Bush says key election states are hiring

[icymist]

Bush says key election states are hiring

By DEB RIECHMANN
Associated Press Writer

WACO, Texas — President Bush is pointing at "Help Wanted" signs in key election states as evidence that "America's jobs engine is running strong."

Employment has been lagging in the economic recovery. So when the president got good news from the Labor Department, he shared it Saturday with his weekly radio audience. His message was aimed at convincing voters that the U.S. economy, which has been considered a drag on his re-election bid, now might prove otherwise.

The department reported that unemployment fell last month in 11 of 17 battleground states that could decide the presidential election. Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin showed the biggest declines.

"This week brought further evidence that across America, more citizens are finding jobs ... and these figures show that America's jobs engine is running strong," Bush said, rattling off the report's findings.

"Nationally, we gained 288,000 new jobs in April, and the nation has added more than 1.1 million new jobs since last August. ... In April, the biggest job-gaining states were Florida, North Carolina, Missouri and Michigan. Forty-five states out of 50 added new workers."

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[truthisfreedom]

1. kerry should point out that these are "war jobs" which have been created

artificially by destroying our treasury.

[qanda]

3. No, he should ask one simple question:

Are you better off now than you were four years ago?

[truthisfreedom]

13. or "Do you feel better about your country now than 4 years ago?"

[NMDemDist2]

4. yes I do wonder if you factor out "war" and "McJobs" what is left? eom

[Cocoa]

2. too little too late

Bush's economic policies have already been exposed as a huge ripoff.

Jobs are nowhere near the millions he promised for his tax cuts.

[w13rd0]

6. Of course not...

...but that's because his giveaways didn't create jobs, they made it more profitable for the select few to ship them overseas. Jobs created are "patchwork" and illusion for politial purpose, nothing more.

[aquart]

11. Please. Illusionary jobs could have been better done.

These basically happened by accident. They couldn't AVOID hiring some extra people to fill war orders.

And to replace called-up reservists.

George has made NO effort of any kind to create jobs. NONE.

[Trajan]

5. "What are they smoking at the Labor Department?" ....

From another thread .... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=547329

The NY Post ... http://www.nypost.com/business/23936.htm

May 11, 2004 -- DON'T get too excited about all those new jobs that were supposed to have been created in April.
I'm not going to waste a lot of my precious space on this, but the bottom line is that most of the 288,000 jobs that the Labor Department says were created last month may not really exist.

They could be figments of statisticians' optimism.

Anyone who plodded through my column last Thursday knows I predicted that job growth in April would be better than the 160,000 to 170,000 jobs that the "pros" were anticipating.

But I also said, quite emphatically I hope, that the stronger growth would be an illusion - the result of the Labor Department's computers making happy predictions about seasonal job creation that could neither be verified nor justified.

I'll explain one aspect.

-snip-

[qanda]

7. Somebody tell the village idiot that this is what is *supposed* to happen

Now, where are the other 2 million+ jobs that have been lost since you took over and started ruining our country?

[kysrsoze]

8. In what state is this occuring? The state of illusion?

whatever.

[asjr]

9. The Dept of Labor is ruled over by Mrs. McConnell--

Elaine Chao. Never believe what she says.

[Blue_Roses]

18. And Mitch McConnell is an ass hole

what an odd couple...however, it makes sense...

[Cooley Hurd]

21. And someone stole his lips!!!

Probably the same person who stole Ed Gillespie's chin:

:D

[tandot]

10. Government Jobs and McDonald's Jobs...and don't forget about

all those additional maids, butlers, household helpers, and gardeners that the rich now can hire with all the tax cuts they are getting. Maybe even Chauffeurs for their Hummers?

:mad: :puke: :eyes:

[mhr]

12. What If One Doesn't Live In A Key Election State?

Oh, he is too dumb to undertsand that question!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

14. Temporary, contract, and part-time jobs...

...very few, if any, full-time jobs.

Outsourcing has also "created" some of those jobs, but the "Help Wanted" signs for those jobs can only be seen in India (customer service + information technology), Canada (information technology), and Mexico (manufacturing jobs not found at McDonalds fast-food restaurants).

[TahitiNut]

15. Lipstick on a pig.

When an unhindered and unburdened economy wherein mere population growth would cause a continuing increase in employment is losing jobs in five states, attempting to paint a rosy picture is like the guy falling to the pavement from the 40th floor ...
As he passes the 30th floor he says, "So far, so good!"
As he passes the 20th floor he says, "So far, so good!"
As he passes the 10th floor he says, "So far, so good!"

The Busholini Regime continues to be the most disastrous for working people since the Great Depression.

[icymist]

16. Those charts spell this out pretty clear to me.

Before Chimpy, we have employment growth. During Chimpy, employment decline.

[TahitiNut]

17. TEN MILLION JOBS below employment levels of the last fifty years!

The Busholini regime is disastrous for working people - an effective loss of ten million jobs.
The Busholini regime is disastrous for retired working people - pension funds on thin ice and the destruction of Social Security.
The Busholini regime is disastrous for children (future working people) - saddling them with back-breaking public debt that exceeds any public debt level in the history of this country.

The only "interests" served (temporarily) by the Busholini regime are those who are enriched by the labor of others!

[devinsgram]

19. Yeah, here in PA, Wendy's has an ad

in the local paper. Heck, that'll pay for the mortgage, car payment and kids in college. NOT! My gosh, what an idiot.

[Cooley Hurd]

20. The recruiting offices always have "we're hiring" signs...

"Sign up now and get a deed to a free plot of land in Arlington, VA (with a world-class view of Washington DC)!"