In doing some research ... and granted there are likely some nuances I can not take into account ... but according to labor statistics ... of our approximate 300 Million people in America, the following were employed ... by year.

1997 ... 131 million
1998 ... 131 million
1999 ... 133 million
2000 ... 135 million
2001 ... 137 million
2002 ... 137 million

If you total up all the folks employed in America for each year, you get less than a billion (804 million) total people employed and that (I'm sure) is counting the vast majority of them six times (once each year.)

In order for there to be 2.9 billion jobs lost since 1997 ... each and every one of these employed people would have to work more than three jobs each, then every single job in America would have to be lost every year ...

Can someone tell or show me how this 2.9 Billion jobs lost since 1997 is plausible?[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]

As a side note ... scale shows 4 million more people employed since GWB took office ... we don't hear much about that ... do we [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]
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