October jobs report exceeds expectations
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Someone tell BLS Truther Sen. Chuck Grassley (I.O.W.A. – idiots out wandering around) that the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued its October jobs report on time as scheduled, despite Hurricane Sandy earlier this week.
Let the BLS Truthers freak out over today's new jobs report: the U.S. economy created 171,000 jobs in October, far more than expected, while American businesses created 184,000 jobs — the best month for the private sector since February. U.S. job growth accelerates, exceeds expectations:
The overall unemployment rate ticked slightly higher, to 7.9%, but that's the result of a positive trend — more Americans entered the workforce, which is exactly what we'd hope to see in an improving economy. [That would be the discouraged workers who have "given up" that we hear so much about.]
Even more encouraging, the new report revised job totals from August and September, and both were updated in a good direction, adding a combined 84,000.
For context, I'd note that so far in 2012 (which still has two months to go), the economy has created over 1.56 million jobs, which is already better than five of the eight years of the Bush/Cheney era.
Here's another chart, this one showing monthly job losses/gains in just the private sector since the start of the Great Recession. [There have been 32 consecutive months of private sector job growth.]
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg endorses President Obama
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Four years ago, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg did not endorse a candidate for president. Probably because Bloomberg still harbored dreams of running for president himself, until the casino capitalism of Wall Street that made him a billionaire came crashing down in an economic catastrophe in September 2008.
Now that Bloomberg has since established himself as the "Nanny" of New York trying to regulate everything from what people can eat and drink to how much exercise they should get, his dreams of becoming president are over. Nobody likes that guy.
This year, following the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy on the New York region, Mayor Bloomberg has endorsed President Obama in a sometimes critical editorial opinion for the Bloomberg View. Mike still suffers from that "masters of the universe" grandiosity of Wall Street tycoons, after all. A Vote for a President to Lead on Climate Change:
The devastation that Hurricane Sandy brought to New York City and much of the Northeast — in lost lives, lost homes and lost business — brought the stakes of Tuesday’s presidential election into sharp relief.
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Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it might be — given this week’s devastation — should compel all elected leaders to take immediate action.
Here in New York, our comprehensive sustainability plan — PlaNYC — has helped allow us to cut our carbon footprint by 16 percent in just five years, which is the equivalent of eliminating the carbon footprint of a city twice the size of Seattle. Through the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group — a partnership among many of the world’s largest cities — local governments are taking action where national governments are not.
But we can’t do it alone. We need leadership from the White House — and over the past four years, President Barack Obama has taken major steps to reduce our carbon consumption, including setting higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks. His administration also has adopted tighter controls on mercury emissions, which will help to close the dirtiest coal power plants (an effort I have supported through my philanthropy), which are estimated to kill 13,000 Americans a year.
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If the 1994 or 2003 version of Mitt Romney were running for president, I may well have voted for him because, like so many other independents, I have found the past four years to be, in a word, disappointing.
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Nevertheless, the president has achieved some important victories on issues that will help define our future. His Race to the Top education program — much of which was opposed by the teachers’ unions, a traditional Democratic Party constituency — has helped drive badly needed reform across the country, giving local districts leverage to strengthen accountability in the classroom and expand charter schools. His health-care law — for all its flaws — will provide insurance coverage to people who need it most and save lives.
When I step into the voting booth, I think about the world I want to leave my two daughters, and the values that are required to guide us there. The two parties’ nominees for president offer different visions of where they want to lead America.
Obama campaign ad: ‘Solid’ (featuring Colin Powell)
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The Obama campaign is up with an ad entitled "Solid," featuring the endorsement by Colin Powell from last week. Ad description:
Obama for America's new television ad highlights last week's powerful
endorsement from retired four star general and former Secretary of State
Colin Powell. In his support of President Obama, which represents a
powerful show of bipartisanship, Powell cited the President's leadership
in bringing us back from the brink of economic collapse, ending the war
in Iraq, putting in place a plan to end the war in Afghanistan, and his
strong record of fighting terrorism as reasons for his endorsement.
Like
Secretary Powell, the American people know that President Obama is a
strong, steady and decisive leader with an affirmative vision to move
our country forward.
Video below the fold.
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