Obama must be smiling as more people go to work
Lewis DiuguidPresident Barack Obama has to have picked up a little more pep in his step today with the release of the unemployment numbers for January.
The unemployment rate dropped for the fifth straight month. Employers in a traditionally slow month added 243,000 new jobs — 100,000 more than expected, Labor Department data released today show.
The 8.3 percent unemployment rate was an improvement from 8.5 percent recorded in December. Obama hasn’t seen things looking this good since February 2009 shortly after he took office.
The downward jobless trend has to be a boost for Obama’s re-election plans. Republican presidential hopefuls, however, may have to find a new trick pony if the economy continues to improve.
Their “take our country back” cry could now mean take our country back to a recession and economic devastation. Isn’t that what George W. Bush’s Republican policies did when Bush for the 1 percenters occupied the White House?
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Mark Hastert
3 months, 1 week agoHappy days are here again The skies above are clear again So let’s sing a song of cheer again Happy days are here again!
Score one for John Maynard!
George Hunsucker
Northland
3 months, 1 week agoMan, if we can get that participation rate down to 55%, which 0, with his anti-business rhetoric and regulations should be able to do, we can have ZERO unemployment. Think of it, zero unemployment with a zero president. How sweet is that…
Jobs decline from nearly 133 million to 130 1/2 million yet unemployment drops. Good work jimmy ii!
Chuck Close
3 months, 1 week agoOh c’mon Kevin! Don’t try to infuse rational clarity into Lewis’ cheerleading for Obama!
The solid new jobs number is great for all. I read that 240K new jobs a month is the “maintenance rate” in the long pull. We all hope (some with a repectful doubt) that to be a genuine trend. The unemployment rate drop is an outgrowth of methodology change far more than an improvement in the raw number.
The Obama audacity train rolls on as the administration claims that the homeless rate has dropped by 15 percent in the last two years! Hey, Lewis! That is in direct conflict with your recent statements of concern for increrased homelessnes. One of the two of you is full of the proverbial…….my bet is on the guy at the top of the ticket.
George Hunsucker
Northland
3 months, 1 week agoearth to lewis III…..
The actual number of people working FELL by 2 1/2 million… you may want to reconsider your headline
Mark Hastert
3 months, 1 week agoAh shucks you guys, are you ever happy? We were losing 750,0000 jobs a month when Obama took over from you Republicans. He stopped the slide and reversed the trend to the positive.
People will start to wonder if Republicans care about them. Happy days are here again The skies above are clear again So let’s sing a song of cheer again Happy days are here again! Woo! Hoo!
Mark Hastert
3 months, 1 week agoAw ‘cmon my fellow Americans, be happy that more of us are finding work and our country is on the mend. It can’t be true that you’re disappointed by this good news? Why that would look like you’d wish America ill for political gain like what’s his name a few years back.
In reality however you look at it things are getting better! C’mon. let’s see a smile on those grumpy old faces!
Happy days are here again The skies above are clear again So let’s sing a song of cheer again Happy days are here again!
Mark Hastert
3 months, 1 week ago“the fact remains that there are more than half a million FEWER private sector jobs today than when the Incompetent One was inaugurated three years ago”
Read more here: http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/obama-must-be-smiling-more-people-go-work/#storylink=cpy
Be patient Kev, it took eight years for the last Republican President to screw things up. There are 3 million more private sector jobs now than when Big O reversed the slide. He’s doing the best he can with only half a Congress.
We’re on the mend! Happy days! Don’t be a grumpus.
Mark Hastert
3 months, 1 week agoCheck it for yourself Kev.
In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than three million jobs. Politifact.com We checked Obama’s claim by using data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the federal agency responsible for compiling employment data. We found that the U.S. economy has seen 22 consecutive months of private-sector job growth, beginning in Feb. 2010. During that 22-month period, the number of jobs grew by almost 3.16 million, or about 143,000 per month.
Happy days are here agian!!!!
Steve Alleman
Kansas City
3 months, 1 week agoYou know what sounds deranged? That you can’t refer to the president except by name-calling like “the Incompetent One” and “the Big O.” That kind of thing just ensures that reasonable people don’t take you seriously.
JR Beillenhouser
3 months, 1 week agoMark - water is heavy, isn’t it.
George Hunsucker
Northland
3 months, 1 week agoIf by “reasonable people” you mean libs Steve, then I could care less….
I don’t remember ever calling him “the Incompetent One”, but since you did maybe I will add that to the “list”… thanks for the suggestion.
Steve Alleman
Kansas City
3 months, 1 week agoThen get used to the fact that you’re only talking to the hardcore 20% who hated Obama no what what he does or says.
Mark Hastert
3 months, 1 week ago“Your “happy days” nonsense is starting to sound a bit deranged. Did you know that there are now just three people working for every person on food stamps? Did you know that 2011 was the worst year on record for new home sales?”
Read more here: http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/obama-must-be-smiling-more-people-go-work/#storylink=cpy
….sure I do but things are getting better and I want to celebrate it. I know the conservatives want the economy to stay bad and unemployment high so they don’t get blamed for doing nothing to help but despite their best efforts things are improving. Happy Days !!!
Carrie Watts
3 months, 1 week agoObama Speech Brags About 3 Million New Jobs (Fails To Mention 3 Million New Foreign Work Permits)
“Want to get your blood pressure up? Read the transcript of a White House press conference this week about the insistence that the hundreds of thousands of unemployed high-skilled Americans apparently don’t exist.”
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/content/13