Hmmm.

So, how long is this paper lion supposed to hold together?

So how are we supposed to react to the news that new unemployment applications dropped? Am I mean, heartless, vicious because I’m not exactly overjoyed that Obama is likely to have slightly better economic data as he campaigns?

bobs1196 on December 22, 2011 at 10:35 AM

I think what you are coming across is cynicism from those of us who have been closely following the jobs environment. Here are our issues…

1) Monthly fake revisions that paint a somewhat positive outlook. Then every month, they are revised downwards. It is very clear that the administration is desperately trying to paint some good news, and the MSM is carrying water for them. The boy who cried wolf only did it a handful of times. We’ve been seeing this every month for at least two years. Nobody believes anything that comes out from this administration on jobs and the economy.

2) Every report ignores the real jobless number… which is tied to the ratio of people actually working in our society. We have seen MILLIONS drop completely out of the economy and give up on looking for jobs. If you look at raw numbers in the reports, and consider the timeframe for jobless benefits, it is very clear that the reason unemployment is going down is because more and more people have given up looking for work, so they are not included in the stats.

So how do I react to a slight decrease in unemployment?

Do I gloat, or wish unemployment to increase? No… but I also don’t trust anything this administration tries to sell, especially when they’re trying to tell me the opposite of what the raw numbers are telling me.

I’m actually kind of depressed about this right now. It feels like I’m trying to put out a forest fire with a garden hose. No matter what I do, I just can’t get under control and I’m really getting tired of making the same thing or less than I did 5 years ago. Money sure as heck doesn’t go as far as it used to.

ReaganWasRight on December 22, 2011 at 10:50 AM

I’m right there with you. We’ve cut every extraneous expense as much as possible and it gets tiresome. Our customers are tighter with a buck than yours, it sounds like, but the results are the same. We made a deliberate decision to lose money over 2011, investing in a new product just now coming on line, so our bottom line sucks but our business is in solid shape…we just need to see some optimism in the economy. If the goddam President would just shut up and play golf I’d be happy. Every time he opens his mouth something bad happens.

When the unemployment rate was 4.6% under GWB the dems and the media called it hamburger flipping jobs. Now at8.6% we are on our way. no thanks!

chuckachucka on December 22, 2011 at 12:03 PM

Except it’s even worse than that. The “real” unemployment number U-6 is 15.6%, and the U-3 8.6% means nothing due to the number of folks that have stopped looking and are not seeking work anymore.

I’m actually kind of depressed about this right now. It feels like I’m trying to put out a forest fire with a garden hose. No matter what I do, I just can’t get under control and I’m really getting tired of making the same thing or less than I did 5 years ago. Money sure as heck doesn’t go as far as it used to.

ReaganWasRight on December 22, 2011 at 10:50 AM

I’m right there with you. We’ve cut every extraneous expense as much as possible and it gets tiresome. Our customers are tighter with a buck than yours it sounds like, but the results are the same. We made a deliberate decision to lose money over 2011, investing in a new product just now coming on line, so our bottom line sucks but our business is in solid shape…we just need to see some optimism in the economy. If the goddam President would just shut up and play golf I’d be happy. Every time he opens his mouth something bad happens.

So tell me, who has the “failed policies”?

ITguy on December 22, 2011 at 9:52 AM

See that the problem with you Conservatives. Always using real world logic and your ‘memory’. /s

My friend came up with that, Dems hate us because we have a brain and a memory.!

Of course Dems hate that, but these guys have the MSM, er Propaganda Systems, on their side now, so that data and logic will never get out.

“lalalala…, I don’t care Obama is Awesome.”

Actually in the real world I never hear anyone speak of the Obamas, and if I do, its not favorable. I think I just don’t hang around a lot of Dems.

(until the figures are “revised”.)

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Obama says worst of recession and crises is over

That is very, very bad news. 0bama has the “Minus Touch” and is just about 100% wrong on any call that he makes.

Jukin’s prediction with only that single input is we are heading for serious economic problems.

Who do you think will be proven correct?

Here are some of today’s headlines from our friends the MSM:

American consumers cheeriest in 6 months

Jobless claims at 3.5 year low

Obama says worst of recession and crises is over

This is how the media portrays our economy.

sandee on December 22, 2011 at 10:41 AM

How sad…..