Originally posted by RT and his SE:

1) Do they pay a living wage or is it just minimum wage?
2) Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that unemployment benefits run out after 6 months. In these figures do you still count if you remain unemployed when your benefits run out?
3) What's been insourced? I think they threw that number out to see if it would stick.



1) The post above I think answered that in part. Also, note that home ownership is at a record level. Apparently, jobs are paying enough to buy a house, so in that sense yes..it is a living wage in most cases.

2) NEW unemployment claims at 4 year low. This is more an indication of an end to layoffs rather than new jobs BTW.

3) You can call it what you want but the point was that job income being brought to this country by others exceeded what we sent out (per Mr. O'Reilly). Also note was that the number of jobs shrank in China, India, Mexico...so they must not be getting as many jobs from us as we thought??

I agree with Jato as well...supply & demand matter much more than an gov economic policy. Buisiness sort it out on there own. I do think the tax cuts were a shot in the arm however..


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