It isn’t good for the long-term economic health of the country when Unemployment goes below 4-5 percent. About five percent of the “workforce” are persons who are unemployable, meaning that they are that stupid or can’t follow instructions or get along with other employees. Employment below 5 percent means that companies are scraping the bottom of the barrel in hiring staff.

The overt symptoms of this condition are when you see that employees of fast-food restaurants are often unable to make change correctly. And, when the quality of service at all points of contact with the public begins to deteriorate.

But it is the non-overt symptoms that are more worrisome. Workers who are not yet ready get promoted to supervisory positions. Professionals with little experience are placed in managerial positions. Along the entire management chain, you will see positions filled with people who are not quite qualified.

Over time, this will result in a general degradation of the quality of the goods and services produced in the U.S., such as we saw in the late nineties. We will also see an increase in industrial accidents.

We need to make sure we do not allow the economy to overheat. However, it would be good time to start reducing public payrolls, since the private sector is in a good position to absorb the “downsized” employees.

I believe absentee rules here allow for abuse, since a request can have the state send a ballot anywhere. They should be sent only to the registered address. And I think there’s a lot of fraud here at the early voting sites, since an ID is no longer required.

Voting should be difficult as to time and place – not made easier. That would winnow out the ill-informed, weakly motivated voters. Only military members deployed in foreign places should be allowed absentee ballots. Early voting should be illegal. All ballots should be of the paper form and, as mentioned above, counted in the same place they are cast.

There does have to be some mechanism by which the military and other governmental personnel abroad can vote. And, I think, bona fide American citizens abroad also. But these do pose problems. Vote only by snail-mail, and only if posted to some official vote-counting station I suppose…?)

Of course, There’s never jam today. Also, Murphy as properly stated: “Something will go wrong.”

You better believe I will be voting! On Nov. 6, at the designated polling place, latish in the day. :>)

Windbag: I have seen people advising GOP voters to not vote early, because then the Dems won’t know how many fraudulent ballots they need to find in somebody’s car trunk.

If I could make one new law for elections, it would be that all paper ballots have to be counted in the building where they are cast, and nothing found afterwards can be used — with some safeguards for the case of poll workers “losing” the votes for the opposition because of that rule. Really, though, whatever the rules, cheaters gonna find some way to cheat.

With that in mind, the jobs report may be just one more push over the finish line.

or how the reporting is reporting something they want to happen, to cause it to happen.. ie who wants to vote for a loser so if they all think X is winning..