Send to all the Republicans you know "Things you won't hear on Fox"

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Just sent to my wingnut MIL...

2014 is on track to be the best year for U.S. job gains since 1999. Another 321,000 jobs were added in November.

The November figure was much higher than expected and confirms recent signs of economic strength. The Labor Department said the gains were widespread.

The unemployment rate in November remained unchanged at 5.8%.

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[Odin2005]

1. Most of those jobs are complete shit.

Bragging about a non-existent "recovery" just alienates voters.

[okaawhatever]

2. The recovery is real. Not only is unemployment going down wages are going up. Sorry if you

choose to ignore reality, but it doesn't make it any less real. Wages will continue to rise as unemployment goes down. Most recoveries start with part-time jobs, then full time, and then when worker supply goes down and demand goes up wages rise.

The government hasn't changed how they record employment numbers, no matter what the right wing tells you. A close to 5% drop in unemployment is real and profound, and it has happened under this Democratic president.

[Odin2005]

3. Reality is the experiences of real people who can't find decent employment.

Keep pushing the establishment narrative, keep shitting on people who reject that narrative because it goes against what they can see with their own eyes. That will bring people to the polls.

[Fred Sanders]

7. Because 5.8% of folks looking can not find a job is better than 10.2%...what will satisfy you

naysayers?

Things are better for most folk by a long shot over the Obama years, that is a fact. No amount of whining and complaining changes that. Give credit where credit is due, it is the flip side of constant criticism.

Individual results may vary.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. stop "shitting on" progress please nt

[Odin2005]

13. You forgot your :sarcasm: smiley.

[Psephos]

14. There are 11 million fewer people working now than in 2008.

Meanwhile the population has risen by 12 million since 2008. Plus it's no secret the undocumented population has surged as well, adding additional oversupply to the job market.

Yet unemployment has dropped almost in half?

[scratches chin...] How can that be possible? Perhaps you will explain. I would be happy if you just explained the part about 11 million fewer people working leading to a drop in unemployment. No generalities and hand-waves, please...innumeracy is what has led to the problem in the first place.

They know they can count on rubes not to question the way they cook the books. Actually, they count on rubes to not bothering to learn anything at all about how employment is calculated, let alone manipulated. Not one person in a hundred knows anything more than whatever massaged headline number the government feeds a compliant media. This thread is a case in point.

[JoePhilly]

6. UE down from 10.2%, to 5.8% ... and every new job sucks!!!!!!!

That the argument?

[Initech]

4. Sorry? We were wrong? Obama is a great president?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. geez

[maced666]

5. You don't have to sell to faux viewers - you have to sell to unemployed.

Over 90 million out of work force.
Tragic.

[Fred Sanders]

8. Compared to twice that many, though your number is wrong, after Bush was done? Amnesia?

90 million? Where did you pull that out of?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. We are speaking to people who think

Half the population are unemployed ..does not in one iota diminish the empathy we feel toward those still out of work

[spanone]

12. it won't change their hate for the black President.