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US unemployment goes down .4%....who cares.

The US (and UK) economy is heavily dependent on the service sector.

The service sector is dependent on consumer confidence. If people are scared, they won't go out and spend.

Even if a double-dip were around the corner, Obama is quite right to talk up the US economy (just so long as he is taking remedial actions behind the scenes)
 
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/19/eveningnews/main20072425.shtml

While unemployment among the general population is about 9.1 percent, it's at 16.2 percent African Americans, and a bit higher still for African American males.

CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reports that, historically, the unemployment rate for African Americans has always been higher than the national average. However, now it's at Depression-era levels. The most recent figures show African American joblessness at 16.2 percent. For black males, it's at 17.5 percent; And for black teens, it's nearly 41 percent.

And if this group votes to reelect Obama, one can only say he's not the only one Stuck On Stupid.
 
Jobless claims rose a tad again this week (9K?) from last week's upward revision. I know that in my home state there was an actual net job loss of 400 in May (NJ ticked up to 9.4%) --- but then again, NJ is the most expensive of the lower 48 in which to do anything, and that includes merely to exist. Really, I can't see overall unemployment dropping nationwide with jobless claims remaining between 400 - 450K week after week after week.
 
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The Primary culprits in that article being the Tornados, Mississippi Flooding, competition from Mexico, and parts shortages due to the Earthquake in Japan.

All of these things, of course, are Obama's fault.

Yea, good call.

No other presidents have had to deal with such things.:rolleyes:
 
The Primary culprits in that article being the Tornados, Mississippi Flooding, competition from Mexico, and parts shortages due to the Earthquake in Japan.

Well, it seems some things just never change. Weren't leftists blaming the weather for persistent high unemployment back in February, too?

Ah yes …

http://5minforecast.agorafinancial.com/weather-adjusted-unemployment/ "We detect a pattern in this morning’s media. Whatever’s going wrong in the economy, blame it on… the weather."

And here I thought Obama was blaming it on ATMs. :p

But is weather really the reason now?

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/job-growth-weakens-unemployment-rate-jumps-to-9-1/

Job Growth Weakens, Unemployment Rate Jumps To 9.1%

JUNE 3, 2011

… snip …

The Labor Department said severe weather last month, including tornadoes and flooding, in the Midwest and the South did not materially affect data collection.

It also said that while some workers in those regions may have been temporarily displaced from their jobs, it found “no clear impact of the disasters on the national employment and unemployment data for May.”

:D
 
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2...-rate-rises-to-9.2-percent.-Just-a-soft-patch

July 8, 2011

America created just 18,000 jobs in June, raising new concerns about an expected revival of economic activity during the year's second half.

That preliminary number for June, released Friday by the Labor Department, showed sharply lower job creation than the 80,000 gain that economists had generally predicted.

The US unemployment rate rose to 9.2 percent, versus a consensus view among forecasters that the rate would remain unchanged at 9.1 percent. Adding to a drumbeat of disappointment, the Labor Department revised down its tally of job gains for two prior months.

So … uh … when does this become Obama's economy? :D

Or is it still the weather's fault? :rolleyes:
 
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_070811/content/01125112.guest.html

The Labor Department says the economy generated only 18,000 net jobs in June. Pelosi -- we've got it on tape -- said that 400,000 jobs would be created immediately after Obamacare was passed. Biden said we'd be creating, what, 500,000 jobs a month because of the stimulus. Yeah, 500,000 jobs each month, and yet only 18,000 jobs were added in this, our second Summer of Recovery. And they finally report this, folks, in the story. Last month's job number was revised down by almost half. So May's unemployment was probably 9.2% as well. Only 18,000 jobs were added in June, and that's gonna be revised down next month. All these numbers changed; they just never tell us the next month how they were wrong.

Now, notice how yesterday the AP and the rest of the media latched onto the ADP claim, the payroll agency, that 157,000 jobs have been added in the private sector. They did the same thing last month, too, but once again the news media and the rest of the Democrat Party find out it's easier to talk us into a recession than to talk us out of one. They're doing their best to talk us out of this, but they just can't. They admit in this story that the revised numbers, the supposed jobs created last month, no, it was 3,000 less than we thought, had been revised down. My point is this 18,000 jobs they say were created in June, it's gonna be 12 to 13 by the time this is revised in a couple weeks. You just won't see it reported.
 
Well, based on the debt ceiling talks Obama is shifting radically to the right. So in other words, don't expect him to push any job creating policies. People on the right doesn't believe in them.
 
Well, based on the debt ceiling talks Obama is shifting radically to the right. So in other words, don't expect him to push any job creating policies. People on the right doesn't believe in them.

Now why would you say this?

What in your mind is a job creating policy?
 
Out of the mouth of liberal babes:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-s...y-believes-obamas-top-priority-jobs-its-getti

[ARIANNA] HUFFINGTON: But the point is that the most important number going into 2012 is going to be the unemployment number. And there is absolutely no prospect at the moment that would make us believe that unemployment number is going to be below nine percent. … snip … And when the President again and again talks about how, I mean, I went through and looked since 2009 how many times he has said, “Jobs priority number one,” “The sustained focus of this administration,” “The relentless focus of this administration,” “We’re pivoting to jobs.” Nobody believes it any more.

:D
 

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