MDC 5,891 Posted May 3, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) - Hiring through the rest of 2012 will lag the brisk pace set early this year. But it will be strong enough to push the unemployment rate below 8 percent by Election Day. That's the view that emerges from an Associated Press survey of 32 leading economists who foresee a gradually brighter jobs picture. Despite higher gas prices, Europe's debt crisis and a weak housing market, they think the economy has entered a "virtuous cycle" in which hiring boosts consumer spending, which fuels more hiring and spending. The survey results come before a report Friday on hiring during April. The April report is eagerly awaited because employers added surprisingly few jobs in March. That result contributed to fears that the economy might struggle to sustain its recovery. But the economists think the recovery will manage to reduce unemployment to 7.9 percent by Election Day from 8.2 percent in March. Falling unemployment would boost President Barack Obama's prospects in November. Going back to 1956, no president has lost re-election when the unemployment rate dropped in the two years before the election. And none has won when the rate rose over that time. Unemployment was 9.8 in November 2010. If the surveyed economists prove correct, the rate will be nearly 2 percentage points lower when Americans vote on Nov. 6. Link Wow, that would be terrific news. Even though I'm gainfully employed, I realize a lot of people are out of work right now and hope they can get back into the job market this year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DankNuggs 305 Posted May 3, 2012 Link Wow, that would be terrific news. Even though I'm gainfully employed, I realize a lot of people are out of work right now and hope they can get back into the job market this year. Yay spin. 7.995% vs 8.005% is the only care. Spin spin spin Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MDC 5,891 Posted May 3, 2012 Yay spin. 7.995% vs 8.005% is the only care. Spin spin spin Why so grumpy? Unemployment < 8% by year's end would be great news. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DanXIII 8 Posted May 3, 2012 DN would b1tch if it was 2%. That's what he does: Mope around through life in a sad state, b1tching about how awful everything is and how it's all teh libruls' fault. He's FFToday's Debbie Downer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NewbieJr 540 Posted May 3, 2012 Why so grumpy? Unemployment < 8% by year's end would be great news. Because the Republicans would love to see it rocket up to 12% around election time. It's not about the country, it's about which party wins. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
donhaas 18 Posted May 3, 2012 Imagine how low it would be without all of the Republican obstruction Either way, it's great that Obama dug us out of the Great Republican Recession and that things are on the up-and-up Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DankNuggs 305 Posted May 3, 2012 Why so grumpy? Unemployment < 8% by year's end would be great news. Libs slapping lipstick on a pig... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MDC 5,891 Posted May 3, 2012 Libs slapping lipstick on a pig... Well, I for one am delighted that AMERICA appears to be climbing out of recession and AMERICANS can get back to work! It's morning in AMERICA! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DankNuggs 305 Posted May 3, 2012 Imagine how low it would be without all of the Republican obstruction Either way, it's great that Obama dug us out of the Great Republican Recession and that things are on the up-and-up Shows the resilience of our economy when it can gasp for air under the crushing weight of incompetance and socialism... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
donhaas 18 Posted May 3, 2012 But wot about dat Chevy Volt? and dat time dat he sed '57 states'? Telaprampter in Chief! LOL! /DroKenmusclesBeski Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DankNuggs 305 Posted May 3, 2012 Well, I for one am delighted that AMERICA appears to be climbing out of recession and AMERICANS can get back to work! It's morning in AMERICA! Appears because of bogus manipulated metrics, not reality... Notice you are not saying it IS climbing out... kind of like how we've been 'gaining traction' for about 3 years now...lol Europe is officially in recession, countdown has begun until Obama uses this as his next excuse for why socialism doesn't work Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Strike 3,975 Posted May 3, 2012 Get enough people to quit looking for work and unemployment could get to 0 percent. Yay Obama. We're doing great!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MDC 5,891 Posted May 3, 2012 Appears because of bogus manipulated metrics, not reality... Notice you are not saying it IS climbing out... kind of like how we've been 'gaining traction' for about 3 years now...lol Europe is officially in recession, countdown has begun until Obama uses this as his next excuse for why socialism doesn't work I was just here to impart GOOD NEWS FOR AMERICA! Unfortunately some people like Dank here can't help but let their partisan politics get in the way and actively root against our country and hope for failure. If I were Obummer I'd throw you into Gitmo until after I've got this economy thing fixed and the war on terorr is won. You're lucky he's a much more forgiving leader, even when it comes to dullards like you. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MDC 5,891 Posted May 3, 2012 Get enough people to quit looking for work and unemployment could get to 0 percent. Yay Obama. We're doing great!!!! Are you unemployed? Is Dank? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DanXIII 8 Posted May 3, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ_R-G_i4Xk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DankNuggs 305 Posted May 3, 2012 Are you unemployed? Is Dank? Growth is awful, all of this is paper gains because of cheap liquidity that pumped up the stock market... Just like before the housing pop everyone was all smug with their paper wealth, which all disappeared.... Its a house of cards with no foundation... Smoke and mirrors... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
donhaas 18 Posted May 3, 2012 Shows the resilience of our economy when it can gasp for air under the crushing weight of incompetance and socialism... Socialism??? Are you talking about the booming 50s under MaoEisenhower viciously redistributing our "job creators" wealth at 91 percent? Or are you referring to MaoNixon's communist taxation of the rich at 70-some percent? Are you talking about the 80s economy under MaoReagan's punishment of our "job creators" at a much higher rate than Obummer? Surely, you're not talking about Obama's taxing of the super-rich (Romney) at 13 percent? Or that socialist focker forcing billion dollar Apple to "redistribute" at 9 percent..? Corporate profits are at an all-time high... CEOs are making 30x and 40x what they did under our conservative "share the wealth" icons MaoEisenhower, MaoNixon, and MaoReagan.... NASDAQ and Dow Jones are at crazy highs.... highs we haven't seen since the Clinton era... paying dividends like crazy... Where is this socialism that you speak of? Just because your Alabama GOP Hillbillies Association (AGHA) sends you a chain email saying that "Obaby'smomma is a kenyin mooslim socilest america-hater".... does not make it so, Danky Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
donhaas 18 Posted May 3, 2012 I just teabagged MaoEisenhower Interstate highway system..... what a komunist hom0! Did he ever show his birth certificate? I don't think so! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Recliner Pilot 61 Posted May 3, 2012 Are these the same economists that are blindsided by the monthly unemployment applications and job creation numbers every time they are released? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phurfur 70 Posted May 3, 2012 Why so grumpy? Unemployment < 8% by year's end would be great news. We were promised 3 1/2 years ago it would not go above 8% and now we are suppose to be happy at the possiblity it might go below 8%. Right! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DankNuggs 305 Posted May 3, 2012 Socialism??? Are you talking about the booming 50s under MaoEisenhower viciously redistributing our "job creators" wealth at 91 percent? Or are you referring to MaoNixon's communist taxation of the rich at 70-some percent? Are you talking about the 80s economy under MaoReagan's punishment of our "job creators" at a much higher rate than Obummer? Surely, you're not talking about Obama's taxing of the super-rich (Romney) at 13 percent? Or that socialist focker forcing billion dollar Apple to "redistribute" at 9 percent..? Corporate profits are at an all-time high... CEOs are making 30x and 40x what they did under our conservative "share the wealth" icons MaoEisenhower, MaoNixon, and MaoReagan.... NASDAQ and Dow Jones are at crazy highs.... highs we haven't seen since the Clinton era... paying dividends like crazy... Where is this socialism that you speak of? Just because your Alabama GOP Hillbillies Association (AGHA) sends you a chain email saying that "Obaby'smomma is a kenyin mooslim socilest america-hater".... does not make it so, Danky Friends of Mao Obama do very well... Apple pays little to no taxes and ships all their jobs off to china, GE pays 0 in taxes and shelters money overseas.... Unions/thugs/degenerates all get easy waivers on Obamacare.... Its laughable what our standard of living would be if we followed with 70% tax rates... You think we'd have any semblance of the money for your social justice experiments? LOLOL, itd be a non starter... which is ironic in a way.... Freedom and prosperity breeds contempt, envy, with socialism and decline/death to follow.... Mediocrity would have just bred more mediocrity... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phurfur 70 Posted May 3, 2012 DN would b1tch if it was 2%. That's what he does: Mope around through life in a sad state, b1tching about how awful everything is and how it's all teh libruls' fault. He's FFToday's Debbie Downer. and you praise failure! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
donhaas 18 Posted May 3, 2012 We were promised 3 1/2 years ago it would not go above 8% and now we are suppose to be happy at the possiblity it might go below 8%. Right! I was promised that we'd be in and out of Iraq lickety-split... minimal casualties; no trillions of dollars wasted... I guess we can both cry together :cry: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DankNuggs 305 Posted May 3, 2012 Also, the dow being at an alltime high is not congruent with 2% GDP growth, one has to give, want to guess which one it is? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DanXIII 8 Posted May 3, 2012 Friends of Mao Obama do very well... Apple pays little to no taxes and ships all their jobs off to china, GE pays 0 in taxes and shelters money overseas.... Unions/thugs/degenerates all get easy waivers on Obamacare.... Its laughable what our standard of living would be if we followed with 70% tax rates... You think we'd have any semblance of the money for your social justice experiments? LOLOL, itd be a non starter... which is ironic in a way.... Freedom and prosperity breeds contempt, envy, with socialism and decline/death to follow.... Mediocrity would have just bred more mediocrity... LOL It's almost as if you completely ignored what he wrote and just leaped further into your deranged OMGZSOCIALISM rantings. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DankNuggs 305 Posted May 3, 2012 LOL It's almost as if you completely ignored what he wrote and just leaped further into your deranged OMGZSOCIALISM rantings. that was a lesson that life got better the lower that taxes were... Idiots don't learn from lessons... They repeat mistakes... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MDC 5,891 Posted May 3, 2012 Growth is awful, all of this is paper gains because of cheap liquidity that pumped up the stock market... Just like before the housing pop everyone was all smug with their paper wealth, which all disappeared.... Its a house of cards with no foundation... Smoke and mirrors... So ... you're employed, right? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
donhaas 18 Posted May 3, 2012 Friends of Mao Obama do very well... Apple pays little to no taxes and ships all their jobs off to china, GE pays 0 in taxes and shelters money overseas.... Unions/thugs/degenerates all get easy waivers on Obamacare.... Its laughable what our standard of living would be if we followed with 70% tax rates... You think we'd have any semblance of the money for your social justice experiments? LOLOL, itd be a non starter... which is ironic in a way.... Freedom and prosperity breeds contempt, envy, with socialism and decline/death to follow.... Mediocrity would have just bred more mediocrity... Ok... I have no idea what you are saying now... I thought some intelligent conversation would flow... You are Shoop Pilot Version 2.0 without the obsession with 90s hit songs and Glory Days My contention: Obummer is, by far, the greatest "Republican" president ever... facts point it out... Your contention: Obummer is a socilest Kenyin mooslim Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phurfur 70 Posted May 3, 2012 I was promised that we'd be in and out of Iraq lickety-split... minimal casualties; no trillions of dollars wasted... I guess we can both cry together :cry: I was against the war from day one but no, I did not celebrate the end of the war while it was still going on. That is what the OP is doing with unemployment. HTH Try to keep up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MTSkiBum 1,594 Posted May 3, 2012 I didn't read this thread, did it turn into another left verse right pissing contest. :yawn: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phurfur 70 Posted May 3, 2012 Also, the dow being at an alltime high is not congruent with 2% GDP growth, one has to give, want to guess which one it is? It's an election year,there is money to be made people! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phurfur 70 Posted May 3, 2012 So ... you're employed, right? Get to work you slacker! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MDC 5,891 Posted May 3, 2012 We were promised 3 1/2 years ago it would not go above 8% and now we are suppose to be happy at the possiblity it might go below 8%. Right! Well, it did go over 8% but I'm glad to hear it might be under 8% by the end of the year ... GOOD NEWS, right? Americans getting back to work, earning a living, turning things around ... warms my patriotic heart. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phurfur 70 Posted May 3, 2012 Well, it did go over 8% but I'm glad to hear it might be under 8% by the end of the year ... GOOD NEWS, right? Americans getting back to work, earning a living, turning things around ... warms my patriotic heart. I want our $1 trillion back. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
donhaas 18 Posted May 3, 2012 I was against the war from day one :lol: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MDC 5,891 Posted May 3, 2012 Get to work you slacker! This is what's wrong with this country: Welfare loafers who don't value work and want everyone else to be unemployed, too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DanXIII 8 Posted May 3, 2012 that was a lesson that life got better the lower that taxes were... Idiots don't learn from lessons... They repeat mistakes... Well yeah, life for rich people got better when their taxes were cut. In other news, water = wet. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Strike 3,975 Posted May 4, 2012 Get enough people to quit looking for work and unemployment could get to 0 percent. Yay Obama. We're doing great!!!! Wow, looks like I nailed this one. But what's new? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DankNuggs 305 Posted May 4, 2012 U-6 is at 14.5% and is unchanged from March... So you are trading unemployed for underemployed and cheering about it... Sounds like it may even be cheering about seasonal part time employment figures.... LOL Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MDC 5,891 Posted May 4, 2012 U-6 is at 14.5% and is unchanged from March... So you are trading unemployed for underemployed and cheering about it... Sounds like it may even be cheering about seasonal part time employment figures.... LOL It's a good thing nobody was ever underemployed before Obummer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites