Unemployment rate down

MacLeod

Thought some good news would be nice. Just read the unemployment rate is down to 4.9% which is pretty damn good. Job growth increased and wages rose, albeit small gains, but gains nonetheless.

Of course youll have to ignore the rest of the article as CNN tries its best to convince you its all meaningless cause its just going to be ruined anyway by Katrina and we're all doomed and will be standing in line for government cheese anyday now so we might as well shoot ourselves because there is no point in.....nope, not gonna rant, this is supposed to be a good news thread.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/02/news/economy/jobs_august/

Mjr7531

Awesome, soon enough, we may even hit the point which some people just can't be employed. Like the dot.com period without the bust.
:knocks on wood:

aaharvel

you can't judge the economy by ONLY looking at the number of jobs created. Did you know that many of the jobs that have been lost over the past 3 years were high quality, high paying private sector jobs and have been replaced with inferior dopplegangers?- Many of which are in the service industry, temp jobs that have no lasting benefits, and high turnover ratios? "JOBS" may be on the rise, but it's not about quantity- it's quality.

Poverty in the U.S. has increased 3 years in a row. I'm not politicizing- that's just simple numbers.

2003
http://www.census.gov/hhes/poverty/poverty03/pov03hi.html

2004
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35175-2004Aug26.html

2005
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0831/p02s01-usec.html

Demiurge

Yeah, sure you're not politicizing. :rolleyes:

aaharvel

Demiurge wrote:

Yeah, sure you're not politicizing. :rolleyes:

whatever you say. Try reading the articles I posted before you ASSUME anything i'm doing. As far as Phaedrus is concerned, that's very sound advice Demurge. :rolleyes:

MacLeod

Liberals never cease to amaze me. Every possible economic indicator is up and yet they still continue to see soup lines and destitution. What must it be like to be a liberal and wake up every day and be miserable? I put up some good news and the first thing a liberal does is look at it and see all those starving people out on the streets that Bush and Haliburton put there just to make their oil buddies rich.

Besides, I dont attatch much importance to poverty. The poverty level is like $10,000 a year income. Unless youre disabled there is absolutely no excuse to make $10,000 a year. Hell security guard jobs pay $8/hr which is $16,000 a year and those are the most mindless jobs on the planet. We've got some of the dumbest people on earth working in our warehouse loading trucks making $10+/hr which is over $20,000 a year. Your income level is not attatched at birth, you can make more. Its like this whiney piece I saw on 60 minutes years ago about a cab driver that couldnt support his family on minimum wage, he was having to work 80 hours and was barely making it. The whole story was sad and you felt so sorry for him and wondered how Bush could allow this to happen then you realize something. WHY THE **** ARE YOU TRYING TO SUPPORT YOUR FAMILY ON $5/hr?!?! If you try this you should be drug out in the street and beat. You realize how hard is is to find a job that pays only $5/hr nowadays!

And spare me this "all the real jobs were lost and replaced by a bunch of crappy jobs." I have never understood why the doom-and-gloomers consider working in a 120 degree foundry pouring molten metal for $15/hr a real job but yet working as a produce manager at the local grocery store for $15/hr is not. A job is a job. Besides, if that were true then nobody would have any income because of the crappy jobs yet personal income grows every year not to mention retail sales and new home starts.

My God man, wake up and look out over this fruited plain with a smile and a feeling of optimism! Things are going very well.

fireshoes

I realize they relaxed the discussion rules post-Katrina, but let's cool it a bit.

aaharvel

MacLeod the problem with you is that you only see the world in two ways. Conservatvies and Liberals. If you would get off your soapbox and actually do some research on the very subject you talk about you would realize how absolutely uninformative your entire post actually was. I give sources with facts and Numbers to back them up- you provide a namecalling and labeling contest. I didn't attribute the increase to poverty to Bush AT ALL. I merely said that just because the number of jobs increase doesn't mean everything is HUNKY-DOREY. The only one that is politicizing anything is YOU!

And Poverty is defined at $16,500 not $10,000 but you being such a brilliant guy i'm sure you already knew that. Keep listening to Zach's Savatage friend.

brettw22

I doni't know that I've seen anyone bring up Bush/Haliburton more than Mac himself.......weird.

aaharvel

brettw22 wrote:

I doni't know that I've seen anyone bring up Bush/Haliburton more than Mac himself.......weird.

EXACTLY. Just earlier today I disagree with him on a freaking lead singer of a band and in a nutshell he says i'm wrong because i'm "LIBERAL"!

I stand by my post because unlike yours MacLeod it's based on FACTS and actual RESEARCH! It's not fed by political insecurity and constant name-calling. Hell do you even know what the term "LIBERAL" means via the Websters Dictionary? Doesn't sound like it to me. Sounds like to me you've blindly accepted the 35 year demonization of the word as fact that started during the days of Deep Throat and the Mass media - which tells me you're incapable of thinking for yourself. And for you not "attaching much importance to Poverty"- as an American that's pretty damn sad and pretty damn unamerican if you ask me. Millions of our children and latter generations to come will ALWAYS be at some risk of poverty no matter what- regardless of what social class they are in- because anything tragic can happen in life on any given day to lead someone inadvertently down that path. A spouse's death, Unemployment, A FREAKING HURRICANE!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's time you tapped your ruby slippers MacLeod and woke up from this obnoxious fairytale you're in. Life and the Good vs Evil in it isn't about LIBERAL VS. CONSERVATIVE-

"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. ~John Berger

MacLeod

aaharvel wrote:

EXACTLY. Just earlier today I disagree with him on a freaking lead singer of a band and in a nutshell he says i'm wrong because i'm "LIBERAL"!

It was a joke. Didja happen to notice the little face after it?

You liberals have no sense of humor.

aaharvel

MacLeod wrote:

It was a joke. Didja happen to notice the little face after it?

You liberals have no sense of humor.

i have plenty senses of humor. Five last time I counted. You're missing the bigger picture here MacLeod. Thanks for not noticing.

MacLeod

This is what cracks me up, you accuse me of "name calling" and all I ever called you was a liberal. If youre going to be a liberal, you should be proud of it. Im a damn proud conservative.

And here the source I used to get $10,000 for poverty.

This is what I get tired of, I never called you any names other than being a liberal and then laid out why I dont count poverty that much and why I think the economy is doing good. And the reason for the smart **** first paragraph was I post something that is supposed to be good news and all you see is poverty rising but yet the next 3 posts slam me for being close minded and uninformed and in a fairytale and so on and so forth. It gets tired.

aaharvel

the whole thing gets tired macleod. From both fronts.
I don't like to be called Liberal. I don't like to be called Democrat. I don't like to be called Republican. I don't like to be called Conservative. Especially when not one person on here has any clue to what my idealogy is minus talking about a few social issues that has nothing to with President Bush, Abe Lincoln or BillyBlowJob Clinton. I don't like being called any of those names- at least Not on a Stereo Forum. It's great to talk about issues- it's great that society gets involved with the system instead of just dumbing down to reality shows on MTV- but we can do it without using sarcastic political references.

and the $16,500 was based on a family household with one child. As I said before- it's the children I'm most concerned with when it comes to poverty.

fireshoes

The ship is sinking.

aaharvel

fireshoes wrote:

The ship is sinking.

this ship's been **** sinking for awhile now. Tell Captain Smith they're all dead and we should abandon thread. :rolleyes:

MacLeod

Nothing wrong with being called liberal or conservative. Im not of the opinion that if you subscribe to a certain ideology that youre "brainwashed" or "incapable of thinking for yourself" or whatever. Some people have a core set of beliefs and principles they believe in and if they fall within the liberal or conservative category then so be it. There should be no shame in it.

fireshoes

My violin picture didn't upload.

MacLeod

fireshoes wrote:

My violin picture didn't upload.

LMAO!! Too bad, it wouldve fit perfect!

aaharvel

DIE THREAD!!!
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:rolleyes:

brettw22

Mac, the violin could just as easily apply to you if you brought yourself out from the clouds once in a while......(and that's not being negative....welcome to reality with the rest of us)

MacLeod

Youre right AA, this thread has outlived its usefullness. RIP

Polkapops

Just one more bit of info......
The unemployment figures do NOT reflect those whose benefits have already exhausted - So in reality it is much higher than reported. I keep hearing about how well the economy is doing but around these parts it simply isn't true. I have several friends that are card carrying tradesmen (electricians, machine repairmen, millwrights) who are unable to find jobs. The truth is, they simply are NOT available anymore. It is very true that the well paying jobs have been/are being replaced with lower paying service sector jobs with little or no benefits. Just my first hand personal experience, sorry to say.... :mad:

MacLeod

You should move down here to Chattanooga. This place is booming like crazy and currently the unemployment here is 3.4% last I heard. Youll always have places that arent doing well economically. Back in Texas I used to live in Temple which is a hole in the earth. Very little in the way of jobs even tho its a pretty big town. Yet 40 miles south in Austin there are great jobs growing on trees!

It is true that some jobs that used to pay well are falling by the wayside. I know it sucks for those people but its a fact of life. Just think of all those people that made a living skinning buffalos. As things progress and evolve we have to along with it.

You cant gurantee a certain profession will always be a high paying and be in high demand forever. I know it sucks for those getting caught in the middle but its the way it is.