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by Michael Sean Winters on Feb. 03, 2012
The new unemployment numbers again out-performed expectations, and drove the unemployment rate down to 8.3%. Overall, 243,000 jobs were added in January and, importantly, the number of private sector jobs grew by 257,000. The number of government employees again dragged down the total, but by less than in previous months.
As I have mentioned before, throughout 2011, each month, the total jobless rate was affected by the fact that the much maligned Stimulus funding was evaporating and federal, state and local governments were shedding jobs. The government sector lost 276,000 jobs in the last year. If the government employment number is at or near bottoming out, that the growth in private sector jobs will be even more obvious.
Several news accounts picture the Romney campaign, which is built on the premise that Obama's economic record is a mess, as deeply worried that if the economy continues to improve, they will not have an argument to bring to the voters. That worry cuts both ways. In an election, if the economy is the issue, it tends to crowd out all other issues. If it is not the only issue, others bubble up. Which should worry Team Obama as much as it worries Team Romney. The bad economy has hurt Obama with white, working class voters, many of them ethnic Catholics, badly, but if the economy improves, those voters, once known as Reagan Democrats, might give Obama a second look. And what will they see? Someone who has just told their churches they have to start paying for abortifacients. Culturally conservative, white (and Latino) working class voters may not like what they see.
Michael, you know better than
Michael, you know better than to try and sell that. This number only scores the number of people looking for work vs, those employed. It does not count those who have left the workforce and given up or the new workers who have been unable to enter the workforce. The sad number, and it is hidden in the BLS data, is that there are about 6 million people less who are working than there were three years ago!. Obama is not the first to do this, all administrations do it. That does not make it anymore realistic. Tell it like it is not just the facts that support Obama's re-election bid.
The economy "taking off" is
The economy "taking off" is left-wing propaganda, the situation is not good,the jobs that are out there are not as good as the jobs lost, most homeowners owe more for their houses, then what they are worth, and gas and food prices continue to rise, the two things everyone needs.
I belong to a Catholic Jewish
I belong to a Catholic Jewish Commision and a Catholic, Muslim, Jewish Commision in New Jersey. I am a registered Democrat, and was a memeber of various unions all my life. I try to take in all points of view and be respectful to those I strongly disagree with, but I can't vote for President Obama because of his uncomprimising support of abortion on demand AND his signing of a law that lets the military hold American citizens indefinetly when there are "hostilities".I thought this was political hysteria until I read Ralph Nader's written comment on the law. Right now I can't vote for any of the Republicans because of their agressive foreign policy. When I receive my sample ballot I'll research the others on it. I am a Catholic first, an American second,and then a Democrat.
If you look at the "Action
If you look at the "Action Page" on this issue, http://actions.nchla.org/core.aspx?APP=GAC&AID=970&issueid=25200&SiteID=-1 and click on the privacy policy, you will see the following under "messages" Any and all messages sent by you through the system to your elected officials are saved to our database. National Committee for a Human Life Amendment can review all messages sent from the system. National Committee for a Human Life Amendment may also receive, by email, a carbon copy of all messages sent from the system. (which means they will use it to build a database). BTW, Ella and Plan B do not cause abortion because it stops implantation of a pre-gastrulation blastocyst which appears to be acting under only its mothers DNA, which means her soul as well.
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