Wednesday, December 07, 2016

Suddenly substandard

Hot Air: "Now that Trump’s won, media suddenly notices that a lot of new jobs are crappy."

This is a topic that Zero Hedge brings up with every monthly unemployment report: "Since 2014 The US Has Added 547,000 Waiters And Bartenders And Lost 36,000 Manufacturing Workers."

So the great Obama recovery has brought us low unemployment rates through: 1) record low participation and 2) a surplus of crummy jobs.  ("Shovel ready" anyone?)  Not to worry: now that President Four-putt is leaving the issue of "McJobs" will be all the rage again.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lets cut through the crap. Obama is the first president to actually increase the threat of a nuclear attack on the United States and/or its allies. Nice legacy.

Anonymous said...

Uh huh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83

Anonymous said...

I'm confused. How did that exercise allow a country without nuclear weapons an easier pathway to make them in the future? I didn't see a mention in the wikipedia article about shipping billions of dollars to the Soviets, lifting sanctions and creating a treaty where we can't go to certain spots and/or have to give them weeks of advanced notice before the surprise inspection.

Aside from that, yeah, it's the same thing. Totally. Uh huh.


Anonymous said...

Aside from that, yeah, it's the same thing. Totally. Uh huh.


Oof. Sarcasm misfire. The entire point of the contrast is that your grandiose criticism is false. They’re certainly NOT the same thing, because the Reagan/Russia policy incident was infinitely more foolhardy and dangerous.