The Aftershock: The Jobs Report on Friday

[Politico]

Strip away the spin, the fear, the smear, the blame, and you are left with the bottom-line: The jobs report on Friday will show that job growth has failed to keep pace with population growth for almost half a decade. We cannot have a real recovery until we create real job growth.

After this debate, it is becoming increasingly clear that being likeable is not good enough when somebody is in over their head. Obama is a nice guy, but he needs to swallow his pride and take responsibility for at least the last two years. He does not want to do that because deep, down inside he knows that we cannot have four more years of the last four years.

Romney will right the ship. Romney will produce the right results. Romney is ready.

[Politico]

Strip away the spin, the fear, the smear, and you are left with the bottom-line: The jobs report on Friday will almost surely show that job growth has failed to keep pace with population growth for the last half decade. We cannot have a real recovery until we create job growth.

After this debate, it is becoming increasingly clear that being likeable is not good enough when somebody is in over their head. We cannot have four more years of the last four years.

Romney will right the ship, and produce the right results.

That's one hell of a jobs report.  Hopefully they bring in Patrick Stewart to do a dramatic reading.

If there is a loss of employed persons, that could be fatal to Obama's reelection.  So could an increase in the unemployment rate.  However, it would not be a half decade of decline, only about 4 1/2 years.

I agree that net job losses in September (negative jobs growth) would be a game changer.  Is that what you mean?  I can't see anything short of that changing things, though.

No. Each month, people enter the working age population. If job growth does not outpace population growth, we do not see real job growth. We have not seen this happen in nearly half a decade.

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The important thing to remember is that Romney has his [Inks] together while Obama does not even seem interested in being president anymore...

[Politico]

You guys are going to make us (Romney supporters) look really silly when a few days from now, Obama still leads nationwide.

Cheer up. Tonight was the grand slam we've planned for, and it's going to be a back-to-back grand slam if the jobs report is below 100,000 (and no matter what, the jobs report will not help Obama).

[Politico]

Obama had a soggy debate performance, and Romney looked human and engaging tonight.  Obama didn't actually have any gaffes, though, so the news media is going to get bored of this fairly fast.

Like Gore in 2000, Obama had a non-obvious gaffe: The constant smirks at audience members, and his body language that said, "I'M NOT REALLY LISTENING TO GOVERNOR ROMNEY"

[Politico]

Over 5 million private sector jobs have been created since February 2010

Even CNN debunked this. Wake up, dude.

[Politico]

Mealy mouthed defenses of this bad economy will not save Obama.

When is Obama going to man up and take responsibility for the last year or two? Is that too much to ask for from a president?

[Politico]

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Having the core of your future workforce gutted and out of the market is a bad thing. You're welcome to spin and argue that it's not.

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True, but those pulling the cart have to see the fruits of their labour. We should have more people pulling the cart, not fewer.

As for the decline for men 25-45, it's got to be addressed. It's sort of the elephant in the back corner that nobody talks about. Eventually someones going to stand up and say, "hey, we've got a problem here".

Having lots of men unemployed, out of the job market without future prospects - isn't a good sign. What happens if all those men decide to get together and start taking what they want?

There's no point, Ben. Like Obama, Beet is in Washington, and is out-of-touch with what is happening outside of Washington. Hell, I am abroad at the moment, but even I know what is happening back home (and my ties are to more affluent counties relative to the nation's median county).

[Politico]

Politico, I really don't think you want to debate economic issues with Beet.

He is clinging to a failed economic doctrine that even the president can no longer defend.

The proof: Falling income levels for almost everybody, 8% unemployment, 23 million hopeless people, and all of this after four years of trillion dollar deficits. We cannot afford four more years of the last four years.

Keynesian economists are out-of-touch with the Washington Way and all it entails. Some keep saying "if only we stimulated more!" That's not the problem when the resources are wasted mostly on special interest groups.