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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy does the jobs report always have to be announced with a
"but"? But people have stopped looking, but jobs have been added for the summer, but employers have a little profit, but, but, but. If the number of jobs increases, that is it. No additional speculation is needed if there is an increase or a decrease.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)Odd, isn't it?
Don
mucifer
(23,609 posts)were on a few Air America radio stations and Msnbc. Now that republicans are in office you are hearing it more from the msm and less from our side.
We can be hypocrites, too.
Mutiny In Heaven
(550 posts)This is from October 2004:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6205119/ns/business-eye_on_the_economy/t/job-report-createshurdle-bush/#.T6PR1xB5mK0
The thing that really confuses me is that Bush managed to do anything but lose a landslide given the downward trajectory of the economy.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)I think the change in the media since 1992 has given incumbents a nearly-insurmountable structural advantage in a campaign.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)It's so much easier to see everything simplistically because that creates real solutions.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)No matter how you slice it ... that's a real improvement.
Obama halted the collapse, and has turned it around.
Only the haters won't acknowledge that.
The press will avoid pointing this out because the need a close race in Nov. You don't need pundits 24/7 if it becomes too obvious that Obama will win in a landslide. And those are the only jobs the pundits care about.
doc03
(35,442 posts)job cuts in Republican controlled states?
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,454 posts)Don't want to make people think that the economy is getting significantly better under that radical Kenyan Socialist dictator?
uponit7771
(90,371 posts)...U6 numbers that contradict the working pool numbers that will fluctuate because some people in America have a choice of whether they want to work or not
Recursion
(56,582 posts)But, yes, it's kind of just become a journalistic habit to put a "but" in your article about it.
Incidentally, discouraged workers don't factor into the payroll numbers but into the unemployment numbers.