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BumRushDaShow

(128,844 posts)
1. Exactly
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 09:28 AM
Sep 2012

It's a miracle to continue to have job growth when they are doing everything they can to suppress the economy for political reasons.

jsmirman

(4,507 posts)
2. Could we also get these adjusted for fluctuation in government hires/layoffs?
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 09:29 AM
Sep 2012

I assume those numbers are out there, no?

fugop

(1,828 posts)
9. This should be everywhere...
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:02 AM
Sep 2012

Almost makes me wish the Dems had someone to "Perot" a speech - stand up there with charts and graphs like this and show people the reality.

WI_DEM

(33,497 posts)
4. Obama needs to point out that it's not good enough but better than what he inherited
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 09:32 AM
Sep 2012

and that we can't go back to the policies that brought this on in the first place.

riverbendviewgal

(4,252 posts)
5. Could be why he sounded optimist last nite in his speech
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 09:36 AM
Sep 2012

He knows it will get better. What a convention full of intelligent speakers and at least half or more of women.

Chorophyll

(5,179 posts)
10. NPR has been hammering away like this is somehow the worst news ever (for the President.)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:04 AM
Sep 2012

They've been completely taken over by their corporate overlords... I mean, "underwriters."

WI_DEM

(33,497 posts)
11. frankly the numbers in today's jobs report doesn't change the election
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:08 AM
Sep 2012

people for months/years have known this is a weak jobs recovery. What Obama is pointing out is that he stabilized an economy on the brink of depression and thru his efforts saved the auto industry and began to plant the seeds to a bigger recovery all over the opposition of the GOP. Despite everything the GOP did he has provided 29 straight months of private sector job growth and created more jobs than George W. Bush did in 8 years.

 

B2G

(9,766 posts)
13. Good? If 400K people hadn't quit looking for work
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:34 AM
Sep 2012

The unemployment rate would have risen to 8.4%.

On what planet is that 'good'?

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