There is an arguable point about some of the jobs created by the stimulus, but the Census jobs are almost universally excluded from the statistics and the public sector has actually been dragging statistics down for quite some time because all levels of government have been cutting positions due to declining tax revenues and budget shortfalls. Private sector jobs have been increasing for awhile.
Judah On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > The job stats are bogus. The stimulus "created" a bunch of jobs that were > temporary and are now gone, as did the Census. That's called faking an > economic recovery. The President tried that. The private economy creates > jobs that exist because they are part of a value chain that provides > products and services that people want. > > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> But Robert, >> >> more private-sector jobs were created in the first eight months of 2010 >> than >> in the eight years of the Bush administration. >> >> I also question the source that the majority of Americans want healthcare >> reform repealed. >> >> "The latest evidence comes from the new Associated Press-GfK >> poll< >> http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com/pdf/AP-GfK%20Poll%20October%202010%20full%20topline.pdf >> >, >> which Greg Sargent< >> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/10/the_morning_plum_117.html >> > >> flagged >> on Friday. In the survey, 32 percent of registered voters responding said >> they wanted to repeal the law completely while another 9 percent said they >> wanted to revise the law so it did less. But 39 percent said they wanted to >> revise the law so it did more and 18 percent said they wanted to leave it >> as >> is. Opinion tips more towards scaling the law back if you consider only >> likely voters, but even then only 37 percent want repeal and less than 50 >> percent want to scale the law back at all. >> >> Put it together with polling that shows Americans overwhelmingly favor the >> individual elements of health care reform--like guarantees of coverage for >> people with pre-existing conditions--and it's hard to make a credible >> argument that most Americans want repeal. As Steve >> Benen< >> http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_10/026253.php>, >> who also noticed these new results, says >> >> "I wonder what the discourse would be like if equal attention were paid to >> those who want even more ambitious health care reforms as compared to those >> who think the Affordable Care Act some sort of secret communist plot." >> >> On 30 October 2010 18:19, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> > If the job losses occurred before his policies took hold (and indeed many >> > before he took office), why did he not understand that creating private >> > sector jobs was priority one, two and three from day one? >> > >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:330689 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
