With employment at almost 100% is that a nail in the Libs chances in 08?

Question

Steve c You little 12 year old twerp you aren't even supposed to be on here, now go tell your mommy you are sorry and have her to turn off the Computer.

Answer 1

You forget that the Libs do not believe that we have such a low unemployment rate.

They prefer to believe that the people who couldn't find a job were actually looking for a job instead of taking all the handouts they could get first.

Answer 2

Employment is not at 100%
100% employment is actually a bad thing. It would mean that new business or expanding business could not find employees. That would mean that US production was at zero growth. You can't have it both ways. The Bush administration claims we are growing by about 4% per year. That would be impossible if there were no more employees available in the nation.
The government claims we are at 95% employment. The government admits that persons not collecting unemployment compensation are not counted. People who do collect the compensation may only so do for a limited time so we are probably near 90% employment of the eligible work force. When you talk about employment 95% is not almost 100% it is 95%. 100% employment would probably cause a stock market crash and a financial crisis. Of course if that happened then the percentage of people employed would immediately drop to something manageable.

Answer 3

1st it is not anywhere near 100%. Plus unemployement #'s are bogus...the way they count is on unemployement claims. So if you run out of time on unemployement and don't have a job they don't care you go off the count as IF you did get one. So we have years of people running out the clock and reamining out of work. This also doesn't deal with people taking ANY job, even at a fraction of what they could/should be earning. There is a MAJOR econmic problem in this country that gets buried by the admin and the media. The top 10% are doing jus fine thank you, but not the majority of people!

Answer 4

I would like to know where you heard employment is 100%. Here in Ohio umemployment is almost at an all time high. No, I don;t think the econemy helps the libs or the conservatives bc all the politicans think our econemy is fine and don't care about anyone but themselves.

Answer 5

Almost 100% means zip. When an aerospace engineer used to making hundreds of thousands a year must take a job at McDs after his severence pay, unemployment and savings are used up just to keep his head above water is no longer on the rolls doesn't mean he is properly employed. Just because someone lost her job and her unemployment ran out so she is not on the rolls any more doesn't mean we are near 100% employment. I notice you don't have the guts to attach a reference to prove your claim. Could it be because your claim is pure BS, poppycock, garbage, malarkey?

Answer 6

well, for the first time in their history, the ruling party was turned out in the Australian election despite a booming economy.

so, the Libs have a chance even though unemployment is 4.7% and would be zero if only we could get rid of the illegal immigrants. [the work force is 150 million strong and even 5% of that is only 7.5 million who need jobs -- meanwhile there are an estimated 10 to 12 million here and working illegally]

Answer 7

I'm sorry, I didn't see that anywhere. Could you please cite a source?

For many years the government has used a deliberately flawed system to calculate unemplyoyment. It assumes that anyone not on the unemployment rolls is employed, which, of course is not the case at all. But it makes the government look good.

Answer 8

Look at the stock market gains under Bush white boy. A person would have been better off keeping their dough in a savings account.

Answer 9

anything higher than 6% causes a trend toward inflation as jobs become scarce, workers tend to press for higher wages because there are few qualified workers as they already have jobs. Higher wages mean a raise for the boss and higher prices of products in order to pay for the higher wages.
Cost of living is what it is called. and so on and around we go.
Jobs are not an issue.
dying Americans and innoscent Iraquis are a problem.
So is a president who lies to his people in order to avenge his dad.
But to him it is ok 'cause we have a non-white military at the troop level.
Think Mr Bush cares about people of color?
Think New Orleans

Answer 10

Really? I want to live where you live. Ever heard of a little town called Detroit? You might like to let them know that they are actually employed now and they can try and get their homes back. Or maybe we could go down to New Orleans and let them know that they really have jobs too?
I'm not saying you are not very smart, but who did you think you'd convince or sway? Or was this just another one of those questions meant to take up room and divide? And really I am NOT saying you are dumb or an idiot or anything like that. I would just really like to know what country you live in. I realize you have found percentage you could play with, but thats nothing really new. And I do applaud your creative math. I do think you should maybe stick to the creative.

MS D you piss ant are you really talking to what you think is a twelve year old like that? Its one thing to eek idiocy but another entirely to posture like that to children.

Answer 11

I just got a job after being laid off for 3 months. People in our area (LARGE town in West Central Florida) are hurting. We have a LOT of people laid off. FOR INSTANCE, I applied for a secretarial position at our local school board. The lady I talked to said "OMG - we had 254 applicants for the ONE position and last year we were lucky to get 5" --- it is REALLY REALLY bad here. I have a good resume, a lot of good experience, letters of recommendation -- all positive work history and it took me 3 months. I've talked to people out of state too (making payments, etc.) and they have told me (after sharing my story) that it is bad in their area too so I KNOW it's not just here. Employments is not almost 100% -- NOT EVEN CLOSE and I don't know WHERE you got that information.