Congratulations, House Republicans!

San Diego protesters say Hillary Clinton not welcome there because of Benghazi

Support the death penalty, don't you? I guess its all about what your definition of murder is.

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San Diego protesters say Hillary Clinton not welcome there because of Benghazi

You certainly enjoy your irony don't you? Have you ever seen the numbers fabricated about deportation, unemployment, not to mention fund raising?

I would love to see your evidence of any of those numbers being fabricated.

Funny how you didn't say anything about the healthcare law being based on lies.

I guess you know you have no argument there.

I didn't say anything because your statement is ludicrous and unfounded.

Jobs numbers released by The Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday were strong enough to keep stock markets in the green but brought little joy to jobs watchers.

Employers added 192,000 jobs in March, slightly below the 200,000 economists expected. The unemployment rate, which is drawn from a different survey of households, remained steady at 6.7%. The labor force participation rate came in at 63.2%, up slightly from February. The employment-population ratio was 58.9%, also just a tick above last month’s number.




The February employment number was revised up to plus 197,000 jobs. January payroll was also revised from 129,000 to plus 144,000, total employment gains those months were therefore 37,000 greater than previously reported. Job growth averaged 183,000 in the prior 12 months.

Following the news the S&P 500 and The Dow Jones Industrial Average were in the green in pre-market trading, gaining about .4% a piece.

“This current jobs report doesn’t move me in any significant way,” said Columbia Business School Professor Moshe Cohen in a phone call. He pointed out that a 10,000 move in the numbers one way or the other doesn’t tell us anything profound about the state of the economy. The market obsession with the jobs number, he says, stems from the Fed which is “carefully tweaking of policy to maintain sentiment and to keep the market steady.”

In recent months economists have largely agreed that severe winter weather has pulling down economic growth, including the jobs numbers. Cohen, however, points out that despite worse weather conditions in February there is not a meaningful difference between last month’s results and this months. “We aren’t seeing dramatic anything,” he says. So while weather potentially complicates the ability to track trends, job watchers simply aren’t asking the right questions.

Tom Gimbel, CEO of staffing firm LaSalle Network, similarly believes that markets need to get used to the 150,000s to 200,000 jobs added range as a “new normal.” He points out that the economy was spoiled from 1999 to 2007 when the internet was in growth mode. But now “job seekers have to stop looking for the job that is right for them” says Gimbel, instead looking to gain the skills needed for the jobs that exist.

Joseph Lake, US Analyst for The Economist Intelligence Unit, wrote in a note on the results, “Job growth gained momentum in February and March as the weather improved. Firms and consumers are making investments they deferred in January. This bounce in economic activity is driving companies to hire at a faster rate. The coldest start to the year since 1994 reduced business and consumer activity, discouraging firms from hiring workers. Still, the February and March payroll numbers are promising and suggest that the economy is shaking off the effects of the inclement weather.”




Taking a broader view Lake noted that the job market has been restrained since the recession but believe it is “shedding some of the slack.” For the first time in four years more people found jobs than dropped out of the work force. While private sector employment has finally hit it’s pre-recession peak, Lake warns against celebration, pointing to the historically low employment-population ratio.

The sectors with the most jobs added were business services with 57,000 jobs added, as well as health care and construction which gained 19,000 a piece. Employment was also up in the mining and logging industry. While local governments added 8,000 jobs, those gains were offset by a decline of 9,000 in federal government jobs.

. You said the(support for)) law was based on lies.

Left blames Fort Hood shooting on George Bush in warp speed

It didn’t even take 24 hours for the left to politicize Wednesday’s shooting at Fort Hood Texas. In addition to using the tragedy as a springboard for stricter gun control legislation, some are even blaming the event on — you guessed it — George W. Bush.

One Twitter user with the handle Rashid Hussein Obama, described himself as pretty much pro-everything, including pro-choice and pro-life. Apparently that doesn’t include pro-Bush, because the morning after the shooting, he tweeted:

Four more soldiers were just killed in Fort Hood as a result of GW Bush and Cheney’s war for oil. #FortHoodShooting

— Rashid Hussein Obama (@rashid7053) April 3, 2014

Huh? How did he arrive at that conclusion? Radio host Fred “Fred For Your Head” Reiss was only too happy to fill in the blanks with this tweet:

An Iraq-vet shooter with PSD at Fort Hood. Just another legacy of George W Bush & Co. Enjoy your painting W.

— Fred Reiss (@fredforyourhead) April 3, 2014