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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: bijou on June 06, 2008, 05:30:11 PM
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Journalgrrl (425 posts) Fri Jun-06-08 05:50 PM
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Do we REALLY need to know the numbers...?
Advertisements [?]I could have told you that January started a steep downturn in my personal economy. This has also affected my employability, as a result causing my physical and mental health to crash...
But that is beside the point.
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AP
Biggest jobless jump since '86 -- Wall Street sinks
Friday June 6, 4:17 pm ET
By Jeannine Aversa, AP Economics Writer
Jobless rate zooms to biggest increase in decades; stocks plunge nearly 400 points
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pink slips piled up and jobs disappeared into thin air in May as the nation's unemployment rate zoomed to 5.5 percent in the biggest one-month jump in decades. Wall Street swooned, and the White House said President Bush was considering new proposals to revive the economy.
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How about increasing the amount we should get in our stimulus checks? I know I could use it!
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The White House snapped into crisis-management mode. The president is now considering further plans to help energize the economy, which had already been teetering on the edge of recession, said counselor Ed Gillespie. Bush acknowledged, "This is a time of turbulence in the housing market and slow growth for our overall economy."
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no shit sherlock.
I can't keep our house running, how can i make any payments on any debt or try to get ahead? i actually had to close my checking acct this week because the little fees were sending me into the overdraft spiral and I don't have any money to spare.
... I guess it just galls me that so MANY of us are just hanging by a thread, and the economists and "Wall Street" is still debating over the issue of a recession. Would they believe we are at a borderline depression if we started gathering torches and pitchforks?
I am tired of feeling bad and struggling. I just want to feel like I can take a breath - without getting plowed over by the next crisis in my life.
Can we make it till January? I really think that the goal is for bush to just destroy it all before November, then the election will be easy to steal....or they can dump the mess in Barack's lap.
Meanwhile, my family & I are still hanging by a thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=114x39307
A word of advice, the police may be armed with something more effective than pitchforks ...
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Biggest jump since '86? .....and Dems took control of Congress in '07? Coincidence?
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Wasn't '86 the election year that the NeoComs took control of the Senate, and thus secured both houses of Congress?
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Hey DUmmy!
Here's a thread you should try hanging by...
(http://www.observationdeck.org/noel/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/hanging_noose_310.jpg)
H5 and ditto!
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Oh my.
Another exhibition of narcissism by the primitives.
It's not the overall situation that matters; it's only the personal situation that matters.
In my whole life, there's been times I've enjoyed worse times than everybody else (and the reverse being true, too), but just because things were lousy for me, I didn't think things in general were lousy.
I thought the primitives were the "big picture" people.
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Oh my.
Another exhibition of narcissism by the primitives.
It's not the overall situation that matters; it's only the personal situation that matters.
In my whole life, there's been times I've enjoyed worse times than everybody else (and the reverse being true, too), but just because things were lousy for me, I didn't think things in general were lousy.
I thought the primitives were the "big picture" people.
Coach, it's only if those "eeeeevil Repukes" are doing worse than they are.
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Journalgrrl
....or they can dump the mess in Barack's lap.
They're already making excuses for his incompetence, and he's not even elected.
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We all told them that the economic bad news the DUchebags wished for so that a change in power would happen would hurt them the very worst.
In my consulting business, recessions are the best of times.
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A great way to tell how things are going economically in an area is to check how the hiring of law enforcement and correctional officers is going.
Generally, in good economic times if you walk through the door and aren't obviously impaired by drugs and pass a background check you will be hired. During bad times they will have applicants lined up and can be very selective about who they want.
Using that criteria, things are still going pretty good around the country.
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A great way to tell how things are going economically in an area is to check how the hiring of law enforcement and correctional officers is going.
Generally, in good economic times if you walk through the door and aren't obviously impaired by drugs and pass a background check you will be hired. During bad times they will have applicants lined up and can be very selective about who they want.
Using that criteria, things are still going pretty good around the country.
That bolded statement disqualifies all the residents of DU right there. No wonder they think times are worse than they really are.
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How's that minimum wage hike working for you DUmmies ?
They were saying that it would increase unemployment.
According to the National Restaurant Association, the last minimum wage increase cost the restaurant industry more than 146,000 jobs and restaurant owners put off plans to hire an additional 106,000 employees.
“A minimum-wage increase will cost our industry jobs, and the vital discussion of how to minimize this job loss is getting lost in the debate,†said Peter Kilgore, the group's acting interim president and chief executive officer.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/24/politics/main2851044.shtml?source=RSSattr=Business_2851044