More economic good news......unemployment rate drops to 4.9%

[AmericanFirst1]

Do you honestly believe that the carreer gov't workers at the BLS or any agency for that matter, actually change how they do their jobs based on the politics of the current president?

Without question.

Well that makes you a fool.

Libtards are the fools, jake.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Do you honestly believe that the carreer gov't workers at the BLS or any agency for that matter, actually change how they do their jobs based on the politics of the current president?

Without question.

Well that makes you a fool.

Libtards are the fools, jake.

Yes, far right and far left are fools.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

Do you honestly believe that the carreer gov't workers at the BLS or any agency for that matter, actually change how they do their jobs based on the politics of the current president?

Without question.

Well that makes you a fool.

Libtards are the fools, jake.

Fool.

 

[Flopper]

Do you honestly believe that the carreer gov't workers at the BLS or any agency for that matter, actually change how they do their jobs based on the politics of the current president?

Without question.

Well that makes you a fool.

The idea that the president can somehow rig BLS statistics is silly. The data collection and analysis follows collection and processing regulations and procedure that have been approved by the BLS technical advisory committee composed of 20 economists from academia and private industry. These procedures rarely change and the data is collected by the BLS directly as well state agencies.

Statistics from the BLS as well as raw data is made available to a number of government agencies, universities, and private economic research groups. Any unexplained inconsistencies would be corrected. Rigging the statistics would require conclusion on such a large scale as make it almost impossible.

 

[pinqy]

Do you honestly believe that the carreer gov't workers at the BLS or any agency for that matter, actually change how they do their jobs based on the politics of the current president?

Without question.

Well that makes you a fool.

The idea the president can somehow rig BLS statistics is silly. The data collection and analysis follows collection and processing regulations and procedure that have been approved by the BLS technical advisory committee composed of 20 economists from academia and private industry. The data is collected by the BLS directly as well state agencies.

Statistics from the BLS as well as raw data is made available to a number of government agencies, universities, and private economic research groups. Any unexplained inconsistencies would be corrected. Rigging the statistics would require conclusion on such a large scale as make it almost impossible.

Nit-pick.....Census collects the data for almost all BLS household surveys, to include the Current Popultaion Survey.

 

[Flopper]

Do you honestly believe that the carreer gov't workers at the BLS or any agency for that matter, actually change how they do their jobs based on the politics of the current president?

Without question.

Well that makes you a fool.

The idea the president can somehow rig BLS statistics is silly. The data collection and analysis follows collection and processing regulations and procedure that have been approved by the BLS technical advisory committee composed of 20 economists from academia and private industry. The data is collected by the BLS directly as well state agencies.

Statistics from the BLS as well as raw data is made available to a number of government agencies, universities, and private economic research groups. Any unexplained inconsistencies would be corrected. Rigging the statistics would require conclusion on such a large scale as make it almost impossible.

Nit-pick.....Census collects the data for almost all BLS household surveys, to include the Current Popultaion Survey.

The BLS is one of the agencies that receive census data which is collected quarterly. Field economist working for the BLS contact selected businesses monthly to gather data. The last 2 weeks of each month regional BLS offices in 8 cities compile data and transmit to central processing where monthly data is combined with other data such as census data to form monthly reports, quarterly, and annual reports.

 

[pinqy]

Do you honestly believe that the carreer gov't workers at the BLS or any agency for that matter, actually change how they do their jobs based on the politics of the current president?

Without question.

Well that makes you a fool.

The idea the president can somehow rig BLS statistics is silly. The data collection and analysis follows collection and processing regulations and procedure that have been approved by the BLS technical advisory committee composed of 20 economists from academia and private industry. The data is collected by the BLS directly as well state agencies.

Statistics from the BLS as well as raw data is made available to a number of government agencies, universities, and private economic research groups. Any unexplained inconsistencies would be corrected. Rigging the statistics would require conclusion on such a large scale as make it almost impossible.

Nit-pick.....Census collects the data for almost all BLS household surveys, to include the Current Popultaion Survey.

The BLS is one of the agencies that receive census data which is collected quarterly. Field economist working for the BLS contact selected businesses monthly to gather data. The last 2 weeks of each month regional BLS offices in 8 cities compile data and transmit to central processing where monthly data is combined with other data such as census data to form monthly reports, quarterly, and annual reports.

The CPS is collected monthly by Census and transmitted by interviewers directly to BLS Headquarters. For the establishment survey, the CES, businesses mostly self-report after the initial interview.
The regional offices do no processing of data...everything is done by the analysts in DC.
I've been to 2 of the Regional Offices, I've done a ride-along for data collection.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Well that makes you a fool.

Yeah, no unionized government worker would try and prop up the dems who give them goodies...

I find this conspiracy theory fascinating: your claim is basically that all failures of a Republican could be attributed to the fact that all governmnet workers are actively conspiring against them, and Democrat success are not real but made up by the conspirators, and Democrat failures are still sugar-coated to look better than they really are.

9/11 Truther conspiracies are more convincing.

You have quite the imagination.

I made no such claims, you simply made shit up and responded to it.

It was a logical consequence of your claim. If all government beauracrats are work for the best interest of the Democrats on behalf of their union, and actively support a Democrat President, then logically they would actively work against a Republican President.

Do the career bureaucrats alter how they do their job depending on what party is in power? Of course they do.
.

No, they don't. They really don't. They'll gripe and complain about policies that affect them, but I've never seen nor heard of it affecting how anyone has done his or her job. And neither have you.

Early in my career, I worked for a school district. New BOE members were elected that the union didn't like. It absolutely changed how people did their jobs. The janitorial staff were the worst offenders, but even the computer operators, who I needed to interact with dug their heels in and refused to do their jobs.

Government workers are union workers, this means that politics is a major component to job performance.

 

[Faun]

Well that makes you a fool.

Yeah, no unionized government worker would try and prop up the dems who give them goodies...

WTF?? What "goodies" do employed folks get?

 

[skookerasbil]

On DRUDGE right now.........

Fed May Lack Legal Authority for Negative Rates...

FEARS OVER NEW FINANCIAL CRISIS HAUNTS MARKETS...

Selloff in European banks 'ominous'...

Russia shuts two more...

CREDIT FEARS GROW...


Plus, JP Morgan stockpiling silver and gold. All this shit was happening together in late 2007-2008. Mimics graphs exactly for the last 3 recessions..........soaring stock market for a few years then the cliff dive!!! But this time......its gonna be epic s0ns!!!


"The Market Knows It's Over" Jim Rogers Warns "We're All Going To Suffer" | Zero Hedge

The days of progressives doing the ghey cheerleader thing on the economy soon to be OVA!!! And I'll be in here laughing so hard that my nut sack will be sore.

BTW.........those who are not matrix dwellers on the economy should strongly consider grabbing some silver right now at about $15.00/oz. Whatever you can afford.........you can think me later.


Silver Bullion Buying Outstripping Supply As JP Morgan ($JPM) Buys | Zero Hedge

 

[pinqy]

Well that makes you a fool.

Yeah, no unionized government worker would try and prop up the dems who give them goodies...

I find this conspiracy theory fascinating: your claim is basically that all failures of a Republican could be attributed to the fact that all governmnet workers are actively conspiring against them, and Democrat success are not real but made up by the conspirators, and Democrat failures are still sugar-coated to look better than they really are.

9/11 Truther conspiracies are more convincing.

You have quite the imagination.

I made no such claims, you simply made shit up and responded to it.

It was a logical consequence of your claim. If all government beauracrats are work for the best interest of the Democrats on behalf of their union, and actively support a Democrat President, then logically they would actively work against a Republican President.

Do the career bureaucrats alter how they do their job depending on what party is in power? Of course they do.
.

No, they don't. They really don't. They'll gripe and complain about policies that affect them, but I've never seen nor heard of it affecting how anyone has done his or her job. And neither have you.

Early in my career, I worked for a school district. New BOE members were elected that the union didn't like. It absolutely changed how people did their jobs. The janitorial staff were the worst offenders, but even the computer operators, who I needed to interact with dug their heels in and refused to do their jobs.

The dynamics of a school district are nothing like that of the Federal government. 14 years at BLS and I couldn't have told you who my union rep was...there was no interaction or involvement.

Government workers are union workers, this means that politics is a major component to job performance.

Not all are, and no that's not what it means.

But let's imagine you are correct. What exactly are you claiming BLS workers do to please the union and the Democrats?

 

[Stephanie]

The fools are the ones who still take anything that Liar administration puts out and then passes it around like it's the Truth

SNIP:
Throwing The Flag On Obama For Excessive Celebration After Jobs Report

President Obama tells a news conference Friday in the White House that the U.S. has the strongest, most durable economy in the world. (AP)

• 2/08/2016 3:08 PM EST

Economy: After another mediocre jobs report showing gains barely keeping up with natural labor force growth, Barack Obama rushed to the TV cameras and spiked the football in the end zone. But if there had been referees, he would have been penalized for excessive celebration.

What exactly was the president celebrating? A GDP that grew by‎ 0.8% in the fourth quarter and still has anemic labor-force participation among those in their prime earning years?

A stock market off to one of its worst starts ever, with the S&P 500 already down 10% and the Nasdaq off 15%?

A real unemployment rate, when taking account of the ‎long-term unemployed, that’s close to 10%? Median household income that fell more than $1,000 from 2009 through 2014?

A budget deficit that’s on the rise again and headed back to $1 trillion? Fortune 500 companies leaving America and taking jobs with them because taxes are so high here?

That’s some record of accomplishment. The president trumpets the new job numbers, but he fails to mention that if the pace of job creation in this “recovery” were the same as Reagan’s, we’d have more than 8 million more Americans earning a paycheck today — equal to the entire labor force of Pennsylvania.

‎Even more remarkable was Obama’s claim that the problem with this economy is “doom and despair” Republicans who keep bad-mouthing t‎his supposedly sizzling growth.

‎But wait. The people doing the bad-mouthing are the voters, two-thirds of whom think the economy’s on the wrong track. A majority think the American dream is dead and our children won’t be better off than we are. Almost half think the economy’s still in recession.

ALL of it here:
Throwing The Flag On Obama For Excessive Celebration After Jobs Report

 

[airplanemechanic]

Only in America can you be unemployed for 6 months, give up looking for a job, and are then magically counted as employed by liberals.

 

[pinqy]

Only in America can you be unemployed for 6 months, give up looking for a job, and are then magically counted as employed by liberals.

Ummm, that doesn't happen. People neither working nor looking for work are classified as Not in the Labor Force. And this has nothing to do with "liberals," it's standard economic definitions.

Why on earth do you want to classify someone not trying to work as unemployed (besides trying to make the numbers look worse than they really are)?

 

[rightwinger]

Only in America can you be unemployed for 6 months, give up looking for a job, and are then magically counted as employed by liberals.

Going to need a link on that one

How is someone not looking for a job employed? Are you talking about seasonal employees? Their numbers are adjusted in the unemployment reports

 

[Faun]

The fools are the ones who still take anything that Liar administration puts out and then passes it around like it's the Truth

SNIP:
Throwing The Flag On Obama For Excessive Celebration After Jobs Report

President Obama tells a news conference Friday in the White House that the U.S. has the strongest, most durable economy in the world. (AP)

• 2/08/2016 3:08 PM EST

Economy: After another mediocre jobs report showing gains barely keeping up with natural labor force growth, Barack Obama rushed to the TV cameras and spiked the football in the end zone. But if there had been referees, he would have been penalized for excessive celebration.

What exactly was the president celebrating? A GDP that grew by‎ 0.8% in the fourth quarter and still has anemic labor-force participation among those in their prime earning years?

A stock market off to one of its worst starts ever, with the S&P 500 already down 10% and the Nasdaq off 15%?

A real unemployment rate, when taking account of the ‎long-term unemployed, that’s close to 10%? Median household income that fell more than $1,000 from 2009 through 2014?

A budget deficit that’s on the rise again and headed back to $1 trillion? Fortune 500 companies leaving America and taking jobs with them because taxes are so high here?

That’s some record of accomplishment. The president trumpets the new job numbers, but he fails to mention that if the pace of job creation in this “recovery” were the same as Reagan’s, we’d have more than 8 million more Americans earning a paycheck today — equal to the entire labor force of Pennsylvania.

‎Even more remarkable was Obama’s claim that the problem with this economy is “doom and despair” Republicans who keep bad-mouthing t‎his supposedly sizzling growth.

‎But wait. The people doing the bad-mouthing are the voters, two-thirds of whom think the economy’s on the wrong track. A majority think the American dream is dead and our children won’t be better off than we are. Almost half think the economy’s still in recession.

ALL of it here:
Throwing The Flag On Obama For Excessive Celebration After Jobs Report

Holyfuck, are you ever rightarded.

That "25-54" group under Reagan's recovery are now "57-86". You know .... baby boomers.



You dumbfucks are actually blaming Obama for people getting old.

Unfuckingbelievable.

<smh>

 

[pinqy]

Only in America can you be unemployed for 6 months, give up looking for a job, and are then magically counted as employed by liberals.

Going to need a link on that one

How is someone not looking for a job employed? Are you talking about seasonal employees? Their numbers are adjusted in the unemployment reports

Apparently some people think that the only two possible categories are "employed" and "unemployed." And so if people are not classified as unemployed then they must be classified as employed. No, it does not make any sense at all.

 

[rightwinger]

The fools are the ones who still take anything that Liar administration puts out and then passes it around like it's the Truth

SNIP:
Throwing The Flag On Obama For Excessive Celebration After Jobs Report

President Obama tells a news conference Friday in the White House that the U.S. has the strongest, most durable economy in the world. (AP)

• 2/08/2016 3:08 PM EST

Economy: After another mediocre jobs report showing gains barely keeping up with natural labor force growth, Barack Obama rushed to the TV cameras and spiked the football in the end zone. But if there had been referees, he would have been penalized for excessive celebration.

What exactly was the president celebrating? A GDP that grew by‎ 0.8% in the fourth quarter and still has anemic labor-force participation among those in their prime earning years?

A stock market off to one of its worst starts ever, with the S&P 500 already down 10% and the Nasdaq off 15%?

A real unemployment rate, when taking account of the ‎long-term unemployed, that’s close to 10%? Median household income that fell more than $1,000 from 2009 through 2014?

A budget deficit that’s on the rise again and headed back to $1 trillion? Fortune 500 companies leaving America and taking jobs with them because taxes are so high here?

That’s some record of accomplishment. The president trumpets the new job numbers, but he fails to mention that if the pace of job creation in this “recovery” were the same as Reagan’s, we’d have more than 8 million more Americans earning a paycheck today — equal to the entire labor force of Pennsylvania.

‎Even more remarkable was Obama’s claim that the problem with this economy is “doom and despair” Republicans who keep bad-mouthing t‎his supposedly sizzling growth.

‎But wait. The people doing the bad-mouthing are the voters, two-thirds of whom think the economy’s on the wrong track. A majority think the American dream is dead and our children won’t be better off than we are. Almost half think the economy’s still in recession.

ALL of it here:
Throwing The Flag On Obama For Excessive Celebration After Jobs Report

Holyfuck, are you ever rightarded.

That "25-54" group under Reagan's recovery are now "57-86". You know .... baby boomers.



You dumbfucks are actually blaming Obama for people getting old.

Unfuckingbelievable.

<smh>

Reagan had a growing labor participation rate because women and baby boomers were entering the workforce in large numbers

Now that they are retiring at a rate of 4 million a year......Conservatives blame Obama

 

[airplanemechanic]

Yes, it does happen.

Missing Workers: The Missing Part of the Unemployment Story

 

[rightwinger]

Yes, it does happen.

Missing Workers: The Missing Part of the Unemployment Story

This is due to the existence of a large pool of “missing workers”–potential workers who, because of weak job opportunities, are neither employed nor actively seeking a job

These "missing workers" are not missing. They are fully accounted for in the U6 unemployment rate. You know, the rate conservatives only want to apply to Obama