Its great news,My wife and I just came back from a motorcycle trip up north and all the way up and back their were many signs asking for help wanted outside of business we checked newspapers and the want ads are their.
Probable NYT headline, based on this same story: Billions of Helpless Babies Die Every Nano-Second. Bush, Israel Blamed.
I knew the fact that the economy was roaring along was bad news. You just have to look for it and make it a headline.
From what I see the roaring economy is really sad. It creates so many problems. We would be much better off with the EU 0.4% growth than the US 5%, don't you think?
Please note that out of the 248,000 new jobs, only 6909 were in construction, and 14,505 were in manufacturing. The rest were in "service industries".
To put it bluntly, less than 9% of these new jobs were in industries that actually produce anything tangible.
There were almost 50% more new government jobs created (21,547) than manufacturing jobs (14,505).
Maybe that's why the stock market reversed yesterday afternoon after Wall St. read the fine print?
The whole economic issue raised by the left media (CNN) and Kerry is a farce.
It's a created issue that is necessary for a presidential hopeful that is desperately grabbing anything he can out of the air and going "Look look, I could do better" after the fact.
The US economy is roaring ahead despite all the negative news and made up problems by politicians within the Democratic Party who would like to present it that way.
The economy has grown tremendously under Bush, despite 9-11 which had a colossal impact. One of the biggest airlines in the world went broke and fear, lack of movement of goods and services had a huge impact. Yet things are looking good. Why? Because of a SOUND economic policy that is not driven by what the masses want this second but rather by what is known as economic principals and facts.
My only gripe is if the tax cut is not made permanent.
Iraq was and is a success story, the economy is a success story, the war on terrorism is a success story and some in the media, abroad and even in our own government "WANT" to paint it black. I just hope that the “American” can see the difference between the BS fed to him and reality.
Red6
Excellent news. Media furor aside, jobs are a lagging indicator of recovery, just as honest economists, and common sense, have always said. Yet more discredit to the media and the Dems. But for the attention-span-challenged, they've moved on to the next bogus criticism. Anything to get back in power.
I'm seeing a slowdown in the Restaurant Equipment business and subsequent repair service biz, but that could be just stagnation from my base of operations at the Bowery.
I'm going door-to-door starting Monday to drum up work.
Recent polls (for what they're worth) show that Bush still has a problem with the economy. I'm hoping that the good economic (and Iraq) news will soon have a positive impact on perceptions and the direction of his poll numbers. It's been discouraging though.