4.7% Unemployment Rate

**STEELERS1** · 02-03-2006, 07:14 PM

The February unemployment rate for the U.S. dropped to 4.7% it was announced today. This is a 4 1/2 year low. I think much of the credit for this low rate goes to President Bush's tax cuts and economic plans and also to Alan greenspan and the FED policies he has helped to oversee.

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**YNKYH8R** · 02-04-2006, 11:15 AM

For once wouldn't it feel good to have a President that doesn't have to have people defend and make so many excuses for? I mean come on; when you add up everything into the big picture we, as a nation, have as much use for Bush as any of us have use for a third ass cheek.

**STEELERS1** · 02-04-2006, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by YNKYH8R

For once wouldn't it feel good to have a President that doesn't have to have people defend and make so many excuses for? I mean come on; when you add up everything into the big picture we, as a nation, have as much use for Bush as any of us have use for a third ass cheek.

What you meant to say was isn't it nice to finally have a President we don't have to make excuses for like we did when Clinton was President. From all of his morality problems, to selling missle technology to China, to Hillary's failed health care bomb, to campaign funny money from overseas, the list went on and on.

**YNKYH8R** · 02-04-2006, 01:48 PM

Actually no. You see you seem to run under the assumption that most conservatives seem to; that democratic liberals we just in absolute love with Clinton and that we'd come to the rescue when his name is so terribley slandered.
While Clinton was no angel I'm not going to try to defend him with the gusto that some people try to defend Bush with. I don't have to because even he wasn't some one I would call a model President. He was way better than Bush, but still had has rough spots.
So I stand by my previous post when I say "we need Bush like we need a third ass cheek."

**TexasGal** · 02-04-2006, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by STEELERS1

The February unemployment rate for the U.S. dropped to 4.7% it was announced today. This is a 4 1/2 year low. I think much of the credit for this low rate goes to President Bush's tax cuts and economic plans and also to Alan greenspan and the FED policies he has helped to oversee.

Whatever

**STEELERS1** · 02-04-2006, 03:41 PM

This forum is in need of a few good conservative Republicans. Bush has a little less than 3 years to go in his 2nd term. Let's hope he gets maybe one or two more picks for the Supreme Court.

**YNKYH8R** · 02-04-2006, 05:37 PM

Originally Posted by STEELERS1

This forum is in need of a few good conservative Republicans. Bush has a little less than 3 years to go in his 2nd term. Let's hope he gets maybe one or two more picks for the Supreme Court.

Let's hope he gets hit by a bus.

**STEELERS1** · 02-04-2006, 06:10 PM

Being jealous of conservatives and President Bush will get you no where.

**TexasGal** · 02-04-2006, 07:54 PM

Originally Posted by STEELERS1

This forum is in need of a few good conservative Republicans. Bush has a little less than 3 years to go in his 2nd term. Let's hope he gets maybe one or two more picks for the Supreme Court.

You radical rights really freak me out. In your pursuit of order you create chaos and turn democracy into a "buddy system".

**Surfergal** · 02-04-2006, 09:40 PM

Frankly, I am amazed by these numbers with all the huge staff reductions at major companies this year and last year, not to mention all the people unemployed due to the huricanes. Cuts from the big companies probably wil not show up for a while due to the relatively generous severance packages. I wonder if many people simply no longer qualify for uemployment or have given up looking for employment.

**mesue** · 02-04-2006, 10:25 PM

Surfergal you probably already know this but once someone becomes unemployed and uses up all their unemployment benefits even though they have not yet found a job they are not counted at all in this number. So we could have a 10% of the population unemployed and still searching for a job without any benfits and all this is going to reflect is 4.7 when in actuality it is 14.7. And I agree with you this number seems suspiciously low considering all the downsizing of large companies and Katrina's victims.

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