To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (52960 ) 8/6/2004 8:57:57 PM From: J.B.C. Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 89467 >>jobless rate went down due to exhausted benefits<< This is only partly correct. Self employment starts are not counted, part time work is not counted. But once again it doesn't fit your model so something is wrong with it. >>my God, you are stupid<< Just call me Forrest, Forrest Gump. Are you bi-polar, you certainly act it? >>your arrogance is as extreme as your ignorance I took you off IGNORE just to stick it to you you are incapable of learning<< I think you've called this a straw dog argument in the past. Here's the type of person you are...If someone has a common ground with you that's great, if they disagree with you, they're anything from a moron, a fuching moron, naive and a myriad of other names. It is you that displays arrogance and ignorance. And now you are the great economist yet you have absolutely no basis in your past investing record to support it. And you want to sell it to others? You've invested in America's failure, I am now beginning to believe that you are too arrogant to see it. The jobs data is poor, however it's one month data point...go ask someone that really understands statistic and find the significance of one month. >>we need 1 million new jobs per month to keep pace with population growth<< PROVE IT! from January 1994 till Dec 2000 emploment figures increased 15 M from 122 M jobs to 137 M jobs according to the US department of labor. If you were correct (which you are not) that's 94 months. Therefore there would be 79 million more unemployed. Sorry Jimbo that ain't sellin' in Peoria. You contradict yourself but you've become to believe your own BS. Jim