Unemployment at a Five Year Low!!

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8L5QQ480.htm

NOV. 3 3:56 P.M. ET The unemployment rate dropped to a five-year low of 4.4 percent in October as employers added 92,000 new jobs -- flashing a picture of a strong labor market as the midterm elections draw near.

The latest report, released Friday by the Labor Department, showed that the civilian unemployment rate fell 0.2 percentage point from 4.6 percent in September. It marked the third month in a row that the politically prominent jobless rate declined.

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Regardless of political affiliation, this is great news.

Everyone should be happy by the low unemployment and booming stock market and strong economy by all historical standards.

Good luck democratic congress on keeping the numbers strong!

We're all counting on you.

Thank you.

SC Harrison said:

It may be just enough to convince the people who don't read their check stub that Bush's tax cuts and trickle-up economy is really working.

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I just don't know what methodology democrats would like to use in measuring issues.

"Bush is losing the war on terror!!!"

Yet, no attacks in five years.

"The tax cuts don't work!!"

Unemployment low, stock market high and by every historical standard we have a strong economy.

It's riotous at this point.

I'm just not sure what a Republican administration can do that would impress a Democrat where they might give them some credit.

As Dick Cheney said "Five years and no attacks. You really can't do better than that."

The economy can't do that much better either.

Democrats remind me of Television execs who believe that somehow they're going to be the one to not have a single low rated show on their network so they cancel great shows with low ratings and replace them with bad shows that also get low ratings.

Same exact thing here.

I just hope the numbers don't start ticking back up over the next two years with a democratic controlled Congress or I think the voters will make them pay in '08. Things are going great right now. Please don't blow it.

Good luck. We're counting on you.

Thank you.

Yes, even after dealing with the stock market bubble burst, the inherited Clinton recession, the 9/11 attacks that could have completely destroyed our economy and the War on Terror.

Thank god for tax cuts, strong leadership, and sound economic policy that led us from the bring of possible economic disaster to a booming economy.

After 9/11 what Bush did to save us economically is his greatest accomplishment.

Thank you.

emeraldcite said:

I think he's created more Anti-Americanism than any other president in the history of the US.

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Well when it comes to the Islamic anti-americanism....

Yeah, people usually get pissed off when you fight back.

If you're in a bar and someone punches you in the face and you pick yourself up and go home, you probably won't anger the friends of the guy who punched you in the face the same way as if you'd grabbed a beer bottle and smashed it over his head.

Sorry we were attacked on 9/11 and decided to fight back. We shoulda just shrugged and said "I guess we deserved that" and hoped it never happened again.

Everyone likes to talk about how many more terrorists we created by Iraq. Fair enough.

But if that's the case, we also created more by going into Afghanistan. But that war everyone seemed to be in favor of. So, I guess if we create more doing a war that is the clear right move, it's okay that we created more, but if it's a war that wasn't necessarily the right move, it's not okay, even though the results of "creating more" are still the same.

For the life of me, I can't figure out the democrats position on how we're supposed to fight back against terror without creating more terrorists, Iraq or no Iraq.




When it comes to worldwide Anti-Americanism, I love it. I don't know why. I just know how awesome we are and how we're the greatest country in the history of the planet who has freed hundreds of millions of people and are the most generous and our principles of democracy have people risking their lives to come here and attempt the American dream.

So when some nut in Europe or anywhere across the globe says "I hate America!" I laugh.

I'm not a person who really gives a frog's fat azz what others think about America. Especially non American earthers. It's nice to be loved, but when you know what a great person you are and you find out some guy at the office doesn't like you, you have to just say "Well, that's his problem. He's wrong. I know I'm a good person and anyone who doesn't like me is the one with the problem."

Same thing with Anti-Americanism.

"How can anybody not like you!?"
Mrs. Seinfeld
1994

Thank you.

clintl said:

The economic news isn't that good for most people.

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I didn't say we're living in the Roaring 20's, but by all historical standards the economy is very strong and the environment for hard working people to flourish is ripe.

Let's keep the ball rolling, Dems!!

We're counting on you.

dclary said:

In other words, stimulating the economy in a plethora of more ways than any dozen middle-class people could.

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Exactly.

SC is complaining about his $4 but doesn't realize he may not even have a job if it wasn't for the wealthy and their greedy economic stimulation moves like starting companies and employing millions.

caren1701 said:

You do realize that people who've exhausted their unemployment benefits & remain unemployed aren't counted in those statistics, right?

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You do realize that whatever you're talking about is part of the same method of compiling the unemployment rates they've used forever?

So....4.4 for Clinton is 4.4 for Bush is 4.4 for Reagan is 4.4. for Nixon.

It's all the same. People always exhaust their benefits.

Once again, BY ALL HISTORICAL STANDARDS OF MEASURING, the economy is strong.

And I hope that starting in January after the congress is sworn in that nothing is done to blow it. The pressure is on, democrats. Don't let us down.

Thank you.

emeraldcite said:

Here's where you're wrong. Very, very few people are complaining about Afganistan. Why? Because we did the right thing there. We went in, kicked Taliban butt (real supporters of Al Qieda), and handed the gov't over to people who actually wanted change.

With Iraq: not so much. Not even close.

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I already addressed all that.

Please reread my post.

Hint: If you support Afgahinstan stop complaining about "oh my god,!!!!!!! more terrorists have been born because of Iraq!!!!!!!"

Thank you.