Posted on 12/20/2012 4:23:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
MARSHFIELD, Mo -- As Congress tries to come to a deal on taxes, there is another element to the fiscal cliff not making headlines.
While the unemployment rate sits at a 49 month low in Missouri, not everyone is feeling the effects of a recovering job market. There are many families leaning on unemployment benefits to get by, and if an extension isn't passed soon they will be left with nothing.
"I moved to Republic and had a guaranteed job here. Within six months I had a lay off," said Viola Sperle, age 54.
"We got to where we were succeeding. We were completely self sustaining. We didn't need help from anyone," said 23 year old Chyna Hull. Her husband Christopher is 33. They have two children ages 5 and 3.
"[When] savings runs out," Chyna said, "unemployment is all you have."
"It's been very difficult. The job market is very competitive," Viola explained...
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The democrats have created a huge economic sh*tstorm and the corrupt POS liars in the media are laying all responsibility for the results at the feet of the gutless GOP House.
Man, are we in a world of poop.
“””While the unemployment rate sits at a 49 month low in Missouri, not everyone is feeling the effects of a recovering job market.”””
The job market is not recovering. The “unemployment rate” number is a joke. It only means that millions have disappeared from the job market and are no longer counted.
That pretty much sums it up correctly!
That’s what happens when your “independent media” is just state propaganda.
Our main hope is that they start to get so absurd and monotonous that everyone just laughs them off, like in the USSR.
That may take a while with the majorly brainwashed young adults we have (I’m 30, I can’t tell you how ridiculous it is to talk to people with “educations” about real facts!). They are putting their head in the sand and HOPING the real world just goes away. If they FEEL it should be someway, it just WILL be that way, they think.
Sad but I don’t see a way out of this mess.
And I feel badly for anyone in your cohort who hasn't found a nice warm spot at the public trough...
Nice warm spots at the public trough are unsustainable and will disappear soon. Then watch the rioting start.
Agreed.
We “ain’t seen nothin’, yet,” IMO. When the greater layoffs and pension cuts of austerity measures come, the political/regulator class (government-employed/government-connected, currently with higher incomes) will join the former employees of the private sector in poverty. Being unaccustomed to their new situations, their tantrums might be interesting to behold, perhaps like those of the same kinds of folks in Greece and even Argentina. Perhaps uglier.
Tuff titty said the kitty.
Elections have consequences.
These very same fools most likely voted for Obama.
I’m from Marshfield, MO. This county (Webster) went overwhelmingly Republican. There are a lot of young families in this area. You cannot stand in line at the grocery store without seeing WIC checkouts. Follow these women and children outside and they’re all driving huge decked out trucks and SUVs. We are a somewhat small community.
These very same fools most likely voted for Obama.
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That is doubtful. This particular part of Missouri is where I grew up. It’s Reagan Country. Obama’s economic policies and uncertainty about long term policies are the biggest reasons that the economy has not recovered.
There is also a built in shame and avoidance of the government dole in this area, for lots of these people. I am sure that is not as pronounced in this day and age, but the majority of the people are not some 3rd or 4th generation welfare people either.
It makes more sense to pay unemployment benefits than it does to continue the payroll tax holiday. However, there are employers who are not successful in finding employees(ie jobs are available). Often it is because the job is too hard, unpleasant, or seen as demeaning.
When the benefits run out, you really have to get serious and take whatever crap job there is, unless you qualify for some other government benefit which will allow you to subsist for a while longer.
At least the unemployed were working and putting forth an effort. I know plenty of people that haven’t worked for years, cause they qualify for programs that give them more than they could possibly earn at any job they are qualified for. It’s not hard to understand that such people won’t work unless forced to.
These very same fools most likely voted for Obama.
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That is doubtful.
It is doubtful if 100% of that part of Missouri didn’t vote for the Food Stamp President. I would suspect that at least 30-40% in that area voted for the Food Stamp President and these are the ones the MSM FSP pimps are dragging in front of the cameras.
My point was that the majority of the folks there are not brain dead Obama supporters which your post seemed to imply and condemn 100% of the people who live there.
Now if you didn’t mean that, sorry. If you did mean that, then I stand by what I posted. The majority of the people there supported Reagan, and still believe in the constitution and hard work.
Like many places, we have had our share of imports from other places, but we don’t think much of government handouts.
The Baraqqi Depression grinds on.
Of course the 40 cents of fake money that Bernanke and Geithner produce for every dollar in taxes is used to help the masses pretend that everything is ok.
Full Time employment has been redefined to be 32 hrs a week by the DoL, then people who have exhausted their unemployment are no longer counted as unemployed. The real deal to to look at the number of people working.
That number tells most of the story, the other part of the story is people moving to $10/ hr jobs who used to have $20-25/hr jobs.
I agree with you, but the MSM FSP pimps will search out and display the non-representative minority.
Did they think unemployment would last forever? It sounds like they have been on it for longer than 26 weeks and that is really all they promise anything more is a bonus.
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