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US inflation fell more than expected to 2.8% in February (1 Viewer)

Illegals don’t qualify for unemployment. Illegals do not factor into employment/unemployment.

This is yet another topic you a have no idea what you are talking about.
Show me a post where I said illegals get unemployment.
 
Like many others you have a misunderstanding of legal status versus economic metrics. Illegals can and do work in the U.S., despite lacking legal authorization. They often take jobs in sectors like agriculture, construction, or hospitality, typically under the table or using borrowed or fake credentials. So, they are very much part of the workforce, even if not legally recognized as such.

The unemployment rate is calculated based on the Current Population Survey. The CPS counts people as employed if they did paid work during the survey week, regardless of legal status. It counts them as unemployed if they’re jobless, actively looking for work, and available to take a job—again, regardless of legal status. The catch? The CPS doesn’t explicitly ask about immigration status, so undocumented workers are included in these numbers implicitly, not separately tracked.

Their employment DOES reduce the unemployment rate, indirectly. The unemployment rate is the number of unemployed people divided by the labor force (employed + unemployed). If undocumented immigrants are working (counted as employed), they increase the denominator’s "employed" portion without adding to the "unemployed" numerator. This lowers the percentage, assuming the number of unemployed stays constant. For example, if 100 people are in the labor force, 5 are unemployed (5% rate), and 10 undocumented workers get jobs, the labor force becomes 110, with 5 still unemployed—dropping the rate to 4.5%.

PS. I hope this helps. If you are in possession of any facts that would ten to refute this, please feel free to submit for further discussion.
The survey is voluntary, so not a lot of illegal migrants are going to participate if they can avoid it. Illegal migrants also tend to live 'underground' more, so unless the survey takes special measures to include them, the likelihood is that illegal migrants are significantly under represented in the CPS counts.
 
This is how we know you don’t know how unemployment is calculated lol
I will no longer respond to you on this topic as you did not read my post where I schooled you on the issue.
 
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No one is saying that 100% of the products or the portions of products will be made in America. What we are saying is that we need to bring manufacturing and jobs back to America and make America patriotic again by concentrating on buying mainly American made goods to support America And not support other countries first. This used to be the way Americans acted until Democrats took control.
LoL! You certainly have that one backwards! Until Trump took over the party Republicans have always supported outsourcing overseas with Democrats being pro union and against it!

Now they are globalist, wanting to support countries like China and all of Europe before supporting their own country.
It also seems that you subscribe to the ”we don’t make anything anymore” myth. Fortunately, that’s not true. Manufacturing output is just as high as it ever was, we just make the stuff with a lot fewer people.

Simply put, the United States remains a manufacturing powerhouse. In 2020 it was the world’s fourth‐largest steel producer and in 2021 was the second-largest automaker and largest aerospace exporter. Accounting for nearly 16 percent of global manufacturing output in 2021—second only to China, which has four times the population of the United States—the US had a greater share than Japan, Germany, and South Korea combined. By itself, the US manufacturing sector would constitute the world’s eighth‐largest economy.

perceptions of US manufacturing decline may also be due to the declining number of Americans who work in factories. From a peak of 19.5 million workers in 1979—22 percent of the nonfarm workforce—manufacturing employment has dropped to approximately 13 million today and just 8.3 percent of nonfarm workers. But employment is not the same as output—far from it. While manufacturing employment has declined by about one-third, output is only slightly off its record high. Manufacturing’s value-added, meanwhile, last year stood at an all-time high.
 
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During the presidential campaign, Candidate Trump continued to "preach the gospel" that tariffs will usher America into its "GOLDEN AGE" in the "FUTURE!"

Now that he"s been elected President and the "GOLDEN AGE" has supposedly arrived, the electorate has been told to "SHUT UP" when they have the audacity to pose the question as to why egg prices continue to rise!

Once again Trump made a promise that in the "FUTURE" its guaranteed that "Trump Is Saving Consumers Millions” - unfortunately, for the American electorate, they like the rest of us are condemned to living in the "PRESENT!"
 
How much was Covid related?
Some but not all. Trump spent a lot on our Military and he gave the Democrats a lot to get it approved. Trump did not act like a fiscal conservative in his first term but you are correct Covid was also responsible for a healthy chunk of those numbers.
 
I have to support justice. It's only right. When liberals are railing against cutting fraud and waste by sending death threats and burning his dealerships, it's time to step in. What about a black one? What model is best? Should I get his home battery as well?

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Some but not all. Trump spent a lot on our Military and he gave the Democrats a lot to get it approved. Trump did not act like a fiscal conservative in his first term but you are correct Covid was also responsible for a healthy chunk of those numbers.
I have always admitted that Trump spent more than he should have. He most likely thought we would grow our way out of it. We should spend far less than we do now and the Pentagon needs to be carefully audited. They are a den of thieves.
 
I will no longer respond to you on this topic as you did not read my post where I schooled you on the issue.
I accept your concession. Thank you for demonstrating you have no idea what you are talking about on yet another topic
 
I have always admitted that Trump spent more than he should have. He most likely thought we would grow our way out of it. We should spend far less than we do now and the Pentagon needs to be carefully audited. They are a den of thieves.
"den of thieves"? is that a legal term? lol.

government is audited already, i assume trump did that in his first term, what has changed?
 
I accept your concession. Thank you for demonstrating you have no idea what you are talking about on yet another topic
Someone who ignores or doesn't read my post where I showed that illegal aliens are indeed counted as employed people when they work and then implies that I said that illegals get unemployment when I never once said that is unworthy of further engagement.
 
"den of thieves"? is that a legal term? lol.

government is audited already, i assume trump did that in his first term, what has changed?
Did you know that there is a foreign aid congressional oversight committee comprised of both Republicans and Democrats who did nothing at all about the fraud and waste at US AID even though they get a budget of 17 million for staff every year to do it? Did you know that the Pentagon has not passed an audit in many years and has a Mutti trillion-dollar budget, and your crack team of "government auditors" can't find out why?

We have a uniparty with many members of congress and the senate getting bribes and donations from people we don't know and the alleged investigators doing absolutely nothing about it because they keep their jobs no matter what, unlike private industry.

Did you know that a team led by Stacey Abrams got 2 BILLION to buy appliances for her constituents and they wanted to keep that secret and DID until Elon Musk started rummaging around this criminal US AID and NGO scam?
 
You are just upset that I call you and all others out on the game of link slapping as a debate tactic.
Nope. You're simply a coward who hates being corrected or proved wrong. That's why you, alone of all posters here, insist on 'excerpts' which you can then accuse of being out of context, or whatever. You're far too transparent matey; give me a challenge!
 
Nope. You're simply a coward who hates being corrected or proved wrong. That's why you, alone of all posters here, insist on 'excerpts' which you can then accuse of being out of context, or whatever. You're far too transparent matey; give me a challenge!
When someone slaps up a link with a headline it is only common sense that the poster is implying the link verifies what that poster is claiming. People don't come here to read someone's post by way of example that says "I say Elon Musk is a con artist" and he then slaps up a link from the likes of the state-run news stations like The BBC, Politico, MSN, CNN, MNSNBC, etc.

Who in hell wants to see your opinion and then have to go to a crap blogger from one of the aforementioned legacy outlets that is a 10-minute diatribe from some nutcase who asserts Musk is "taking a chain saw...." and all it is, is a rant and Oped bv some whacked out conservative hater.

There is a section on this site for blogs and slapping a link would be more appropriate there. This section is for actual debates.


PS. I hope this helps.
 

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