scrub and the job recovery...

[rpannier]

everytime I see or read some idiot talking about how jobs are coming back and scrubs economic plan is working I think about one thing that never becomes a talking point. Under scrub we lost over 3,000,000 jobs. Which means that if we find jobs for 2,000,000 of the 3,000,000 people who lost jobs scrub is still at a net minus 1,000,000.
One hell of an economic recovery.

[NMDemDist2]

1. you have it slightly backwards

he lost 3 million and gained 1 million leaving 2 million behind

[tritsofme]

3. -2.599+1.512= -1.087 (millions)

At the trough in August 2003 we were down 2.599 million jobs.

[NMDemDist2]

5. whoops my bad

:spank:

[Strelnikov_]

6. Lop Off Another 4,320,000 Jobs

The economy has to create 120,000 jobs each month just to keep up with growth in the work force (notice they never seem to mention this).

3 yr x 12 mo/yr x 120k = 4,320M + 1 M +/- = 5,320 M jobs down

Kinda feels like 5 M + down on the street.

[tritsofme]

2. Yep, payrolls are still in the red 1.087 million. nt

[Doctor_J]

4. go to ben's site

whiterosesociety.org. He's got a graph of the "recovery" on the front page and how it compares to clinton's economy.