25 More Reasond Americans Elected Bush!

25 Straight Months of Job Gains.

http://bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: JUNE 2005

Nonfarm employment increased by 146,000 in June, and the unemployment rate
continued to trend down, reaching 5.0 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
of the U.S. Department of Labor reported. Over the month, payroll em-
ployment continued to grow in several industries, notably professional and
business services and health care.

What is never the focus on this issue is that there is probably a record broken of outsourced jobs, so many people spent time becoming computer techs to have the jobs outsourced to india, including bringing them here.

And I don't know where you live, but jobs here I see being filled by low wage barely if legal mexicans.

The claimed job growth has not matched plant closures, loss of jobs to illegal or low waged labor, and the increasing trend of outsourcing.

And the more important point is that too many new jobs pay less, and have far less benefits as many major companies and institutions privatise their health care making it rediculously unaffordable, especially for families.

But you take what ever Fox News says is good and swallow it whole, they're always right.

I think that it is great that the number of jobs in the US is rising, but it seems that you forgot the fact that before the rise in jobs, we lost far more jobs than we gained in the last 25 months, but i see that they convieniently forgot to include that fact.

Or the fact that we are still losing jobs at a strong rate as well, I don't know that they factor anything in.

Hello St Jimmy & leftwood.
Perhaps one of you could be kind enough to find the data of job loss in comparision to 25 months of job gains. Here is a hint - the average payroll per worker has also been rising. In other words, not every new job is a minimum wage job.

thanks,

TheFederalistUSA

how about over GW's entire term? (apologies for the poor image)
Regardless of job creation, he is still the only president in 72 years to loose jobs.

Or, how about manufacturing jobs? (click on pic to make it easier to see.)

Here's the unemployment data for 2001 - 2005

Hello St. Jimmy

Where did you get the interesting graphs? Do you have a link? I also post on a very liberal board, surrounded by people who hate Bush. Not one of them has a graph that flies in the face of the numbers released by the Labor department. Thanks in advance for the verifiable source.

Here's the department of labor data:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

Or the unemployment data:
http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet
The general trend seems to be "up"

The first picutre is from the buerau of labor statisics, By the way.

Watching the Economy Crumble

Paul Craig Roberts | August 10 2005

The US continues its descent into the Third World, but you would never know it from news reports of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' July payroll jobs release.

The media gives a bare bones jobs report that is misleading. The public heard that 207,000 jobs were created in July. If not a reassuring figure, at least it is not a disturbing one. On the surface things look to be pretty much OK. It is when you look into the composition of these jobs that the concern arises.

Of the new jobs, 26,000 (about 13%) are tax-supported government jobs. That leaves 181,000 private sector jobs. Of these private sector jobs, 177,000, or 98%, are in the domestic service sector.

Here is the breakdown of the major categories:

• 30,000 food servers and bar tenders;
• 28,000 health care and social assistance:
• 12,000 real estate;
• 6,000 credit intermediation;
• 8,000 transit and ground passenger transportation;
• 50,000 retail trade; and
• 8,000 wholesale trade.
(There were 7,000 construction jobs, most of which were filled by Mexicans immigrants.)

Not a single one of these jobs produces a tradable good or service that can be exported or serve as an import substitute to help reduce the massive and growing US trade deficit. The US economy is employing people to sell things, to move people around, and to serve them fast food and alcoholic beverages. The items may have an American brand name, but they are mainly made off shore. For example, 70% of Wal-Mart's goods are made in China.

Where are the jobs for the 65,000 engineers the US graduates each year? Where are the jobs for the physics, chemistry, and math majors? Who needs a university degree to wait tables and serve drinks, to build houses, to work as hospital orderlies, bus drivers, and sales clerks?

In the 21st century job growth in the US economy has consistently reflected that of a Third World country--low productivity domestic services jobs. This goes on month after month and no one catches on--least of all the economists and the policymakers...

http://prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/100805economycrumble.htm

Bush acknowledges the collapsing US economy
08/12/2005 14:23
The US administration aims to spend $286 billion on the development of the American transport system

US President George W. Bush released a remarkable statement a short time ago. The remark has not been highlighted in the world media yet, although there is every reason to do so. Bush virtually acknowledged that the USA was experiencing a serious economic crisis. Moreover, the US government was taking immense efforts to avoid a massive outbreak of social uneasiness, the American president believes.

http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/368/15972_economy.html