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NOT MAKING HEADLINES: Current Trump Unemployment Rate Less Than Obama’s Average Rate His Entire First Term

The Trump recovery is the greatest recovery on record.

Job numbers released yesterday through the end of August were massive. There was an increase of more than a million jobs! And the unemployment rate dropped to 8.4%, almost 2 points lower than July’s 10.2%!

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Not making headlines:

The entire Trump first term accomplished nothing but a demonstration of surfing ability as they ride the economic wave of success set up by the previous administration..

...even freshman economics students know this!
GaVmarts · 31-35, M
@Burnley123 so many words so little sense. Try to express things in a less convoluted and showy manner.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@GaVmarts Try reading a book. Maybe one without pictures? 😎
GaVmarts · 31-35, M
@Burnley123 Good at insults you.

Pathetic little individuals like you love this medium because it gives you the opportunity to insult people.

You would never insult me to my face.

I work as a welder


What is your job?
curiosi · 61-69, F
Despite the liberals so desperately trying to destroy the economy with the covid fear.
JovialPlutonian · 36-40, M
@curiosi what are the figures?
Budwick · 70-79, M
@JovialPlutonian Fewer than died from N1H1 when Biden's boss was pres.
JovialPlutonian · 36-40, M
@Budwick figures perhaps?
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Zonuss · 46-50, M
@RightSaidFred Yeah. Keep running from the truth. 🙂
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SW-User
Just so everyone can see I'll reply in English.

Of course that means nothing. Most of those jobs were those recovered from temporary layoffs or those coming off furlough schemes.

No wonder that's not being reported as signs of Trump's greatness; it's nothing to do with him at all...
@SW-User Of course you would have them go right back to having no jobs instead because nothing is better than having something, right? Isn't it better to see the glass as half full? Considering this comes from someone whose country (Ireland) is experiencing 16.7% unemployment rate, about twice as high as in the U.S. at 8.4%, isn't that a bit of a jealous/envious stone thrown from a glass house?

THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE in Ireland now stands at 16.7% including those in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP), latest figures show. (https://www.thejournal.ie/july-unemployment-rate-ireland-cso-5168475-Aug2020/)

The US unemployment rate fell to 8.4 percent in August of 2020 from 10.2 percent in the previous month, below market expectations of 9.8 percent, and marking the 4th straight decline after April's all-time high of 14.7 percent. (https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate, https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf)

At that declining rate, we should be at 3.5% again sometime in November. Just in time for re-election.
SW-User
@DudeistPriest I know.

The point I was making, though, is that the OP is trying to claim that the reason that the unemployment rate fell to 8.4 per cent is because Trump single-handedly created millions of new jobs.

In fact it's just people who had lost their jobs because of Trump's recklessness simply being rehired (and probably on a worse contract; if they have one at all).
@SW-User If you know then that's indicative that you're being disingenuous. To be sure you're as thick as manure but only half as useful. People should fix their own cuntry's problems before they bitch about others.

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Btw, is Ireland still part of Britain?
smileylovesgaming · 31-35, F
Trump is making America great again
I wonder how many of those jobs are for servers at restaurants when they opened back up, primarily for patio service.
I wonder how many of those jobs will remain when the weather turns cold and patios close for the season.
And according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 240,000 of those jobs for August were temporary workers hired for the 2020 census.

I guess i'm just saying maybe take into account that you're comparing a single point statistic to an average over 4 years.

Just something to consider.
@Budwick

lol my dude, you can't quote mine me when you're talking about my own posts😂

Or did you genuinely not make the connection between me talking about patio service and cold weather as being about the temporary nature of the jobs and not a value judgement on the people working those jobs?

God is your witness, be honest
Budwick · 70-79, M
@Pikachu Do you remember saying this?

Can you point to a single thing i said here which indicated that i thought server jobs weren't valuable?

I pointed.
Now, you say I can't?

Go away son, you are bothering me.
@Budwick

lol not willing to answer that question, eh bud? Can't lie about genuinely misunderstanding my meaning when you have to do it with God as your witness?

Ok, i'll leave you be😉
ViciDraco · 41-45, M
Republicans tank economy. Hand it over to Democrats. Democrats take blame. Democrats stabilize economy. Hand it to Republicans. Republicans tank economy again.

It's a pretty vicious cycle. I haven't seen a Trump recovery. The pandemic bounce wasn't a tanking and recovery. Trump's big drop is still on the way.
Zonuss · 46-50, M
@ViciDraco Perhaps. But a lot of jobs have closed down for good since March 2020. Half only temporary. These numbers are phony as usual. But this pandemic is nothing like the 2008 financial crisis. It's not even close. 🙂
@ViciDraco
"The US unemployment rate fell to 8.4 percent in August of 2020 from 10.2 percent in the previous month, below market expectations of 9.8 percent, and marking the 4th straight decline after April's all-time high of 14.7 percent." (https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate, https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf)

At that declining rate, we should be at 3.5% again sometime in November. Just in time for re-election!
Elessar · 31-35, M

8.4% is almost twice as much as Obama's final rate. Considering that he started his first term after the 2008 crisis.
Elessar · 31-35, M
@Budwick Exactly, in regards to this, in a post that was about the employment rate lmao
Zonuss · 46-50, M
@Elessar Not only that but these Covid-19 numbers are not even close to the 2008 recession. We're talking a loss of 700,000 job jobs per month. High interest. A war. A housing crisis. And an oil spill not to mention the bad weather we saw between then and 2016. These clowns are weak. If it weren't for Obama they would be eating out of a trash can. 🤭
Budwick · 70-79, M
@Zonuss
If it weren't for Obama they would be eating out of a trash can.

Because of Obama's policies, people WERE eating out of trash cans!
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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
And Obama took office right at the start of the GFC. I dont think anyone expects you to say anything nice about Obama. But its starting to sound a little desperate when you compare a a global economic $h*tstorm caused my Wall streets greed with a global pandemic and say your disease isnt quite so bad. Its not as if Trump has actually done anything to help anyone other than Trump.😷
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@MarmeeMarch I think we are in sync, until the lst line. But I will let the people decide.😷
@Budwick TRUMP LOST BY OVER 3 MILLION VOTES
Budwick · 70-79, M
@independentone And yet won the Electoral vote - which is hopw a president in the USA wins an election. [Something Hillary didn't remember.]
plungesponge · 41-45, M
yep. Sure looks like more businesses than ever are open out there. Nothing suspicious about these figures at all.
plungesponge · 41-45, M
@Budwick lol... you just admitted to being a cuck. 🤣
Budwick · 70-79, M
@plungesponge
you just admitted to being a cuck

No, I said - "You do seem like the kind of person that doesn't like anybody."
@Budwick If Trump isn't paying you for the BS you post, are you getting paid by Putin? Are you really a Russian troll?
Tres13 · 56-60, M
Trump 2020...Joe Hiden runner up
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
You are talking about average rate through the term to date, not the current rate.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@QuixoticSoul Of course, though Obama had a term running to 2012 and unemployment recovered.

I mean we know all of this is epic point missing.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@Burnley123 It recovered, but I wouldn't be surprised if the average ended up above 8%. Regardless, yeah it is silly.
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Does it say anything about the 20 or 30 million people who just lost their jobs or just the 1 million that went back to work.
@Budwick Yet Trump, due to his inept handling of Covid, took the unemployment numbers from 3-4% up to 14-15%. Looks like Trump is the one who sucks
Budwick · 70-79, M
@independentone The response to covid included shutting down the economy. Even knowing the economy and employment would suffer - he opted for saving lives. [BTW, Biden said after the fact that he would have done much the same things.] But saving lives is failure in your view? Sick.
@Budwick Yeah, 185,000 lives lost, and you consider that a success? We have roughly 4% of the worlds population yet around 23% of the deaths. Trump is an utter failure as President, and as a human.
unemployment was what, 5 or 6% when Trump took over as President? Looks like Trump has done a horrible job. Just a few months ago, Trump had run the unemployment numbers up to over 15%. Really not much of a record to run on. Trump is a total failure and a disaster for this country.
Abhainn · 26-30, F
I hope you guys keep him over that other guy
Zonuss · 46-50, M
Yes. It's easy to say you did something great after riding their wave of successful accomplishments. Typical white male insecurity stuff. Next. 🙂
@Zonuss Remove the anti and bingo! You’re racist against white people. That’s very obvious. You proved it in this post. Or did you already forget? “ Typical white male insecurity stuff.“
Zonuss · 46-50, M
@DukeOfEarle Wow. You're even dumber than you were a few months ago. Thank you for your time. 🤭
@Zonuss Pointed out your bigoted bullshit again. Slam dunk. Game over. Racist
Zonuss · 46-50, M
Yeah. And we all know Trump never ended a massive recession that was perpetuated by the Bush Administration. I'd rather be taught by a man who digs you out of a hole rather than one who pulls you out of one that's almost filled. 🤭
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@Zonuss To be fair Bush Jnr didnt cause that Recession. (although he sure didnt help) It had its origins in the Dot Com bubble and attempts to soften the blow from that.😷
Zonuss · 46-50, M
@whowasthatmaskedman Yeah sure. Bush ruined it. Be a man and accept the truth. 🙂
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@Zonuss I have no problem admitting Bush 2 was an idiot.. Which really leaves Cheney in charge of the Cheque Book and boy did he have a field day. Of course, now you have Trump at the helm and a Republican Party full of Cheneys.😷
He pulled a magic wand out obumbles ass
Budwick · 70-79, M
cycleman · 61-69, M
Oh yes! Trump really supports and looks up to those Suckers and Losers

 
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