Jobs Outlook Discouraging

[mikesilvia]

Friday, forecasters expect the Labor Department to report the economy added 113,000 jobs in September—a monthly pace too slow to return the nation to full employment.The economy must add more than 375 thousand jobs each month for three years to lower unemployment to 6 percent and that is not likely with current policies.Most analysts see the unemployment rate steady at 8.1 percent, while a few see an increase. The wildcard is the number of adults actually working or seeking jobs—the measure of the labor force used to calculate the unemployment rate.Were the labor force...

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[AUTaxMan]

Bold Prediction Alert: Whatever numbers that are released will subsequently be adjusted down.

[pghin08]

Dey took errr jerrrrbs!

[Wickabee]

Bold Prediction Alert: Whatever numbers that are released will subsequently be adjusted down.

Bold Prediction Alert: No matter what numbers come out, conservatives will say they've been skewed and it's actually worse.

[JustAlex]

Even BOLDER predictions.....it's ALL Obama's fault!

[mrveggieman]

Bold Prediction Alert: No matter what numbers come out, conservatives will say they've been skewed and it's actually worse.

Unless a conservative is in office then they will say that things are really better than what the numbers are.

[pghin08]

Bold prediction: People are ridiculously partisan and lack an ability to objectively look at facts and figures. I guess that's not really a prediction, I just felt like saying it.

[Wickabee]

Bold prediction: People are ridiculously partisan and lack an ability to objectively look at facts and figures. I guess that's not really a prediction, I just felt like saying it.

There it is. Can't be topped. No more bold predictions.

[INTIMADATOR2007]

Bold prediction: People are ridiculously partisan and lack an ability to objectively look at facts and figures. I guess that's not really a prediction, I just felt like saying it.

Every time they release new numbers they are almost always readjusted the next week , Usually they go up from the prediction , but the democrats do not care cause they get a week of "so called " good numbers knowing people do not pay attention the following week for the readjustment .

[pghin08]

Every time they release new numbers they are almost always readjusted the next week , Usually they go up from the prediction , but the democrats do not care cause they get a week of "so called " good numbers knowing people do not pay attention the following week for the readjustment .

So you're saying every economic indicator is fudged by the Democrats? What about when the Republicans hold the presidency? Are they fudged then? Or are the Republicans just more righteous and good than those evil Dems?

This is the kind of stuff I'm talking about, and it scares the crap out of me. Facts can't just be facts anymore. If something comes out that goes against a person's point of view, then they just assume it's a lie propagated by the other side. People no longer look at evidence to build opinions, they build their opinions first, and then just manipulate the evidence. We complain about inadequacies of our government and those who run it, but if we (as citizens) can't look at the sky and just agree that it's blue, then we're no better than they are. There's not one side that's solely responsible for our current problems, and the quicker we realize that, the quicker we can begin to fix things.