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  • #76
    Originally posted by Ted Striker


    Unemployment rate went up genius.

    thanks
    Hey smart one.... that's because more people went looking for jobs. People are more confident. It is natural. And besides unemployment is very low right now. If you were in power, it would be like 11 or 12% like in France.
    For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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    • #77
      Originally posted by Zkribbler


      Thus, my diatribe against McJobs. The employer bails on paying medical and retirement benefits, effectively "exporting" these expenses onto the general public.

      Instead of the employer paying retirement benefits, we make welfare payments. Instead of the employer paying medical benefits, we pay for emergency room treatment through our tax dollars and with higher insurance premiums (1 out of every 3 dollars in premiums goes to pay for the treatment of non-insured emergency room patients).

      Thus, DanS's chart may show increasing after-inflation salaries starting with the Clinton administration, but this rising line should be downwardly adjusted because of the ever-increasing phenomenon of the McJob.

      BTW: Ben Kenobi is right. A McJob is better than no job. --But a job with a good salary, with health benefits and with retirement benefits is even better.
      McJobs

      In N' Out Burger
      We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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      • #78
        And where do these people magically materialise from Fez?
        "I work in IT so I'd be buggered without a computer" - Words of wisdom from Provost Harrison
        "You can be wrong AND jewish" - Wiglaf :love:

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        • #79
          Originally posted by Giancarlo


          Hey smart one.... that's because more people went looking for jobs. People are more confident. It is natural. And besides unemployment is very low right now. If you were in power, it would be like 11 or 12% like in France.
          Nice copout based on nothing but speculation.

          And who cares how many people are LOOKING for jobs?

          The key indicator is how many people HAVE them.

          DUH

          thanks
          We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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          • #80
            Originally posted by Whaleboy
            And where do these people magically materialise from Fez?
            DanS said so.

            We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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            • #81
              DanS, the ultimate vagina
              "I work in IT so I'd be buggered without a computer" - Words of wisdom from Provost Harrison
              "You can be wrong AND jewish" - Wiglaf :love:

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              • #82
                Originally posted by Odin
                Sorry, I get touchy on the subject because I am sick of people blaming Carter for things that were beyond his control.
                Without a doubt Carter was the last truly moral man we had in the White House. There was no Iran-Contra, there was no Read my lips, there was no Monica Lewinscewi, there were not lies about WMD. Carter went down because unlike Reagan he would not break the law and sell arms to the Iranian Mullahs. Carter was a life long Baptist minister yet he left the baptist church when they said women were genetically inferior to men and when the Southern Baptists claimed blacks were inferior to whites. That takes moral courage and the man will always be a hero in my book.
                Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                • #83
                  Originally posted by Whaleboy
                  And where do these people magically materialise from Fez?
                  They were ones who weren't looking for jobs before, but now are... thus applying for unemployment benefits in the process in their search for jobs.
                  For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                  • #84
                    Originally posted by Ted Striker


                    Nice copout based on nothing but speculation.

                    And who cares how many people are LOOKING for jobs?

                    The key indicator is how many people HAVE them.

                    DUH

                    thanks
                    The only copouts are coming from your mouth. I'm still wondering who hijacked your account.
                    For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                    • #85
                      Originally posted by Oerdin

                      I seriously have to wonder if your brain is functioning. If you look at your own chart then average hourly wages were slightly less at the end of Carters term then at the beginning. They were massively less at the end of Reafons time then at the beginning. It wasn't until around 1997 that workers recovered from Reagan's anti-worker laws.
                      Look at the chart again, keeping in mind that the entire year 1980 was under Carter.

                      If you insist on holding that opinion afterwards, then there's nothing that the doctor can do to help you.
                      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                      • #86
                        Originally posted by Ted Striker

                        The key indicator is how many people HAVE them.
                        And that number is 248,000 more had jobs last month than the month before.
                        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                        • #87
                          You people are hopeless. Simple math PROVES unemployment went down in Feb. and that all the jobs created were not McJobs. What is the matter with you people? Are you all innumerate?
                          “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

                          ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man​

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                          • #88
                            They were slightly less at the end of Carter's time but massvely less at the end of Reagan's time. Carter was a victim of the 70's stagflation. Yet he was still more mral the any President since. Reagtan was a crook compared to Carter.
                            Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                            • #89
                              Yet he was still more mral the any President since. Reagtan was a crook compared to Carter.
                              Which, of course, has nothing to do with this thread.
                              I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                              • #90
                                Originally posted by pchang
                                You people are hopeless. Simple math PROVES unemployment went down in Feb. and that all the jobs created were not McJobs. What is the matter with you people? Are you all innumerate?
                                So you consider any job which pays better then $8 without benifits to be a good job? Most of us would say those are **** jobs.
                                Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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