I'm fed up!! What is the current unemployment rate?

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Trascoli (36 posts)

I'm fed up!! What is the current unemployment rate?


 
What is it?

Why is it acceptable now, as to 2005?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022267386

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MrSlayer (20,421 posts)
1. Still eight ****ing percent.

I'm still out after a year and a half but there is good news, Wall Street is killing!!! Wooohoooo!!! Isn't that GREAT?!?!!!!??

But let's please waste time talking about guns and other shit that's impossible to fix and distract from the real problems we're facing.

By all means.

greiner3 (3,827 posts)
20. "Thanks for posting your comment."

Good Republican talking point!

With so much to do and so little time to do it (historically, the incumbent president has somewhat of an exponential time frame left of an exponential time frame-see Nate's article; http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/19/for-second-term-presidents-a-shorter-honeymoon/--For Second-Term Presidents there is a much shorter Honeymoon; "However, it used to be that presidents enjoyed a “honeymoon period” at the beginning of their second term, with a large number of Americans who had failed to vote for them nevertheless expressing their best wishes."



So, to sum up, there is a very short time with which to accomplish as much as possible of President Obama's Sorely needed agenda.

The only way to do this is to 'keep the hounds at bay' as long as possible.

So, the way a good Progressive needs to act/promote/live is to stop and/or 'convert' the other side so the legislature can act and PASS THOSE BILLS!

Its all the repukes fault. Never mind when the repukes were in control unemployment was between 5 and 6%, now 7.8% was wonderful.   

quaker bill (6,884 posts)
14. Guns are a real problem

regardless of whether they can be "fixed".

Interestingly there is a pretty good argument economically that the economy will recover when people believe it has recovered. As long as everyone is worried and practicing personal austerity, the economy will be slow.

I expect the economy to improve during the year, because people will stop holding back on the hopes of making BHO a one term President.

 

So much delusion. Just wait until all the hidden taxes go into effect. Just wait until the costs of doing business necessarily skyrockets. You poor fools won't know what hit you.

Pretzel_Warrior (483 posts)
8. higher than when Clinton left office. lower than when Bush left

not desirable, but going in the right direction thanks to Obama staying cool and calm whilst the entire Republican establishment went after him politically at the expense of the American people.

THEM'S THE FACTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GOT IT!?

One little fact that you leave out, out of 8 Bush years 7 of them had a much better economy than any 1 year of the past 5. 7.8% was the highest it got under Bush, and it is also the lowest it got under 0bama.

B Calm (17,225 posts)
10. Under Obama 6 million new jobs

have been created. Not enough, but considering the mess that was left to him by the last republican president and the the current republican congress, I think it's a remarkable recovery!

You impress easily. If there were only 6 million new jobs under a repuke you would be screaming for his head.

[txradioguy]

Pretzel_Warrior (483 posts)
8. higher than when Clinton left office. lower than when Bush left

not desirable, but going in the right direction thanks to Obama staying cool and calm whilst the entire Republican establishment went after him politically at the expense of the American people.

THEM'S THE FACTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GOT IT!?

Appearently you don't have the facts.

Observe:


Dec 2008...U3 unemployment was 7.3

December 2012 U3 unemployment was 7.8

http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet?request_action=wh&graph_name=LN_cpsbref3


While you're on your facts obsession let's look at this too:

U6 unemployment in December 2008 was 13.6...right now it stands at 14.4

http://portalseven.com/employment/unemployment_rate_u6.jsp

The jobs pool is also at the lowest level it's been since 1948.

Now...what were you saying about "facts"?

[txradioguy]

B Calm (17,225 posts)
10. Under Obama 6 million new jobs

Reagan was doing that in a month when he implemented his recovery plan.

And you're bragging about that having allegedly happened in 4 years?

 

[JohnnyReb]

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Enjoy your short stay at DU.




Its all the repukes fault. Never mind when the repukes were in control unemployment was between 5 and 6%, now 7.8% was wonderful.   

 

So much delusion. Just wait until all the hidden taxes go into effect. Just wait until the costs of doing business necessarily skyrockets. You poor fools won't know what hit you.

One little fact that you leave out, out of 8 Bush years 7 of them had a much better economy than any 1 year of the past 5. 7.8% was the highest it got under Bush, and it is also the lowest it got under 0bama.

You impress easily. If there were only 6 million new jobs under a repuke you would be screaming for his head.

Proof that Great Muslim leader has killed 6 million jooooos in the FEMA camps.

[miskie]

What happened to all the cries about how "the 'new' jobs are all a bunch of low-wage burger flipper/Walmart register jockey positions, meaning that even though the numbers look good, wages have declined !!!!111!!!!1 " ?

[JohnnyReb]

Those at WAL-MART were discounted.

[thundley4]

Obama seems hell-bent and determined to ram through his progressive agenda regardless of its effects on the economy.  The MSM is all too willing to go along with him.

From day one of his first term he has done anything and everything but do things to fix the economy.  In fact much of what he has done has hurt, and almost everything he had done has only further divided the country along racial and class and lines.

[JohnnyReb]

Hey DUmmies, if you don't like the unemployment rates, help Obama out, get a job.