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re: March Job Numbers: "Stronger than expected"
Posted on 4/8/24 at 7:26 am to SloaneRanger
Posted on 4/8/24 at 7:26 am to SloaneRanger
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f you consider 184k “relatively close” to 303k, then yeah, sure.
Well one is private payroll data and one includes government jobs you dolt.
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Posted on 4/8/24 at 7:54 am to ronricks
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Any resume we get that has government employment history on it gets tossed.
So you or the company you work for blackballs military vets?
Posted on 4/8/24 at 8:17 am to SDVTiger
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SDVTiger
Posted on 4/8/24 at 8:49 am to Bard
This will be quietly revised down in 3 months like all the other ones. Basically propaganda at this point.
Posted on 4/8/24 at 9:24 am to meansonny
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It isn't rocket science.
Everyone knows what can be done.
But we lack the gonads to do the right thing.
Everyone wants low inflation but 90% of people will vote out any politicians that cut to reduce spending
Posted on 4/9/24 at 8:08 am to JohnnyKilroy
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quote:Any resume we get that has government employment history on it gets tossed.
When you work in the mail room you get to decide what gets passed on and what gets thrown away.
Posted on 4/9/24 at 8:34 am to Bard
Believe those numbers at your own peril…
Posted on 4/9/24 at 8:34 am to VolSquatch
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Everyone wants low inflation but 90% of people will vote out any politicians that cut to reduce spending
I disagree with the 90%.
I actually think a majority of Americans would support reductions in spending.
But there are several problems.
All of Washington DC is funded by spending. They are skynet. Fully self aware. And even ready to kill in order to promulgate itself into the future.
That is as much a challenge as if 90% of the voters were opposed to cuts.
Everyone for cuts is fragmented in what to cut. Where priorities should be interstate and international commerce, somehow we focus on a department of education (when states are supposed to be funding their own education). We are funding foreign wars when we can't even articulate why we are there, what we will accomplish with the specific funds, what victory looks like, and what amount of resources are "too much".
A more fair assessment (if I can tweak your statement) is that 90% of Americans will vote out politicians who raise taxes.
And that is the impasse.
A machine hellbent on destroying cuts (including freezes).
A voter base hellbent on increasing taxes.
Posted on 4/9/24 at 8:34 am to baobabtiger
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Still too much inflation. The fed is promoting coming cuts to keep the market from tanking.
Posted on 4/9/24 at 9:28 am to meansonny
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That is as much a challenge as if 90% of the voters were opposed to cuts.
Everyone for cuts is fragmented in what to cut.
I think that you’ve pretty well hit the nail on the head there. Over the decades, voters have largely shown that they’re fine with freezing or cutting government programs… but only those programs that do not affect them or their district. And the critters in Congress know this all too well. Doesn’t matter how “fiscally conservative” they may claim to be, they will promote pork in their own districts, while offering to kill the hog in someone else’s.
The name of the(ir) game is “do what it takes to get reelected.”
Posted on 4/9/24 at 10:14 am to Jag_Warrior
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Over the decades, voters have largely shown that they’re fine with freezing or cutting government programs… but only those programs that do not affect them or their district. And the critters in Congress know this all too well. Doesn’t matter how “fiscally conservative” they may claim to be, they will promote pork in their own districts, while offering to kill the hog in someone else’s.
I even think voters would be willing to give up pork in their own districts knowing that every seat at the table is losing a ham sandwich.
But Washington doesn't work that way. They know that their coffers are filled with the margins of the entire budget (so every district is important. Everyone is skimming a little as the money flows back to districts... even before money hits whatever project is on the ground).
My local county property tax assessor is the exact same way.
She keeps 2% of every penny that is assessed. She personally benefits with the higher county revenue/budget. As the budget has grown over the years, she has never offered to lower her 2% retainer fee (which is money designed to go to the local school system).
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