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R&E Political Discussion - Spring 2026
[ R&E Political Discussion - Spring 2026 ]

92,000 jobs lost in Feb.

Posted by Lucky on March 6, 2026, 1:35 pm

It has been years since that happened.

Here's the real cause ...

Posted by Mondo Fuego™ on March 7, 2026, 3:43 am, in reply to "92,000 jobs lost in Feb. "

Most of which were useless gub'mint jobs...

Posted by Cheap Seats Shaman *= on March 6, 2026, 1:40 pm, in reply to "92,000 jobs lost in Feb. "

...and those who spearheaded fraud schemes.

All of those government jobs are more valuable than whatever simple thing you do.

Posted by KR on March 6, 2026, 4:59 pm, in reply to "Most of which were useless gub'mint jobs..."

Actual government job losses were c. 10,000.

Posted by 7:77 on March 6, 2026, 7:16 pm, in reply to "All of those government jobs are more valuable than whatever simple thing you do."

The total figure of around 92,000 is skewed a bit high by strikes in the healthcare sector (strikes + other losses: 28k). Along with that, the biggest losses were in leisure and hospitality (25k), manufacturing* (11k), construction (11k), transportation (11k), and tech (12k).

Note that these figures are quite consistent over multiple sources with very different political alignments (from the Economic Policy Institute to Fox News). I do not, however, know if this is simply because each used the same source material or because they did their own research and it pointed to the same figures. If anyone cared enough to dig deeper, I'd suggest beginning with the actual job report itself.

*Yes, there's still manufacturing in the US...crazy, huh? =P In any case, 14 out of 15 of the last months had losses in this sector.

A small step towards affordability and winding down big gummint.

Posted by Mondo Fuego™ on March 7, 2026, 3:24 am, in reply to "Actual government job losses were c. 10,000."

My friggin property tax just took a 46% hike. Nashville has billions in new office, condo and apartment buildings which should contribute enough to the tax fund to keep taxes low for everyone. Something is rotten in the State of Denmark.

Poor little Mongo. You have to contribute your fair share.

Posted by KR on March 7, 2026, 5:57 pm, in reply to "A small step towards affordability and winding down big gummint."

STFU

Hey, AngryMan ...

Posted by Mondo Fuego™ on March 7, 2026, 10:34 pm, in reply to "Poor little Mongo. You have to contribute your fair share."

ESAD

I see you got the password to your Mom's computer, again.

Posted by Cheap Seats Shaman *= on March 6, 2026, 6:36 pm, in reply to "All of those government jobs are more valuable than whatever simple thing you do."

Link please!

Posted by Lucky on March 6, 2026, 2:11 pm, in reply to "Most of which were useless gub'mint jobs..."

?????

Hot Links...

Posted by Cheap Seats Shaman *= on March 6, 2026, 3:30 pm, in reply to "Link please!"

Oh, and ESAD ProgComm.

NO WORRIES…some people are doing quite well.

Posted by CHE on March 6, 2026, 3:59 pm, in reply to "Hot Links..."

cut and paste characters

Yep! Just ask any congressman or senator how they made millions...

Posted by Cheap Seats Shaman *= on March 6, 2026, 4:35 pm, in reply to "NO WORRIES…some people are doing quite well."

...with their meager salary?

seriously. On this we agree

Posted by trish on March 7, 2026, 2:52 pm, in reply to "Yep! Just ask any congressman or senator how they made millions..."

The money matters need closer scruitiny, including the President

He had money BEFORE DC. The other scumbags sold their principles for money IN DC.

Posted by Mondo Fuego™ on March 8, 2026, 12:35 pm, in reply to "seriously. On this we agree"

Wealth enviests can't see the difference.

Remember, DNFTT

Posted by Cheap Seats Shaman *= on March 7, 2026, 3:43 pm, in reply to "seriously. On this we agree"

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