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© 2017 AFPU.S. sees strong job creation in July as unemployment falls
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TumbleDry
DT didn't do much so far in term of policies. I would wait a year at least.
Economy is like a tanker. Slow to turn but fast to catch fire.
That said, companies would have got 6 months to stop investing and hiring. So, DT can claim he brought at least stability in the economy's growth since he is in office.
Blacklabel
Creation of 1 million jobs in 6 months. Guess he does have a magic wand because Obama said it couldn't be done and claimed Trump had no plan to do it.
dmacleod
False and not according to Redstate:
http://www.redstate.com/joesquire/2017/08/05/no-donald-trump-hasnt-created-million-jobs/
Not according to this site either:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/01/news/economy/trump-1-million-private-sector-jobs-paris-speech/index.html
Or this: http://theweek.com/speedreads/716565/trump-been-erroneously-claiming-weeks-that-created-million-jobs-now-thats-actually-true
The only place you will find this to be true is on fact-free sites like Breitbart and other dishonest media outlets.
Blacklabel
http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/04/news/economy/jobs-trump-vs-obama/index.html
CNN isn't Breitbart, neither is Politico.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/04/economy-added-209-000-jobs-in-july-241325
dmacleod
@Blacklabel - you obviously did not bother reading any of the articles that I cited. The politico link that you cited was discussed.
Here's what you chosen to ignore (from the Redstate link): "That recovery continues under Trump’s watch, but, like we said with Obama, Trump isn’t actually creating jobs. Yet, it is pretty much guaranteed that he and his rabid followers will tout this piece from the Politico:
No. Trump cannot truthfully say that he created a million jobs. It is not honest. Trump repealed some regulations that hampered job growth, but he, even as a businessman, did not create any jobs anywhere.
Blacklabel
Obama lost 3.4 million jobs in the same period but of course that was not his fault. He even mockingly gave the magic wand speech saying no way Trump could create jobs, yet he did.
without his full team in place, without his economic agenda and with all this Russia nonsense. Just wait until he can actually do what he plans without interference.
Oh yeah well he did it but it's not really "impressive" or anything because....reasons
https://thinkprogress.org/why-trumps-1-million-jobs-added-isnt-impressive/
dmacleod
Link for that fact, please.
I'm not sure you are arguing for you own cause here. Per your recent link:
"While one million is a nice number that looks great on headlines and cable news chyrons, the Trump administration has said in previous weeks it reached this number when it hadn’t. As reported in Politico, on June 1 Trump said he’s added 1 million jobs when at that point, the Labor Department only reported about 600,000. "
Also, since Trump is citing the Bureau of Labor Statistics, he's once again shown his hypocrisy:
Trump himself has denounced (data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics) multiple times as “phony,” “fiction,” and “one of the biggest hoaxes in modern politics.”
Blacklabel
From the CNN article I posted (with the it's never obama's fault about anything caveat they always add).
Of course, Trump's six-month record is far better than Obama's first six months, when 3.4 million jobs were lost. That's because Obama was sworn in during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, when the economy was hemorrhaging jobs.
regardless of what Trump said as a candidate, this method is how we keep score and compare performance in creating jobs and lowering unemployment. If Trump made another system you guys would just say it wasn't accurate anyway. He reported it a month early when it wasn't true yet but now it is.
dmacleod
No, it is not. The facts say otherwise, but please, continue to ignore them.
Blacklabel
I posted 3 links, 2 of which are from media who are actually mad that it's true. Media that is angry that Americans have jobs because they wanted to use bad numbers to blame Trump. But ok, moving on.
Blacklabel
It's just more great news to go along with the great jobs and unemployment numbers, nothing more.