:1orglaugh i really expected that comment would have come at the start of the thread..

you guys are getting slow... :1orglaugh





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he's out sailing his cross..

he's way too successful to be wasting his time here and i sale 4 letter .orgs... :1orglaugh






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http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/28/news...aims/index.htm

The number of initial claims rose to to 429,000 in the week ended Apr. 23, up 25,000 from the week before

The 4-week moving average for ongoing claims fell by 22,750 to 3,697,750.

But the downward trend may not all be good news.

Quinlan said the figure could be skewed by the expiration of benefits for those Americans who have been jobless for long periods of time and are no longer eligible for unemployment insurance.

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Americans who have been jobless for long periods of time and are no longer eligible for unemployment insurance.

Does anyone seriously believe one president/man no matter what party actually runs this country?

But the amount of people who have been unemployed for a long period of time and no longer eligible for unemployment are impossible to realistically determine, and you can play with these numbers constantly.

I think the truth lays somewhere between the amount of people currently receiving unemployment, adjusted by how many people applied for benefits in any given period.

As for Obama, well, this is a difficult time - one of the most difficult periods in our lifetime.

by the looks of it, you merely attempt to sell them. looks like you didn't understand the market........smart:1orglaugh

oh, and not 4 letter, 4 word. there sure is a market............smart for them.

Because they accomplished WHAT so far? And that reduced unemployment HOW exactly?

The new repub house has done nothing. Come on people, Change doesn't happen that fast. Ask Obama .. HAHA sorry had to go there.

Firstly, as many others point out, the official unemployment numbers are very skewed and don't reflect reality. Actual unemployment is more around 20%.

With that said, the elephant in the room isn't the unemployment rate, but that most of the jobs pay far less than they used to...

For example I know many people who once earned around $13-$15 back in the late 1990s who are lucky to earn $10 now - so not only have their wages not kept up with inflation, but have actually decreased in real dollars too - a double whammy!

The middle class (one can debate what that means; imho, earning enough in 35-40 hours a week without overtime to pay mortgage, decent car, utilities, food, etc and still have a decent chunk leftover for savings / vacation) has been hulled out and continues to be decimated...

The U.S. economy is becoming a banana republic much like the countries most imports come from; very rich and everyone else barely surviving. Not an accident - it's by design (various trade agreements, in particular, Mexico and China) by the power-elite. Many, such as Ross Perot, were very vocal about the consequences long-term of unfair foreign trade ...

On an aside, before someone chimes in about Americans don't work as hard, or need to work harder, etc to compete ... read up on "externalized costs" ...

Try competing with a worker in China who works in harsh conditions with few labor protections (child labor, long hours, no breaks, no workers comp, etc) in a less safe factory that can ignore U.S. environmental rules. Good luck with that ...

In short, so called free trade isn't free, but comes at the expense of "externalized costs" and labor arbitrage.

Our standard of living drops with lots of unemployment and lower wages while theirs improves slightly - and only slightly, because the power-elite takes most off the top; constant pressure to keep living standards low to prevent companies from leaving to the next low cost place, which are numerous.

Ron

Ron Exactly
Where I work part time, they have around 250 people in the building working part time.
This is fine as everyone was there for a very long time, getting a decent wage. Now this company has found any and every reason to fire people, to hire in all new low wage people with no benifits. What use to be a waiting list to work at this company, has now turned into 60% of the part time workers have been there 30 days or less.

quoted for truth

oh, i know where you got this info..

i can see the misunderstanding little one.. when you get your information from a clown, how can you expect it to be anything but silly..

if she had any intelligence or memory, she would have told you that i have over 5000 long tail blogs.. and yes they are all .org and .net's with a few .com's and .info's thrown in..

i know its not as glamorous as cross selling surfers too stupid to uncheck the box, but i need a way to supplement my income at McDonalds..






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This is a really interesting article.

I missed this somehow.

Lets also add in the the "workers" of the system.
Some people can work the system like no other.

what child?
she?
clown?
hahaha.
google is a female clown now?
odd that *she* doesn't list blogs. Google, that little bitch, told me you're trying to sell 4 word .orgs

pretty big time for a guy calling himself market smart. :1orglaugh

here's a little clue for you, son. When you're pretending to be a big shot, don't let people see you pushing a shopping cart full of aluminum cans.:thumbsup

The Republicans will all say it is because he accepted their tax cuts for the rich.. So the rich hired more poor people to clean toilets which pays $9 an hour and got them off of the gov't tit. Well, then again, now they collect earned income credit, food stamps and don't pay their medical bills from the county so we all end up paying them...

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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/More-p....html?x=0&.v=2

I'm pretty sure the unemployment rate among those with college degrees is closer to 5%. Full employment for those with college degrees is considered to be around 3%.

Read into that whatever you want.