Joblessness

[Lewkowski]

New jobs numbers are out. Gained 160,000 jobs in March, but the unemployment rate is still hovering around 10%. How many of these "new jobs" are temporary Census jobs? Maybe the hemorrhaging has ebbed due to the stimulus or other government intervention, but we're still not making the hundreds of thousands NEW sustainable jobs needed to keep afloat. Let alone get ahead.

Around 40-50k for the census. Month by month job numbers really don't mean too much though.

On the plus side workers are more productive then ever. A little bit of concern can motivate people and motivate business to focus on the bottom line. This is good as it leads to better business practices, better services/goods and just all around higher standard of living. When efficiency is as good as its going to get based on current technology, it becomes cheaper to hire more people then to give extra hours and business confidence gets a bit higher we will see sustained job growth.

For every boom there is a bust. For every recession there is a boom. Government needs to get out of the way and let it happen naturally or it will skew things and damage human potential and optimization.

[GGT]

Around 40-50k for the census. Month by month job numbers really don't mean too much though.

On the plus side workers are more productive then ever. A little bit of concern can motivate people and motivate business to focus on the bottom line. This is good as it leads to better business practices, better services/goods and just all around higher standard of living. When efficiency is as good as its going to get based on current technology, it becomes cheaper to hire more people then to give extra hours and business confidence gets a bit higher we will see sustained job growth.

For every boom there is a bust. For every recession there is a boom. Government needs to get out of the way and let it happen naturally or it will skew things and damage human potential and optimization.

THAN, you dickwad, when will you learn?

Many more than just 50,000 for the census. Productivity is good for the employer, not those looking for JOBS. I can cut hundreds of workers and use robots or computer programs, and only have to hire one guy to keep the robots or computers working.

For every boom is a bust, for every recession is a boom, this is sounding like proverbs, or things naive young folks say at the altar. Hope and optimism is one thing. But you also didn't think this Great Recession was anything beyond a normal business cycle, so everything you have to say from there is pure BUNK.

If anything is skewed, it's your perception. If government had stepped out of the way in '07-'08, the "natural" progression would have meant your ATM wouldn't give dollars, your checks would have bounced, commerce would have stood still. And who knows what your wife's care would have looked like. Let alone your son's birth.