Poll: Poll for a college class

[d3structor]

here is the source if you want to read the situation straight from there
http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/opinionzone/2011/04/18/credit-scott-for-unemployment-drop/

for those who didn't click on the link here is the tl;dr

Since Florida Governor Rick Scott came into office 3 months ago the state unemployment rate has dropped from 11.5 to 11.4 percent.

The question is: is Rick Scott actually responsible?


Thanks for taking your time reading this and responding.

 

[bob1052]

You would probably want to do some research on what he has done that might have influenced the drop instead of asking people who are, mostly, not in Florida and have no clue about Florida politics.

 

[bob1052]

People get summer jobs.

a 0.1% increase is so stupidly insignificant.

Rick Scott is just an asshole scam artist who knew the right people.

In the article it is actually a 0.4% drop and in a state with a population of 18.5 million that means 74,000 jobs were created and this was between February and March which means that college students would still have a month of class before they flock to their summer jobs.

 

[samuraikatana1]

This thread is pointless, most of us don't even live in Florida so we are not the right people to ask. On top of that, this is only a 0.1% increase which is insignificant at best. The unemployment rate fluctuates all the time and this small amount isn't even worth mentioning.

 

[loc978]

Without researching policies he's changed in the past three months, I couldn't say yes or no definitively... but I do know that economic change usually takes more than three months. Even something as small as creating a few tens of thousands of jobs. This one is most likely the work of local businesses, not the local government... unless they're government jobs, in which case it could be as far back as three administrations ago. Government tends not to move that fast.

 

[d3structor]

Well this is supposed to be a simple random sample survey and so far the results seem to be matching up to my expectations. And I actually do have some more info on his policies (this being my own state and all) and it is difficult to keep myself separate so I don't spoil the statistics.

And I am aware that many of you are not in Florida, sometimes it is nice to get an outsider's opinion. We get so invested in our beliefs that a third party can really clear the water. That is one of the reasons I linked to the source.

Sorry if I put this in the wrong forum, since I wanted to avoid actually discussing my thoughts on Rick Scott I decided to put it into Off topic.

 

[TakeFour]

It's absurd to assume you can attribute one tenth of a percent to anything. Way too many factors influence tiny changes.