Cashizslick

October Jobless Rate Tops 10% - WSJ.com

10.2% unemployment as of today. highest in my entire life.

wtf obama? the next round of congressional elections should be interesting...

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E_SolSi

its ok... just throw some more money at it



BACK UP THE TRUCK!!!

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Cashizslick

The president is touting the unemployment pmt increases as a great solution.

Cut taxes for businesses by the same amt as the unemployment pmts and really stimulate things.

Our pres is touting his "nanny state" solution.

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Drake

what's funny is the said if we pass TARP the highest we would see would be 9 percent. Yeah! Another promise kept! Swell.

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Originally Posted by 95b16coupe if you are under 16 and prego, you are a lost cause. you are given a life raft and dropped into the ocean to fend for yourself. if you make it back to society, you get $1,000,000 in Arby's coupons.

D16Civic

as my Obama voter friend said today when i told him unemployments is at it's hightest in our lifetime and is getting worse, not better....."yeah, but it's getting worse slower".

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95b16coupe

you want to know how to lower unemployment? STOP THE FUCKING BENEFITS!!!!!

I would be much more inclined to find a job if i wasn't getting free money. yes, i said free. this is far surpassing the timeline of benefits paid by employees and companies.

there are a shitload of jobs out there. just nobody wants to take them because unemployment pays more. why take a lower paying job than you had before when you can get paid the same by collecting unemployment.

the job situation isn't the problem, it's the people.

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Cashizslick

^ Good point.

People are being paid to stay home. I have many friends back in spfld MA who are on unemployment. I love how my tax dollars are going to subsidize laziness.

My brother graduated in DEC of 2009. He is making 1800 per week serving forclosure notices.

$6 per notice x 50 each day . . . 6 day work week.

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phyregod

Wow, you sure it isn't $50 per notice and 6 per day?

Tracking down 50 people per day is damn near impossible. Unless he is just mailing the crap.

PS, Dec of 2009 is next month

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SlushboxTeggy

Well I'm helping the number get lowered. I'm employed again after 3 months of living ghetto fabulous.

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Cashizslick

Ever heard of bridgeport CT?


Foreclosure central. It helps to be where the action is.

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Calesta

I maxed out my unemployment benefits when I was out of a job a few years ago- under $300 a week isn't crap to live on. If people are avoiding going to work for benefits like that, they must really have low standards.

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95b16coupe

minimum wage has gone up quite a bit. they are paying more. it just so happens now that the unemployed are work snobs. "i'm not working there, i might as well just stay on unemployment".

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kelsodeez

im not getting paid anymore but i still have to work the same hours. gotta love a failing family business. i might just file for unemployment so i have some cash, i mean since the government is just giving free money away.

dacheat

fyi the *actual* unemployment rate (called the broader unemployment rate which includes part-time workers who want to work full time, as well some people who want to work but have not looked for a job in the last four weeks) is 17.5% - but that number is too scary to share on the evening news so everyone sticks with the more narrowly-defined 'unemployment rate' which is above 10% now.

ps i personally think we should be hearing the broader unemployment rate because it's the rate that represents my situation (part time wanting to work full time).

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marco....

Cashizslick

^ Agreed.


Although, if the average american believed the unemp rate was 17.5%, healthcare wouldnt have passed by 5 votes when we were out partying last saturday . . .

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dacheat

we're fuxxord.

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marco....

Cashizslick

Not yet. As b has been saying - We have time to contact our elected officials and tell them what we think of this mess.

If we sit on our hands, we guarantee this passes . . . . its time to step up.

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dacheat

i'd like to recommend a website:

DownsizeDC.org

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marco....

Korax

I'm in this exact situation. Have been unemployed over 6 months. There are some jobs in my area.. if you like working for $7.25. I'm getting almost double that with taxes being taken out. I'm sure as fuck not taking anything lower if I can sit on my ass and play nintendo for more. (yay ME generation)

This is all just a play to make things worse and get that "fundamental change" of the nation. You can call me w/e but they want this to happen. Lets make everyone dependent or not care anymore all while taking our economy right off a cliff. Healthcare that will crush "small business", as well as leading to over 50% govt control of the economy and another talked about stimulus, oh yeah and that "climate change treaty" comming up soon.. another 2% tax on Americans. Then there wont be any answer but the government.

People do need to wake the fuck up.

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dacheat

fixed that for ya. ps you can start saying that now. wake up yesterday, do something about it today, and maybe all of us can not dread tomorrow.

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marco....

Korax

I know not directed at me but I have been awake since at least 2001. It's all the other people my age, that I talk to, that are just fucking reatarded. <3 public schools. I do something everday. Get money.. save said money for more firearms/ammo.. talk to everyone I know about these issues.

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Drake

I know a lot of my friends my age are idiots as well. They are all hung up on this Republican vs Democrat shit. I say something about healthcare and they bandy about claiming that Republicans are in the pocket of Big "insert cause here" and think they have one. Bush did a lot of shit that pisses me off, just as Obama has. McCain would have pissed me off the same amount just in a different fashion.

We have a fucking Constitution for a reason people, how about we adhere to it. Novel idea but Jesus H. Christ if you dont like it fucking amend it. We have mechanisms in place to do such a thing. Oh wait thats right Government and most liberals think we are all a bunch of dumb fucks and cannot handle our own lives. But then again we further that stereotype dont we? I dont know what kind of shit storm needs to reach our shores to wake people the fuck up but I hope it happens soon.

We are not fucking stupid, we are not weak. We created the greatest country in the history of man kind in 200 god damn years. But we shit all over that and talk about how wrong everyone was. How old and out dated the founding fathers are. How we had slaves, its all fucking bullshit. We righted those wrongs in quick order. There where slaves for thousands of years. And once we cast those shackles the world soon followed.

I really dont want to explain to my son how we all had the world in front of us and it was stolen from us in broad daylight.

We are all guaranteed the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness but for fucks sakes your results are not guaranteed. I guess the founding fathers gave us to much credit in being able to figure shit out.

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Originally Posted by 95b16coupe if you are under 16 and prego, you are a lost cause. you are given a life raft and dropped into the ocean to fend for yourself. if you make it back to society, you get $1,000,000 in Arby's coupons.

Cashizslick

Actually the founding fathers warned us about these things. They know that people have a tendency to get caught up in their own BS. That is why there are still multiple hurdles for this bill to overcome before it gets passed.

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Korax

Constitution, that thing matters? They want to talk about Big "insert cause here" they should look to the dems as a shining example of loving things Big. The ONLY people that are going to be happy with something like health care will be our now "Big govt" and "Big corporations", you know.. the only ones that'll be left after it passes.

Exactly. This isn't a one party or the other issue which people don't seem to get. The issue is allowing these parties to begin with.. This is supposed to be a country about competition ans was not designed to be a two party system. There is no competition when you can really only choose from two things.. worse and worser... It's kinf od hard on the little (I) to do anything in the political machine they have created.

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Drake

I was speaking more towards the Fathers using plain non lawyerese launguage in the constitution so no inturpritation was needed. The laymen could undrstand it without question so he would not be abused by an oppresive government. But this is the exact opposite to what we are experincing these days. Everyone is over analyzing something that does not require reading into. It is what it is nothing more nothing less. Yet we have schollars such as President Obama wringing the shit out of it to push their own agenda.

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Originally Posted by 95b16coupe if you are under 16 and prego, you are a lost cause. you are given a life raft and dropped into the ocean to fend for yourself. if you make it back to society, you get $1,000,000 in Arby's coupons.