[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

There has been some job growth. Saturday, I took my kid to the airport to go back to college. There must have been over a hundred new trained security monkeys loitering around
watching us.

Maybe six to eight passengers.

[Bluntpoint]

Maybe we need to get people out of the "buggy whip"(website management) vocation and into something more productive.

[Red Jones]

the only real debate is whether the government is systematically over a long period of time (since 1970) destroying our economy on purpose through some diabolical evil plan or whether it is done because of very bad intellectual fashions. There are so many policies, regulations that destroy jobs, push wages down, over such a long period of time.

[Moonman62]

New businesses create new jobs. Presidents that give important economic speeches in warehouses full of boxes don't help. All of his other economic speeches have been in similarly lackluster places.

[maxwell]

Gad... That's just what I wanna read right now...

[RLK]

The average spell of unemployment is now more than five weeks longer than in the fourth quarter of 2000. There are now 1.7 million people who have been jobless over half a year.

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Lengt of employment times number of people unemployed over that time is the primary statistic I use in evaluating the economy. The stat is becoming hard to find. People who have been out of work for more than six months are not reported in unemployment claims. They are dropped from the system.

[Musket]

I got laid off and found a new job in 5 weeks. It pays a little less but the bennys are the same so I consider it a lateral move. Don't be discouraged by all this bad news. It CAN be done! : )