Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   I was waiting for this post Date:   10/3/2014 9:53:54 AM (updated 10/3/2014 10:05:13 AM)

Archie, I am glad you get the occasional opportunity to leave the Jokes section of the forum to drive by with your economic illiteracy.  For the sake of argument I will stipulate all your facts.

Let me ask you these questions and try to answer them honestly if you dare:

1) If we had the same levels of employment that we did at its peak in the last 30 years what would the real unemployment number be?

2) When was the last time we had this many people (over 92 million or 1/3rd of our population) totally out of the workforce?

3) How many people in the last reporting period that you reference gave up all hope of finding a job and are not counted in the sub 6% number?

4) If they were counted what would the reported unemployment number be?

5)  Of the new jobs created how many were part time and how many were low paying and how many were a result of striking workers at a grocery store going back to work after the strike?

6) What were the latest consumer confidence and housing numbers?

7) What percentage of Americans still believe we are in a recession?

Dude, we are six and a half years into the worst recovery ever and you are crowing about these numbers?  Given all the prognostication about the coming GOP wave in November it does not surprise me that some businesses are beginning to see a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel but remember, during the Reagan recovery we were adding 500,000 jobs every month.  It currently takes 175,000 new jobs just to keep up with population growth.  Economic illiteracy can be cured Archie.  By the way, I never expect you to answer my posts because you have no answer given that my facts, logic and reason are irrefutable. In this case I went the Aristotle route of argument. Now back to jokes where you can comment on how everyone else is so funny and how that joke was a good one or whatever.  I am so glad to have you drive by.