Here is something we can all celebrate: the latest jobs report marks 100 consecutive months in which the US economy had net jobs gains! 100!!
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 304,000 in January, and the
unemployment rate edged up to 4.0 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported today. Job gains occurred in several industries, including leisure
and hospitality, construction, health care, and transportation and warehousing.
Just because Republicans arenât bashful in using the hardship of Democrats as a political tool, doesnât mean the opposite is true. Itâs great more people have jobs.
No, weâre giving the same replies that we always do to jobs report numbers. Some months arenât that great. Some months are good. One thing is for sure, we arenât going around bashing the BLS and claiming they are faking the numbers.
I started this thread and I lean to the left. I can assure you that I am sincere when I say that I am delighted to hear that we added jobs in January. We are on an historic winning streak. We can all celebrate our collective success. Everybodyâs favorite teamâAmerican Workersâhas scored points in 100 consecutive innings.
Itâs too bad that the old forum is gone. Itâd be interesting to compare and contrast this thread to some of the old âGood Newsâ threads. My recollection is that they went on for pages and pages and were full of comments like:
âYeah, but what about the participation rate?â
ââReal Unemploymentâ is more like 15%!â
âThe unemployment rate only looks low because the BLS stops counting people when they no longer receive benefits.â (IIRC, you made this claim more than once and itâs not accurate.)
âThe BLS cooks the books to make Obama look good.â
Yeah, go back and look at the same threads during the Obama years and see how the conservatives reacted compared to the liberals during the Trump years.
I really would like to see one conservative step up here and explain his attitude on the BLS reports under Obama versus under Trump.
Did they know they were full of it when posting in the Obama years? Were they fooled by the talk radio hosts? Do they still think the books were cooked?