Jobs take a hit in September

[TheTrueCentrist]

money.cnn.com/2010/10/08/news/economy/september_jobs_report/index.htm

“Government job losses, especially temporary census positions, have dragged down the overall number for several months.”

"Private businesses added 64,000 workers in September. It marked the ninth straight month the private sector added jobs, but was a slowdown from the previous two months. "

The government is shrinking and private business is growing. Doesn’t this mean we’re on the right track?

 

[Ridgerunner]

money.cnn.com/2010/10/08/news/economy/september_jobs_report/index.htm

“Government job losses, especially temporary census positions, have dragged down the overall number for several months.”

"Private businesses added 64,000 workers in September. It marked the ninth straight month the private sector added jobs, but was a slowdown from the previous two months. "

The government is shrinking and private business is growing. Doesn’t this mean we’re on the right track?

No, it doesn’t. If the requirement to just stay even is 150,000 new jobs/month, quite obviously job creation falls increasingly behind every month that it’s below 150,000. Perhaps the rate of loss relative to need is slowing (though that slowdown is narrowing, as you say), but the losses are still losses. If 150,000 new entrants find 64, 000 jobs, that’s some 86,000 who didn’t get a job. To that number gets added another 86,000 the next month, etc.

 

[tjm190]

I wouldn’t call the loss of census jobs a ‘shrinking of government’ in the way most people understand it- regardless of political affiliation, letting census workers go when the census is over seems like common sense.

 

[Scoobyshme]

I think we’re on the cusp of the whole economy collapsing. Really. I’m normally an optimist at most things, but I’ve been around a while and I suspect we’re just about to get it right between the economic eyes! And, it’s not like we don’t deserve it. None of us should rest easy at night living in a society that sanctions the murder of the unborn, among many other great sins. Historically, God knocks a society like ours on our cans to wake us up! God loves His friends, but sometimes He allows those who aren’t His friends to chastise His friends. The greatest evil of our times, I think, is that good men do nothing in the face of evil. We have allowed abortion, euthanasia, artificial birth control, anti-Catholicism, etc., to become the norms of our society. We should’ve done lots more.

 

[Mark77]

I think we’re on the cusp of the whole economy collapsing. Really. I’m normally an optimist at most things, but I’ve been around a while and I suspect we’re just about to get it right between the economic eyes! And, it’s not like we don’t deserve it. None of us should rest easy at night living in a society that sanctions the murder of the unborn, among many other great sins. Historically, God knocks a society like ours on our cans to wake us up! God loves His friends, but sometimes He allows those who aren’t His friends to chastise His friends. The greatest evil of our times, I think, is that good men do nothing in the face of evil. We have allowed abortion, euthanasia, artificial birth control, anti-Catholicism, etc., to become the norms of our society. We should’ve done lots more.

**Exactly!

A large number of the 50 million+ innocent babies murdered in the US by abortion since 1973 would be productive, tax paying young citizens helping strengthen our dying society!

"And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.’ " (MT 25:40)

OUCH!
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Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, Ora Pro Nobis Peccatoribus!

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