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The Death Month is Coming: A Crushing Unemployment Number Is Due Out February 4, 2010
Economic Policy Journal ^
| 12/10/09
| Robert Wenzel
Posted on 12/10/2009 10:43:27 AM PST by FromLori
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To: Professional Engineer; Winstons Julia
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posted on
12/10/2009 11:09:31 AM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 323 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: Le Chien Rouge
6)And the Dallas Cowboys will be watching the Super Bowl on TV, like the rest of us.
7)Wade Phillips and Tony Romo will still be winless in playoff competition.
8)Jerry Jones will be quoted (again) saying "but how did you like those 3 Super Bowls I gave you in the 90s?"
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posted on
12/10/2009 11:12:43 AM PST
by
Night Hides Not
(If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
To: Lou Budvis
There's also the April surprise coming when people realize that their paychecks were a few dollars more last year because of less withholding, but the government will want it all back at tax time next year.
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posted on
12/10/2009 11:12:52 AM PST
by
Brett66
(Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: FromLori
I’d like to see a breakdown of those people no longer counted as unemployed, because they have exhausted their benefits, and an in-depth study of whether they blame 0bama or not.
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posted on
12/10/2009 11:19:57 AM PST
by
The Sons of Liberty
(Pork Eating CRUSADER - FUBO! Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
To: caver
Yes, but you can’t lie forever — eventually they catch up with you. And the algorithm they used to manipulate the figures will catchup with them in January. How will they fudge it now?
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posted on
12/10/2009 11:44:54 AM PST
by
expatpat
To: expatpat
“Yes, but you cant lie forever eventually they catch up with you.”
We can only hope so.
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posted on
12/10/2009 11:53:26 AM PST
by
caver
(Obama's first goals: allow more killing of innocents and allow the killers of innocents to go free.)
To: FromLori
It sounds the the BLS hires the same kinds of "modelers" as we have observed in the "climate modelers". Spew whatever numbers the sitting administration wants disseminated by the media they own and control. Modeling is speculation. Actual revenue receipts are the genuine article. When people aren't working, they aren't paying taxes. Cut the crap. Report tax receipts as an indication of actual productive employment.
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posted on
12/10/2009 11:56:26 AM PST
by
Myrddin
To: Myrddin
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posted on
12/10/2009 12:01:03 PM PST
by
FromLori
(FromLori)
To: FromLori
I hope everyone realizes it is the SUFFERING of the American people that will finally bring this WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES DOWN.
I know this is awful for the families, but this is the only way for the people to realize just how important it is to NEVER give Dums control of the American Republic.
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posted on
12/10/2009 12:25:37 PM PST
by
Marty62
(former Marty60)
To: Marty62
I agree and it has to happen quickly as people have an uncanny ability to adapt to misery.
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posted on
12/10/2009 12:28:14 PM PST
by
riri
(Resistance-It's the New Black)
To: dumpthelibs
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posted on
12/10/2009 12:31:23 PM PST
by
ez
("Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is..." - Milton)
To: riri
Yes. I had a Dr appointment yesterday.
I made a point of actually looking at the people walking around Dwtn.
No one was smiling. People were not their ususal selves. No smiles, seemed less well dressed as they ususally are, and all in all it seemed a depressed mood.
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posted on
12/10/2009 12:34:53 PM PST
by
Marty62
(former Marty60)
To: FromLori
Headlines will be something like
"Unemployment shows dramatic improvement, at 13%, down significantly from an adjusted figure of 17% in 2009. Obama says the economy is finally starting to recover from Bush."
To: Haiku Guy
I'll see you and raise you “Gypsie Sun & Rainbows, for short it's nothing but A Band of Gypsies..”
Jimi Hendrix on drugs made a hell of a lot more sense than The Marxist In Chief does today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZdDEHUJCuE
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posted on
12/10/2009 12:40:58 PM PST
by
gathersnomoss
(General George Patton had it right.)
To: FromLori
The reduced tax collections also measures underemployment. People who previously earned $150K annually, but now are working for minimum wage to avoid starvation. It's a palpable, objective measurement of a lowered GDP. Trying to divine the number unemployed is difficult as there is no concrete means of ensuring that everyone who is unemployed participates in the data collection.
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posted on
12/10/2009 2:27:22 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: FromLori
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posted on
12/11/2009 11:00:04 AM PST
by
rhema
("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
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