Jobless benefit rolls drop for first time since January, but ne...

Hokey Smokes wrote:

These numbers are only the tip of the iceberg and are really smoke and mirrors.
The REAL unemployment level in the USA is closer to 20%!
Add in those not counted in the 'official' figures: those who've exhausted their unemployment insurance benefits, the self-employed, the under-employed {those working either part-time or who've taken a position at less than they were earning in their last position} and the unemployable/those who haven't been employed in recent history, and you've got at least DOUBLE the 'official' figure as a REAL unemployment level in the USA.
Depending on your geographic location, race and skills the unofficial level may be much higher, e.g. in inner-cities [Detroit, Cleveland, Akron, Dayton, Canton, Muncie, Milwaukee, Chicago, Gary, East LA, etc, etc]- perhaps approaching half/50% in some areas.
What I really don't understand is how the political hack quacks can even suggest raising taxes on the ever fewer and fewer taxpayers left standing. Keep disincentivizing people and... they'll leave {the country}. England kept pushing up their tax rates in the 1960's and 1970's - instead of dealing with their antiquated infrastructure, entitlement costs, etc, and a 'brain'drain' resulted - people with 'brains' left the country!
Keep pushing the already endangered species of the ever shrinking middle-class/kill the American Dream and see who supports the entitlement recipients, illegals and their spawn then!

Legislative Firewall wrote:

<quoted text> Since the early 1980's advertising has steadily increased, reaching a point today where it is incessant. The advertising message in a nutshell has been: BUY ANYTHING, BUY SOMETHING, AND BUY IT NOW!!! Currently, television sitcoms are having tidbits cut from shows, allowing another commercial or two to be played during half-hour episodes. The bottom line - incomes have been falling for many years, and those who are currently working while considering financing a home purchase today, had better think "A THOUSAND WAYS TO SUNDAY, BEFORE THEY SIGN ANY 30 YEAR MORTGAGE DOCUMENT." Having said that, it's not wise to buy in a vacuum.

Legislative Firewall wrote:

<quoted text> Good Point! In addition, inexperienced conservatives don't get it, because they are inexperienced. Experienced conservatives get it, and are having none-of-it, none of what, "CONSERVATIVE BS," that's what!

Morton mike wrote:

Why wouldn't Opie call for some help from somebody like.....say Jimmy Carter. Jimmy had experience in blowing apart the economy.

Alz wrote:

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Dev, you are 100% correct.
To learn WHY liberals are like they are, watch the and absorb the video "How Modern Liberals Think". I'll put the link in at the end.
To liberals, their ideas are helpful!
They think they are are helping humanity! How?
...Because they want everything "equal". Normal people want things better, but Modern Liberals reject this.
They have to tear at success to make things "equal." This is why they never apologize or change course when their ideas create and foster hopelessness, despair and death.
Look at the inner cities: over 40 years of intense liberalism and they won't change course. In the mean time, how many lives have they ruined??? Remember, you can't blame Bush or "the last 8 years" as they have been running things in the inner cities since the 60's - not coincidentally when the problems really started getting bad.
So what we are dealing with is people who have an entirely different belief system than normal people. Once people understand this, it gets easier to deal with them.
Here is the link. This talk is very, very good:
youtube.com/watch...

null wrote:

I'm sorry I voted for Obama.
I guess the next vote is to replace the replace the representatives that passed the Energy "Tax". Then two years later, Obama.

Matt wrote:

Obama's $10 trillion deficit and his reckless spending policies are to blame. All the debts will have to be repaid somehow, and with a raging recession and continues to last, the only thing the Fed can do is to print more money, and that will cause inflation.
Obama's economic policies will hit the American people in several fronts: higher inflation, higher interest rate, higher unemployment rate and a prolonged recession.
Obama's quest to take posession of the economy has caused so much chaos in the economy. Voters need to make sure that Obama is a one-term president before this country is completely destroyed.