The unemployment rate would be 7.0 percent if the same share of the population was employed today as at the beginning of the business cycle. The unemployment rate can drop for two reasons: because job growth is strong or because fewer people are looking for work. Unfortunately, the reason the unemployment rate has dropped to 4.9 percent is that Americans have been falling out of the labor market, not because a greater share of the population has a job. In March 2001, 64.3 percent of Americans 16 or older were employed. Had that number not dropped to 62.8 percent by December 2005, an additional there would have been an additional 3.5 million jobs and the unemployment rate would be 7.0 percent.
2006-08-06 20:05:50 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
"Huh?? How can the job rate drop if Republicans support business growth? It's impossible."
LMFAO.
2006-08-06 20:13:40 · update #1
Support does not always produce results.
2006-08-06 20:16:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
but it doesn't stay the same... the market and the base line are always moving that's why there is change... you might have no jobs gained or lost but you will have an increase in the percentage because the population change, job availability in an area all different things can change it... so the 4.8 isn't a lie... it's just how the government (that you hate so) measures the rate.
2006-08-07 03:10:50 · answer #2 · answered by pro_steering_wheel_holder 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Huh?? How can the job rate drop if Republicans support business growth? It's impossible.
2006-08-07 03:10:49 · answer #3 · answered by madbaldscotsman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have also heard that a person is only counted as unemployed if there actually drawing an unemployment check. So if there unemployed and not receiving unemployment benefits there not counted in the unemployment rate.
2006-08-07 03:23:02 · answer #4 · answered by The Prez. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Republicans want to keep their power. Democrats want to win it. That means Reps must paint a pink world for you and Dems should try to destroy that image. Data has nothing to do with them both, and if the situation was the contrary, the same thing would be true.
2006-08-07 03:10:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Republicans are into money. Anything that brings more profit is good. Anything that costs them money is bad. There is no order other than the order money can buy for Republicans and the super-rich. That is the standard they have chosen. So, you see what you are up against?
2006-08-07 03:11:55 · answer #6 · answered by zclifton2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remember George C Scott in " The Flim Flam Man"?
They're following the first rule of the flim flam man, lie!
George is talking to the kid he took for a partner on the ferry : "A Flim Flam Man is a first class liar, cheat, thief, back stabber, corkscrewer, and dirty dealer!
The Flim Flam Men :
They make speeches about they must have taxes, and every politician knows what is being done in Alaska. Alaska Pays all their residents with earth rights and doesn’t tax their residents. This makes the politicians liars!
They make speeches to get elected and make promises about what they will do for us. They say nothing about getting every dime of lobby money to do what big biz wants that’s opposite what they promised you they would do. That makes them cheats!
They stole your grandmother’s retirement money from SS. Now you face getting nothing for your SS payments. That makes them thieves!
They tax us, but they know the foreign companies pay no taxes on the goods they sell here. The goods are sold then bought on paper in a foreign port to skate the tax laws. Thus eliminating their profit on paper to cheat the US out of the taxes they owe. This makes them backstabbers!
They take lobby money to put earmarks and pork in every law that passes their desk. Then they do photo ops, a news clips to promote themselves as doing something good for us and America. So they corkscrew us!
They make back room deals and give our tax money to foreigners who build factories with our money. Then they write laws that send our jobs overseas. This makes them dirty dealers!
So lets total all this up. They lie, cheat, steal, backstab, corkscrew, and dirty deal. HELL their Flim Flam Men! Just like in the George C. Scott movie “ The Flim Flam Man”!
They are called the “ Honorable” Senator or Representative. Hell Flim Flam Men have NO honor what so ever! They’re crooks, criminals for God’s sake!
The BBC has film of ALL of them going in and out of Abramoff’s restaurant. That’s THE place in DC to get loaded with lobby money. The BBC has been running this story, and trying to get the US media to run it too. The US media refuses to run the story.
It’s time to take America back! Get registered! VOTE! Vote for anyone that’s not a Democrat or a Republican. They have ALL the power and ALL the control. They must bear ALL the responsibility for their gross mismanagement, abysmally poor judgment, lies, cheating, thefts, corkscrews, back stabs, and dirty deals! It’s time to put THEM in the unemployment line!
2006-08-07 05:59:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They aren't lying and the democrats use the same methods - its not a by party calculation.
2006-08-07 03:19:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
cause people do stuff like that
2006-08-07 03:08:45 · answer #9 · answered by ryan r 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because that's what they do best!!
2006-08-07 03:10:01 · answer #10 · answered by Rhrbek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋