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Remember Obama called us whiny bitter clingers, and told us the Jobs weren't coming back, there's no magic wand.
rump economic boom is largely a fiction
Meanwhile labor participation rate is not up much since 2016
Manufacturing jobs. And yeah, so far he's right. Manufacturing jobs aren't even half way back to 2006 levels. Meanwhile labor participation rate is not up much since 2016. Sure the number of people eligible for unemployment is at a 50 year low. Woopee ! Let's celebrate!!
Private payrolls rose by 202,000 in December vs. the 150,000 estimate, according to ADP and Moody’s Analytics.
The report comes ahead of Friday’s government nonfarm payrolls release, which is expected to show an addition of 160,000 jobs.
Job growth came from construction and across a spectrum of service-related industries.
I'd say all economic booms lately are fictions because of how much % of that goes to bottom 50% vs top 0.01%, courtesy of illegal immigration and government bailouts of rich,
In raw numbers, best since 1988:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/manufacturing-employment-in-the-us-is-at-the-same-level-of-69-years-ago-2019-01-04
Job Growth is YUGE!
Private payrolls rose by 202,000 in December vs. the 150,000 estimate, according to ADP and Moody’s Analytics.
The report comes ahead of Friday’s government nonfarm payrolls release, which is expected to show an addition of 160,000 jobs.
Job growth came from construction and across a spectrum of service-related industries.
By the way, given the labor participation rate, and the trillion dollar deficits we are running, why do I suspect that the Trump economic boom is largely a fiction ?
How is Thailand not on that wedlock list?
You can't walk away from a contract that's being honored unilaterally, so why marriage?
NoCoupForYou saysYou can't walk away from a contract that's being honored unilaterally, so why marriage?
Pursuit of happiness!
It allows alpha males to get a harem - sequentially, one wife at a time.
The new jobs we do get are gig work or low paying just as it was in 2012 - 2016.
It really is a continuation or the trend in place since 2012 or so. The stock market continues to be high becasue of low interest rates, and becasue of tax cuts as well as propaganda about the amazing things the republicans in power are doing.
illegal immigration depressing salaries of less-qualified workers
I do not think tax cuts have much to do with this
WRT to 1 and 2, in my town businesses can not get help even paying $15/hr...and this is in state with minimal wage of 7.25/hr but where economy is booming. Imagine how much businesses would need to pay their workers if our Great Orange Leader (or any leader before him for that matter) would actually enforce immigration laws and introduce E-Verify.
But this doesn’t touch the generally conservative nature of Thai society, where modest dress, family ties, and marriage are truly important values.
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Thats true, but stupid. Everyone knows those democrats would be republicans now.
Republicans are the ones that want to rewrite history - by claiming that repulican in 1860 meeant the same thing it does today. Hell, republican in 1950 or 1960 has very little to do with republicans today. Just ask George Will or Charlie Sykes they'll be more than happy to explain it to you.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/05/29/former_republicans_george_will_and_charlies_sykes_what_happened_to_the_gop.html
So do you reckon yourself a Republican now?
Who tried to filibuster the Civil Rights Act?
How did the GOP vote on the Civil Rights act? How did the Dems vote? That's what I thought.
While the landmark act received a majority of support from both parties, a greater percentage of Republicans voted in favor of the bill. Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, Republicans were generally more unified than Democrats in support of civil rights legislation, as many Southern Democrats voted in opposition.
Any billionaire could end up as a pauper if he just marries a few times.
2- The sense that the US was way ahead of everyone else
3- The more readily available resources, starting with space, cheap houses.
2 and 3 are gone. Won't come back, and this doesn't depend on the government. You can't wish out Europe/Japan/Korea/China. And the resources have to be shared with a much larger world population.
Nobody denies that there were racist democrats in the south in 1964. But some very dishonest republicans try to turn those facts in to something that's simply false.
The stagnation of American living standards is entirely the result of the growth of government and its hangers-on. Just look at the typical middle-class household budget, the biggest items nowadays are housing, kids' education and medical insurance . . . none of them have anything to do with Europe/Japan/Korea/China, but all of them are monsters created by government regulations.
the thread is about how the Left and their control of pop culture lies about 1950s, not how we idolize the 1950s.
We both know the answer, but you (and others) keep falsely parroting the "big switch" lie. It's pathetic.
The illegitimate birthrate skyrocketed -
NoCoupForYou saysThe illegitimate birthrate skyrocketed -
Yeah, but no one can undo the pill. You can't put back the djinn in the bottle.
Did those racist democrats STAY democrats or become Republicans?
Heraclitusstudent saysNoCoupForYou saysThe illegitimate birthrate skyrocketed -
Yeah, but no one can undo the pill. You can't put back the djinn in the bottle.
The "pill" did not cause the illegitimate birthrate to skyrocket. The "pill" allowed promiscuity because the threat of pregnancy was severely lessened. The skyrocketing illegitimate birthrate was caused by welfare, paying women to stay at home merely for having a fatherless baby. True here and in England.
Goran_K saysDid those racist democrats STAY democrats or become Republicans?
No it's not simple.
In other words, virtually no racist Dem changed parties.
HeadSet saysIn other words, virtually no racist Dem changed parties.
Some did some didnt. Those that didnt are mostly dead. But today the "David Dukes" support Republicans.
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Everybody I ever met who remembered the 50s thought it was one of the greatest decades of their lives. There wasn't so much regulation of people's behavior, crime was low, #1 problem with schools was gum chewing and passing notes rather than drugs and teen pregnancy and Transsexualism, economy was good.
Yet when the Media presents it, it was a dark time of Paranoid Patriarchy where women were chained to their frost free refridgerators in their Mimi Eisenhower Pink Kitchens.
Any thoughts on this?