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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (271972)2/4/2006 3:01:20 PM
From: combjelly   of 1577291
 
"Take it for what it's worth, but don't expect me to believe you when you claim that more people choose not to work these days, then toss up a bunch of hand-picked data points that don't correlate with each other."

Ok, why don't they correlate with each other? Because they are in different articles? Or is that just an assumption on your part?

Sure, unemployment has been calculated the same way for years. Always with the acknowledged weakness of only counting those actively seeking work. Oddly enough, when people go for long periods of time with no success, they stop seeking full time employment and try other things. Usually consisting of doing odd jobs and maybe day labor. Or public assistance. Or crime. Case in point. In the early 1980's, the city of Galveston had an official unemployment rate of under 4%. Sounded good until you found out that over 25% of the city's population was on some form of assistance. All of the unskilled jobs filled as soon as they came open, and all of the job demand was at the Medical Branch, ANICO or the various research institutes. So that 25% was stuck with being hired by the day, when they worked at all.

But, ok. We had a substantial job loss between 2001 and 2003. After net growth in jobs started to exceed net loss, the net gain in many months didn't meet the growth in population. You have to account for this somehow. Are you claiming that the population didn't really grow at that rate? How do you account for those facts? Just ignore them? You seem to be in denial over them.
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