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Jobless claims fall by largest amount since July
Market Watch ^ | 02/11/2010 | MArket Watch

Posted on 02/11/2010 5:36:16 AM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour

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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Wanna bet the snow and the lack of fed workers in DC have resulted in non-reporting and these stats are incomplete?

Wait for next week when the real reality of the four days off the feds took for snow, really hits the stats.

Can’t file for unemployment when the govt office is closed.


81 posted on 02/11/2010 8:06:11 AM PST by George from New England (escaped CT 2006; now living north of Tampa Bay)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

How many times do we have to be accosted by these lies? In a waeek or two the numbers will be “surprisingly” higher.


82 posted on 02/11/2010 8:06:18 AM PST by dools007
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

When will GOD strike these liars down?

This is like carrying a gas can to a fire. This just PISSES me off more every month!


83 posted on 02/11/2010 8:08:57 AM PST by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
" I still can’t figure out how we had a net loss of jobs over the last quarter but the unemployment figure fell from 10.1% to 9.7%. I thought you would have to have a net jobs gain in order for the unemployment to fall. At least thats what my basic math tells me."

Washington doesn't do Basic Math. They do Obfuscation With Numbers and Other Numerical Ploys.

Hint: "Unemployed" is not the same as "not working." If you were "unemployed" for the last twelve months but have now decided to pack it in and live off your relatives, for the purpose of the official numbers, you are no longer "unemployed."

Many have maxed out on their unemployment benefits and are therefore no longer reporting to the state "Employment Office" and thus are dropped from the calculation.

84 posted on 02/11/2010 8:09:36 AM PST by cookcounty (Let us not speak of the honor of men. Rather, let us bind them with the Constitution. --Jefferson)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
The GOP is MIA on this monthly jobless BS stream. WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY?????

Vote Independent, screw the enablers!!!!!!!!!!

85 posted on 02/11/2010 8:11:36 AM PST by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: Abathar

Uh, that’s the University of Michigan Big House, so you need another 1/4th of a stadium to get to 440K


86 posted on 02/11/2010 8:11:43 AM PST by cookcounty (Let us not speak of the honor of men. Rather, let us bind them with the Constitution. --Jefferson)
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To: shelterguy

Lets not forget the fact that small business owners who go under are not included in these numbers either.


87 posted on 02/11/2010 8:14:22 AM PST by panthermom
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To: The Anti-One

Hold on, is the 440,000 number “lost jobs in a week”? Please confirm! Is that 440,000 within 7 whole days?


88 posted on 02/11/2010 8:14:39 AM PST by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Could it be that there’s no one left to fire????


89 posted on 02/11/2010 8:16:14 AM PST by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: Jane Long

One cannot confront another from another from his own black race. However, whites confront others of the “white” race every day!

Steele must go, or the GOP is toast for me. I knew when Barry won the TOTUS the race card would be trumping everything.

Real nice.


90 posted on 02/11/2010 8:20:41 AM PST by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: wbarmy

Barry, The Muslim, has learned from History. Barry has 35 months to continue his Islamic deeds.


91 posted on 02/11/2010 8:26:57 AM PST by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Only 440,000 people lost jobs in Washington state in the last week?

Things are really getting better.


92 posted on 02/11/2010 8:29:21 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: The Anti-One

“”””””On a side note. I find it odd that no one ever mentions the tens of thousands of self employed people that are out of work. I’m talking about all the small businessmen and women that are the backbone of American business. Those people that hire 2, 3, 4 or 5 people at most but that are now out of work themselves. Those people are not eligible for unemployment benefits even though they too are out of work. They are also NOT HIRING.””””””””””

I share shop space and land with six other small businesses. We have been together for years in this communal relationship. We are all the typical small business types. 3-4 employees, self employed, ineligible for unemployment.

This winter, so far, THREE of the companies have folded.
They don’t show up on any unemployment statistics anywhere.


93 posted on 02/11/2010 8:32:03 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: crescen7

No one has surveyed this household. This IS taxation without representation.

These pricks must go! And the angry gun toting, bible carrying crowd IS NOT getting smaller.


94 posted on 02/11/2010 8:32:44 AM PST by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: manc; The Anti-One

Posts of the day!!!

EVERY Conservative/Republican running for office should use your words as there talking points; they’d win 98% of the time.

Perfectly stated points!


95 posted on 02/11/2010 8:38:25 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (Camelot sleeps with the fishes!)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Yes.

People have either exhausted their unemployment benefits or quit looking, thus fewer claims.

Those figures don’t tally how many Americans are out of work, just how many have filed claims. In this pr0l0nged recession, it’s not an accurate measure of misery.


96 posted on 02/11/2010 8:44:32 AM PST by Jedidah (Character, courage, common sense - absolutely required to get my vote. More important than issues.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Giving some hope that the recovery is picking up steam!


97 posted on 02/11/2010 8:44:44 AM PST by ichabod1 ( I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet.)
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To: Iron Munro

Layoffs aren’t the only way to shed jobs. Business failures work quite as well.


98 posted on 02/11/2010 8:48:24 AM PST by ichabod1 ( I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet.)
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To: TNCMAXQ

I figure that Florida and Texas have been not participating in the depression. We don’ like’at. Time to share the misery.


99 posted on 02/11/2010 8:52:37 AM PST by ichabod1 ( I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet.)
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Stop the presses! We don’t suck as much as we did last week! Lets have a party.


100 posted on 02/11/2010 8:53:57 AM PST by Vermont Lt (I am light skinned and don't speak with a dialect. Can I be President?)
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