17 Comments

• 1. GOP4ME  |  December 7th, 2007 at 3:13 pm

  *crickets*

• 2. Eric T  |  December 7th, 2007 at 3:25 pm

  How does this compare to the Clinton years unemployment rate?

• 3. SEW  |  December 7th, 2007 at 3:27 pm

  Just wait until the tax and spend, tax the rich get their turn. Tax rates up, employment down, tax revenue way down. Every time. At least they will get to tax the rich! And the lower income brackets taxes will be down–no job, no taxes, and unemployment and welfare government payments way up. Compliments of the intellectual party.

• 4. navydad  |  December 7th, 2007 at 5:48 pm

  Eric T
  You mean under a Republican Congress?

• 5. Hates Cows--Male  |  December 7th, 2007 at 6:05 pm

  Look, guys, you know all these jobs are burger-flipper jobs.

  ///snark off///

• 6. liberalT  |  December 7th, 2007 at 6:23 pm

  as always the discussion always starts with 2003 when things started improving ignoring the fact that because of how poorly things went from Clinton left office until the end of 2003. Here is another example of great progress by your standards:
  Say I gamble away 500 dollars on Monday but then win back 100 dollars yesterday. Your conclusion is that since yesterday I won 100 dollars so gambling was great for me.
  it just ignores the basic facts

• 7. CallMeTeach  |  December 7th, 2007 at 6:51 pm

  And still unemployment is at a depressing 4.7%. And these jobs aren’t burger flipping jobs. They are mostly in the tech service industry and are related to low skill call center and data processing jobs. I also like liberalT’s point though job growth is job growth so I guess you can’t complain about that.

• 8. bagni  |  December 7th, 2007 at 7:17 pm

  markapitalist
  so how come consumer confidence is so low?
  i don’t get it?
  liberal media?
  on a side note
  wow…..there’s 22million govt workers
  does that include military?

• 9. Eric T  |  December 7th, 2007 at 7:50 pm

  Call me teach

  I agree creating jobs is good, trimming welfare and getting people out of jails and back to work, is possible when you have 51 straight months of growth. I think its great, the right direction. That is a strong economy. If wages can come up people will get even more excited. 4.7% is not depressing at all. in my state it is over 7%

• 10. Almiranta  |  December 7th, 2007 at 9:19 pm

  liberalT, thank you for pointing out that it only took the Bush administration two years to overcome the recessionary economy that was inherited from Bill and Co-Bill. How many successive quarters of declining economy had occurred before Bush took office? I don’t remember for sure, but it was several.

  And then there was an annoying blip in the economy that occurred somewhere around the end of 2001. I know Dems don’t like to remember that it even happened, it being so inconvenient to their current world view of America-hatred starting with the election of Bush and all, but there really was an event in the fall of 2001 that had a major, severe, and long-lasting impact on our economy. You might want to look it up—and while you are at it, you might want to research the reason given by the architect of this event. Something about being emboldened to mount such a massive attack by the previous eight years of failure to respond to escalating attacks, something like that.

  So thanks, libT, for putting the economic growth into perspective. Thanks for pointing out that it did not begin in the Clinton years, that it would have been an uphill battle even without 9/11, that it was so severely impacted by the result of spineless poll-driven inaction by that same Clinton, and that Bush’s economic vision was so strong, and so correct, that it took only two years to overcome those immense obstacles.

  OK, so you didn’t point them out. So you don’t even understand them. But you did point out that you are completely and totally ignorant of both history and economics and are just a mindless footsoldier of the rabid radical Left, regurgitating the most nonsensical garbage they feed you and pathetically grateful for the oppotunity to serve.

• 11. Job Search: Build a Caree&hellip  |  December 7th, 2007 at 9:56 pm

  [...] Erin Hoffman had some great ideas on this topic.You can read a snippet of the post here.The Bureau of Labor Statistics released latest jobs figures today. According to their report, 94000 jobs were created in November. The means 8.3 million jobs have been created since August 2003. Our economy has been adding jobs for 51 … [...]

• 12. liberalT  |  December 7th, 2007 at 10:16 pm

  oh right - i forgot that argument. All the good things that happened in the last 7 years are Bush’s glory and all the bad things he some how isn’t responsible for. All i ask is for you not to be such partisan hacks. Just for once in your lives say both Democrats and Republicans are failures - both have done horrible things - just think for yourselves for one moment and stop buying into the rhetoric of one party or the other…
  sigh

• 13. John Ryan  |  December 7th, 2007 at 11:22 pm

  the number of new jobs is 1/2 of what is was one year ago when this month was 200,000

• 14. Kahn  |  December 8th, 2007 at 1:51 am

  What bad things lib? We are at war in Iraq, yes that sucks. But we are winning now? We eliminated nukes in three enemy countries and our economy is strong.

  What was bad? Be specific ankle biter.

• 15. Hates Cows--Male  |  December 8th, 2007 at 8:36 am

  All i ask is for you not to be such partisan hacks. Just for once in your lives say both Democrats and Republicans are failures - both have done horrible things - just think for yourselves for one moment and stop buying into the rhetoric of one party or the other…
  sigh

  Pot, meet kettle, once again. libretatdTHC, you’re the biggest partisan hack on this blog, and you don’t think for yourself at all. All you post are redundant, mostly-debunked, leftist talking points. All I ask is for you to get out of mommy’s basement, and turn CNN and MS-LSD off.

  CallMeIdiot, 4.7% unemployment is far below what is considered “full employment,” so your depression is bullshit. Maybe you should try some Wellbutrin…

• 16. Eric T  |  December 8th, 2007 at 9:06 am

  hate cows

  full employment is 5%, so the feds are probably lower than most the states. If i had the time. I’d build a chart to compare the 4.7% to all the states, then see the difference between blue and red states, then go onto compare it to past administrations. I’d bet 4.7% unemployment is among the lowest unemployment rate around.

• 17. rockville  |  December 8th, 2007 at 9:47 am

  Ok, if we give Bush credit for the unemployment rate drop; can we also give him credit for the birth rate of infants born to girls 14-19. It is the first increase in about 10 years.