A Couple of Interesting Charts

[piece-itpete]

I thought that, during the campaign, it was the start of the next Great Depression?

Ah, that was before the Great & Mighty Obama came in. The moment he took office the recession was over!! Wow whatta guy.

The amazing thing isn't that we had a recession. (OMG! The economy cycles?? Who knew). It's that it didn't happen after 9-11. I believe we did some things to keep our enemies from the satisfaction and we're paying for it now. I consider it worth it.

Care to post a chart about our foriegn debt including Obamas administration?

Pete

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

The DOL has all sorts of interesting data concerning economic conditions. I found one interesting data chart here, showing that the productivity of the American workforce took huge leaps in the second and third quarters of 2009. It looks to me like employers are putting more and more on existing employees rather than hiring additional workers to fulfill needs. This could be an indicator that there will be a point in the near future where there will be breakthrough in job creation. There's always room for hope.

Regards,

D-Ray

I heard this and it is a good sign. As DRay states, this number is at first indicative of doing more with fewer employees. However, if that "more" persists, they eventually hire new employees. However, the employers will need to have some confidence that the economic turnaround is actually upon us before doing so.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

I thought that, during the campaign, it was the start of the next Great Depression?

Ah, that was before the Great & Mighty Obama came in. The moment he took office the recession was over!! Wow whatta guy.

The amazing thing isn't that we had a recession. (OMG! The economy cycles?? Who knew). It's that it didn't happen after 9-11. I believe we did some things to keep our enemies from the satisfaction and we're paying for it now. I consider it worth it.

Care to post a chart about our foriegn debt including Obamas administration?

Pete

Near as I recall it was the Bush administration that started the bailout, it was continued under the Obama administration.

9/11 need not have happened had the big shots in the FBI listened to the field operatives.

Had we had a good general (Omar Bradley come back) we would have gotten bin Laden at Tora Bora, but no Franks thought his TV remote would do the job from Florida.

Maybe if you put more sugar in the Kool Aid things would look brighter.

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by merrylander

That backs up what I wrote earlier about employers not hiring until after the elections.

I thought of that when I read those numbers. I'm not a statistician, but the disparity between the last couple of numbers and the rest of the row tends to show that they would not occur solely on the basis of chance.

Regards,

D-Ray

[Fast_Eddie]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

The amazing thing isn't that we had a recession. (OMG! The economy cycles?? Who knew).

Come on Pete. This wasn't a run of the mill recession. I know you well enough after talking on here. You know that. This was the worst recession, well, ever. To write it off as "the ups and downs of the economy" is misleading. It's like saying "what's the big deal about 9/11? Americans have been killed by terrorists before."

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by merrylander

That backs up what I wrote earlier about employers not hiring until after the elections.

This is absolutely correct.

If the GOP regains sufficient seats in November, scarcely a day will pass before Republicans declare, "Happy Days are Here again!", the hiring signs will go out, and the wingnuts will go shopping. But, all of the underlying problems will still be there and continue to fester unabated. Unpaid debt, growing income disparity, worsening foreign relations, escalating healthcare costs, etc.,etc.

In a few years we will be going through it all again. If you elect that nitwit from Alaska in 2012---even sooner than that.

Regards,
Dave

[merrylander]

Elect that Alaskan trailer trash and we are out of here.

[BlueStreak]

I would be sad to see you go, Rob.
I'll stay and continue to fight.
That's just how I am.
My country is worth it, to me.

Dave

[merrylander]

I also feel of it as my country but I also love the one that gave me birth. Electing that ditzy broad would be a solid indication the America had lost its collective mind, I am too damn old to spend my sunset years fighting ignorance. I would just like some peace and quiet.

FOX, MSNBC, etc. does no one ever use the wet stuff between their ears anymore? Damn it I do not need anyone to tell me what I think, I can do it all myself thank you.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by Fast_Eddie

See Chas, you conservatives spend all of your time trying to find what's wrong, without ever trying to find what's right. I suppose that's the nature of politics, huh?

If you say so.

Chas