And if Dems win in 2020, everyone will blame them, even though the economy is usually due to the previous term’s president. Obama is why we improved now. Next term, Trump will be why we crashed again.

Keep telling yourself that.

Short rates are controlled by the Fed and they - as Trump has said many times - raised too fast, too far, and have been too slow to cut.

The Democrats could bait Trump into triggering a global recession, but they also don’t want to trigger a global recession because they actually care about people.

As others have pointed out: if you aren’t finding qualified candidates you: a) aren’t paying enough, b) suck at marketing for the position, c) hung up on educational requirements, or d) are unwilling to train a person for the position.

I mean, if they paid higher than minimum wage they’d find someone who’d want to work there for more than a month. 

Exactly.

3.8% unemployment is actually something of a myth.

If you have not actively looked for a job in 4 weeks, you’re counted as “not in the labor force” and dropped from the figures.

Besides, the one of the two surveys used, the Current Population Survey (CPS), only surveys 60,000 households NATIONALLY.

Lol, the unemployment number doesn’t mean shit since it doesn’t count the people who aren’t actively looking for a job. Look at the workforce number if you want to see how many people could be enticed back in to the market with higher offerings of pay and benefits*. Right now we’re at ~63% participation, a number not…

Yeah, it really is too bad that managers don’t have any other option. Literally, all they can do is keep offering the job at minimum wage and deal with whatever under-qualified applicant walks in the door. I mean, they’ll turn off customers, and possibly go out of business, but what choice do they have? Offer higher…

Why is Wendy’s under the impression they cannot hire recovering addicts?

When a real-life troll walks up to you and overtly tries to troll you, you should probably ignore it. But if you choose not to ignore it, you really shouldn’t waste your time arguing with him. That’s exactly what he wants. You either ignore him entirely and go on your way, or when he says “What are you gonna do about…

Ahhwooo. Werewolves of cable.

This is absolutely something I can see Wolf doing, while intoning “mess with the Wolf, get the fangs” in that slightly-gravelly delivery of his.

And a kneecap stomper, etc. Someone attacks me, “whatever it takes” is the guiding response philosophy. I refuse to start fights, ever. Not worth it. But someone takes a swing, hey, all bets are off.

I might still lose. In fact, that’s a pretty strong possibility—but the dude that started it will definitely remember it…

A “swing voter” is not someone who thinks it’s good that an entire crowd of people yelled “send her back” in reference to a Muslim congresswoman, and that it’s even better that Trump didn’t say shit.

“Am I out of touch? No, it’s the subscribers who are wrong!”

someone ran a democratic campaign for president centered on catering to your friends who vote republican. remind me how it went for her, again.

It’s the “they laughed at Einstein” defense. As my father liked to say, “yeah, well they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” It’s like the people on Reddit who get downvoted into hell for posting an “unpopular opinion” thinking it vindicates them.

The best part is he’s gonna moralize to himself that he’s right *because* the “Twitter mob” came after him, because as we all know racists and people who point out other people’s racism are morally equivalent.