Labor Dept. List 21,000 New Jobs...Congrats to the Lucky Few...

[chelsea0011]

:) :) :)


And the 2,000,000 who were promised jobs...........uhmmmm...uhmmmm....

[still_one]

1. 21000 NEW JOBS

flipping burgers!

[FauxNewsBlues]

3. No Private Sector growth

Ummm actually no. 21,000 new gubermint jobs created. The private sector actually had zero job growth. I wonder how the Chimp plans on selling this to his minions.

Perhaps he can hire 300,000 new government employees a month til November to really boost up his numbers.

[KansDem]

6. Wait! Not so fast! Don't you know those are "manufacturing" jobs?

Atleast, according to the Bushistas...

Fast-food jobs hard to qualify
Category affects possible tax break
By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON
New York Times

Is cooking a hamburger patty and inserting the meat, lettuce and ketchup inside a bun a manufacturing job, like assembling automobiles?

That question is posed in the new Economic Report of the President, a thick annual compendium of observations and statistics on the health of the U.S. economy.

The latest edition, sent to Congress last week, questions whether fast-food restaurants should continue to be counted as part of the service sector or should instead be reclassified as manufacturers. No answers were offered.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2411774

So we have to concede that Bush created 21,000 new manufacturing jobs.

Doesn't sound so awful now, does it? :silly:

[MikeG]

14. Its Friday in Lent, so you mean Filet-o-Fish, right?

[supernova]

2. Whoopeee!

I wasn't one of the 21,000. :evilfrown:

[Stuckinthebush]

4. Let's do the math....

There are 50 states, so that comes to 420 new jobs per state.

There are 3000+ counties, so that comes to a whopping 7 new jobs per county.

Don't you just feel the optimism?!!

[papau]

11. Revise down Dec by 8000, Jan by 15000 and have 21000 in Feb

are we gaining ANY jobs ??????

23000 decrease from previous total, add 21000 for Feb

and I do not even see one new job in 3 months!

[alfredo]

12. 150,000 people enter the job market each month so there is a net loss

of jobs. Over 2.9 million jobs have gone overseas. they are never coming back.

[ET Awful]

5. Hmm, at this rate, we'll need to have a few. . .

months where 500,000 jobs are created in order to meet the growth that Chimpco and Associates predicted right?

[loftycity]

7. The reservists getting called up for duty...numbers look about right

I've been in Sales for 25 years and this is the worst.

[TacticalPeek]

13. Echo that.

Clients starting to go belly up.

Reminiscent of the mid-late '80s, and we barely eked it past that fun time. You can only tighten the belt so much and hold your breath so long, then . . . pfffft.

[West Coast Democrat]

8. This never amazes me

and it turns out also that January's preliminary numbers were too high. Just under 100,000 new jobs were created in January.

[wryter2000]

9. Ye gods

Could it get any worse? Our poor middle class.

[Bandit]

10. During Clinton's term this many jobs were created every 63 hours

Every 63 hours twenty one thousand jobs were created for eight straight years. Oh those republicans really know about the economy don't they.

[caledesi]

15. You want fries with that? nt

[osaMABUSh]

16. A RW hate radio host said today that the Rate is all that counts

5.6% doesn't sound bad so, of course, they'll try to emphasis that number not the 21,000 (gov.) jobs. We all know that the unemployment is totally misleading.

I'm no business scholar but it seems to me that most hiring comes at the beginning of the year when new budgets are in place.

No matter how many jobs are created bt. now and October there's no way Bush will have a net job increase. I can see the debates now: "worst president since Hoover on the economy"

"This is a terrible number," said Sung Won Sohn, chief economist at Wells Fargo. "The economic recovery is almost three years old, and the economy should be producing 200,000 to 300,000 jobs per month."

“Americans have a clear choice in this election,” Sen. John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee, told reporters Friday. “They can either suffer with more and more job losses that rip the heart out of our economy or they can give George Bush a new job.”

[ThoughtCriminal]

17. Ouch

The Yahoo! boards have been full of freeps boasting about the January numbers.