A segment of DU is very invested in painting a dystopian picture of the US

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Star Member Recursion (39,128 posts)

A segment of DU is very invested in painting a dystopian picture of the US


And I get annoyed by it.

People seem to want to convince us that:
Unemployment is high
Vast numbers of workers have given up looking for jobs
Workers over 50 just can't find jobs ever
Wages haven't increased

When in fact
Unemployment is at 5.5%, lower than what was called "full employment" 20 years ago.
0.3% of the workforce has given up looking for work.
The unemployment rate for people over 50 is 3%, lower than any other age group
Inflation-adjusted wages at every quintile increased more between 1994 and 2014 than they did between 1974 and 1994

Why are people so interested in trying to make up ways to paint this situation as awful?

EDIT:U3 is 5.5, not 5.2. Sorry.

I wonder if this is a high post count mole...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026893895

[DumbAss Tanker]

No rational person who takes time to look at the numbers and trends can help but conclude it can't keep going the way it is indefinitely, 'free shit for everyone and make the rich pay the bills' can only work so long, especially when the list of 'free shit' keeps growing like radioactive bug in a 50s SF movie.  That's pretty dystopian, really.

[thundley4]

No rational person who takes time to look at the numbers and trends can help but conclude it can't keep going the way it is indefinitely, 'free shit for everyone and make the rich pay the bills' can only work so long, especially when the list of 'free shit' keeps growing like radioactive bug in a 50s SF movie.  That's pretty dystopian, really.

Have you seen the DUmmies talk about the problems in Greece?  They don't blame the government and spending, they blame the bankers that are stopping the loans to the bankrupt government.  DUmmies truly believe that the government has the right to keep printing and spending money.

Reality does not exist at DU.

[Delmar]

Response to Recursion (Original post)Wed Jun 24, 2015, 12:16 PM
Bradical79 (1,048 posts)
91. Here's the labor stats for anyone interested.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

Just throwing this up here in case anyone wants to use actual statistics in their arguments. One nice thing about our government is we get lots of numbers to look at before interested parties put their spin on things

Primitives need to alert on this obvious troll.  Every DUmmy in good standing knows where to go to get their mind right:
https://www.whitehouse.gov