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On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 02:28:25 GMT, "Calif Bill"
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What is Kerry or Edwards going to do to get 2,000,000-3,000,000 new
jobs?

Why set the bar so high? Bush lost 3,000,000 jobs on his watch.

No he didn't. That number is a lie. First of all, if you use the flawed
Payroll Data Survey, that number is only 2.4 million...not 3 million.
However, if you use the more accurate Household Data survey, there was a
net
*GAIN* in jobs under Bush.

Regardless of which numbers you use, however, there have been five
straight
months of employment growth. By the election, they'll be 13 straight
months
of employment growth. It will be impossible for Democrats to say that
jobs
are being lost under Bush...when the numbers show a 13 month upward
trend
in
job growth.

Two graphs, if brought out in one of the debates (a-la-Perot), will
spell
the demise of the Democratic candidate:

1) a graph of the quarterly increases in GDP for the prior 18 months.

2) a graph of the number of new jobs added each month for the prior 13
months.

Both graphs will have sharp upward-sloping lines...showing that we're in
the
midst of a 1 to 1 1/2 year boom in our economy. Then Bush will look at
the
camera, tell the audience that Kerry/Edwards/etc. will repeal the tax
cut,
thus raising your taxes, and return us to a recession.

Then he'll tell the audience that we have bin Laden in captivity. ;-)

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Tell me what those new jobs are and where have they been created?

These occupations have shown an *increase* in employment numbers:

Management, professional, and related occupations

Service occupations

Production, transportation, and material moving occupations

Construction and extraction occupations

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations


These have shown a decrease in employment numbers:

Sales and office occupations

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations


(source: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t10.htm)


Are they
former professionals now working two jobs at different fast food
restaurants
just to survive?

No.


If that's the case, and I suspect that most of it is,

You suspect wrong.


then that is no growth at all with their net income much lower than it was
before. Yes, two jobs may have been created but at what effect to a
family's standard of living?

Wrong again. According to the BLS, there was a 2% increase in "Usually
Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers" from 2002 to 2003. The consumer
price index went up only 1.9%...so wages outpaced inflation. That couldn't
happen if eveybody was leaving high-paying jobs to become burger flippers.

(source: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.nr0.htm)

Quit believing all of the doom and gloom the Demon-crats are trying to sell
you. They run on a message of hate, fear, and negativity. Republicans run
on a message of optimism, hope, and prosperity.

Don't believe that? Go through google archives and try to find *one single*
"positive" post that Harry, jps, Jim, or basskisser has posted here.