Now we just have to figure out a better way.

Well Erick, I’m glad you’re confident that an administration with a proclivity toward the authoritarian, more czars than cabinet members, numerous executive orders, a federal bureaucracy that is naturally supportive of a big government politician, two senior economists at BLS who have contributed to the Obama campaign and a media that has assiduously covered every failing of this president, hasn’t cooked the books with this jobs report, neither have his media allies manipulated polling.

Because you’re confident, I can rest easy!

Just a thought…one of the things I’ve learned in business management courses is that employers usually calculate employees in terms of FTEs or full-time employees (at 40 hours per week) If employers are reporting FTEs but job positions are part-time, wouldn’t this account for at least some of the discrepancy?

Also, a question for legal eagles…how does Obamacare’s definition of “full time” as being equal to or greater than 30 hours per week impact other labor laws indicating that full-time is equal to or greater than 40 hours per week? Will this have an impact that could require employers who have employees working more than 30 hours per week to pay OT for hours worked over 30? Or would other laws have to change for this to occur?

Flipping burgers at McDonalds on a part time basis has suddenly become a
job Barack Obama wants to brag about as a full time success story.

Confused by this. Are you implying that flipping burgers at McDonalds on a part time basis is not a job, or is a job not worth counting? Does the employee not get paid? Does he not pay taxes on his income? Does the company not benefit from his work? Do customers not benefit from his work? Does his work not benefit the economy as a whole?

scooter, very quickly and then I have to go to work at my part-time job (LOL)….

Erick isn’t indicting people who accept job positions part-time. He’s indicting policies that are being put into place at the federal level that could cause part-time employment to become the new “norm” for Americans.

We can do better than this. Much better. We have families who need for us to do better than this, scooter. If we can rein government and open up the doors for an environment that encourages growth and development of new businesses.

Romney/Ryan could open those doors for us as Americans.

what matters is:

http://youtu.be/oIry7n57oLY

By the way. this is on the same page as polling. Let’s not forget, 2008 saw the lowest number of white voters at the polls in recorded history. Whites make up 74% of the voting electorate. I’m guessing we won’t see this kind of white apathy in November.

I smell a BLS rat. To quote:

BLS explains that, “The number of persons employed part time for
economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time
workers) rose from 8.0 million in August to 8.6 million in September.
These individuals were working part time because their hours had been
cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job.”

Point 1: The new Walmart employee hired to work 20 hours per week has the same “job gain status” as the Apple new hire employed to work 40 hours per week. Apples and oranges. BS. completely ignores street-level reality.

Point 2: If an individual went from full-time to part-time employee because his or her hours were cut back, he or she represents zero job growth or decline.

American worship at the altar of economists. Might as well pray to fortune tellers, who as a group are likely more unbiased, informed, and honest.

I don’t recall that, myself.

The DNC has padded the employed by counting all the temporary election goons the SEIU has hired for $11 an hour to harrass GOP candidates all over the place. Gave’m Obama phones too… They’ll probably be adding busloads of paid folks to the employment roles that will head from state to state for day of registration voting. These jobs will go away in a month… Once they’ve served their purpose… Vote early, Vote often… That’s their motto…

It’s funny how Obama’s ‘crap’ always spins in a perfectly timed way that makes him look good.

Bingo. it wasn’t just done in one step – but incrementally over time. gimme a break.
very “high minded” to suggest that this is some monstrous coincidence. for me, I just don’t think it is going to work. that old joke. who are you going to believe – me or your lying eyes?
outside of the beltway media and the cocktail lounges of Manhattan and Cambridge, I doubt there is a lot of spontaneous celebrating going on in the country about this news.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BX0EMau8GZY good video

Everything in the BLS jobs report except the headline number is mediocre at best, signalling our sub-par recovery is continuing a distrubing trend:
- Employment in the establishment survey came in under expectations at a mere 114,000. How does declining jobs from August, and August declining from July and
only 114k jobs get a headline of a “positive jobs report”?
- It gets it from a lower unemployment rate, but we see that for the household survey to justify that a huge 2/3′s of the jobs added were part-time jobs going to people looking for full-time employment.

So a bad employment report is reported as ‘good’ because of a headline number that is skewed by a highly anomalous underlying data point, one that it actually a disturbing negative trend: a lot of people are being forced into lower paying part-time jobs instead of the fulltime jobs they really want.

We need to not miss the forest for a few particular trees. In this recovery, we are still down 5 million jobs below where we were at the begin. We have over 25 million Americans who are either unemployed, under-employed, or simply gave up on looking for jobs and are not counted in the unemployment numbers. The ‘progress’ we are making is too little, too slow.

America can and should be doing a lot better.

The employment survey was weak – 114,000 is a weak, below expected
number. We’d have seen a selloff on this report had the headline
unemployment not done what it did.

But it gets worse: The household survey had lots of jobs in sept
created. but this is a poll, and 2/3rds of the jobs in sept be
PART-TIME. Huh?!?! Since when does 2/3rds of our jobs come from parttime
work. Is this the ‘new normal’?

Whether it was intended or not, the ‘headline’ belies a weak employment
report, and its the weakness which matches up with weak manufacturing
data, and the global recessionary trends. Nothing great is happening on
jobs and for Obama to tout it is actually an embarrassment. Kind of like spiking the ball over killing Bin Laden the week before our ambassador is killed in a pre-planned AQ attack.

Here’s the problem with arguing against “the books have been cooked”. Limbaugh predicted that the regime would find a way to get the unemployment number below 8% before the election. Santelli also predicted this and many, many others also predicted this. And Shazaam! the unemployment rate was reported at 7.8%.

The number of new jobs created in September are lower than August. The number of new jobs created in August are lower than July. But the miracle of this regime, unemployment plummeted.

And a third point, Obama personally and his regime are pathological liars. They will do anything to win the election. Why is it not possible that they cooked the books? How else do you reduce the number of jobs and reduce the unemployment rate at the same time?

What’s amazing is the level of idiocy displayed by you, cowboy, with your junior high conspiracy theories. What’s next? Erick’s going to vote for Obama? Come on, you know you are thinking that …

Ok.

Simply put, the concern of the FED is keeping the economy out of deflation. Without an increasing money-supply, we will never see an increase in the size of the economy. They are joined at the hip (inflation and growth).

Job-creation is depressed by the most antibusiness administration in recent history. Not by the action of the Fed.