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Paging Big Girl!!!!!!!!!!

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Ain't "enlightenment" wonderful?

Hmmmm- perhaps that implies that the "enlightened" are possibly not as enlightened" as they believe?

Can someone tell me what a "prople" is?

I NEVER said the jobs reports were incorrect. Show me where I said that. My main complaint was(as I have stated umpteen times) that GDP( which is well known to be the best barometer of the state of the economy) was running at about half of what the average post recession recovery rate. Yes, Big Girl, the average GDP recession recovery rate runs in the 3.5% to 4% area and during the 8 Obama years, the GDP never got over 2%. So I "beleive" them now, just as I "beleived" them then. Nice try. The best way to understand Friday’s employment report is to ignore the jobs number, which was lousy, and the unemployment rate, which looked good. Instead, looking at why the two figures diverged gives comfort that the jobs market remains strong. Friday’s employment report presented a somewhat confusing picture of the labor market. On the one hand, it showed that the economy added just 98,000 jobs last month—short of the 175,000 economists were looking for and well off the previous two months’ pace. On the other hand, the unemployment fell to 4.5% from 4.7%, dipping to its lowest level in nearly a decade. And in another sign of labor market tightness, average hourly earnings were up 2.7% from a year earlier. The jobs number comes from a survey of businesses and government agencies, while the unemployment rate is from a survey of households, so an occasional mixed signal between the two numbers is inevitable. The weather probably played a role last month: A winter storm hit during the Labor Department’s survey, and people who missed a paycheck that week weren’t counted as employed in the business survey. But people who miss work because of the weather still get counted as employed in the household survey. The differences between the two surveys also may help settle the question of whether the job market is as tight as the unemployment rate suggests. During periods of strong employment such as the late 1990s and early 2000s, the employer survey registered far more jobs than the household survey. During the last recession, the opposite was true. Created with Highcharts 5.0.10Slack LineDifference between employer and adjusted household-survey employment, 12-monthrolling averageTHE WALL STREET JOURNALSource: Labor Department

Don't get bent out of shape by weak payroll growth in March. Although payrolls grew only 98,000, well below consensus expectations and below even the most pessimistic forecast by any economics group, this is not the start of a new weaker trend. The soft March reading comes after two relatively strong months in January and February. Putting the three months together, payrolls grew an average of 178,000 in the first quarter, almost exactly the average of 182,000 in the past year. In other words, March was payback for an unusually strong January/February. Meanwhile, civilian employment, an alternative measure of jobs that includes small-business start-ups, increased 472,000 in March and is up 178,000 per month over the past year. That suggests the underlying trend for job growth is still right around 180,000 per month. Due to the March surge in civilian employment the unemployment rate fell to 4.5%, the lowest since May 2007 and clearly below the Fed's long-run forecast of 4.8%. Although some claim the jobless rate is only falling due to a shrinking labor force (people who are either working or looking for work), the facts disagree. Since May 2007, the last time the jobless rate was this low, the labor force is up 8.8 million. The labor force is also up 1.4 million in the past year. The participation rate remains low by the standard of the past 40 years, but it's no longer consistently declining. At 63.0% it remains tied for the highest level in almost three years.. Wages per hour are up 2.7% in the past year while total hours worked are up 1.4%. As a result, total wages are up 4.1% from a year ago, and this excludes fringe benefits and irregular bonuses/commissions. The bottom line is that the labor market is doing fine. If we could just get some better policies in place, like tax cuts, health care reform, and changes to the disability system and student aid, it would be doing even better.

And Obama never believed in Gay marriage until it became politically expedient

Big Girl- If you own a corporation and you need to expand but are not sure you can afford it, would a tax cut make you more likely or less likely to be able to expand?

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Ah, yes, the "honorable " Harry Reid. When asked about the ethics related to his statement in Congress that he "heard" Mitt Romney didn't pay any taxes when he already knew otherwise, he responded with 'we won, didn't we"?

Excuse me but I believe one of the "enlightened" spells that word idoits!

My point exactly!!!! :):):)

Prepare to be told ( or inferred) that the nuclear option is acceptable when executed by the left but totally unwarranted otherwise.

PLEASE, PLEASE point me toward a link that states that Bush was referring to Nukes when he talked about WMDs

Myopic viewpoint

ISTANBUL—Autopsy results of three victims of Tuesday’s gas attack in Syria suggest the banned chemical agent sarin was the cause of death, Turkey’s heath ministry said Thursday. A Turkish criminal forensics team, with United Nations specialists observing, examined three Syrians who died after being brought to Turkey for treatment following the attack on the village of Khan Sheikhoun. The death toll is at least 85 people. The United Nations Children’s Fund said at least 27 of those killed were children and approximately 550 others, including many children, were injured. Turkey’s Health Ministry said in a statement that the autopsies showed that victims suffered excess fluid in the lungs, increased lung weight and internal bleeding before death, which it said was suggestive of poisoning by sarin. It didn’t provide any further details, or reasons why the ministry is pointing to sarin as opposed to other nerve agents or poisonous gases. “Based on the test results, evidence was detected in patients which leads one to think they were exposed to a chemical substance [sarin],” the ministry said.

The Russians are responsible( They have replaced George Bush as their whipping post)

From her viewpoint, only info harmful/potentially harmful to the right is credible.

Hillary might been complicit in the pedophile ring?

FROM TODAYS WALL STREET JOURNAL: The U.S. labor market’s post-2008 malaise is finally easing. For investors nervously eyeing President Donald Trump’s first meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping this Thursday, that should be some comfort. Two themes frequently recurred during Mr. Trump’s unpredictable presidential campaign: the negative effects of free trade on American incomes and jobs, and China’s allegedly unfair trade practices. But an interesting thing has happened since Mr. Trump’s surprise election: U.S. wage growth has finally started picking up—with average earnings up 2.8% in February from a year earlier, their second best showing since 2009—while unemployment has eased. As Americans’ paychecks improve, so has their mood toward China. Pew Research Center’s latest survey of U.S. attitudes shows China’s net favorability rating up 15 percentage points in early 2017 compared with a year ago, the biggest positive swing in eight years.

No- YOU and the left tried to paint that picture but it didn't work

I was thinking that losing the house, the senate, the Presidency and not having a majority of governorships was the bigger example of "not learning"

I think Mr. Trump should immediately go on apology tour Part 2 and draw a red line in the sand.