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Unemployment rate jumps from 7.7% to 8.9% in 30 days
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE JUMPS FROM 7.7% TO 8.9% IN 30 DAYS
__________________The "liberal" in me wants the guaranteed income like yesterday. If these numbers continue, or worsen, we're headed for some major upheaval. The conservatives, especially the hard working Bible Belt folks, need to drop their blind defense of the wealthy. It's you they are stealing from! (well, and the rest of us) |
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Very interesting how that video shows mostly African American folks walking around and looking for a job.
__________________Even though the US has the best and highest paying jobs in the world, many people are now opting for overseas employment. http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/...ortunity/?_r=0 |
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Thanks Obummer.
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It's Gannett's fault. LOL
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And for those "lucky" enough to find work...
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We should keep this thread going in order to keep an eye and discuss the troubled economy and job market, just like that Greek thread is still going. |
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Bible Belt folk: "I don't think the rich should have to pay more in taxes". Me: "Why?" Bible Belt folk: "It's not fair. I don't want to pay more in taxes and neither should they. Or anyone else. The Govt is too big". Me: "You know...someone has to pay the bills". Bible Belt folk: "Then we should get all these people off welfare, and stop sending millions in foreign aid to people that hate us". Me: "relatively speaking, it's a drop in the bucket. You need lots of revenue and it can only come from slightly higher rates on the wealthy" Bible Belt folk: "I don't believe that". Me: "Well it's true. Besides, the rich have never made more money than they are making now". Bible Belt folk: "Good for them". Me: "But it's the non-rich that end up paying those bills". Bible Belt folk: "Like I said, reduce the bills. Get all those people off welfare, stop fighting wars in Muslimville and stop sending millions to Africa" Me: "Welfare is inevitable and it's not going away. Foreign aid might as well be the same as buying tanks. It's national security. And I agree with you about the wars." Bible Belt folk: "Stupid Bush and those wars." Me: "Yeah but don't you see? The same reason you voted to re-elect him in 2004 is the same reason you believe that taxing the wealthy is a great sin". Bible Belt folk: "Huh?" Me: "Politics. getting you to vote against your best interest". And they simply don't want to believe they could be duped like that. The personal pride meets the libertarian principle meet pure politics. And Republicans continue to dominate these demographics. Also...Bible issues but that's another subject. Truth, brother. |
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As it is, they shout and vote to protect the very aristocrats that are enslaving them and preventing them from having the same standard of living their parents and grandparents had. And the Left isn't blameless - the Democrats feed off the desires of honest, intelligent, and caring people who want a government that creates equal opportunity for all its citizens (a worthy goal), only to have these snakes establish rules and regulations that funnel money to the very same aristocrats (and to themselves - so they can now be aristocrats too) - which at the same times puts "the commoners" in debt to these aristocrats because now the cost of owning a home and decent education is so inflated by government interference that the only way to even sniff the American dream of owning a decent house and earning a quality education is to become a debt slave. A different path - same result. Enslavement. |
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In Praise of Idleness - Bertrand Russell (1932)
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It shows, if nothing else, how long this conversation has been going on. Of course he was operating (in that piece at least) at much the same time as Keynes was touching on similar ideas.
Some work is indeed necessary (though the total amount is probably radically less again than it was in Russell's lifetime), but work, just work of any sort, as a phenomenon, as a virtue is a nonsense. I've always thought that is somewhat like saying that bashing your own head against a wall is a virtue. Even if there was no need to be doing so. Useful make-work of the kind that was employed in some countries during the Great Depression at least had the virtue of spreading the money around, thus helping a little to ameliorate that situation where some have boundless leisure and some are overworked, and all misery is increased in total. |
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1,2% in only one month? Who buys that?
Not even in Greece and Spain, the countries where the unemployment rate is still running up the hills, it happens with such speed... Yet, I don't know if that phenomenon exists in the US, but in many European countries, the summer months is the time where every single governments screams to the world that the unemployment rate fell... What they forget to say is that it's because of seasonal jobs because of tourism activity (which leads to the big jump of that rate again in September/October). |
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And then they would be squashed like a bug by Big Money. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Our problems do not end, but they certainly BEGIN with two things. 1) Term limits and 2) Campaign finance and lobby/special interest reform (hand in hand), really. |
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