2 hours ago, candide said:

Making up metrics, now? 😁

Making the point that you don't want to see.

The U.S. economy added 130,000 jobs in January 2026, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, significantly exceeding expectations of around 70,000 jobs. This marked the strongest monthly gain since December 2024 and was driven primarily by robust hiring in health care (82,000 jobs) and social assistance (42,000 jobs), with additional gains in construction (33,000 jobs).

Real wages declined overall during much of Joe Biden’s presidency, primarily due to inflation outpacing nominal wage growth. From January 2021 to December 2024, average hourly nominal wages rose by 19.2%, but prices increased by 21.0% (as measured by the CPI-U), resulting in a 1.5% decline in real wages.

Real wages have risen under President Trump’s second term, according to White House data and administration officials. In the first year of his presidency, real private-sector weekly earnings are on track to rise by 4%, outpacing inflation and resulting in a $1,400 gain in purchasing power for workers—nearly half of the $3,000 in lost purchasing power under the Biden administration.

Blue-collar workers have seen particularly strong gains: real hourly earnings for production and non-supervisory workers rose 1.7% in the first five months of Trump’s second term, the largest increase in nearly 60 years and the highest since Richard Nixon’s first term. This marks a sharp reversal from the 1.7% decline in real wages during Biden’s first five months.

8 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

The U.S. economy added 130,000 jobs in January 2026, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, significantly exceeding expectations of around 70,000 jobs. This marked the strongest monthly gain since December 2024 and was driven primarily by robust hiring in health care (82,000 jobs) and social assistance (42,000 jobs), with additional gains in construction (33,000 jobs).

6 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Real wages declined overall during much of Joe Biden’s presidency, primarily due to inflation outpacing nominal wage growth. From January 2021 to December 2024, average hourly nominal wages rose by 19.2%, but prices increased by 21.0% (as measured by the CPI-U), resulting in a 1.5% decline in real wages.

5 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Real wages have risen under President Trump’s second term, according to White House data and administration officials. In the first year of his presidency, real private-sector weekly earnings are on track to rise by 4%, outpacing inflation and resulting in a $1,400 gain in purchasing power for workers—nearly half of the $3,000 in lost purchasing power under the Biden administration.

Blue-collar workers have seen particularly strong gains: real hourly earnings for production and non-supervisory workers rose 1.7% in the first five months of Trump’s second term, the largest increase in nearly 60 years and the highest since Richard Nixon’s first term. This marks a sharp reversal from the 1.7% decline in real wages during Biden’s first five months.

Deflect, deflect, deflect! 😀

Just now, candide said:

Deflect, deflect, deflect! 😀

Real wages have risen under President Trump’s second term, according to White House data and administration officials. In the first year of his presidency, real private-sector weekly earnings are on track to rise by 4%, outpacing inflation and resulting in a $1,400 gain in purchasing power for workers—nearly half of the $3,000 in lost purchasing power under the Biden administration.

Blue-collar workers have seen particularly strong gains: real hourly earnings for production and non-supervisory workers rose 1.7% in the first five months of Trump’s second term, the largest increase in nearly 60 years and the highest since Richard Nixon’s first term. This marks a sharp reversal from the 1.7% decline in real wages during Biden’s first five months.

Harrisfan how many years did you live in America before moving over to Thailand? Do you vote by mail?

Trump

Higher wages

Lower inflation

Low unemployment

Closed the border

Hashtag winning

11 minutes ago, nauseus said:

Making the point that you don't want to see.

You can make up any irrelevant indicator you want, it doesn't change the fact that the job situation worsened under Trump, by all commonly used metrics:

• Job creation number

• Unemployment rate

• Native born unemployment rate

• Labor participation rate

2 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Real wages have risen under President Trump’s second term, according to White House data and administration officials. In the first year of his presidency, real private-sector weekly earnings are on track to rise by 4%, outpacing inflation and resulting in a $1,400 gain in purchasing power for workers—nearly half of the $3,000 in lost purchasing power under the Biden administration.

Blue-collar workers have seen particularly strong gains: real hourly earnings for production and non-supervisory workers rose 1.7% in the first five months of Trump’s second term, the largest increase in nearly 60 years and the highest since Richard Nixon’s first term. This marks a sharp reversal from the 1.7% decline in real wages during Biden’s first five months.

Deflect,deflect,deflect! 😆

Just now, candide said:

Deflect,deflect,deflect! 😆

Why did Biden reduce the real wages of blue collar workers?

1 minute ago, candide said:

You can make up any irrelevant indicator you want, it doesn't change the fact that the job situation worsened under Trump, by all commonly used metrics:

• Job creation number

• Unemployment rate

• Native born unemployment rate

• Labor participation rate

You keep repeating the same nonsense. Real wages are up. Inflation is down. Unemployment is down. GDP is up.

2 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Trump

Higher wages

Lower inflation

Low unemployment

Closed the border

Hashtag winning

Thread topic:

The job situation worsened under Trump, by all metrics:

• Job creation number

• Unemployment rate

• Native born unemployment rate

• Labor participation rate

1 minute ago, Harrisfan said:

Why did Biden reduce the real wages of blue collar workers?

Deflect, deflect, deflect.

Feel free to open a new thread about it!

Just now, Harrisfan said:

You keep repeating the same nonsense. Real wages are up. Inflation is down. Unemployment is down. GDP is up.

You keep deflecting from the thread topic, because the OP is right!

Just now, candide said:

You keep deflecting from the thread topic, because the OP is right!

The U.S. economy added 130,000 jobs in January 2026, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, significantly exceeding expectations of around 70,000 jobs. This marked the strongest monthly gain since December 2024

1 minute ago, candide said:

Deflect, deflect, deflect.

Feel free to open a new thread about it!

The U.S. economy added 130,000 jobs in January 2026, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, significantly exceeding expectations of around 70,000 jobs. This marked the strongest monthly gain since December 2024

1 minute ago, candide said:

Deflect, deflect, deflect.

Feel free to open a new thread about it!

The U.S. economy added 130,000 jobs in January 2026, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, significantly exceeding expectations of around 70,000 jobs. This marked the strongest monthly gain since December 2024

2 minutes ago, candide said:

Thread topic:

The job situation worsened under Trump, by all metrics:

• Job creation number

• Unemployment rate

• Native born unemployment rate

• Labor participation rate

The U.S. economy added 130,000 jobs in January 2026, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, significantly exceeding expectations of around 70,000 jobs. This marked the strongest monthly gain since December 2024

Just now, Harrisfan said:

The U.S. economy added 130,000 jobs in January 2026, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, significantly exceeding expectations of around 70,000 jobs. This marked the strongest monthly gain since December 2024

MAGAs are funny. They discard full year numbers for not being significant enough, and then they are bragging about a one month only achievement! 🤣🤣🤣

14 minutes ago, marin said:

Harrisfan how many years did you live in America before moving over to Thailand? Do you vote by mail?

I politely asked you this question which you avoided while frantically googling up what you believe are statistics to back up your position. I have to let you know I am giggling inside just thinking of you looking like this.

1 minute ago, candide said:

Deflect, deflect, deflect.

Feel free to open a new thread about it!

The U.S. economy added 130,000 jobs in January 2026, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, significantly exceeding expectations of around 70,000 jobs. This marked the strongest monthly gain since December 2024

17 minutes ago, candide said:

MAGAs are funny. They discard full year numbers for not being significant enough, and then they are bragging about a one month only achievement! 🤣🤣🤣

Only an idiot would ignore the latest data.

Jobs up

Unemployment down

Inflation down

GDP up

Border - Trump much better

Unemployment - same as Biden around 3.5 to 4.5%.

Inflation - much lower than Biden

Real Wages - higher. Lower under Biden.

Trump beats Biden on 3 measures out of 4 and ties on the other.

54 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

The U.S. economy added 130,000 jobs in January 2026, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, significantly exceeding expectations of around 70,000 jobs. This marked the strongest monthly gain since December 2024 and was driven primarily by robust hiring in health care (82,000 jobs) and social assistance (42,000 jobs), with additional gains in construction (33,000 jobs).

LOL!

In Biden's 4 years, around 9,000,000 jobs were created. That averages to 187,500 per month, which not only dwarfs the yet-unrevised January 2026 number, but exceeds the entire first year of Trump 2.0.

And in Biden's last full year, the Non-farm job creation number was 2,230,000. Trump only got 181,000 for all of 2025.

Trump is lucky many Americans are fat and out of shape like him, because just to pretend January was good, he needs those 82K in health care.

Just now, Wingate said:

LOL!

In Biden's 4 years, around 9,000,000 jobs were created. That averages to 187,500 per month, which not only dwarfs the yet-unrevised January 2026 number, but exceeds the entire first year of Trump 2.0.

And in Biden's last full year, the Non-farm job creation number was 2,230,000. Trump only got 181,000 for all of 2025.

Trump is lucky many Americans are fat and out of shape like him, because just to pretend January was good, he needs those 82K in health care.

71% were a rebound from covid.

20 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

The U.S. economy added 130,000 jobs in January 2026, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, significantly exceeding expectations of around 70,000 jobs. This marked the strongest monthly gain since December 2024

Only an idiot would ignore the latest data. (lol!)

Jobs up

Unemployment down

Inflation down

GDP up

Remind me...who was President in December 2024?

Oh, and if January 2026 was the best since Dec 2024, who was President in 2025, because it looks like a pretty woeful year?

1 minute ago, Wingate said:

Remind me...who was President in December 2024?

Oh, and if January 2026 was the best since Dec 2024, who was President in 2025, because it looks like a pretty woeful year?

In “real” (inflation-adjusted) terms, weekly earnings fell 4%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That reversed nearly half the gains of the previous four years, when real weekly earnings increased 8.6%.

Americans lost ground under Biden.

In his last 21 months the UE rate under Biden rose 0.6 points.

Why is that if he was creating jobs?

11 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

In his last 21 months the UE rate under Biden rose 0.6 points.

Why is that if he was creating jobs?

Not tired of posting lame deflections? Have a life!

15 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

In “real” (inflation-adjusted) terms, weekly earnings fell 4%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That reversed nearly half the gains of the previous four years, when real weekly earnings increased 8.6%.

Americans lost ground under Biden.

Deflect, deflect, deflect! 😁

2 minutes ago, candide said:

Deflect, deflect, deflect! 😁

Why did Biden hurt the poor?