Bushitler's continued destruction of the USA . Did you see the job figures today?

[Elwood P Dowd]

If they admit a negative 17,000 you can bet your last dollar it was much worse. On Fox they report the bad news and then report that unemployment dropped. More people lose jobs than find jobs, yet unemployment drops? You have to create over 150,000 jobs a month just to keep up with population growth. Book Cooking 101 is now a major for college republicans.

A few headlines from the past few weeks.....


Employment Drops in a Pink Slip Blizzard

Bush lobbies for more free trade deals

U.S. Trade Deficit to exceed 800 billion

Chrysler to Cut 12,000 Jobs

Sinking Currency, Sinking Country

Economists Rethink Free Trade

Hershey plant will stop production Friday

Steelcraft Industries to close doors

U.S warns Costa Rica against rejecting CAFTA trade deal

Whirlpool closing Reynosa plants

Chinese cars are coming to U.S.

Novartis plans 2,500 job cuts

Buxton Company in Chicopee Cuts Jobs

Whirlpool to Close Tenn., Mexico Plants

Auto parts maker to bring jobs to 2nd state prison

Congress may vote on Russia trade deal this year

GE cutting 425 jobs at 6 Northeast Ohio facilities

Century-old Maytag washing machine factory closes for good

Black & Decker to shed 170 jobs

Panasonic plant to close in Clark County WA

Auto parts firm lays off 51 in Newport News

145 to lose jobs when central Maine shoe plant closes

Middle Class Losing Ground In Financial Struggle

Kemet to lay off 125 workers in Greenville County

Drugmaker could cut 5,000 jobs

Methode to lay off 125 area plant workers

Methode Electronics to cut 700 jobs

China's economy grows 11.2 percent

Debt Is Sinking America

Plant closing in central Indiana will idle 400 workers

Trade deficit grows, we lose jobs

Long-term unemployment hits white-collar world

Intel to shut down last Silicon Valley 'fab' this year

Foreigners buying U.S. companies at a Record Pace

Scoudouc factory closing, 200 lose jobs

Bloomington to lose another 900 jobs

Closure Sees Loss of 510 Auto Jobs

GM to offer buyouts to more than half of U.S. hourly workers

Auto parts plant closing to put 500 out of work

Biggest bank in U.S. posts biggest loss ever

Americans cut back sharply on spending

Bush's U.S.-Peru trade deal adds insult to NAFTA's injury

Imports Dominate U.S. Market

Jobs in Ohio, Michigan: a lost cause?

U.S. trade deficit jumps 10 percent

Avon to cut 2,400 jobs

Bush pushing trade deal with Columbia

Weak U.S. job growth slams markets

Export of U.S. industry has meant lost U.S. jobs, dangerous products

Novartis plans 2,500 job cuts

GM Moraine to lay off 340 workers in '08

More than jobs lost in massive layoffs: U.S. study finds it can take years off lives

200 Visteon workers expected to lose their jobs Friday

Abbott lays off 700

Impending Destruction of the US Economy

Dollar slides as stocks take a tumble

Unsafe Chinese imports cloud Christmas shopping

Wabash factory plans November closing, cutting hundreds of jobs

U.S. currency under siege

374 workers to lose jobs

Plant Closes, Some Workers Say Job Fair Offers Little Hope

WestPoint Home To Lay Off 850 Valley Workers

Americans relying on Chinese-made drugs

Ball says it's eyeing closing more plants

US Chamber Of Commerce pushes more free trade deals, outsourcing

Bush plan pushes for more Mexican truckers

Bristol manufacturer, Saint Gobain, to lay off 90 workers

250 layoffs on horizon at Stanley Furniture

Outsourcing American jobs and economically blackmailing the U.S.

Motorola to cut 3,500 jobs

Dell Computer cuts 1,700 jobs

Dean Foods plans to cut 600 to 700 jobs

Nothing good has come from NAFTA

Arctic Cat plant closing a $2.9M blow to economy

About 10,000 steel jobs were lost in less than three years...

521 furniture jobs lost

Whirlpool To Layoff 360 At Fort Smith Plant

[islandmkl]

1. It's all good....

but the shitty part.

[Elwood P Dowd]

2. This country is toast.

:cry:

[TexasObserver]

3. Wait until the Christmas purchase delinquencies hit.

It's bad news. It's a real recession, even after the Fed has spent the past 5 months trying to keep the markets afloat at the cost of the declining buying power of the US dollar.

The good news is, we need the economy to be the issue this year. People agree with us on the war, but that's not going to win super majorities for congress.

[madrchsod]

4. yup -5700 dollars last year in unemployment "benefits"

that`s my income last year. my wife and i have lost close to 15000 a year for the last two years due to loss of jobs and only finding jobs that pay a lot less. at 61 i`m looking at never getting a decent job again.

[kineneb]

6. sending good thoughts

and hugs
:hug:

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. All is good, go shopping

:sarcasm:

[Elwood P Dowd]

7. "Consumers more stressed than we previously thought?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/business/02econ.html?th&emc=th


<snip>

The unemployment rate, which jumped in December to nearly 5 percent from 4.7 percent, was essentially unchanged, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said, declining to 4.9 percent.

Adding to the indications that the fall in payroll jobs in January could portend worse to come, the bureau issued one of its periodic benchmark revisions, based on more complete data. This revision showed much weaker job creation over the past year than initially reported.

“They took away on average 16,000 jobs a month,” said Nigel Gault, chief domestic economist at Global Insight. “It suggests that income was lower than previously thought and consumers are more stressed than we previously thought.”

[leftofthedial]

8. when you consider how much they've politicized economic statistics

and turned them into Orwellian propaganda, you get a truly scary picture of the economic state of this once great country.

We need to regulate corporations into oblivion. Capitalism DOES NOT WORK.

Thanks for the list.

[Snarkturian Clone]

9. So we are more or less FUCKED .... darn. NT

[Orsino]

10. No. I saw the neocons' version of the job figures.

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