Ah! "Statistical Manipulation"!! In reality, there are more jobs available, on average, and a lower unemployment rate, on average, than in the previous four decades (US). That is a fact.
It may be hard to believe that the current 5.6 percent unemployment rate is lower than the average unemployment rates during the 1970s (6.4 percent), 1980s (7.3 percent) or 1990s (5.8 percent). In fact, unemployment is at its lowest average since the 1960s. The point is that unemployment statistics are based on a sampling of businesses and households, which leaves a lot of room for interpretation and spin. Overall, the indicators seem to bolster the view that unemployment is very low, at 5.6%. Underutilization of labor is not unemployment. There are many new busineses and independant contractors that are missed in both the household and businesss statistics. These will be accounted for after the election.
Sorry, but if you drop out and give up, you shouldn't count:
Laziness should not be rewarded or acknowledged. There's a big difference between being unemployed and taking whatever job you can get until something better comes along, and giving up. The 9.7% number that left wing media throws around is underutilization, NOT unemployment. Unemployment is at 5.6%. What do you think the underutilization numbers were in the Clinton era? Care to guess? Hint- 12.7%.
There is NO GUARANTEE in the Constitution or anywhere else of a job paying as much as you'd like. How much BETTER can it get? Unemployment is at it's LOWEST compared to the averages of each decade since the 1960s!!!
One more point: those who are fond of bringing up those "1000 jobs" from last quarter?s reports apparently don?t realize that those 1000 jobs do NOT account for start-ups, the self-employed, and independent contractors. Those numbers will not come out until late this year, after the election. So anyone laid-off who started their own company or became self-employed is missed in the "1000" number. And the ?we lost 53,000 jobs? banter is lacking in the same manner, that is, that number in non-inclusive of start-ups, the self-employed, and independent contractors.
EVERYONE has the opportunity to educate them selves, to work hard, to save or not save, to plan or not plan. That goes back to PERSONAL responsibility. Those "discouraged" folks need to pick themselves up by their bootstraps and either be employed, self-employed, or be an employer. Why yes, there are some who will get jobs from time to time, then either get sick of them and quit or get themselves fired and go on unemployment. If they can?t find a job at the same pay-scale, then it is their choice to accept or not accept a lesser paying job. A lower paying job is better than NO JOB.
It's not the Bush administration's fault.
If there is no demand for your talents, then move to where the demand is, or find something else to supply.
The economy, by all measures, is improving, not dying. I fail to see any substance to yet another liberal media myth.
