By Christopher Chantrill,American Thinker
Obama has overseen a precipitous drop in employment
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the December employment report on January 8,and the mainstream media reported that 85,000 jobs were lost. The big story,as usual,was in the Household Survey. There was no mild leakage of 85,000 jobs there,but a whopping 589,000 jobs flushed down the drain. Here are the numbers from the Bureau:
| Total | Change
Civilian labor force ….| 153,059,000| -661,000
Employment ………….| 137,792,000| -589,000
Unemployment ………| 15,267,000| -73,000
Not in labor force …..| 83,865,000| 843,000
These are the numbers used to calculate the unemployment rate. Note the reason why the rate didn’t skyrocket. A total of 661,000 people dropped out of the labor force in one month. Don’t think that things are going to get better any time soon.
But let’s look beyond the numbers to the trends,also available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is where things really get scary.
Employment in the U.S. is now down from the peak of 146.5 million reached back in November 2007. That’s a loss of 8.5 million jobs in two years.
Thank goodness the mainstream media has not made invidious comparisons to the Bush recession of 2001-02. Back then,only 2 million jobs were lost,a mere scratch compared to the gaping wound in jobless Obama America. You can see why knowledgeable people speak of 2009 as the year the locusts ate. What was President Obama doing flogging health care reform for a whole year when his policy should have been —from noon on January 21,2009 —jobs,jobs,jobs?
Wonder what other ways "OOO"is going to manipulate the economy so jobs will be lost. The health care bill for a fact will destroy jobs and so will the Cap and TAX he wants. He wants America to come down folks! It's obvious.
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GEORGE BUSH'S SEAT will be on t.v so I can turn it off ,..I cant stand any more of his . lies…enough is enough. where is the birth cert.?
tiliyeah you are so right I do not Listen to his lies either I just turn it off when he comes on the only NEWS station I watch I give him no ratings on FOX
The only hole that Obammymammy is concerned about or wants entry to is Reggie Love's "HOLE"or vice versa….Sickening….He is one and U dumb white anys's won't call it as it is….He is a buggering fool….at best…On the down low…
Making E-Verify mandatory for EVERY employer in the country would help on the job front. Especially if employers had to run their current employees names thrugh the system to 'weed out'any illegals they might already have in their employ!
It bothers mje greatly that onhe of the ornaments on the Whitehouse Christmas tree is a large ornament with the face of Mao on it. Obama says he is a Christian but I think he is a closet Muslim. I'm sure some Muslims paid for his education—-too bad they couldn't afford a course or two in Economics. I do believe he is intelligent,but that doesn't keep him from being STUPID. Some of the smartest people I know are very stupid and as Tater Salad (Ron White) says "there is no cure for stupid"
Obama has bankrupted this country or is very close to doing that. Our national debt is now 87% of our GNP. No country that has gone to 90% has been able to recover. The recession is NOT getting better and our true unemployment rate is 17.5% and this administration continues to lie about jobs "saved"or created. It takes 400,000 peoploe to run healthcare in England. It will take 2 t0 3 million to run it here. Maybe that is why he wants Obamacare to be enacted—-lots of new jobs.
Actually,I read that Great Britain's Health-care employs 1.3 million people which makes them the third largest employer in the world. 1. China's Red Army 2. India's Railway 3. Great Britain's Health-care. I believe Obama wants to Destroy the three main branches of our Government . SEE:http://www.friendsoftheuschamber.com/discussion/?…
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Thank you for the correction. Based on that Obama will be able to employ 5 or 6 million probabloe idiots to run Obamacare. I'm a haqppily retired general surgeon. I perfrormed surgery for 31 years and I'm here to tell you that "cookbook"medicine is bad medicine. No two people (possible exception is identical twins) are alike. What you can do to one person may very well kill another even though they seem very similar in age and physical attributes etc. Obamacare will cause an increase in death rates,especially in the eldery because you will be allowed to die if it costs too much to treat you. Thankjs again Rob G
Never thought I would live to see the day when a president did not want to display a manger scene in the American people's Whitehouse during Christmas time,but he had no problem displaying an ornament with Mao's picture,and then posing in front of that tree ! That really says it all ,folks ! That tells who the man is,and what he is really all about ! And then Anita Dunn running around to American high schools telling students that she looks to Mao for her inspiration ! Just look at what Mao did for his people. And look at what Castro did for his country. Look at that history,and weep for America. We are in deep trouble.
You speak the truth Diane. Any of those who voted for Obama and are strill happy that they did are in serious need of a brain transplant. I really believe that he has always intended to RUIN this country. And he and his liberal cohorts in Congress are doing a great job of doing just that. We are still in the recession——inflation is coming and will be followed by a depression that will make the depression of the 1930's look like a cake walk.Obama will soon be telling us that the only way out is for the government to take over everything. And that is SOCIALISM. NO THANKS!!
Obama is still pushing Obamacre very hard. We will be very lucky if it is not enacted. Pelosi and Reid don't care about breaking rules nor ignoring our Constitution. If this country is to survive they must not be re-elected and Obama must be a one term President. He is going to cut Medicare by several million dollars. Medicare and Medicaid already show a $57tillion unfunded liability. This country is BANKRUPT but nobody will admit it.
Obama is a narcsissist –probably born that or his traumatic childhood caused it. His father deserted him,then his mother deserted him. He was raised by her parents who were leftists. His popularity is plummeting and now he is showing textbook signs of PARANOIA. It is very hard to tell what he might do next. One would be wise to stay away from him. He wants to shove total Amnesty for illegal aliens down our throats then Cap and Trade. He will be happy only after he has destroyed America. I maintain he is a"closet Muslim"born in Kenya.
Granting amnesty and citizenship to all illegals is the only way Obama can get a second term. I still believe he was not really eligible for the first term. He is a glib orator but is indecisive—-it took him 6 months to decide on what breed of dog to get for his family. He took weeks to decide how many more troops to send to Afghanistan.He also is a chronic liar—-he has lied about his education,his teaching constitutional law at a law school,our soaring unemployment rate,jobs created,our economy,his dislike of wall street,
and lobbyists,the cost of Obamacare. If his lips are moving —he is lying. He
wouldn't know the truth if it was a snake and bit his ass.