And I'm back Rolo and Cleandawg. Sorry I'm serving oversees so I can't be on here 24/7. So which mental midget should I address first, I think I'll start with Cleandawg. You really know nothing about stats and statistical analysis. You completely misrepresented the data in an attempt to skew it towards your talking point. That sir is either you just being ignorant or a liar. Again look at the trend line and you'll see that the decline in labor force participation began in the early 2000s, at least 6 - 7 years before Obama took office. So that being said, should I be able to say the cause is Bush, no because correlation does not mean causation.
Now for you Rolo, again you're full of shit! Nothing you provide corroborates any of the BS you're trying to shovel. You provided nothing but opinion pieces and twitter feeds and think that's Iron clade evidence. Again find me a single......ONE GOP candidate that's on the record as saying the economy lost 400,000 last month, just one. Now if you want real evidence here is a report from Beaure of Labor Statistics back in 2006:
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/11/art3full.pdf. Here's one line from the report -
Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 2006: "Every year after 2000, the rate declined gradually, from 66.8 percent in 2001 to 66.0 percent in 2004 and 2005. According to the BLS projections, the overall participation rate will continue its gradual decrease each decade and reach 60.4 percent in 2050"
This is 2 years before Obama even took office. The report sites several reasons for the decline, the three main being 1) The aging of the baby boomers 2) A decline in working women (in concert with the decline of working men since 1950's) 3) More young people are going to college.
Oh but you want more credible data you ask, how about this from the CBO for 2014
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/45011-LaborMarketReview.pdf.
Another quote directly from the report reads "Of the roughly 3 percentage-point net decline in the labor force participation rate between the end of 2007 and the end of 2013, about 1½ percentage points was the result of long-term trends
(primarily the aging of the population), about 1 percentage point was the result of temporary weakness in employment prospects and wages, and about one-half of a percentage point was attributable to unusual aspects of the slow recovery that led workers to become discouraged and permanently drop out of the labor force."
And here's one more for good measure from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
http://philadelphiafed.org/research...nes-in-the-labor-force-participation-rate.pdf
They conclude that "Almost all of the decline (80 percent) in the participation rate since the first quarter of 2012 is accounted for by the increase in nonparticipation due to retirement!
And lastly, if the economy is so so bad and people are dropping out of the labor force because they're discouraged at the fact that they can't find a job then why is the U.S. experience an historic high of open jobs. Here's a Wall Street Journal article from yesterday
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/07/07/u-s-job-openings-remain-at-historic-highs/
U.S. Job Openings Remain at Historic Highs. The article goes on to state "The report (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey) highlighted a growing split between job openings and hires, a sign employers are having trouble finding qualified candidates to fill positions". So if you can't find a job it's not because of Obama but because you have no skills, plan and simple.
Now I'm sure you'll again go to twitchy.com or Alex Jones to find some guy from Tupelo Mississippi that spouts the same BS you do but no one credible No one. Again COGNATIVE DISSONANCE
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. - Mark Twain
