Will Trump do better than 3.7% unemployment?

[Walt]

The labor force participation rate was higher when Trump left office than it is now.

That is a complete lie. When trump left office it was 61.3%, and now it is 62.8%. It is noticeably higher now than when trump left office. I do not know why you think you can get away with such blatant lies.

Biden high (so far) is half a percent lower than trump's high. trump's high was 3.5% lower than Obama's high. There is a steady lowering of workforce participation as Boomers retire, but we have seen strong job growth under Biden.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART

Unemployment has long been a nearly useless number.

If there were large numbers of people who wanted a job, and could hold a job, they would be getting jobs. The problem is there are not unemployed people in the conventional sense.

 

[Walt]

Unemployment stats are a huge lie, you moron. People who have made a career out welfare or crime and are not even looking for work are not counted as unemployed! If they were, the rate would be 20% and among blacks 75%.

Black workforce participation is higher than white workforce participation. With almost two thirds of Black adults working, and most of the rest either retired, or in some other way not looking for work, it is impossible for Black unemployment to be 75%.

Welfare has hard limits on eligibility without work, so they are getting jobs when people not on Welfare are not.

 

[Walt]

The numbers are made up/guesses now....they have to be as such a huge part of the economy is now black market....totally off the books. VDH talks about this often...people in California who rarely pay sales taxes (often buying stolen goods) and who work for cash under the table as we used to say.

OK, everybody look at their personal experience. Has America become more of a cash based economy in the last 50 years? Have we stopped using any electronic transfers of money? Are more things being sold informally?

In the real world, the black market is shrinking. Fewer people are working off the books.

 

[Walt]

This is inane. Trump was the "worst" only because he closed down the economy for a "two week pause to stop the spread", then two years later they started to open the economy again.

Fauci said jump, Trump said "How high??" and the liberals freaked because he was "anti-science"...

Wow, trump sounds completely incompetent by your telling. I disagree with your reasoning, but agree he was completely incompetent.

Is blaming trump for Covid more or less insane than blaming Biden for it? Biden was not even President when it happened.

 

[Concart]

He was, in fact, the worst President in modern history...not just on jobs. I can understand people who think a Republican is generally a better choice than a Democrat for the office, but anyone who still supports Trump for President is either insane or stupid. One could almost pick anyone at random in America and make a better choice than Trump.

They are neither insane nor stupid. At least no more stupid than the average idiot. They support Trump for the simplest and most obvious reason. They want a dictator. They believe the Constitution is simply a road block to turning America into a white male christian nation, so they unequivocally and fully heartedly support the undoing of the Constitution. They WANT concentration camps, occupied by suspected illegal immigrants. Due process? Not interested. They WANT to shut down the media and arrest journalists. Once again, due process? Not interested. They will rat out their neighbors, and they will watch public executions of Trumps political enemies and cheer on the bloodlust.

THIS IS WHO THEY ARE. Angry, ignorant, frightened and feckless. They think Trump is their savior.

 

[Concart]

This is inane. Trump was the "worst" only because he closed down the economy for a "two week pause to stop the spread", then two years later they started to open the economy again.

Fauci said jump, Trump said "How high??" and the liberals freaked because he was "anti-science"...

No, Trump was the worst because he tried to overthrow the government. And boy, you guys sure loved the unemployment number when Trump was in office, and now, suddenly, it's 'meaningless'. Trump sucked at absolutely everything, but his economic 'policies' sucked worse than almost anything else.

Trump said how high?

ROTFLMFAO!!!!!

"No, no, no, Dr. Fauci was there. First of all, he’s civil service, and you’re not allowed to fire him. But forget that because I don’t necessarily go by everything … but Dr. Fauci would tell me things, and I wouldn’t do them in many cases. But also, he wasn’t a big player in my administration. Dr. Fauci became a big player in the administration of Biden. He’s a very big player in Biden’s administration."

Just stop.. Please.

 

[Concart]

Black workforce participation is higher than white workforce participation. With almost two thirds of Black adults working, and most of the rest either retired, or in some other way not looking for work, it is impossible for Black unemployment to be 75%.

Welfare has hard limits on eligibility without work, so they are getting jobs when people not on Welfare are not.

Actually, I think that black unemployment is 147,023% As long as we're making up numbers. Go big or go home.

 

[Walt]

Actually, I think that black unemployment is 147,023% As long as we're making up numbers. Go big or go home.

They just make up random numbers to support their beliefs. The real numbers do not always support my beliefs, but that is just how the real world is.