CNN : today we had a 'great' jobs report

[spanone]

20,000 people lost their jobs last month and cnn calls it a 'great' report.......

geri willis????

[Deja Q]

1. More like "What'cha talkin' 'bout, Willis?"

[Hydra]

2. It's good news now

When it's not as bad as they were hoping.

Scary.

[spanone]

3. i think she should tell that to the 20,000 that lost jobs, they may have a different take

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. Even though I hate gambling

I'd be willing to bet that these net job loss numbers will be revised upwards in a month or two, as the Bush Administration regularly seems to do.

Also, isn't there a minimum number of net jobs that need to be created by the economy just to keep up with population growth, something like 150,000 a month? Not only was there zero net job creation but there was a net loss of jobs. I can't see how that's good news. And it also seems that incomes for those employed also was curtailed. Again, not good news to me.

[Supersedeas]

9. yeah, did Willis have the intellectual integrity to mention that historical fact ?

[HughBeaumont]

5. They're not even PRETENDING now, are they?

Trumping up anything belonging to the shitpile that is the Bewsh Administration as "great" is plain and simple SHILLING. WHEN is someone going to seriously call the media on their Republican bias?

[SoCalDem]

6. and wages up a WHOLE penny...

:rofl:

[Richard Steele]

7. We're living in 1970's USSR- media propoganda is directly opposite of REALITY.

Everyone (except a few wealthy elite) is watching the economy
turn to shite all around them, every damn day...while the
media keeps telling us everything is great.

[coriolis]

8. Yes but as was breathlessly announced a few minutes ago gas prices dropped

a tenth of a cent overnight!

Not kidding.
:eyes:

[gratuitous]

10. Laissez les bon temps roulez!

Hot damn, another 20,000 people out of work. Absolutely swell news according to people who still get to go their six- and seven-figure salaried jobs (with expense accounts) every day.

Maybe I could hire a few people to constitute a torch-wielding mob?