Posted on 05/06/2011 2:46:13 PM PDT by Kaslin
at this point the American public has ZERO confidence in any economic numbers coming out of this government
244,000 - 62,000 Big Macs - 175,000 Death Adjustments = 7,000 April Jobs
So much for Odryrotula’s good news on the jobs front.
This entire administration is painful to watch.
We are becoming experts at enduring endless lies, misrepresentations, and exploitations that defy any sense of decency.
“This entire administration is painful to watch.
We are becoming experts at enduring endless lies, misrepresentations, and exploitations that defy any sense of decency.”
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Yes, we can see the outright lies and distortions, but
40+ percent of the American public has been dumbed down to moron level, so they lap up the Kool Aid.
EVERYTHING out of these goons in the administration is
a damn lie, and gladly parroted by the Marxist Pravda.
God save America...please.
AP = Administration Press
It would look better that way!
“We are becoming experts at enduring endless lies, misrepresentations, and exploitations that defy any sense of decency.”
Yes so true. But at least we FReepers, unlike the majority of Americans, see through their BS and try and do our part to combat it.
Sadly I’m part of that statistic.
I read the MacJobs will be in the next reporting period. maybe there is a tiny bit of hiring going on? Hope so, but with 14 trillion in debt I see no hope for this generation. Maybe we can inflate or way out of the mess like post WW1 Germany did.
After 6 months of hunting my wife got a McJob.. well. it’s a evil non-union retailer job. She got 3 offers from 3 retail box stores..
Sam walton offered her the most and the best, most flexiable hours a women with 2 kids and type 1 could ask for :)
I gave up looking for a job a year ago and bought a struggling fish shop. It’s getting better and turns a profit (just enough so far) so things ARE looking up for us. but my customers have much less disposiable income. A few years ago a shop like mine could sell 2-300 dollar corals 3 or 4 times a week.
Now, anything over 50 bucks just sits. Good thing I can cut the 2-300 dollar ones up in to 50 dollar chunks.
Good luck to you my friend, remember guns and ammo :)
I have to agree that unemployment has to be above 15.9%. I was out of work for over 4 months but didn’t qualify for unemployment... and I didn’t get “counted” in those numbers. There are tons of people out there in the same position...
Like all the housing contractors that are out of work.. If your a contractor, your NEVER counted in the unemployment number.
You’re right... but count ALL contractors in that. I was a contractor as well...but in nursing...not housing.
Soapbox, Ballot box, Ammo box... I think we are half way there ;)
I got 23 years to 60. SS likely won’t be there for me. our savings are about gone. We did make a few changes 2 years ago that helped us stay above water. We skipped the 1500 a month for 30 years house and bought a mobile home. We owe 4500 on it and will own it out right at years end. I bought the store with out the small/expensive space on a 2000 car per day road and moved it to a older but on a 75,000 car per day road and was able to keep the rent at just about the same amount.
I also expanded BIG time. 300 to 1300 gallons. More selection, less likely people leave empty handed. I am always on the hunt for vendors with good product and good prices. I have NO problem playing them aginst each other, I expanded in to on site aquarium maintenance and went after industries that seem to weather well in bad times (doctors, hospitals, schools) I have enough accounts now that I don’t even have to unlock the door to the shop to break even :)
I bought the shop last year, I have worn out 3 cheap cars/trucks pounding the pavement in search of business. Its rare that I am home after 8 am or before 12am, it sucks but the kids eat, the lights are on and I am positioned to jump hard once things pick back up in the economy.
Hang in there, do good work at a fair price and you’ll keep the mowers busy. I’m not the cheapest in my area up here. but I am one of the best! Sometimes it takes a while for a customer to realize that.
Thats what I meant. Sorry, it was not very clear.
Make some of them triangular to fit in the corner or fit around the air pump, calling it designer coral.
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