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malaise

(269,063 posts)
Fri Feb 3, 2012, 03:49 PM Feb 2012

So how are the ReTHUGS reacting to the jobs and unemployment data

http://www.suntimes.com/business/10414230-420/unemployment-drops-to-83-percent-after-hiring-burst.html
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In the most impressive surge for the job market since early last year, the United States added 243,000 jobs in January, far more than economists expected. The unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent, the lowest in three years.

Hiring accelerated across the economy and up and down the pay scale. The high-salary professional services industry added 70,000 jobs, the most in 10 months. Manufacturing added 50,000, the most in a year.

“This is a very positive employment report from almost any angle,” said Brian Bethune, an economics professor at Amherst College.

The report could enhance President Barack Obama’s hopes for re-election, which is turning on the health of the economy. The unemployment rate is the lowest since February 2009, one month after Obama took office.
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As Bill Maher said - Obama will fuck you up!!
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So how are the ReTHUGS reacting to the jobs and unemployment data (Original Post) malaise Feb 2012 OP
Caught about 5 minutes of Limpballs maxrandb Feb 2012 #1
Hahahahahhaha malaise Feb 2012 #3
To be fair, some days he is incoherent and blubbering rather than blubbering and incoherent. yellowcanine Feb 2012 #9
Not good. DCBob Feb 2012 #2
You asked... stevenleser Feb 2012 #4
LOL and Bashir just played clips of the House morons and the malaise Feb 2012 #5
They're sounding like someone just hifiguy Feb 2012 #6
Allen West is acting crazier than usual. NoGOPZone Feb 2012 #7
Thanks malaise Feb 2012 #11
I would think they would be a little worried. n/t Johnson20 Feb 2012 #8
Bummer for them. They'll just have to live with an improving economy. Old and In the Way Feb 2012 #10

maxrandb

(15,334 posts)
1. Caught about 5 minutes of Limpballs
Fri Feb 3, 2012, 03:51 PM
Feb 2012

while going to lunch. He was blubbering and incoherent...but then again, he always is blubbering and incoherent to me.

DCBob

(24,689 posts)
2. Not good.
Fri Feb 3, 2012, 03:52 PM
Feb 2012

Limbaugh was a pretzle today desperately trying to convince his listeners this is bad news.

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
4. You asked...
Fri Feb 3, 2012, 03:59 PM
Feb 2012
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2842085/posts

To: Nachum
If conservatives are unable or unwilling to reply that Obama’s figures are stinking lies, and show how, what chance does any Repub have in 2012?
4 posted on Friday, February 03, 2012 2:04:12 PM by pabianice (&quot
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To: Nachum
WOW, it dropped 2 TENTHS of 1%!!! HALLELUJAH!!!
8 posted on Friday, February 03, 2012 2:07:22 PM by LibFreeUSA (Pick Your Poison)
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To: LibFreeUSA
Net 2 million jobs lost in the last 2 months,
and he’s claiming a recovery because they’ve “monkeyed” with the numbers.
(I suppose “that’s racist” - sue me)
13 posted on Friday, February 03, 2012 2:10:48 PM by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: ThunderSleeps
That number is going to continue to go down as we approach the election...
I think there is something more sinister going about...
This is nothing more than zer()'s election platform, of not just a do-nothing congress, but one that mucks things up. The numbers are artificially lowered with the removal of 1.2 million unemployed from the rolls. What he will have happen, now that he knows he can manipulate the #'s, and to what extent %-wise... he'll have the unemployment become "worse" as the election nears, and claim it's congress "mucking it up", after he got things so rosy in February.
25 posted on Friday, February 03, 2012 2:59:26 PM by C210N (Dems: "We must tax you so that we can buy your votes&quot
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Then there is the insane assertion in that thread that 2 million people lost jobs in the last two months.

malaise

(269,063 posts)
5. LOL and Bashir just played clips of the House morons and the
Fri Feb 3, 2012, 04:02 PM
Feb 2012

Primary clowns - one more complete and total inversion of reality - good is bad.
I'm lovin' it.

Old and In the Way

(37,540 posts)
10. Bummer for them. They'll just have to live with an improving economy.
Fri Feb 3, 2012, 04:13 PM
Feb 2012

You can have a Republican President, Freeps...or a better economy for the middle class. But you can't have both.

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