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Wall Street adviser: Actual unemployment is 37.2%, 'misery index' worst in 40 years
The Washington Examiner ^ | January 21, 2014 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 01/21/2014 9:23:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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If people only knew.
1 posted on 01/21/2014 9:23:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How does saying the misery index the worst on 40 years make sense? Wasn’t it worse in 1979, than it was in 1973?


2 posted on 01/21/2014 9:26:50 PM PST by nickcarraway
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And yet still, up and down the board, they vote for rats. One just got a landslide in Virginia for the state senate.
I don’t think there are conditions bad enough to turn these people against the communist Democrat party.

It would actually have to be the Night of the Long Knives where the commies start killing the socialists before they woke up and smelt the roses.


3 posted on 01/21/2014 9:27:19 PM PST by Viennacon
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I think 1973 was when there was a billboard in Seattle that said....”Last one out, turn out the lights.” Seems that’s the billboard for America now...


4 posted on 01/21/2014 9:30:16 PM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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Wall Street advisor: Actual unemployment is 37.2%, ‘misery index’ worst in 40 years

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3114041/posts


5 posted on 01/21/2014 9:30:42 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: nickcarraway

I think 1973 was when there was a billboard in Seattle that said....”Last one out, turn out the lights.” Seems that’s the billboard for America now...


6 posted on 01/21/2014 9:31:09 PM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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If people only knew.


Most on here do know. It’s the media that keeps it from the clueless.


7 posted on 01/21/2014 9:32:29 PM PST by boycott
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I wonder what part of that figure includes people living on disability payments - which dwarf welfare payments in terms of national expenditures - and what portion consists of people who could literally go to the unemployment office, find a job within one day, but choose not to because they have gotten comfortable with what they are collecting and possibly are holding out for a job they think they deserve because of their liberal arts degree.


8 posted on 01/21/2014 9:52:41 PM PST by freedom462
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I worked at the state unemployment office as a work/study in college and then for 15 years as a career counselor. That was back when if you couldn’t find a good job you should’ve dug yourself a hole and jumped in, yet many of them still waited until the benefits ran out. I can’t imagine what it’s like now.


9 posted on 01/21/2014 10:03:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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If people only knew.

They do know. They're just confused as heck, because the administration and the media are blowing sunshine up their butts day and night.

People see all of the happy crap in the media and think they're alone in their plight. They don't see how widespread the pain and suffering really is, because it's intentionally being covered up.

Obama would have lost in a landslide if the pathetic GOP-e had pounded the real truth home during the primary and the election. Despite our having one of the worst candidates in living memory.

10 posted on 01/21/2014 10:51:28 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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Now, now. This right-wing conspiracy is really getting out of hand.


11 posted on 01/21/2014 11:41:48 PM PST by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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If you note these inconvenient facts, you are an OBVIOUS racist that just hates the idea of a black man as President. My TV said so....


12 posted on 01/21/2014 11:53:51 PM PST by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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Your television is a moron.


13 posted on 01/21/2014 11:54:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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The landslide in Virginia was the from a vote of mostly federal government workers and contractors. For them the economy is booming and life is wonderful.

The top ten richest most growing counties in the USA are positioned around the Beltway in Maryland and Virginia.

These are the people that abhor a government shutdown and that always blame republicans for one.


14 posted on 01/22/2014 12:36:16 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: goodnesswins

What lights?


15 posted on 01/22/2014 1:26:37 AM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama *IS* a transformational president.

He has taken OWS and other slimy economic voyeurs and turned them into Gordon Gekkos. They think the biggest artificial DJIA bubble in the history of the universe is a great and wonderful thing and that high stock indices = good economy.

Apparently they drive through different cities and states as the rest of us, as I tend to notice the unending string of ‘for lease’ signs out on office buildings and parks, entire indoor and strip malls left derelict, and longstanding restaurants, merchants etc. closing down, often complaining about taxes and this or that meddlesome city ordinance that does nothing to improve the quality of life but merely takes their focus away from serving customers and places it on absolute obedience to bureaucrats.


16 posted on 01/22/2014 4:18:09 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The End)
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“If people only knew.”
They know, they are living it. Now our job as always is to spread the news and educate them as to the reason why. If the commie queer boy king was painted as to who he really is there would be revolution in the streets.


17 posted on 01/22/2014 6:00:45 AM PST by WilliamRobert (Obama so loves the poor he created millions more.)
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To: Viennacon; 2ndDivisionVet
It would actually have to be the Night of the Long Knives where the commies start killing the socialists before they woke up and smelt the roses.

And that's just how it is in America. Someone has to die, in spectacular fashion, before awareness is raised.

The question now is not who has to die. It's how many...

18 posted on 01/22/2014 6:17:11 AM PST by Old Sarge (TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
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When they say people who are seeking employment, they mean people who are registered at state and federal human resource agencies. Everyone knows what a waste of time that is.


19 posted on 01/22/2014 6:19:15 AM PST by pallis
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Sooner or later - later now, I guess, people will begin to look around and see that no one is working.

Numbers like this are getting close to "uprising" territory - probably why the regime is so pro gun control.

20 posted on 01/22/2014 6:20:39 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Who but a TYRANT shoves down another man's throat what he has exempted himself from?)
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