Republican Recession Watch: 80,000 Jobs Lost In March And John McCain Doesn’t Know Much About Economics

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The employers cut payrolls for a third month in a row in March, slashing 80,000 jobs for the biggest monthly job decline in five years as the economy headed into a downturn, government data on Friday showed.

The Labor Department revised the first two months of the year’s job losses to a total of 152,000 from a previous estimate of 85,000. The March unemployment rate jumped to 5.1 percent from 4.8 percent, the highest since a matching rate in September 2005.

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12 Responses to “Republican Recession Watch: 80,000 Jobs Lost In March And John McCain Doesn’t Know Much About Economics”


  1. Gravatar Icon 1 jr

    McCombover’s hoovernomics advocacy is never mentioned when reporters ride his campaign bus with him

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 Cosmic Rabbit

    80,000 lost jobs in March, over 200,000 jobs lost since the first of the year…curious here, how many of those jobs were LOST BY ILLEGAL ALIENS? How can all three Presidential Candidates support AMNESTY and a pathway to citizenship when illegal aliens hold MILLIONS of JOBS rightfully belonging to American Citizens, and where is the mainstream media in asking the candidates this important question.

  3. Gravatar Icon 3 C.S.Strowbridge

    “80,000 lost jobs in March, over 200,000 jobs lost since the first of the year…curious here, how many of those jobs were LOST BY ILLEGAL ALIENS? How can all three Presidential Candidates support AMNESTY and a pathway to citizenship when illegal aliens hold MILLIONS of JOBS rightfully belonging to American Citizens, and where is the mainstream media in asking the candidates this important question.”

    They are not asking that question, because it is a stupid question.

    People are not losing jobs because of illegal aliens, people are losing jobs because the economy has been built on consumer debt for so long that it was bound to fail and no one in the government bothered to do anything to prevent that, or at least lessen the inevitable fall. In fact, they encouraged it because the short term gains looked good and that was politically advantageous.

  4. Gravatar Icon 4 (: Tom :)

    Can we call this a recession yet?

  5. Gravatar Icon 5 durablend

    “It’s all the Democrats fault!!!!!”

    /wingnut mode off

  6. Gravatar Icon 6 durablend

    Forgot:

    “$300 tax rebate checks will save the day!!!!!!!”

    /Bush mode off

  7. Gravatar Icon 7 Enlightened Liberal

    Looks like Bush will be the first president in how long to have 2 recessions on his watch.

  8. Gravatar Icon 8 C.S.Strowbridge

    “Can we call this a recession yet?”

    Many economists already are.

  9. Gravatar Icon 9 Sean D. Martin

    Cosmic Rabbit: “80,000 lost jobs in March, over 200,000 jobs lost since the first of the year…curious here, how many of those jobs were LOST BY ILLEGAL ALIENS?

    CSS: “They are not asking that question, because it is a stupid question.”

    It’s also stupidly phrased and has a stupid assumption behind it.

    If the jobs lost were lost by illegal aliens what would you have to complain about, Rabbit? The illegals come here because of the availability of jobs. If the jobs go away, so would the illegals. Right? Problem solved.

    It’s not recession, folks! It’s Bush’s new immigration plan!

  10. Gravatar Icon 10 durablend

    Sean: It’s not recession, folks! It’s Bush’s new immigration plan!

    It’s actually Bush’s plan to eliminate poverty. Jobs go bye-bye and essentials become too expensive so the poor and middle class die!

  11. Gravatar Icon 11 Zython

    80,000 lost jobs in March, over 200,000 jobs lost since the first of the year…curious here, how many of those jobs were LOST BY ILLEGAL ALIENS? How can all three Presidential Candidates support AMNESTY and a pathway to citizenship when illegal aliens hold MILLIONS of JOBS rightfully belonging to American Citizens, and where is the mainstream media in asking the candidates this important question.

    So, Americans deserver jobs over immigrants by virtue of the fact that they’re natural born citizens? Boy, you really have an entitlement problem.

    “They’z a takin’ our jerbs!”

  12. Gravatar Icon 12 Sean D. Martin

    “They’z a takin’ our jerbs!”

    Yeah, I get tired of hearing that, too. Like you can find anyone who actually says it who is willing to take one of the jobs the illegals are supposedly stealing.

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