Labor Participation Rate Plunges to 1978 Levels

Posted by khalling 11 years, 10 months ago to Economics
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"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."


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  • Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah, but only the SRT8. Rockymountainpirate: you should have kept it! It'd be a sweet sell today & get the new Challenger SRT8. I just wish Dodge had made them with a 6-speed manual.
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Unfortunately I had the 305 and you are right about the oil issue. I had a rocker arm stud worn half through when I pulled the rocker covers... Fortunately I traded it off after fixing the stud.
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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I wish I still had my '73 Dodge Challenger, super blue with white interior, 340, 4 barrel, 4 on the floor (pistol grip). I couldn't get the hemi I wanted...a pox on your house ralph nader.
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  • Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I hope you had the 350 under the hood and not the crap 305 w/the bad oil flow problem on the #8 cylinder. Not that I would know! Where's the Steve Miller Band? The Police are cool, but hey, we are limited to 1978 here...
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Now that's what I'm talking about! :) I owned one of those 78 Monte Carlos. Mine had a T-top. It was silver with a red interior. I'll have a Michelob please.
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  • Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Fine. I'll party with all of you. Pardon me as I jump back into my '78 Chevy Monte Carlo & get some bottled Schlitz... =)
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  • Posted by straightlinelogic 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I've been following zerohedge for years, and its sources are almost always documented. It is an invaluable site for anyone who wants to get behind the BS that passes for economics and financial news in the MSM. The site has its biases: free markets, gold, government and banker conspiracies, but through the years I've seen stuff that only became "news" months later in the MSM. It also has a lot of good stuff from off the beaten track sources, which the reader is always free to verify on his own.
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  • Posted by Commander 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Soon. Unfortunately the rest of tonight and this weekend is going to be spent re-collating a 2 foot stack of documents....gonna put a LOOTER on his ear!
    Emotionally....I'm ready to go "RANGAR/RAGNAR"! ..btw has anyone else mentioned that honorary?
    Good night
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  • Posted by Commander 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thank you for the data. My derision is aimed at the format of the article. Apologies toward your intent. Expressed earlier this week "Would not be the last time I 'missed' something".

    The baby boom bubble will rise and fall over the next thirty years. SSI will be "taxed" to breaking. The lack of saving of the "generation" will force extended family households. My sister and I have been planning on this, on behalf of our parents, for the last ten years.

    Do you think this might be causal in all the "amnesty" toward illegal immigration? We need a younger, larger workforce to pay for the financial inequities of the "system" and our lack of foresight as a nation.. Law of unintended consequences...we have no work...minimum wage and general tax rates preclude hiring and development.

    "Future Shock, what is it? The premature coming of the future. And for those not prepared...the effects will be devastating." (Toeffler) I was nine years old when I saw the film....Psyche has been tuned ever since.
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  • Posted by mminnick 11 years, 10 months ago
    Given the numbers in the article, there are approximately 246.7 M in the workforce. This, I'm assuming, is the 16+ yea old cound. I also assume there is some upper age limit that is not counted.
    I could not quickly find the comparable numbers for 1978 only percentages. The thing about percentages is that they some the data and hide some of the real numbers. This percentage for 2013 or today is 91.8 million people. Let me repeat 91.8 million people have exited the workforce. Using some off the top of my head numbers this is the entire population of California pluse Texas and one or two smaller states. The politicians of this country and the government in general seem to be OK with this. The people of the country seem to be OK with it or at least they haven't raised their voices and demanded something be done to correct the problems.
    The Democrates want to esxtend unemployment, the Republicans agree but only if it is paid for by cuts some where.
    Why can't tcongress, the admidistration et al get togethere and dosomething constructive? They don't want to. They see no penalty for doing nothing so that's what they do.
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  • Posted by Commander 11 years, 10 months ago
    Hmmmm...91.8M of 320-odd M.
    Children, retired, welfare..to include unemployment, those without trackability (illegals and natural born without SSN)...and...some dead! Makes sense to me!

    15 years ago ran across the same thing in a newspaper. News claimed "x"number of welfare recipients by demographic. My friend's sister worked for the "State". He acquired statistics and then ran comparison against the papers claims......resulting in 103% of population on welfare. I never knew 100% could be exceeded! LOL
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  • Posted by richrobinson 11 years, 10 months ago
    When will people finally grow tired of this. Obama's economic policies are not working and yet we are told to be patient. Three more years of this is going to be brutal.
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  • Posted by Commander 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I was being facetious. Dude needs to give sources for his raw data and how he extrapolates. I see this kind of expletive everywhere I look. If I ran my business on this kind of fiction.....I'd be broke or a Banker!
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