Ignorant: Juliana Holm and Frank Matthews

Back in February we had a thread titled "Five million Germans out
of work" where I posted that approximately 150,000 jobs needed
to be created each month in the USA to keep up with population
growth. Both Juliana Holm and Frank Matthews forced their
ignorance upon us and claimed that this number needed to be
radically reduced due to deaths and retirements. I waited until I
saw another news article that proved my original premise. Here is
a BBC article from today on the subject of the job creation figures
from March (for the USA). Note that the article states "Many
economists estimate that about 200,000 jobs need to be created
each month simply to keep employment stable, given population
growth." So if anything, my original figure was too low.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4401171.stm

And here is a Money/CNN background article:

http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/14/news...ex.htm?cnn=yes

And back to the subject of the original post, here is a BBC article
on the extremely weak German economy and unemployment:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4397701.stm