The truth is, you can’t rely on anyone to tell the truth!! The “real deal” is much closer to the truth than anyone would like to imagine. Monica Crowley (who I previously could not stand) likes to bring those numbers up frequently on The McLaughlin Report.
I have never seen Monica Crowley before – during the Bush years.
However since I’ve seen and heard her during the Obama stolen-electionS years, I have to say she puts in some good digs at Obama – who as the “selected and erected President” has richly earned those digs!
My sister lost her job just after BHO was inaugurated. She continues to look for work, but long ago ran out of unemployment benefits. Frankly, I don’t know how she is surviving. And she is not included in the numbers. Nor is she alone. It wouldn’t surprise me if the 17.1% is not high enough.
In my state, unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy, crime are all rampant. In fact, just yesterday it was announced that Illinois home foreclosures are the highest in the nation. (thanks, obama)
So while he is blaming Dubya and the Republicans, and hiding his votes as a senator, he and mobama are asking us to “save” him by voting for his “friends” for more of the same.
I’m sorry about your sister leslie. There are so many out of work. I live in a city where unemployment is always 5 above whatever the national average is. A young man came to the office yesterday and dropped his resume off. He had been by 9 months ago. I remembered him because he lives close to me. I asked him about prospects and he said there is nothing in the field for him. It’s very hard to watch this happen.
truly: I am unemployed (and looking for work presently) & am not eligible for any unemployment because of lack of sufficient hours at any one job; nor are employees of family-owned businesses allowed to collect unemployment (or their employer allowed to pay in).
While it’s true these categories’ employers do not pay in, what’s omitted from this account is that the employer’s payments do not cover the entire cost: federal tax dollars make up the difference (and are something like 80% of the total I believe, some godforsaken high percentage in any event) and those I certainly did pay income tax on all the money I earned. So all those people who got extensions on unemployment, got extended unemployment that their employers did not even pay a portion of, courtesy of my tax dollars. But don’t call it welfare because it went to people richer than I with better jobs than I and it pisses them off to be told their as much welfare queens as poor people.
I know Nom. I have been in the same boat that you are in right now. I don’t think that I have ever been able to collect unemployment in 45 years of working. I have never relied on it because it was not ever in my cards due to the different jobs that I worked. Truth is now that I have a job where I have to pay unemployment taxes that I will never see.
I’ve heard that there are people who refuse jobs because unemployment benefits pay more. Even if that is one person doing this, I am incensed that they would take the benefits instead of working. We have ALL taken jobs that weren’t perfect, but we make do.
Nom, I no longer can tell if the sky is falling or not these days. The more that I read, the more that it all is as kooky as it can get. This chaos really creeped me out as well.
October 15, 2010 at 4:32 pm
The truth is, you can’t rely on anyone to tell the truth!! The “real deal” is much closer to the truth than anyone would like to imagine. Monica Crowley (who I previously could not stand) likes to bring those numbers up frequently on The McLaughlin Report.
“Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”
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October 16, 2010 at 11:35 am
I have never seen Monica Crowley before – during the Bush years.
However since I’ve seen and heard her during the Obama stolen-electionS years, I have to say she puts in some good digs at Obama – who as the “selected and erected President” has richly earned those digs!
October 15, 2010 at 5:32 pm
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/10/krugman-question-is-whether-our-economy.html
I don’t like Krugman to put it mildly, but his statement, “…the question is whether our economy is governed by any kind of rule of law.” is spot on.
October 15, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Indeed, he is getting to the source of it all Nom.
October 16, 2010 at 11:36 am
Cronie-Criminomics!
October 15, 2010 at 8:06 pm
My sister lost her job just after BHO was inaugurated. She continues to look for work, but long ago ran out of unemployment benefits. Frankly, I don’t know how she is surviving. And she is not included in the numbers. Nor is she alone. It wouldn’t surprise me if the 17.1% is not high enough.
In my state, unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy, crime are all rampant. In fact, just yesterday it was announced that Illinois home foreclosures are the highest in the nation. (thanks, obama)
So while he is blaming Dubya and the Republicans, and hiding his votes as a senator, he and mobama are asking us to “save” him by voting for his “friends” for more of the same.
Rule of law?
October 15, 2010 at 8:25 pm
I’m sorry about your sister leslie. There are so many out of work. I live in a city where unemployment is always 5 above whatever the national average is. A young man came to the office yesterday and dropped his resume off. He had been by 9 months ago. I remembered him because he lives close to me. I asked him about prospects and he said there is nothing in the field for him. It’s very hard to watch this happen.
October 16, 2010 at 2:00 pm
25% unemployment or higher do you think?
October 16, 2010 at 3:23 pm
truly: I am unemployed (and looking for work presently) & am not eligible for any unemployment because of lack of sufficient hours at any one job; nor are employees of family-owned businesses allowed to collect unemployment (or their employer allowed to pay in).
While it’s true these categories’ employers do not pay in, what’s omitted from this account is that the employer’s payments do not cover the entire cost: federal tax dollars make up the difference (and are something like 80% of the total I believe, some godforsaken high percentage in any event) and those I certainly did pay income tax on all the money I earned. So all those people who got extensions on unemployment, got extended unemployment that their employers did not even pay a portion of, courtesy of my tax dollars. But don’t call it welfare because it went to people richer than I with better jobs than I and it pisses them off to be told their as much welfare queens as poor people.
October 16, 2010 at 3:25 pm
well everyone knows I can’t type, but I usually can spell: “they’re” as much welfare…
and omit the extra “those” while one is at it, kthxbai
October 16, 2010 at 3:34 pm
I know Nom. I have been in the same boat that you are in right now. I don’t think that I have ever been able to collect unemployment in 45 years of working. I have never relied on it because it was not ever in my cards due to the different jobs that I worked. Truth is now that I have a job where I have to pay unemployment taxes that I will never see.
I’ve heard that there are people who refuse jobs because unemployment benefits pay more. Even if that is one person doing this, I am incensed that they would take the benefits instead of working. We have ALL taken jobs that weren’t perfect, but we make do.
October 16, 2010 at 3:31 pm
If it isn’t yet, it will be.
October 16, 2010 at 9:38 am
[...] upcoming November elections, the “Fire Pelosi” Bus Tour and campaign, and the mood and fears of Americans during this [...]
October 17, 2010 at 4:49 pm
http://bluenc.com/halliburton-gets-2-billion-contract-florida-cardboard-condos
October 17, 2010 at 8:46 pm
Disgraceful Nom. Instead of looking for a solution, they will take the cosmetic approach.
October 18, 2010 at 9:53 am
lol, it’s satire, but the scary part is that it’s believable!
October 18, 2010 at 10:08 am
It’s creepy.
October 18, 2010 at 11:00 am
yep, almost as creepy as this, which is not satire: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/10/are-all-mortgage-back-securites-scam.html
October 18, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Nom, I no longer can tell if the sky is falling or not these days. The more that I read, the more that it all is as kooky as it can get. This chaos really creeped me out as well.
October 18, 2010 at 1:32 pm
yes, I’ve read similar accounts about HAMP: this crap should not be legal but it is!
and in the same vein, this is perhaps the scariest of all: http://huffpostfund.org/stories/2010/10/new-tax-man-big-banks-and-hedge-funds
one can imagine losing one’s home to these thugs all too readily.
October 19, 2010 at 10:42 am
jeebus & here’s another: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/foreclosure-mill-gave-employees-jewelry-cars-houses-forge-documents-testimony/