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Weekly initial jobless claims down 15k to 372,000
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Akza
Posts: 271
Registered: 2002-9-8 18:02:25
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1/1/00 12:00am
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Weekly initial jobless claims down 15k to 372,000
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GrilledCheez posted:
Abaddon_Ambrosius posted:
Indeed. Things aren't "improving slowly."
They are simply "declining at a somewhat slower pace". 
This line of argument is just another variation of, "IT COULD HAVE BEENA LOT WORSE!"
It is the dems primary argument. I'm not even sure what they would say if they actually did something successful at anything.
Oh sweet, party-line attacks. Maybe if companies would use their tax breaks to actually hire people, there would be less jobless! Of course the reality is that the wealthy would rather sit on that money or set up even more offshore plants than create jobs here-- all at the expense of the country through less taxed revenue! Yay America!
Oh wait.. no it's all those awful democrats' faults. The ones that aren't running the house now. Tax cuts and all for everybody!
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theredkay1
Posts: 611
Registered: 2008-5-16 10:37:09
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Weekly initial jobless claims down 15k to 372,000
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We have more jobs than we used to. Job growth is slowly outpacing working age population growth.
Most people would correctly see this as a small steps forward. I dont know why AA feels it necessary to portray all data, regardless of what it actually says, as a step backwards. This is his schtick. He's made up his mind about something and he wont let the data get in his way!
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Abaddon_Ambrosius
Title: Retired Theurgist TL
Posts: 1,674
Registered: 2001-12-21 09:51:39
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Weekly initial jobless claims down 15k to 372,000
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<shrug>
The numbers are the numbers. Nothing will change the fact that we have a lower percentage of the workforce working or fully-employed, we're falling further and further behind on that front, and there *is* a definitive number that will show an actual reversing of that trend, if we hit it and sustain it for at least couple months.
They're numbers. They're firm, not the fluff politicians use. And the targets to hit to reverse the trend are the same ones I've been pointing at for 18 or so months.
Trolling won't make any of those facts change. 
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GrilledCheez
Title: The Lord's Balls
Posts: 1,060
Registered: 2006-3-22 11:06:32
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Date Posted:
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Weekly initial jobless claims down 15k to 372,000
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theredkay1 posted:
IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE! IT WAS WORSE LAST MONTH!
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