I provided you with facts showing that the overall employment rate had gone down, and your rebuttal was "baby boomers are getting older." As far as I can see, you're the one debating with no facts.

In a nutshell, the baby boomers have aged and are now finally retiring en masse. After bulging into the workplace in the 1970s, women are no longer the force in the labor market they once were. Younger people are opting to educate themselves rather than work. And a less-than-friendly tone toward immigrants is shrinking the supply for some high-skilled jobs.

http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2015/07/16/unemployment-is-low-but-more-workers-are-leaving-the-workforce

fuck it ban me if its not link able.

Some have argued that the Great Recession forced millions of would-be retirees to continue working later into life. This is undoubtedly true, considering the labor force participation rate among individuals at least 55 years old continued climbing through the Great Recession until October 2012, when it leveled off at 40.7 percent. That's the highest percentage of older Americans participating in the labor force since July 1961.

I have no doubt that the 08 recession forced people to work longer than they would like? No one is debating that.

94 million americans are not working.

And guess what, just because you turn 65 doesn't mean you stop working. My parents are over 65 and still work.. My mom is a teacher and my father owns a clothing company in vegas.

Wake up man. Stop drinking the kool-aid

My grandmother is 71 and works 60 hours a week. no Kool aid here. Nice assumption tho

Arguing in PaRD based on facts and statistics? I'm sorry, but you've come to the wrong place.

Apparently arguing any where these days with facts and statisticsee is the wrong place. Maybe terissiom has already won. If someone disagrees with you... well fuck them they have to be wrong.

Everybody already knows the answer: Republicans push back on obvious facts because of where they get their "news" from. Those sources deliberately lie to them while simultaneously insisting to them that it's *actually* everyone else that has a "libruhl" bias. That's the only way to explain how they're the only ones who predominantly get the change in unemployment rate, deficit, stock market, uninsured rate, border security, illegal immigration, US approval by foreign nations, and practically everything else that can be measured wrong. Steve Benen's done great work on this for a number of years [See: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-persistence-the-reality-gap-matters] but it'll never amount to anything, because this too will always be a party issue.

Doesn't count people fallen completely out of the workforce and expects to talk about one-sided facts after saying no party lines.

CSF.

This post was edited by timmayX on Jun 13 2016 12:08pm