they are not in jobs that were close to being as good as what they once had. Examples would be coal miners who made anywhere between 60 to 100K with excellent benefits now working at Wal Mart for 12 to 15 an hour with a lot less benefits. That's something that affects lots of different areas of the economy due to us being such a consumer based economy. Less take home money means less money to buy cars clothes computers etc.
 
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But Coal is a killing industry.

And there is a huge difference between can't work and won't work.
 
As long as the out of the work force number stays astronomically high the unemployment numbers will always be BS. I don't care who the President is.

The biggest problem with jobs right now are the underemployed. People that due to necessity take jobs that they make way less money and also less benefits than their previous jobs. So technically they are employed so they don't count in the unemployment numbers but they are not in jobs that were close to being as good as what they once had. Examples would be coal miners who made anywhere between 60 to 100K with excellent benefits now working at Wal Mart for 12 to 15 an hour with a lot less benefits. That's something that affects lots of different areas of the economy due to us being such a consumer based economy. Less take home money means less money to buy cars clothes computers etc.

Bingo. This is the context of the discussion that has gone on endlessly here, and continues to be ignored by those that love semantics of debating "headline" numbers.
 
I would love to see a more accurate depiction of the employment situation in the United States but no administration seems to. Mainly because an accurate (truthful) depiction will not be viewed favorably against the inaccurate depictions of previous Presidents.
 
I think with the employment numbers to watch the most under the trump administration would be Ohio Wisconsin Michigan Pennsylvania. Don't really think anything else matters. Traditional leading states will continue to lead and traditional bottom feeders will continue their slide.
 
I think with the employment numbers to watch the most under the trump administration would be Ohio Wisconsin Michigan Pennsylvania. Don't really think anything else matters. Traditional leading states will continue to lead and traditional bottom feeders will continue their slide.

Indiana could swing back Democrat in a statewide race, easily.
 
If d'tard and the other libs will boast about the jobs report like they have for the last several years.

In appx 45% of the months starting in Jan 2013 and ending in Jan 2017, the jobs numbers have exceeded the Feb jobs report. Where were you cons then?
 
Indiana could swing back Democrat in a statewide race, easily.
It'll be interesting to see what happens under Perez. I thought Dems would actually do better in the fly-over states had Ellison won. They should do better in next election just because they're the opposition party but there's nothing I'm seeing that indicates the Dems actually understand why they lost or that they'll do better next time.
 
It'll be interesting to see what happens under Perez. I thought Dems would actually do better in the fly-over states had Ellison won. They should do better in next election just because they're the opposition party but there's nothing I'm seeing that indicates the Dems actually understand why they lost or that they'll do better next time.
Until the dems stop playing identity politics they will have a hard time in rural America and the typical rust belt democrat. The loony liberals in Madison Wisconsin and a few other places are the obvious exception
 
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In appx 45% of the months starting in Jan 2013 and ending in Jan 2017, the jobs numbers have exceeded the Feb jobs report. Where were you cons then?

In other words, ~55% of the months didn't exceed Feb.

Cons were still pointing to numbers beyond the headline report. And idiots like you kept ignoring them.
 
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People just won't move where the work is. Well, the ones with sense do. The idiots stay behind with their mouths open.

Really I'd respect people who stayed and were happy to live on less, but it never works that way. They stay and whine about how they don't have anything.
 
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