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Holy SHit folks - did you see the March job numbers - 98,000 (Original Post) malaise Apr 2017 OP
This report is NOT Trump's - this one belongs to Obama? Laf.La.Dem. Apr 2017 #1
Jobs jobs jobs malaise Apr 2017 #3
Since he claimed the last one which really was Obama's he owns this one still_one Apr 2017 #5
It's all on Trump now. No excuses. BannonsLiver Apr 2017 #40
No this is the early Trump reports. Demsrule86 Apr 2017 #50
98,000 is a dismal gain Skittles Apr 2017 #55
AND 56K of those were confined to "professional and Hortensis Apr 2017 #56
Far as I can see the MSM is not playing this up very much still_one Apr 2017 #2
Very much or malaise Apr 2017 #6
Lol still_one Apr 2017 #10
Obamas Final Jobs Report Marks 75 Consecutive Months of Growth malaise Apr 2017 #13
I know Malaise. Boy do I miss him still_one Apr 2017 #23
I thought it was over 250K lapfog_1 Apr 2017 #4
Murdoch's WSJ malaise Apr 2017 #7
That was ADP. They are hit or miss. DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2017 #8
It was the same MaketWatch prick who wrote the "Trade Deficit Declined 10% in February" maxrandb Apr 2017 #29
Check in to Spice-boy's Daily Briefing....see the plates spin. Grammy23 Apr 2017 #9
I can't freaking wait for this one malaise Apr 2017 #11
Hmmmm.....makes the sudden urge to bomb Syria look even more suspect... WoonTars Apr 2017 #12
Wink wink malaise Apr 2017 #14
Yep. But Syria! Syria! Syria! anneboleyn Apr 2017 #17
This is a disastrous jobs report malaise Apr 2017 #18
It is horrendous, and if it had happened under Hillary the media would hang this... WoonTars Apr 2017 #20
I am not surprised...we depend on manufacturing in Ohio. Demsrule86 Apr 2017 #15
But but but malaise Apr 2017 #16
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! Proud Liberal Dem Apr 2017 #33
He is an incompetent bumbler. Demsrule86 Apr 2017 #49
Idiot Ohio. Who believes bullshit and apparently has no need for clean water and air. we can do it Apr 2017 #19
That is a bit unfair. Demsrule86 Apr 2017 #48
Not from someone who finally had enough of the self inflicted misery after 57 years of living there. we can do it Apr 2017 #58
It is all about the jobs...and the autos have been laying off...regardless of your opinion...Ohio is Demsrule86 Apr 2017 #59
I have lots of friends and family there. we can do it Apr 2017 #61
I live there and...your posts are unfair and paint an entire state in Demsrule86 Apr 2017 #62
Thanks for "reminding" someone who was out in the rain doing election protection 2004 all day. we can do it Apr 2017 #65
I worked for President Obama in 08 and 12 also...I was a Deaniac in 04 but still worked hard Demsrule86 Apr 2017 #66
I'm sorry, it's not you. we can do it Apr 2017 #67
Notice how we were jumped on for your Wellstone ruled Apr 2017 #52
That's low, yet the rate is lower BainsBane Apr 2017 #21
So what happened to malaise Apr 2017 #24
Oh, he'll keep talking BainsBane Apr 2017 #27
Yep the Con is all hat and no cattle malaise Apr 2017 #28
Are we tired of "winning" yet? Proud Liberal Dem Apr 2017 #34
I'm more tired of the whining malaise Apr 2017 #45
You're correct, I agree"inaction in the Trump administration" Republican leadership are all slacking Sunlei Apr 2017 #36
I think he'd better find some place to bomb, and quickly. Orsino Apr 2017 #22
Oh wait indeed malaise Apr 2017 #25
+1 uponit7771 Apr 2017 #38
Big box stores and mall stores are closing all over the country vlyons Apr 2017 #26
Add the fear factor as well malaise Apr 2017 #30
But the unemployment rate dropped to 4.5%, lowest since 2007. If Obama was in doc03 Apr 2017 #31
Smells like recession... JCMach1 Apr 2017 #32
republicans always bring economic grief Achilleaze Apr 2017 #57
when trump was bragging about 500? jobs,12/16- Obama mentioned trump would have to do that Sunlei Apr 2017 #35
Wonder if he will MFM008 Apr 2017 #37
i'm sure that's Obama's fault. spanone Apr 2017 #39
Well the first post in this thread blamed Obama and that was from a DUer BannonsLiver Apr 2017 #41
except trump grabbed the opportunity to claim last month as his....so... so is this month spanone Apr 2017 #42
All his malaise Apr 2017 #43
i noticed he's not bragging about it like last month spanone Apr 2017 #44
No cameras allowed this month malaise Apr 2017 #46
So have they covered this at all? malaise Apr 2017 #47
Somebody with auto workers in her family MontanaMama Apr 2017 #51
Chris Hayes just said they made no comment today malaise Apr 2017 #53
Of course they had no comment. MontanaMama Apr 2017 #54
+1, saw that... I pray the member is wrong but she has facts and history on her side uponit7771 Apr 2017 #60
Here comes another Bush (Trump) depression for the working class workinclasszero Apr 2017 #63
but we all know how the narative works mnmoderatedem Apr 2017 #64

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
56. AND 56K of those were confined to "professional and
Sat Apr 8, 2017, 03:29 AM
Apr 2017

business services." I.e., they are professional, technical, management, administrative jobs AND are in service, not manufacturing, sectors.

The various rather dramatic market responses to the hard-core, corporation-friendly Republican sweep in this election cannot be predominantly ascribed, as in more normal transitions, to the previous administration. Business saw last fall's election as promising extensive deregulation, including non-enforcement and elimination of labor and environmental protection laws, and restructuring of the tax code to their advantage. And, generally speaking, business plans have been altered accordingly.

NY Times:

“I think the headline number was clearly impacted by the weather,” said Michelle Meyer, head of United States economics at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. But at some point she said, rosy economic expectations are likely to catch up with a more sober reality.

“Sentiment surveys moved sharply higher after the election on expectations of pro-business policies and tax reform,” she added. “So far, that hasn’t happened, and the big question is whether confidence can remain as strong.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/business/economy/job-creation-unemployment-trump.html?_r=0

malaise

(267,823 posts)
13. Obamas Final Jobs Report Marks 75 Consecutive Months of Growth
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 10:40 AM
Apr 2017
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/december-jobs-report/512366/
<snip>


The final jobs report for 2016 shows that the U.S. economy has added just over 2 million jobs last year. The Labor Department reported on Friday morning that the U.S. economy added 156,000 jobs in December, while the unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 4.7 percent. The numbers slightly missed expectations: Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal were expecting 183,000 jobs to be added.

Nevertheless, the December jobs report concludes a year of steady economic growth: For most of the year, the unemployment rate has been hovering just under 5 percent, the lowest levels since 2007. Although the pace of employment growth in 2016 slowed compared to 2014 and 2015—the height of the economic recovery—last year’s numbers put outgoing President Barack Obama ahead of George W. Bush (but behind Bill Clinton) when it comes to job creation.

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Hug that up Don the Con - now go import some more workers for your resorts

maxrandb

(15,192 posts)
29. It was the same MaketWatch prick who wrote the "Trade Deficit Declined 10% in February"
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 11:40 AM
Apr 2017

But never mentioned that it had increased 10% in January

Here's my post on that.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1746536


IMHO - This Marketwatch "prick" knows exactly what the fuck he is doing.

The actual story is that the trade deficit soared 9% in January, and is now back to where it was in December.

Now, if this "prick" (my term for journalists who serve as propagandist for the ReTrumplicans&quot wanted to write an "accurate" headline, it would be "Trade Deficit returns to December levels".

Instead, he puts this Pro-Trump "blinking light" headline out there. "Trade Deficit Drops 10% in February"

the "prick" knows that as soon as he writes that bogus (technically true, but ultimately Bullshit) headline, it will be shared by a thousand rightwing echo chamber sites and then tweeted by "Donnie Short-Fingers".

Our so-called "journalists" need to be reminded that scores of propagandists were hung after WWII.

Grammy23

(5,808 posts)
9. Check in to Spice-boy's Daily Briefing....see the plates spin.
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 10:30 AM
Apr 2017

This one ought to be a beaut. So many topics to address and spin. Honestly, I want to see the creativity they use to explain how the jobs guy failed yet again to create so many jobs it will make our heads spin. And then there is the massively SUCCESSFUL air strikes in Syria that took out no planes, no personnel, no equipment that matters and left the runway intact. Oh, and spent $100 million ....Poof! Let us hope the media people confront Spicey and watch his head explode at the temerity of these noobs in the press! TV worth watching.....

WoonTars

(694 posts)
20. It is horrendous, and if it had happened under Hillary the media would hang this...
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 11:03 AM
Apr 2017

...around her neck like a millstone...especially if she also just happened to have bombed the crap out of a parking lot in the middle of Nowhere, Syria the night before..

Demsrule86

(68,352 posts)
48. That is a bit unfair.
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 07:04 PM
Apr 2017

People here have been really hurt by the loss of good paying jobs...if you have not had it happen to you...you are lucky. I am starting to see other sorts of jobs go too ...for example payroll/accounting is now in Jamaica. There are racists here and some voted for Trump but many were just desperate for jobs...we better fix this...because great countries don't sell shit to each other, they make stuff...and we are losing green energy jobs that should be here...if we can come up with a realistic manufacturing policy that stops the enriching of the few over the impoverishment of the many...Democrats will never lose in the rust belt and I don't mean GS retraining either. We absolutely need to make things here...the good jobs will follow the manufacturing jobs out of this country if we don't put a stop to it.

we can do it

(12,118 posts)
58. Not from someone who finally had enough of the self inflicted misery after 57 years of living there.
Sat Apr 8, 2017, 11:08 AM
Apr 2017

Desperate, but somehow forgot that Obama saved the auto industry and many jobs? Desperate but keep voting in asshole rebukes in state government year after year? Desperate but ignore new energy technology and push for removing regulations? Desperate but lease land for fracking while state becomes number one in cancer? Desperate but ok with public schools crumbling while unqualified buybull thumpers get vouchers to homeschool? I don't think looking realistically at people who continually shoot themselves in the foot is unfair.

Demsrule86

(68,352 posts)
59. It is all about the jobs...and the autos have been laying off...regardless of your opinion...Ohio is
Sat Apr 8, 2017, 03:53 PM
Apr 2017

an important state and plenty of decent people live here...but low wages have hurt many people.

we can do it

(12,118 posts)
61. I have lots of friends and family there.
Sat Apr 8, 2017, 06:18 PM
Apr 2017

Also there are a lot of buybull thumping bigots who continually screw everyone with there hate votes. I'm not wasting any energy feeling sorry for haters of any kind 😩, or people who refuse to accept facts.

Demsrule86

(68,352 posts)
62. I live there and...your posts are unfair and paint an entire state in
Sun Apr 9, 2017, 07:20 AM
Apr 2017

a completely negative way...no point in discussing this further. I would remind you that Ohio went for Pres. Obama twice.

we can do it

(12,118 posts)
65. Thanks for "reminding" someone who was out in the rain doing election protection 2004 all day.
Sun Apr 9, 2017, 09:21 AM
Apr 2017

The day after burying my mom. At Akron North high. After canvassing most days after helping her when she was dying. Who calls and canvassed every election. Went out 2006, 2010 and 2014. Knocked over 1000 doors 2008 and over 5200 in 2012 for Obama. Got tired of being told my marriage wasn't equal to straight peoples'. We moved to a full equality blue state in July, had full hip replacement in September, so could only phone bank- for Ohio till last week before election, then I came up to be neighborhood canvass captain.

Demsrule86

(68,352 posts)
66. I worked for President Obama in 08 and 12 also...I was a Deaniac in 04 but still worked hard
Sun Apr 9, 2017, 03:07 PM
Apr 2017

for Kerry. I have treated you respectfully...I have no idea why you are so hostile...I am sorry about you Mother...as it happens I lost my Mother in 2004 also. In the past election, I worked hard for Hillary and actually phone banked from the hospital where I spent five days in September and towards me...none of my posts (and I reviewed them) deserved such a response.

we can do it

(12,118 posts)
67. I'm sorry, it's not you.
Sun Apr 9, 2017, 08:07 PM
Apr 2017

I am disgusted with what the place I was born has become. I spent most of my life working (and volunteering) to make it a better place. From planting trees as a Girl Scout to working as a firefighter paramedic. I'm disgusted driving southeast thru the state towards Pittsburg seeing many confederate flags, the hateful hand made anti-Hillary and Obama signs. Disgusted how LGBT people are considered second class citizens at best- hate law passed in 2004. How people reject science, facts and the needs of their neighbors and often themselves in the name of bigotry and lies.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
52. Notice how we were jumped on for your
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 07:27 PM
Apr 2017

earlier post.

You just know this is a juiced report to save Trump's fat ass. Lets see,Radio Shack how many Thousand,Lowe's how many thousand,JC Penny how many thousand,Sears/Kmart how manky thousands,
Wall Street Banks how many thousands. Just the tip of the Collapse that is now happening. People are not spending on the extra's.

BainsBane

(53,003 posts)
21. That's low, yet the rate is lower
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 11:06 AM
Apr 2017

I read an article saying Jaime Diamon and some other similar type were sounding the alarm about the US economy. They said it's slowing down because of inaction in the Trump administration.

BainsBane

(53,003 posts)
27. Oh, he'll keep talking
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 11:38 AM
Apr 2017

but he won't do a damn thing for people who need jobs, other than cut the services that keep them alive.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
36. You're correct, I agree"inaction in the Trump administration" Republican leadership are all slacking
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 12:28 PM
Apr 2017

It's only been 3 months of Republicans 'in full charge'

America just starts to notice how much real work Obama and about 800 of 'replaced' Obama Admins Leadership employees-really did for us ALL.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
26. Big box stores and mall stores are closing all over the country
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 11:38 AM
Apr 2017

Online sales are running them out of business. I doubt seriously that our new Sec of Commerce has the slightest clue how to deal with this new paradigm. Clearly we need a jobs and infrastructure bill. The only jobs bill that Republicans like is the war machine.

doc03

(35,148 posts)
31. But the unemployment rate dropped to 4.5%, lowest since 2007. If Obama was in
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 11:48 AM
Apr 2017

office the numbers would be fake. How do they explain that? Nobody looking for work anymore?

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
57. republicans always bring economic grief
Sat Apr 8, 2017, 05:59 AM
Apr 2017

they are famous for that.

the "little people" will suffer (tee hee) while the republican fat cats engorge themselves with exclusive Ivanka Wear, and $3 million-a-pop gourmet golf outings with the crud-de-la-crud of republican plutocrat high society.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
35. when trump was bragging about 500? jobs,12/16- Obama mentioned trump would have to do that
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 12:21 PM
Apr 2017

100+ times a month to keep up with 'job' creation. Should be about 200,000 'new' jobs a month, half that isn't a good trend at all.

Looks like trump and his Republicans are failing to keep up with the Obama Admins work. You're SLACKING Republicans, can't even finish the damn TRANSITION OR get rid of the Russian collusion people

should be about 200,000 a month

BannonsLiver

(16,162 posts)
41. Well the first post in this thread blamed Obama and that was from a DUer
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 02:13 PM
Apr 2017

So yeah, sure seems like that'll be the way it goes down.

MontanaMama

(23,242 posts)
51. Somebody with auto workers in her family
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 07:13 PM
Apr 2017

posted on another thread that layoffs in the auto industry are occurring now and more are expected. Don't think Dump has the brains to pull the auto industry out of the depths like PBO did. SAD.

MontanaMama

(23,242 posts)
54. Of course they had no comment.
Sat Apr 8, 2017, 12:33 AM
Apr 2017

What can "Prez Jobs Jobs Jobs" say about his shitty numbers??? He can't blame this one on PBO. Dumfuck 45 owns this.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
63. Here comes another Bush (Trump) depression for the working class
Sun Apr 9, 2017, 07:24 AM
Apr 2017

The republican party is made up of disaster capitalists, self hating idiots and theocratic religious fanatics.

But the disaster capitalists pull all the strings, they will loot this economy that President Obama and the democratic party build from the ashes of the Bush depression.

Count on that.

mnmoderatedem

(3,706 posts)
64. but we all know how the narative works
Sun Apr 9, 2017, 08:10 AM
Apr 2017

last months positive jobs number, duplicated many many times during the Obama presidency, was due to Trumps pure genius. This month's anemic report is leftover from the disastrous Obama presidency.

The sad part is that the trumpanzees will actually believe that.

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