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Productivity????

Another word for mandatory overtime!!!  Just ask me how productive I was all last year!  Good greif, when your working 12 to 14 hrs a day 6 or 7 days a week, no wonder your company looks so good, and can afford to send more jobs overseas!!!

Worrywort....................

posted by worrywort on January 23, 2004 at 12:21 AM | link to this | reply

U.S. Companies

proDICKtivity increase doesn't MEAN that Americans are employed or producing! These reports are misleading since a number of them have overseas operations, employing NONAMERICAN workers--who have to produce more for less.  Also, since business is not DEMOCRATIC, employees who don't produce more in less time, get fired, and another desparate person takes the seat.

DemsAreEvil portrays the ignorance of most NEO-CONS, reading the surface BS and believing it truer that it really is.  I wouldn't consider being in an economic recovery until GWB's plans RESTORE the 2.7 million jobs lost in America since he took office and the billions Corporations have stolen from American worker investors is given back.  Everything else is smoke and mirrors.  NEO-CON IS A GOOD NAME FOR THESE FOLKS, they are Cons, or Conned.

FR 

posted by freerain on January 17, 2004 at 11:26 PM | link to this | reply

Better than the draft

If it was not an all-volunteer army it would be the draft, which would draw on the same groups but produce a less capable military. Yeah, it's too bad to have to pay for service, but they can always raise military pay whenever they need more volunteers. That's the way the rest of the economy works. Too bad when the fat cats think if they don't get enough with the pay and benefits currently offered, they need to start FORCING people into the military. http://www.fastgig.com/

posted by Dickster on January 17, 2004 at 3:28 PM | link to this | reply

Well Said...

...that man!

I was going to quote the jobs number, too. Bit embarassing, that, for a President. Estimating 150,000 new jobs only to find he's OVER-estimated by 149,000. Oooops!

D

posted by DamonLeigh on January 14, 2004 at 6:29 AM | link to this | reply

Wrongheaded to say the least.

Dum-and-Evil:

I hate to burst your euphoria bubble but the high productivity rate only shows that American workers are working more efficiently or that more machines are being used instead of people to produce goods and services. Joblessness remains the key problem in this economy, three years after Bushboy promised that his "tax cuts for the rich" were going to solve all our economic problems.

Frankly I run my own company and don't need a job and I probably pay more in taxes than you earn in a year, but the question of fairness has to do with the way Bushboy & the Goopers have continued to transfer wealth from the middleclass and the poor to the richest people in America.

And those 150,000 jobs that were forecasted for December, 2003, turned out to be a net of 1000 new jobs! Hardly what anyone would consider a success, especially since most of the new jobs produced by our Reverse Robin Hood Bushboy are McJobs.

posted by spyinthesky on January 14, 2004 at 5:32 AM | link to this | reply

Productivity Growth Rate Best Since 1983

Spy, I really hate to burst your negativity bubble, but you're not facing facts or reality.

If you want to sit and whine about not having a job or feel "everyone" hates Bush and everything is a mess in your world, that's up to you, but don't wallow in your democrap too-long or you'll be left behind.

Maybe you're just being bias trying to get Bush out. In either case, facts are facts and no amount of liberal propaganda will change them.

So please try to see the positives of facing reality after you've read these current facts.


Wednesday, December 30, 2003

WASHINGTON — Productivity (search) of U.S. companies rocketed at a 9.4 percent annual rate in the third quarter, the best showing in 20 years, offering an encouraging sign that the economic resurgence will be lasting.

The increase in productivity -- the amount an employee produces per hour of work -- reported by the Labor Department (search) on Wednesday was even stronger than the 8.1 percent pace initially estimated for the July-to-September quarter a month ago and was up from a 7 percent growth rate posted in the second quarter of this year.

The third-quarter's productivity gain, based on more complete data, was better than the 9.2 percent growth rate economists were forecasting and marked the strongest performance since the second quarter of 1983, when productivity grew at a blistering 9.7 percent rate.

The report raised new hopes that businesses may be more confident than before that the economic rebound is genuine.

For the economy's long-term health and for rising living standards, productivity gains are vital. They allow the economy to grow faster without triggering inflation. Companies can pay workers more without raising prices, which would eat up those wage gains. And, productivity can bolster a company's profitability.

That's particularly important in the current economic climate. As profits improve, companies may be more willing to boost capital investment and hiring -- two crucial ingredients to the economy's sustained recovery.

That labor market has recently shown signs of turning around.

The nation's payrolls are expected to grow in November for the fourth month in a row by around 150,000, economists predict. The government will release the employment report for November on Friday.

Workers' hours, meanwhile, increased at a 0.8 percent rate in the third quarter, the best showing since the first quarter of 2000. That was stronger than the 0.7 percent growth rate first estimated and better than the 2.2 percent rate of decline registered in the second quarter.

posted by DEMSareEVIL on January 14, 2004 at 1:19 AM | link to this | reply

freerain

Thanks for the tip on the book, "The rich get richer, the poor get prison." I'll check it out.

posted by spyinthesky on January 13, 2004 at 1:17 PM | link to this | reply

Military or Prison

Well said, again, Spy, I am sure glad you keep up this blog and put matters into perspective.  It is sad though, that many low-income citizens have few options.  If they don't opt into the war machine, they will be conscripted into the prison system.  Children from impoverished homes often find themselves seeking employment in the Drug War, since there is no employment available in legitimate businesses.  Recruitment into this war is incidious and enticing, offering high wages and high risk (only for the lower class, of course) to serve their time in the prison industry.  Yes, we need criminals in order to keep the system profitable.  It costs taxpayers $50,000 a year to employ (incarcerate) law breakers, but that is only the smoke screen.  Add to that the dollars spent in law enforcement, prosecution, mock defense attorneys, parole, judicial body, legistature (to make up the laws and penalties), social programs broken families participate in--child welfare, housing, healthcare, daycare, etc. and lost wages the prison conscript could have earned in the community, if not doing time in prison.  Reiman's book "The Rich Get Richer, the Poor get Prison" is a great book to read exposing the intent of policy makers to NOT end the War on Drugs or the War on Poverty.  I am sure they have no intent on ending the War on Terrorism.

FR

posted by freerain on January 13, 2004 at 11:32 AM | link to this | reply

It's Bad...

...and it's getting worse.

Impeach Bush - NOW!!!

(I'll help in any way I can)

D

posted by DamonLeigh on January 13, 2004 at 7:37 AM | link to this | reply