[Red Badger]

Unexpected Thursday
(Pleasant Valley Sunday - with apologies to the Monkees)

The White House Press Corps down the hall
Is trying hard to learn their song
Seranade the weak kneed Gibbs, who just came out to make them yawn

Another Unexpected Thursday!
Spilled Oil burning everywhere!
Rows of houses they’re all foreclosed
And no one seems to care

See Mrs. O, she’s proud today because her roses are in bloom
Mr. O he’s so serene, He’s on TV in every room

Another Unexpected Thursday
Here in Unemployment land
The Press complains about how high it is
And the people just don’t understand

Creature comfort goals
They only numb my soul and make it hard for me to see
My thoughts all seem to stray, to places far away
I need a change of scenery

Ta Ta Ta...

Another Unexpected Thursday
Spilled Oil burning everywhere!
Another Unexpected Thursday
Here in Unemployment land

Another Unexpected Thursday...

[Red in Blue PA]

Santelli: ‘not a good sign”

[Carley]

So the dems are screeching that during Bush administration we lost 790,000 jobs per month.

Now we have close to two million jobs lost every single month with silence from the msm.

[IndyTiger]

How unexpected! Double-dip, here we come.

[Daisyjane69]

I’m lookin’

Did Santelli have one of his ‘rants?’

LOL

[JerseyHighlander]

On the upside, there will be deadlock in Congress come January.
On the downside, the Congress will be presiding over the collapse of American socioeconomic structure.

This report is only 750,000 less new jobs created than the CBO and VP Biden estimate of +250k per this reporting period.

[Gabrial]

Horrible news.

The scale of this is staggering.

[stefanbatory]

everybody drink!

[Tolsti2]

Oh lord, 500k..

[Bertha Fanation]

Steve Lice Man will come in and spin the numbers to O’s benefit.

[NMEwithin]

Wait for it...wait for it...

New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly climbed to a nine-month high last week

[Rational Thought]

A prediction of what’s coming by November.....

This administration will be blaming the unemployed for the Nation’s high unemployment rate.......

[AU72]

According to Kudlow 2 trillion dollars of private money is on the sidelines because of uncertainty about taxes, regulation, health care costs etc.

A big republican victory in November could release the money spigot.

[rockinqsranch]

“Unemployment claims at 500,000”

Obama starts his umpteenth vacation in Martha’s Vineyard...

Yaaaaaaawwwnnnnn...

[EBH]

But even the President said this yesterday?

Obama says economy coming back in backyard chat

It is all freakin' prop0ganda!

We need to infiltrate the White House Press Corps! The MSM can't and won't do the job of asking the tough questions or calling the prop0ganda out. It is time to heckle these folks every chance we can.

[Roccus]

[reagan_fanatic]

I hope your happy with the wholesale destruction of the U.S. economy, Mr. Obama, Mr. Frank, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Reid, and the rest of you complacent bastards in the MSM and Congress who assisted in putting these dangerous fools in positions of power.

I hope you’re happy with what you have wrought.

[Gabrial]

I wonder if someone will interrupt Barry Soetoro’s 10 day luxury vacation in Martha's Vineyard to tell him 500,000 jobless claims is a 9 MONTH HIGH.

Even if they did, he likely would not be sober enough to understand.

[N. Theknow]

And the Recovery Summer just keeps on rolling along....

[TomGuy]

So the Summer of Recovery continues to un-recover.

Not to worry, Obama is heading for a 10-day vacation in Martha's Vineyard.



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U1-U6 is ...

U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian labor force

U-2 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian labor force

U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official unemployment rate)

U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus discouraged workers

U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plus all other persons marginally attached to the labor force, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force

U-6 Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force

NOTE: Persons marginally attached to the labor force are those who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the past 12 months. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a job-market related reason for not currently looking for work. Persons employed part time for economic reasons are those who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics