The loss of commen sense
#11
02-18-2012, 11:11 PM
Actually, it's the "lack of common sense" that had the first mouse pass it by without a taste.
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#13
02-19-2012, 12:30 PM
Hobo......?
Did I give you a coronary?????
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#14
02-19-2012, 10:26 PM
 Now.......... Windy............. I think yer just being CHURLISH now!! 
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#15
02-20-2012, 12:01 AM
No, Windy. I just got home from Cali. It takes two days of solid team driving to get coast to coast.
However.... you ARE inflating my blood pressure as you continue to misunderstand the information you are quoting. I will clear it up for you very soon.
#16
02-20-2012, 12:04 AM
Sure am glad that isn't a Coors Light bottle! However... I've figured out a solution. Just carefully twist off the cap without dislodging the bottle.... then, insert straw! Bingo! Line 5 time! :lol:
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#19
02-21-2012, 10:29 AM
Windwalker said:
I have a copy of the report on my computer in PDF form.
The Preface was one of the things omitted in your Summary. This tells who prepared the report.
This is the very first paragraph of the report. Not a "SUMMARY".
It is stating that the total unemployed is above 40% today, and has been there since December of 2009.
The rate of unemployment in the United States has
exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression.
Moreover, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014.
The official unemployment rate excludes those
individuals who would like to work but have not searched for a job in the past four weeks as well as those who are working part-time but would prefer full-time work; if those people were counted among the unemployed, the unemployment rate in January 2012 would have been about 15 percent. HERE is where you make your mistake:
Compounding the problem of high unemployment, the share of unemployed people looking for work for more than six months—referred to as the long-term unemployed...
IOW... nearly (but well BELOW half) of those filing for benefits have NOW been filing for over six months. This is why we needed the extension of U.I. benefits for those people. It is 40% of the official unemployed that are now unemployed for that much LONGER. NOT.... nearly HALF of the workforce is unemployed! You "GOT IT" now?
it has remained above that level ever since.
Consider this: If the percentage of "actual" (not total) unemployed... by those unemployed for 6 months before Obama was inaugurated... in a given month finally broke the 40% barrier.... what was it the month BEFORE? Or for years before? [ Chuck Yeager beat his OWN speed record at least 3 times in one year!] How many months longer than the LAST "long term unemployment" situation [under Reagan] are required to break the record? [About two years under Reagan.] Answer: ONE. Obama inherited a DEEP recession, widely accepted as just SHORT of the Great Depression. NONE of us really know much about that time... but, we know we didn't want to go BACK there! And.... we DIDN'T!
Something else that the report talks about is "PARTICIPATION". The number of people that actually have jobs. I don't remember seeing any percentages, but it did say that (something like) there are 11 million less people employed today than there were in 2007.
Now, would you mind telling us just where in all of this do you see anything even remotely related to a "RECOVERY"? The economy turning around??? Where in bloody, blue blazes is the recovery?????
You have just over 58% of the American Work Force that actually is employed.
And, it doesn't stop there. We HAVE to "*****-FOOT" around China, because if they call their note on us, we're in DEFAULT.
We've been operating IN THE RED for a long time. But, never as much so as in the last 3 years.
Down and dirty.... in case you didn't get it.... 40% of the "official unemployed" have been so for more than 6 months. [Thanks to Dubya...] That's less than half of the "official" rate of 8.3%. NOT nearly half of the workforce! What's the TITLE of this thread? Loss of Common Sense? ... how appropriate.
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