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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (78731)	6/2/2007 8:44:37 PM
From: SouthFloridaGuy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

4.6% unemployment rate. Jobless claims sub 300,000 during a "recession" according to the bear clan. 'Nuff said.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (78731)	6/3/2007 12:20:28 PM
From: John Chen	Respond to of 306849

Lizzie,re:"We need something over 150K jobs per month to keep up". We need more than that, with ALL the assest cost rising like 'stock, RE', faster than the posted 'inflation index'. To be sure, the 'inflation index' is '-1000%-' for some people, while 1000%+ for others. We don't need students in engineering field. We have plenty in India, China and any other places that is cheap (too many to list). Wait until the political system issue is resolved, then we have unlimited highly talented engineering pool of skilled labors from China). There are always 'handyman' kind of jobs for engineer/computer science. It is not the traditional career jobs. But to be assured by the gov. and corporation CxOs, for every job we offshore, 2,3/n high paying jobs are created. So it is a win-win-win situation when we outsoure all the good paying jobs.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (78731)	6/3/2007 2:38:26 PM
From: George K.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

John Mauldin's piece this week deals with the slowing economy, falling real wages, and employment. frontlinethoughts.com I don't trust a lot I read on jobs for two reasons: first too many commentators have shredded the birth/death "air jobs" component and second, what about all the unemployed or underemployed independent contractors out there that aren't on a payroll - particularly in real estate services, small contractors and other sole proprietors. Geo.