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Another good jobs report.

When the chips are down....

Things to get out the way.

Jobs report has netted 336,000 jobs and the unemployment rate is still at 3.8%.

The Republicans can not govern in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

Washed Up 45 has made them so dysfunctional, it is almost like they are practicing giving the Democrats an opportunity to regain control of Congress. Despite all that, President Joe Biden has low job approval despite the exceptional job he is doing. He is at 43% and there has not been much improvement. 

The former president continues to lead in national polls for the Republican presidential primary. The candidates that are running are ignored. Mind you, the former president has federal and state indictments. The Trump Organization is being dissolved after it was found liable for fraud. The former president, Eric Trump, Donald Trump, Jr. and Allen Weisselberg are banned from establishing a business in New York. New York State Attorney General Letitia James has sued the Trump Organization and it forced the former president to appear. He is on the verge of having a gag order placed on him by the state of New York and the U.S. government.

The former president shared classified information with an Australian billionaire. Anthony Pratt is under federal watch after it was revealed Washed Up 45 shared U.S. national security secrets for money. It hurts his defense of the former president's right to declassify despite he had no right to those documents.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was ousted after serving as the U.S. House Speaker for 269 days. His days of clinching power were halted by a do nothing lawmaker Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and seven Republicans who claimed that McCarthy failed to lead his party in total opposition of Biden. Now the House of Representatives cannot operate until their is a Speaker. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and even Washed Up 45 are in the running. House members are threatening to find primary challengers against Gaetz and other Republicans.

The former president is likely not able to unless Republicans change the rules. He endorsed Jordan despite the lawmaker having no accomplishments and a sex scandal surrounding him.

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), interim House Speaker formally booted former House Speaker, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) from her office. Pelosi was not even in Washington when he did it. He plotted revenge after Democrats stood firm in not saving McCarthy from the insurgency. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) was also booted from his office.

It is official, Vice President Kamala Harris swore Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA) to office. 

McCarthy got played by an alleged sexual predator named Matt Gaetz.

The choice gives California its second Black senator. Harris being the first Black senator from California. Republicans and some Democrats are balking at the fact that Bulter has a residence in Maryland but has a home in Los Angeles with her partner. Butler is the first Black woman who identifies as LGBTQ serving in the Senate. She is likely to run for a full term against polarizing House members Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA). The Republicans have no announced challenger as of yet. The Senate has four Black senators. Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) were appointed members. They won their full term and reelection bid easily. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) defeated an appointed member named Kelly Loeffler. He narrowly won his bid for a full term. Scott is running for president and declared he is no longer running for the senate. 

General Charles Q. Brown finally became the Joint Chairman of the United States Armed Forces. The retired Air Force general was delayed for nearly a year because of Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and his ridiculous holding of nominees.

Federal judges are still being delayed by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) despite Butler being sworn in. Butler has no committees and her appointment to a caucus and chair will take some time.Police are frustrated with the rise of automobile theft. Kia and Hyundai have not solved the Kia Challenge. Even with the updates, the free wheel locks, the step up in patrols, it has gotten worse. More vehicles are being stolen and broken into. The suspects are Black children and teens. Some as young as 8 years old. Now the crime is becoming a part of the culture wars that Republicans exploit for votes.

Cornel West, a controversial spoiler and former professor has announced he will no longer seek the Green Party nomination. He will declare an independent presidential campaign.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has hinted that he may run as an independent or Libertarian since the Democratic Party and junk food media ignored him and Marianne Williamson. Kennedy faced numerous controveries since he declared his run to primary Biden.

Nimarata "Nikki" Haley has surpassed Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy in being the second place choice. Washed Up 45 called her a "bird brain" and has called for the RNC to end all debates and the candidates to rally behind him.

Crime has become the latest issue in the country. Kia and Hyundai issued a settlement that was delayed by a Republican appointed federal judge. Insurance companies are trying to drop coverage of owners who had their vehicles broken into multiple times. 

The insurance companies are also dropping coverage from Florida, Louisiana and Texas due to weather events that continue to plague the South. Climate change is real.

Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA) will join Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) as a Black senator.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is partnering with Target and others to combat shoplifting. Target announced they are closing locations following Walmart and Kroger in closing locations in many urban communities.

Mass shootings continue. The Morgan State University mass shooting in Baltimore was the latest one. Over 620 mass shootings this year alone . Many Republican states want to ban books, texting on phones while driving, abortions, pornography and transgender health care. When it comes to the No. 1 issue and leading cause of death in the country, Republicans are tone deaf.

There is the SAG-AFTRA strike, UAW strike and CKPU strike.

Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers took to picket lines in multiple states on Wednesday, launching a massive strike that the company warned could cause delays at its hospitals and clinics that serve nearly 13 million Americans.

The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, representing about 85,000 of the health system’s employees nationally, approved a strike for three days in California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington.

Another possible government shutdown in less than a month. Republicans are willing to take the country over the edge because they want budget cuts, an end to funding Ukraine and an impeachment of Biden.

The nation’s employers added 336,000 jobs in September, an unexpectedly robust gain that suggests that many companies remain confident enough to keep hiring despite high interest rates and a hazy outlook for the economy.

Hiring last month jumped from a 227,000 increase in August, which was revised sharply higher. July’s gain was also healthier than had been initially estimated. The economy has now added an average of 266,000 jobs a month in the past three months. The sustained strength of the labor market makes it likelier that the Federal Reserve will raise its key rate again before year’s end as it continues its drive to tame inflation.

Friday’s report from the Labor Department showed that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.8%, not far above a half-century low.

The job market has defied an array of threats this year, notably high inflation and the rapid series of Fed interest rate hikes that were intended to conquer it. Though the Fed’s hikes have made loans much costlier, steady job growth has helped fuel consumer spending and kept the economy growing, defying long-standing predictions of a forthcoming recession.

Target the latest to close stores.

Across the economy last month, most large industries added jobs, from health care, which gained 66,000, to manufacturing, which added 17,000, to retailers, which added nearly 20,000. Professional services, a category that includes engineers and architects, gained 21,000. Government at all levels added 73,000 jobs, reflecting the healthy budgets of most state and local governments.

Yet wage growth slowed, with average hourly pay rising just 0.2% from August to September. Compared with a year earlier, wages are up 4.2%, the mildest 12-month increase in more than two years.

It’s possible that the cooling of pay growth may help reassure the Fed’s inflation fighters, who are scrutinizing every scrap of data to determine whether to raise their key rate once more this year. Still, the outsize job growth may stoke worries that the economy will expand too fast for inflation to cool.

On Thursday, Mary Daly, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, had said that the Fed could stop raising rates if the job market kept slowing.

“If we continue to see a cooling labor market and inflation heading back to our target, we can hold interest rates steady and let the effects of policy continue to work,” Daly said in remarks to the Economic Club of New York.

Job growth has remained resilient for most of the past 2 1/2 years even after high inflation flared and the Fed jacked up interest rates at the fastest pace in four decades.

Yet additional threats to the economy have emerged in recent weeks, including much higher long-term interest rates, rising energy prices, the resumption of student loan payments, widening labor strikes and the ongoing threat of a government shutdown.

The Fed’s benchmark rate stands at a 22-year high of roughly 5.4% after 11 hikes beginning in March 2022. The central bank’s rate increases have led to much higher borrowing costs for consumers and businesses across the economy.

Insufferable lawmakers Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz.

On the one hand, Fed officials, including Chair Jerome Powell, have stressed that inflation remains too far above their 2% target and that another rate hike might be needed to slow it to that level. At the same time, several Fed policymakers have underscored that they want to be careful not to raise borrowing rates so much as to trigger a deep recession.

After a period in the spring when traders seemed to expect the Fed to reverse course and cut interest rates soon, the financial markets now recognize that the central bank will keep its key rate elevated well into 2024. That’s one reason why the yield on the 10-year Treasury note has surged since July, reaching a 16-year high this week before slipping to 4.7% Thursday.

The 10-year yield is a benchmark rate for other borrowing costs, including mortgages, auto loans and business borrowing. The average rate on a fixed 30-year mortgage jumped to nearly 7.5% this week, the highest level in 23 years. The higher yield has, in turn, punished stocks: The S&P 500 stock index has tumbled 7.2% since late July.

Goldman Sachs has estimated that the economy’s growth in the current October-December quarter could slow to an annual rate as low as a 0.7%, sharply below a roughly 3.5% pace in the July-September quarter.

Yes, folks are working two jobs. I am a testimony of that. But I am confident that in the short term I will have all the resources to reapply for the job I prefer.

The Congress has less work than most Americans. It is infuriating that the average worker works more hours than 157 House members and 36 senators.

Republicans see the only path to victory is basically obstruct and complain about the president. They won't offer solutions or policies. All they care about is trying to keep folks angry with culture wars and distractions.

President Joe Biden's headaches:

1. The Republicans in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
2. The media asking him about Washed Up 45's controversies.
3. The Supreme Court making controversial decisions that impact the country.
4. Gun violence and Congress not doing anything to stop it.
5. Inflation.
6. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
7. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. James Comer (R-KY), Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), Rep. George Santos (R-NY), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO).
8. Republican governors Ron DeSantis, Doug Burgum, Kay Ivey, Greg Abbott, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Bill Lee, Glenn Youngkin, Kristie Noem, Kim Reynolds, Brian Kemp, Brad Little and Greg Gianforte.
9. Federal Judges and Supreme Court members appointed by Washed Up 45.
10. The junk food media and their never ending dramatizing of world events.
11. Anti-Vaxxers. 
12. Lawmakers and activists who protest the CDC guidelines during the pandemic.
13. The endless culture wars that Republicans find outrage in.
14. Washed Up 45 and his minions on Fox, Newsmax, OANN and the internet.
15. Facebook, Twitter and TikTok. The idiots who run it and the idiots who post on it.
16. Fox, Breitbart, Libs of TikTok, The Daily Mail, Newsmax and OANN's relentless talk about conspiracies. The endless attacks on the president's age, First Lady Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, Ashley Biden and the conspiracies about the president's mental capacity and health.
17. The endless racism towards Biden's allies Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Barack Obama.
18. The relentless talk about spending despite the former president's reckless spending.
19. The lack of civility towards fellow Americans.
20. Vladimir Putin.
21. Xi Jinping.
22. Kim Jong-Un.
23. Benjamin Netanyahu.
24. Alexander Lukashenko.
25. Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud.

Monthly reminders: 

The coronavirus doesn't care about your age, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, politics, economic or social standings. It doesn't care about your business, your performances, your personal finances and travel. It doesn't care about the funerals, the birthday parties, the weddings, the vacations, the events and your graduations.

An active shooter doesn't care about the politics, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, your finances, your family, your plans that day, your successes, your failures, and most importantly, your life.

You're not safe in the school, the concert, the hospital, the church, the casino, the bus station, the subway, the light rail train, the buses, the malls, the local big box store, the political rally, the protest rally, the women's center for reproductive surgeries, the mosque, the synagogue, the state buildings, the workplace, the gas station, the family picnic, the food truck rally, the funerals, the birthday parties, the graduations, the wedding, the televised events, the sporting events and many more events that have some terrorist with a firearm. Domestic violence, suicide, racism, culture war inspired, politically motivated and international operative inspired are types of gun violence.

Food prices, energy prices, rent, city services and college education have risen. Companies are struggling to find workers. They are now trying to push incentives to get workers in.

Real Reasons To Why Unemployment Rate Stays The Way It Is! The main reasons why some are not working.

1. DEAD
   
2. BORN
3. IN PRISON
4. IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
5. IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
   
6. IN HIGH SCHOOL
7. IN COLLEGE FULL TIME
8. VOLUNTEER
9. DISABLED
10. INFLATION
11. STAY AT HOME PARENT
12. RETIRED 
13. QUIT ON THEIR OWN
14. TERMINATED FROM EMPLOYMENT 
15. NOT HIRING UNQUALIFIED
16. NOT HIRING TOO QUALIFIED
17. ACTIVE MILITARY
18. NATURAL DISASTERS
19. MASS SHOOTINGS DISRUPTING DAILY ROUTINE
20. BEING LAID OFF DUE TO CLOSING OR STAFF REDUCTION
21. DESTRUCTION TO FACILITY OR PROPRETY
22. OUTSOURCING JOBS TO OTHER STATES OR COUNTRIES
23. BEING UNDOCUMENTED IN FEAR OF I.C.E. OR U.S. AGENCIES
24. BEING PUBLICLY OUTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA DOING SHAMEFUL ACTS
25. PARTICIPATING IN UNCIVIL OR VIOLENT PROTESTS

Jobs are looking good despite fears.

Companies are cautious about hiring employees. With the average wages stagnant, many are not looking forward to returning to a job that pays dirt wages. Many who worked in the retail, restaurant and low end service industry are not willing to take a job for less than $10 an hour. Matter of fact, no one can survive on $15 an hour.

Republicans don't see the bigger picture itself. They rather continue to believe in conspiracies about people collecting the safety net and not going back to work.

Give them a liveable wage and maybe things might improve in the job market.

We can't always assume that folks are lazy. People are literally dying from being exposed to the coronavirus, gun violence and folks are tired of the status quo of their jobs.

Washed Up 45 spread the news to Anthony Pratt. Now the billionaire is under federal watch and could face criminal charges.

Many single mothers are having trouble trying to find quality daycare or family members to watch children. On top of that, some have lost family members due to the pandemic. A homemaker may have lost their spouse. Some may have no choice but to watch their children or loved ones due to the aftermath of the pandemic.

Folks are still trying to rebound from medical bills, late rent payments, owing taxes and college loans.

Republicans are white nationalists without a conscience. 

Washed Up 45's presidency and Republican controlled governments killed millions of Americans. Biden has a slim majority in Congress and things can't be done with obstruction from both parties.

Holding these lawmakers accountable is not just a pledge, but a promise. You need to learn who represents your community. Your local community member, your school board member, your mayor, your state representative, your state senator, your governor, your U.S. Representative, your U.S. Senator and the president need to be held accountable for their actions. 

We need to put pressure on Republicans and Democrats to do something to improve everyone's lives.

The call number to the U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official phone number, 202-224-3121. Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence. Let them know that being in your district means you are tasked to bring results to the constituents who voted for you and convince those who didn't consider you the next election. Let them know that women deserve the right to safe medical procedures. Let them know that their failure to pass legislation are the reasons why democracy and the economy are in free fall.