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Offline Carl

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Are You Employed?
« on: August 21, 2010, 11:30:01 AM »
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8989267

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Fearless  (1000+ posts)        Sat Aug-21-10 12:19 PM
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Poll question: Are You Employed?
      

Edited on Sat Aug-21-10 12:22 PM by Fearless
We know the national and state statistics. But what is the unemployment rate here on DU?? Remember to Rec. the thread so others see it.
Poll result (13 votes)
Yes, I am gainfully employed.    (5 votes, 38%)   Vote
I am underemployed (at a job below my skill/education level).    (0 votes, 0%)   Vote
I am unemployed, for less than a month.    (0 votes, 0%)   Vote
I am unemployed, for more than a month but less than six.    (1 votes, 8%)   Vote
I am unemployed, for more than six consecutive months.    (7 votes, 54%)   Vote


Should be interesting.
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Re: Are You Employed?
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2010, 11:34:03 AM »
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Are You Employed?

Wrong question to be asking on The Island of Misfit ****-ups.

Question should read like this instead:
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Are you Employable?
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Re: Are You Employed?
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2010, 11:36:04 AM »
Quote from: Carl on August 21, 2010, 11:30:01 AM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8989267


Should be interesting.

No, it's disheartening....the DUmmies are waiting for Obama to make their house payment and fill their cars with gas.
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Re: Are You Employed?
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2010, 11:55:41 AM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on August 21, 2010, 11:34:03 AM
Wrong question to be asking on The Island of Misfit ****-ups.

Question should read like this instead:

Along the same line;

How many are on disability or some other permanent gov't handout.

How many are actively TRYING to get on disability or some other gov't handout.

Those are the questions I would really like to see asked over there.

KC
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Re: Are You Employed?
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2010, 12:04:33 PM »
Quote from: Texacon on August 21, 2010, 11:55:41 AM
Along the same line;

How many are on disability or some other permanent gov't handout.

How many are actively TRYING to get on disability or some other gov't handout.

Those are the questions I would really like to see asked over there.

KC

Yeah, boy! Now that would be enlightening!
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Re: Are You Employed?
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2010, 01:48:27 PM »
Keep voting for the communists/socialists you stupid DUmmies and we'll all be unemployed!! :bird: :censored:
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Re: Are You Employed?
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2010, 02:46:02 PM »
Hey, no fair!  The "unemployeds" are having their vote split four ways!



Right now, the "employeds" have edged ahead with  37% of the vote, with the combined total of the "unemployeds" breathing down their work-a-day brothers necks at 31% of the vote. 

I haven't decided what to make of the "I am underemployed (at a job below my skill/education level)" tally yet.  I figured this choice alone would have clenched the votes of all 33 of the of the employed DUmmies votes.  :uhsure:
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Re: Are You Employed?
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2010, 03:17:04 PM »
Quote from: true_blood on August 21, 2010, 01:48:27 PM
Keep voting for the communists/socialists you stupid DUmmies and we'll all be unemployed!! :bird: :censored:

Where are you from in MA?
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Re: Are You Employed?
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2010, 03:18:23 PM »
Quote from: BattleHymn on August 21, 2010, 02:46:02 PM
I haven't decided what to make of the "I am underemployed (at a job below my skill/education level)" tally yet.  I figured this choice alone would have clenched the votes of all 33 of the of the employed DUmmies votes.  :uhsure:

I thought that would be #1 also.
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Re: Are You Employed?
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2010, 07:43:23 PM »
Quote from: formerlurker on August 21, 2010, 03:17:04 PM
Where are you from in MA?

I'm in the Southeast. Near Foxboro/Walpole. :cheersmate:
How about yourself?
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Re: Are You Employed?
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2010, 08:50:41 PM »
Quote from: true_blood on August 21, 2010, 07:43:23 PM
I'm in the Southeast. Near Foxboro/Walpole. :cheersmate:
How about yourself?

Central MA.  It's nice having another member from MA on the site.  :)
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Re: Are You Employed?
« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2010, 05:32:10 AM »
Oh, jeez...not ANOTHER Masshole!
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Re: Are You Employed?
« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2010, 06:29:33 AM »
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14. I was working in a gift shop when my dad got sick. He and my mom needed someone to
   
run errands and cook. So I quit and now my parents pay me to work for them 5 days a week. The other two days I cook for them for free. Since I never had a family of my own it is my chance to be nurturing, etc. I feel lucky.

Isn't this something that you would do for free?
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Come to think of it, unions do create jobs. Companies have to hire two workers to do the work of one.

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Re: Are You Employed?
« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2010, 06:42:04 AM »
Quote from: Tucker on August 22, 2010, 06:29:33 AM
Isn't this something that you would do for free?

Not by DUmmie rules. They brought the DUmmie into the world and they're supposed to take care of the DUmmie until they die.....then the government takes over.
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"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

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Re: Are You Employed?
« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2010, 07:13:39 AM »
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Re: Are You Employed?
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Re: Are You Employed?
« Reply #16 on: August 22, 2010, 10:07:46 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on August 22, 2010, 05:32:10 AM
Oh, jeez...not ANOTHER Masshole!

HA HA!! :naughty:
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Re: Are You Employed?
« Reply #17 on: August 22, 2010, 03:23:26 PM »
Quote from: Tucker on August 22, 2010, 06:29:33 AM
Isn't this something that you would do for free?

Seriously.  I can't see charging my parents for helping out when one of them is sick.  That is expected behavior  :mental:
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