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Expatriate 
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Posted on: Jun. 02 2017,7:36 am |
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The only economic growth Trump is responsible for is covfefe paper...
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was1
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Posted on: Jun. 02 2017,8:26 am |
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A few observations and questions/concerns on all this:
- when we had job gains of the same or even more in a month under O the right reporting was that it was a) not enough, or b) made up numbers. So, why now is it "rip roaring" and true?
- Same goes for the unemployment rate. How it now a true number but before Trump said it was made up?
- One big concern I have of us leaving the agreement is that we are giving up our standing in the world as a world leader. Do we really want China and/or Russia taking more of that role?
- I believe there are more jobs to create while being in the agreement. Need to develop and produce more efficient equipment and energy sources. I think it takes more jobs to do those things than to keep coal mines going.
- when you have many, many large corporations saying leaving the agreement is wrong and will actually hurt jobs, I tend to believe them
And, if T doesn't believe in any of this, why has he been working on getting approval for a new, higher, sea wall at his golf resort in Scotland?
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Self-Banished
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Posted on: Jun. 02 2017,9:37 am |
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^ kinda my point, the liberal media sang praises for Buster for the same type of numbers, pretty quiet now. 
By the way, Dow Jones at 21161, up 17 to a new high at this posting.
Near 3000 up since president Trump was elected.
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Posted on: Jun. 02 2017,9:42 am |
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Yeah, stock market is so good for the country. When it's booming, rich people get richer. When it tanks, taxpayers have to subsidize the losses. I think we were better off in '29, when they just jumped out of windows.
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Posted on: Jun. 02 2017,9:43 am |
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You're right
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
U6 a year ago was 9.7, now 8.4
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was1
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Posted on: Jun. 02 2017,1:38 pm |
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And the #'s came in lower than expected.
The question is, are they lower because there are less jobs, or are there no qualified candidates for the jobs that are available? Or, are there just too many people who don't want to work? I know I see many job openings all over where I live and all over the twin cities when I am there.
If you are banking on a jobs increase from coal jobs because of the Paris pullout, you better also be hoping for natural gas prices to race up, because the current cheap NG prices is the true downfall of coal. I say we step up our capture, storage and transport of NG instead of Coal. Get building more capture and storage in ND instead of flaring off so much and then get some gas transport pipelines built to get the gas to where it needs to be.
If the environmentalist don't want the pipeline built, then put up some huge gas generated power plants right by the wells and then string out DC lines from there to the rest of the countries electrical grid. There is a lot of energy there, right now, that is being wasted.
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Posted on: Jun. 02 2017,2:47 pm |
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^^ as far as jobs go, labor participation rate? I'd heard that it had fallen more.
Progressives hate high tension power lines, ALMOST as much as they hate pipelines.
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