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Offline Toad

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« on: June 05, 2004, 03:28:32 PM »
US Economy Adds 248,000 New Jobs

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For the ninth consecutive month, the US economy appeared to be on the upswing, with 248,000 jobs added in the month of May.......

.....May's increase of 248,000 payroll jobs exceeds market expectations and is the 9th straight month of job creation. 1.4 million jobs have been created since August 2003....

.."In the last 4 months, 91,000 manufacturing jobs have been created, reversing a 42 month job decline in manufacturing employment. Also, manufacturing employment was revised upward from the previous two months: 14,000, for a positive 23,000 jobs gained in March, and by 8,000 in April for a positive gain of 29,000," Chao stated...




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« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2004, 03:31:03 PM »
Bad news.....  for Kerry and the rest of the libs.

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« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2004, 03:37:33 PM »
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.."In the last 4 months, 91,000 manufacturing jobs have been created, reversing a 42 month job decline in manufacturing employment. Also, manufacturing employment was revised upward from the previous two months: 14,000, for a positive 23,000 jobs gained in March, and by 8,000 in April for a positive gain of 29,000," Chao stated...


could be good news.  except that the bulk of 'manufacturing jobs created'  where created by reclassifying food-service jobs as 'manufacturing' jobs.

no need to spin it, the numbers where already spun to get those results.

"I work in the manufacturing industries, building cheeseburgers" :rolleyes:

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« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2004, 03:44:02 PM »
It's not the economy, it's Iraq stupid......

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« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2004, 03:45:58 PM »
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could be good news.  except that the bulk of 'manufacturing jobs created'  where created by reclassifying food-service jobs as 'manufacturing' jobs.

no need to spin it, the numbers where already spun to get those results.

"I work in the manufacturing industries, building cheeseburgers" :rolleyes:


And were did you get that info?

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« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2004, 04:02:05 PM »
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Bad news.....  for Kerry and the rest of the libs.



Any bad news for those scumbags is good news to me.
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« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2004, 04:07:43 PM »
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Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
It's not the economy, it's Iraq stupid......



even better then. Iraq has been a complete success so far.

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« Reply #7 on: June 05, 2004, 04:10:47 PM »
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And were did you get that info?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/20/politics/main601336.shtml

Interpret it how you see fit.  Some see it as fishing for a reaction to the possibility of re-classifying fast food employees from service to manufacturing workers.  Others see it just as an observation in the economic report that the definition of manufacturing workers is "fuzzy."

As far as I know, though, they haven't actually started counting Fast Food employees as manufacturing workers.
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« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2004, 04:31:17 PM »
and the bbs war starts all oave again :rolleyes: :) :D :o :p :cool:

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« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2004, 05:23:58 PM »
The price of plywood went up because of Iraq.

I guess this war is making benefiting someone body.

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« Reply #10 on: June 05, 2004, 05:25:26 PM »
Yeah, I hear the Canucks make most of the plywood now. Well, them and the Asians.

Maybe the economy is recovering just on plywood profits alone?
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« Reply #11 on: June 05, 2004, 05:26:50 PM »
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even better then. Iraq has been a complete success so far.


Well the majority of Americans appear to disagree....

• Fifty-six percent of Americans disapprove of the way Bush is handling the economy and 41% approve. That is the highest disapproval number and lowest approval number of the Bush presidency.

• Fifty-five percent of Americans disapprove of the way Bush is handling the situation in Iraq, and 42% approve. Again, the approval number is the lowest and the disapproval number is the highest of any survey Gallup has taken on the question, dating back to late October 2002. On foreign affairs overall, Bush gets 42% approval and 53% disapproval — again, a record low on approval and a record high on disapproval.

Think your boy can go into the high 30's for approval ratings? I'm thinking of a about a 38 or lower by Nov - he's not going to get voted out of office he's going to be laughed out of office.

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« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2004, 05:29:25 PM »
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And were did you get that info?


yeah its probably 6 months old info... they used to plan this change for loong time... nobody realy know why

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« Reply #13 on: June 05, 2004, 05:54:52 PM »
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Well the majority of Americans appear to disagree....

• Fifty-six percent of Americans disapprove of the way Bush is handling the economy and 41% approve. That is the highest disapproval number and lowest approval number of the Bush presidency.

• Fifty-five percent of Americans disapprove of the way Bush is handling the situation in Iraq, and 42% approve. Again, the approval number is the lowest and the disapproval number is the highest of any survey Gallup has taken on the question, dating back to late October 2002. On foreign affairs overall, Bush gets 42% approval and 53% disapproval — again, a record low on approval and a record high on disapproval.

Think your boy can go into the high 30's for approval ratings? I'm thinking of a about a 38 or lower by Nov - he's not going to get voted out of office he's going to be laughed out of office.


Riddle me this batman - what does it mean when the majority of the "polled" Americans agree or disagree with anything?

The Americans these polsters poll seem to flip-flop every month.
And really, are they experts in anything? What does the average American know about running an economy?

Diddly squat! All the average American knows, is that Gas prices are higher, Americans are dying in Iraq, and congress is spending Billions on a country most of them would not even know existed or where it was on the map, until the nightly news plastered it all over the TV... EVERY DAY FOR THE LAST 10 years... and I bet you a pay check there are still a lot of Americans who couldn't tell you what Contenant Iraq is even on!

Ok my point.... polls and American opinion are BS - it changes with their pocket book and what happens to be on TV that night.

ok that's my cynical 2 cents.

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« Reply #14 on: June 05, 2004, 07:08:51 PM »
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Bad news.....  for Kerry and the rest of the libs.


I wish those that use the term libs as a slam would please show one example of them wanting failure .
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