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June Jobs Report Shows Unemployment Has Remained Unchanged: Is This Good or Bad News for Obama?

Chris D 2012/07/06 19:00:00
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The jobs number is a big factor in the election. The fact that the June number is flat is very interesting for the political landscape. Many pundits have suggested that President Obama is running against the economy, not Mitt Romney. But with the jobs growth number unchanged, Obama might actually have to run against Romney after all. Is the news good or bad for the President?

MONEY.CNN.COM reports:
Hiring was lukewarm last month, with employers adding jobs but not enough to bring the unemployment rate down.
money cnn reports hiring lukewarm employers adding jobs unemployment rate

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  • Heisenberg 2012/07/06 19:09:19
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    Heisenberg
    +37
    More Americans were added to the disability roles than got new jobs last month and Obama and his Harvard educated economists promised 5.6% unemployment if he got his trillion dollar 'stimulus' package.

    harvard educated economists promised 5 6 unemployment dollar stimulus package

    Do the 50% of Americans that pay no federal income tax care?
    Unlikely.

    Do the record setting number of Americans that receive government money care?
    Probably not.

    Do the political activists that will vote Obama no matter what care?
    Of course not.

    Does not matter what the facts are. 90% of the media will report these bleak numbers as good news. Fox and a few blogs will report it as bad news and most Americans will focus on Matthew McCaunaghey's new baby.

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  • tncdel 2012/07/09 16:30:50
    Neither
    tncdel
    +3
    Actually the unemployment rate has dropped considerably. Unfortunately for America, that was only the unemployment rate for ILLEGAL ALIENS, not for our own out-of-work citizens. For Obama issued 800,000 work permits to illegal aliens last month, on the heels of issuing 300,000 more work permits to illegals the year before.

    Further, Obama has outsourced millions of jobs to China, etc. Plus also outsourced over 3 million other jobs RIGHT UNDER OUR VERY NOSES, by issuing over 3 million work visas to foreigners legally, in addition to the over a million to illegals.

    See:
    http://www.sodahead.com/unite...
  • Boo tncdel 2012/07/09 17:01:39
    Boo
    +1
    That looks bad for him in my opinion!
  • Rich Ma... tncdel 2012/07/09 17:03:34
    Rich Matarese
    "Actually the unemployment rate has dropped considerably."


    Only as calculated - with endless duplicitous "adjustment" - by the people in the Executive Branch of the U.S. federal government.

    Which branch of government is wholly and unequivocally controlled by our Illegal-Alien-in-Chief.

    Helping to prove the validity of Godwin's Law, might I ask whether you're familiar with the concept of "the Big Lie"?
  • farkromney tncdel 2012/07/09 17:26:09
  • MichaelTaylor 2012/07/09 16:30:35
    Bad
    MichaelTaylor
    +1
    Well, at least it should be bad news for him but I'm sure all will be well with his campaign after HIS liberal media puts their spin on it.
  • TruXter 2012/07/09 16:26:53
    Neither
    TruXter
    +1
    This Only says they haven't used the jobless as a campaign vice yet.

    When they do, they will say these findings are incorrect.

    Obama will say it's on a decline, or explain how it's not increasing is because of him walking on water.


    Everyone else will say it's on a rise, because of obama. Or that it is holding steady because we're tired of listening to obama or something unexpectedly stupid.
    To thine own self be true
    no one is 100% anything.
  • Twilight Fan 2012/07/09 16:18:27
    Bad
    Twilight Fan
    +2
    Hopefully.
  • bob 2012/07/09 16:17:04
    Good
    bob
    So Obama finally stopped the Bush Depression. Good job big O
  • mike bob 2012/07/09 16:54:03
    mike
    +3
    What are you talking about? The job numbers are horrible. Its been more then 3.5 years and we are still in a recession and about to go bankrupt because of your dictators spending. And now Obamacare has put us over the top. It costs twice the amount per year that he swore it would. He lied AGAIN!! But I won't argue you with you because there is no sense to argue with the ignorant. The best part of your comment is the fact, it had gotten a lil better after the billions Obama threw at the government sector and now its back to where it was. BECAUSE OBAMA HAS NO CLUE ABOUT CREATING ANYTHING!!! He couldn't run a circus. And all his promises are written in Water. GET IT!!!
  • Susan bob 2012/07/09 16:57:42
    Susan
    +1
    Keep drinking the Kool Aid, Bob. If you believe that you will believe anything. The real unemployment rate is more in the range of about 14% as so many ppl have either given up ever finding a job or are under employed.
  • Derbyhat bob 2012/07/09 17:17:26
    Derbyhat
    +1
    Obama was in the Senate voting "present" during the final Bush years. He only offered his mouth and NOT his vote to keep America productive. Nothing has changed after four years, except for the 100 plus rounds of golf even while some areas are in dire crisis. Super Hero for Iran!
  • Pamela ... bob 2012/07/09 20:47:38
  • Rich Knoch 2012/07/09 16:14:05
    Neither
    Rich Knoch
    +5
    The awful truth is that we have lost somewhere around 20+ million jobs since obama took office . . . . his paltry 2-3 million jobs created doesn't really make a dent in the real unemployment rate (U6). They 'cook the numbers' and think America believes them.
    http://portalseven.com/employ...
  • Rich Ma... Rich Knoch 2012/07/09 16:37:19
    Rich Matarese
    +1
    "...his paltry 2-3 million jobs created doesn't really make a dent in the real unemployment rate..."


    Oh, it's a boatload worse than that.

    Y'see, the jobs our Marxist Mystery Messiah supposedly "created" were almost all unproductive efforts for which there was no sustained (or sustainable) demand in the U.S. economy.

    For example, the "stimulus" money allocated to local and state government agencies (to do things like continue the employment of objectively worthless teachers whose salaries could not be paid by local and state tax revenues) merely deferred inevitable layoffs.

    What our Fraudulence-in-Chief and his equally idiotic advisers had obviously planned for was a temporary and purely cosmetic "fix" that he thought would benefit his own socialist-suck-up constituents while giving the illusion that his insane and stupid policies were working.

    In actuality, of course, everything Barry was doing - and I mean EVERYTHING - was just f*cking up the economy even more hideously, preventing the recovery for which he was hoping.

    Emphasis on "Hope," of course.

    So we got the "Change" that had to result.

    Not that you weren't warned back in 2008 that this was going to happen, right?
  • Digman14 Rich Knoch 2012/07/09 16:56:36
    Digman14
    If you're talking about that graph there. The one that says EIGHT million jobs were lost in the 6 months before and 6 months after he took office. The 2008 election, is just the election. The President doesn't take office until late January the following year, and their polices usually tend to not take effect for a few months.
  • Rich Ma... Digman14 2012/07/09 17:09:30
    Rich Matarese
    "he President doesn't take office until late January the following year, and their polices usually tend to not take effect for a few months."


    Which means that unless we elect a genuine constitutionalist - such as Ron Paul - in place of our Marxist Messiah, the hideous policies perpetrated by Barry the Bastard will continue to punish our nation through the first half of 2013 even if we were to see the Kenyan Keynesian dragged from the Oval Office in manacles and ankle chains (as he amply deserves) next January.

    Not that any of us can repose any trust in the Etch-A-Sketch to act consequently to enforce the U.S. Constitution should the Republican Party succumb to their "establishment" oligarchy's suicidal stupidity and nominate that Mormon mamzer.
  • farkromney Rich Ma... 2012/07/09 17:28:41
  • Digman14 Rich Ma... 2012/07/10 01:10:45
    Digman14
    I'll let my good friend TJ respond to that one.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
  • wpsegura 2012/07/09 16:13:25
    Bad
    wpsegura
    +2
    This is bad, because if the people in the US are not working they are looking at the government. They look ti the President to help the economy and to control big business owners. The world economy is very bad, and we all are having hard time. However, the President, and the government can only do so much. I feel that big business owners like the oil companies, have the government in their pocket. To me we will get the lesser of to evils in office. Mitt Rommey, only for the rush, Obama, only does what he think the people want, but really has no clue.
  • readmylips 2012/07/09 16:10:12
    Bad
    readmylips
    +1
    Hopefully bad for the big O. Something good should come out of bad news. For every negative there should be a positive.
  • Boss 2012/07/09 16:10:03
    Neither
    Boss
    of course it would be much better if they were going up much faster..it,s summer..no one hires in these months..and as long as it goes up instead of losing over 1/2 million as we were doing before, it,s better than nothing. Romney would not do better...
  • YCare 2012/07/09 16:01:45 (edited)
    Bad
    YCare
    +1
    it should be bad, if americans cannot see that they are full of it. He is still blaming Bush for his overspending. Get over yourself! you have had 4 Freaking years!!! and we are almost in a DEPRESSION! Obama TOOK Away our Space Program for G sake( you know NASA)! Now China and others are passing us and in space and we have been make such progress until Obama. This jobless rate sucks! I have felt this wrath for 3 years! I would get a job at walmart if i could, but the problem that NOONE SEES is that people like me that had made good money, i was in Engineering cannot get jobs at walmart, aldi, or burger king you know why>????? noone will hire me with such a background. I know iwould be making 8-9$ from 23$ that is acceptable to me, but not to anyone else because their are 200 - 1500 people for 1 Godforsaken job now! If you don't believe me check Google! Google has a thing on there that tells you how many people applied to a job....check for yourself! This is Obama's fault ! And now with the NEW TAX on healthcare, that is another $40 out of my husbands check and everyone elses. yeah noone is turned away, but at what cost? if your working , your paying for them. And remember when we were younger in school, no kids, you didn't get ins to have a bigger check? w...&
    it should be bad, if americans cannot see that they are full of it. He is still blaming Bush for his overspending. Get over yourself! you have had 4 Freaking years!!! and we are almost in a DEPRESSION! Obama TOOK Away our Space Program for G sake( you know NASA)! Now China and others are passing us and in space and we have been make such progress until Obama. This jobless rate sucks! I have felt this wrath for 3 years! I would get a job at walmart if i could, but the problem that NOONE SEES is that people like me that had made good money, i was in Engineering cannot get jobs at walmart, aldi, or burger king you know why>????? noone will hire me with such a background. I know iwould be making 8-9$ from 23$ that is acceptable to me, but not to anyone else because their are 200 - 1500 people for 1 Godforsaken job now! If you don't believe me check Google! Google has a thing on there that tells you how many people applied to a job....check for yourself! This is Obama's fault ! And now with the NEW TAX on healthcare, that is another $40 out of my husbands check and everyone elses. yeah noone is turned away, but at what cost? if your working , your paying for them. And remember when we were younger in school, no kids, you didn't get ins to have a bigger check? well no more. another issue! I am NOT racist, i don't CARE WHAT COLOR HE IS. BUT WHEN YOU VOTE FOR HIM BECAUSE HE IS BLACK THAT IS RACIST! Same would be if i voted only because someone was white, NOT HAPPENING! I WANT SOMEONE GOOD, SOMEONE BETTER , SOMEONE THAT DOESN'T CARELESS SPEND OUR $$$$ FOR OUR FUTURE AND FOR OUR CHILDRENS FUTURE & PRODUCES REAL JOBS!!!!!!!
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  • Rich Ma... YCare 2012/07/09 16:40:02
    Rich Matarese
    "...and we are almost in a DEPRESSION!"


    Nope. No "almost" at all.

    When credit rating agencies downgrade U.S. Treasury debt instruments, you ARE in a depression.

    No doubt about it.
  • Digman14 YCare 2012/07/09 16:49:13
    Digman14
    A few words of advice before I utterly trash your argument.

    1. Learn to use paragraphs.
    2. Take a few basic spelling/grammar classes.
    3. Caps Lock is NOT your friend.

    First, you claim Obama is still blaming Bush for his overspending, when in fact, Obama has a much lower spending record than both Bushes, Clinton and even Reagan. It's funny how Republicans brand liberals as "tax and spend" when they spend less than their Republican counterparts.

    Obama did not take away the space program, the House has power of the purse, they control all our money. Republicans are the ones who killed NASA.

    The entire economy is the result from 30 years of failed policy. This all started under Reagan, and it finished at the end of Bush's second term. Reagan drastically cut taxes and deregulated very smart regulations that prevented this kind of thing. Clinton's treasury secretary Robert Rubin proposed legislation to congress and President Clinton that would repeal the Glass-Steagall Act. The Clinton Administration and Congress both passed the Law, and set up the ground work for the biggest financial meltdown since October 29,1929. When Bush cut taxes in 2001 and 2004, but sent us into both Afghanistan and Iraq, the country was doomed. When the crash finally hit, the Government didn't have enough money ...

    A few words of advice before I utterly trash your argument.

    1. Learn to use paragraphs.
    2. Take a few basic spelling/grammar classes.
    3. Caps Lock is NOT your friend.

    First, you claim Obama is still blaming Bush for his overspending, when in fact, Obama has a much lower spending record than both Bushes, Clinton and even Reagan. It's funny how Republicans brand liberals as "tax and spend" when they spend less than their Republican counterparts.

    Obama did not take away the space program, the House has power of the purse, they control all our money. Republicans are the ones who killed NASA.

    The entire economy is the result from 30 years of failed policy. This all started under Reagan, and it finished at the end of Bush's second term. Reagan drastically cut taxes and deregulated very smart regulations that prevented this kind of thing. Clinton's treasury secretary Robert Rubin proposed legislation to congress and President Clinton that would repeal the Glass-Steagall Act. The Clinton Administration and Congress both passed the Law, and set up the ground work for the biggest financial meltdown since October 29,1929. When Bush cut taxes in 2001 and 2004, but sent us into both Afghanistan and Iraq, the country was doomed. When the crash finally hit, the Government didn't have enough money to intervene, and had to go to the American people for a bailout.

    The new Healthcare bill isn't really a tax, it's a penalty that's qualified as a tax. If you get basic healthcare, you don't have to pay it. I also love how you highlighted the "NEW TAX" portion of it, you and your friends are going to have a hayday with that one aren't you? I want someone better in office too, but there isn't anyone better that's running. Obama is still the best choice for President regardless of his mediocre economic record. I could stand here and blame House Republicans all I like, but it won't do a bit of good for my argument. Obama isn't the savior we hoped for, so what? I certainly don't see a savior on the other wing. I see Bush's failed policies coming back to haunt us.
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  • Rich Ma... Digman14 2012/07/09 16:56:01 (edited)
  • Digman14 Rich Ma... 2012/07/10 01:20:59
  • Ming Toy Digman14 2012/07/09 17:20:44
    Ming Toy
    Hooray. I hope every members of Congress & Republicans & Democrats take note here. This is truth at the highest level. Wake up every one. I takes more than one man than the President to clean up this mess.
  • Rich Ma... Ming Toy 2012/07/09 17:40:52
    Rich Matarese
    "I takes more than one man [as] the President to clean up this mess."


    Actually, that's not true.

    Given the way the presidency has grown (and I think the word "cancerously" definitely applies) in effectively unrestrained power, one man acting as our federal government's chief executive could DEFINITELY "clean up this mess."

    One man prepared to act in conscientious determination to enforce the provisions of the U.S. Constitution could and would shut down most federal spending, even summarily abolishing whole Cabinet departments.

    The President, after all, has the unimpeded lawful authority to take such measures in hand, and some previous Presidents (emphasis on Grover Cleveland, a Democrat for pity's sake) had indeed done so. No constitutional crisis about it.

    A single man in the Presidency could open up the Federal Reserve System like a can of cheap dog food and spread it out for exacting public scrutiny.

    A single individual serving as a law-abiding President could withdraw U.S. troops from all foreign posts and obligations not conducted according to formal treaties approved by the U.S. Senate, thereby reducing both "defense" expenditures and the risks of disease and death among our service people.

    A solitary American determined to fulfill the presidential oath of office coul...



    "I takes more than one man [as] the President to clean up this mess."


    Actually, that's not true.

    Given the way the presidency has grown (and I think the word "cancerously" definitely applies) in effectively unrestrained power, one man acting as our federal government's chief executive could DEFINITELY "clean up this mess."

    One man prepared to act in conscientious determination to enforce the provisions of the U.S. Constitution could and would shut down most federal spending, even summarily abolishing whole Cabinet departments.

    The President, after all, has the unimpeded lawful authority to take such measures in hand, and some previous Presidents (emphasis on Grover Cleveland, a Democrat for pity's sake) had indeed done so. No constitutional crisis about it.

    A single man in the Presidency could open up the Federal Reserve System like a can of cheap dog food and spread it out for exacting public scrutiny.

    A single individual serving as a law-abiding President could withdraw U.S. troops from all foreign posts and obligations not conducted according to formal treaties approved by the U.S. Senate, thereby reducing both "defense" expenditures and the risks of disease and death among our service people.

    A solitary American determined to fulfill the presidential oath of office could easily shut down the Internal Revenue Service and pink-slip every one of those thugs, absolving Americans of the unlawful obligation to pay an unapportioned direct tax on their wages, salaries, commissions, profits, inheritances, and (for God's sake!) tips.

    All that and more can be accomplished by ONE man in the Presidency.

    Which makes Barry the Bastard's "Hope" and "Change" even more disgusting, doesn't it?
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  • farkromney YCare 2012/07/09 17:29:35
  • AprilSkelton 2012/07/09 16:01:14
    Bad
    AprilSkelton
    +1
    I could care less what is good for obummer as he could obviously care less what is good for America. I really feel for those who need employment but I believe that whatever is bad for this impostor-in-chief has to be good for America!!!!
  • YCare AprilSk... 2012/07/09 20:29:44
    YCare
    whatever is bad has to be good???? wtf r u saying..
  • pete 2012/07/09 16:00:16
    Neither
    pete
    +3
    No matter how bad the unemployment rate remains, he and his media fawns will continue to sell it as BUSH"S FAULT, so how can it hurt him?

    Naturally, any improvement will be labeled as the result of his life saving policies.
  • Rich Ma... pete 2012/07/09 17:43:43
    Rich Matarese
    "Naturally, any improvement will be labeled as the result of his life saving policies."


    Hey, there's nothing to worry about on that score.

    Nothing our Magical Mystery Mulatto Marxist has ever done - in all his purposefully hidden and fraudulent little life - could have ANY beneficial effect on the U.S. economy.
  • us 2012/07/09 15:58:59
    Neither
    us
    +2
    What has hurt Obama is going to other countries, put down America, He has enjoy the
    taxpayer money since he was little, He hates America, but wants the Olympics in Chicago, but now he lost that, He went to other Countries and told them we do not believe in GOD. SHame on Him. He should of been so proud, but he just hates America, yet the everyday person who has grown up here, I love america, is it perfect,
    nothing is perfect expect the Kingdom of Jesus Christ Our Lord and Savoir, who is
    KING.
  • Jacqui 2012/07/09 15:58:50 (edited)
    Bad
    Jacqui
    +2
    It means he has not kept his promise of putting American's back to work. Don't get me started on his auto workers fiasco.
  • Kevin 2012/07/09 15:56:39
    Bad
    Kevin
    +4
    Of course it is bad. It's bad for the country so it's bad for him. Where are all the jobs he promised? He spent 500 million dollars on Solyndra and the mony was stolen by his suporters.
  • w2xad 2012/07/09 15:54:04
    Bad
    w2xad
    +4
    So much for the hope and change I was looking for. F@#K him, what about BAD FOR US!
    He probably blames Bush instead of that crook Dodd who is really responsible for this mess for continuing to lend money to the banks making things worse!!!
  • Rich Ma... w2xad 2012/07/09 16:25:57
  • w2xad Rich Ma... 2012/07/10 14:32:01
    w2xad
    You are great! You are so correct. I would not want to see the hate mail you get for telling the whole truth!! The reason I mentioned Dodd is because he and Frank started the banana slip and no one on either side said squat about their involvement.
  • mike 2012/07/09 15:47:01
    Bad
    mike
    +3
    America is going to end up like Greece, if nothing is done. There is no way Obama is still tied with Romney. Romney has created more jobs as governor of Massachusetts then Obama has in 3.5 years. He really has no clue, how to create jobs in the private sector. All he knows how to do, is to throw money away into the government sector for construction workers, teachers, etc. That doesn't help the free market. That only helps him. Because those jobs pay dues through the unions. And guess what, that money helps his campaign. Its sicks. This guy is worthless and I am tired of his lies. The ONLY thing he is good at is wasting our money, and giving speeches. God forbid he does an interview where he doesn't control the questions.

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