How will DUers react to tomorrow's job numbers?

[DavidDvorkin]

The number of jobs may be good or bad. How will DUers react?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Prediction: The report WILL be good and DUers will still be unhappy.

"Unhappy" is our default behavior, after all.

[laughingliberal]

4. I'm pretty sure those who don't have jobs will still be unhappy. nt

[DavidDvorkin]

6. I don't have a job, but I'll be happy if it's a good report

It will make me optimistic about my chances for getting a job.

[laughingliberal]

12. I'll be happy if some more people have gone back to work

but things are going to have to get a whole lot better before my husband and I have much hope of hanging on. And that's just how it is for us and a still very large number of us out here.

[HughMoran]

14. That's not fair

You knew with 100% certainty that your so-called 'prediction' would be accurate.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

15. Okay then - BOLDER PREDICTION!

Next month - there will be job growth; a small, positive change in the unemployment %; and DUers will be unhappy.

Compare your ability to perceive the future to mine and then kill yourself! :bounce:

[jtuck004]

2. Unless they improve by 10 million, it's bad. n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. Nobody Should Rest Until Everbody Who Wants A Job Has One

~

[DavidDvorkin]

7. Of course not, but we should all be encouraged by a good report.

[ecstatic]

5. you nailed it nt

[dmallind]

8. Other (as we already see above)

Nothing other than <4% unemployment will ever be accepted as good news by a large contingent here. There is no acceptance of anything that can possibly be labeled an improvement that isn't ideal. Gaining 100K jobs will be bad because we need 8 million. Losing 100K jobs will be bad because we need 8 million. It seems way too many people cannot distinguish between the two as worse or better news.

[DavidDvorkin]

9. I should have included Other as an option

Too late to change it now, unfortunately.

[frylock]

10. i'll wait till the inevitable revision

[DavidDvorkin]

11. Those tend to be in the direction of improvement

At least with this administration.

[DavidDvorkin]

13. Option 2 seems to have turned out to be the most accurate one.