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65Post · 11-06-2009, 11:41 AM

The MSM reports the BLS U-3 number which is now 10.2%. The BLS U-6 figure (17%+) is the one closer to reality. BHO wants people who have lost their benefits to have some money for the holidays; A noble gesture. IMO, he is also trying to skew the Q4 retail sales number to make things look better than they are.

sneedb82 · 11-06-2009, 12:01 PM

One or two months of positive growth, spurned by an artificial sales gimmick called clash for cunkers errr... cash for clunkers is not a real growth, and thereby, not sign that the economy is getting better.

Hooz · 11-06-2009, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by TMP

What's the possible length of pay out now for benefits? Isn't somewhere like 78 weeks now? The kind of F'ed up thing is I know people doing better on unemployement than any job they can find, so why go work for less?
This should have been Obama's #1 and highly concentrated upon issue..... but no, Obama-care is soooooo important. Thanks douche.

Unemployment benefits are typically 26 weeks. They've been extended an additional 26 weeks already, then yesterday I heard they were adding another 14 weeks, and an additional 6 weeks if your State's unemployment is over 8% (which it is here in Ohio).

So, at least in Ohio, you can get paid for 72 weeks of unemployment benefits.

**Zaptoid** · 11-06-2009, 02:36 PM

Thank god for the stimulus bill?!?!

AZXD · 11-06-2009, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Brickboy240

If its true that unemployment is at 10.2% overall with some states being quite higher....how can the news media get away with telling everyone that the "recession is beginning to get better?"

Those were the EXACT WORDS I heard on an ABC Radio News hourly broadcast about an hour ago.

Rising unemployment equals the economy getting better? Really? Where did these morons take Economics 101 class?

- brickboy240

They write/say what they are told

tenring · 11-06-2009, 02:49 PM

Hey, if we had passed the stimulus, unemployment wouldn't have gone over 8....uh, percent, uh....yeah, never mind. Lost my train of thought, oh well, gotta go call and see when my next check is coming.

MartialSkill · 11-06-2009, 02:50 PM

With things the way they are going, I am feeling a bit anxious that I can lose my job at anytime.

Sirius1963 · 11-06-2009, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Just One Shot

Aw come on, dontcha know Obama is going to fix everything?

He just did! He is giving away even more money!

**Cannibul** · 11-06-2009, 03:12 PM

It's impossible for the unemployment rate to be that high. I head just the other day that Obama had saved/created millions of jobs.

fusion · 11-06-2009, 03:13 PM

But... but... but... Obama said if the stimulus bill was passed, it wouldn't go over 8%! The report must be wrong. Obama would never lie to us.

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65Post XDTalk Newbie Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Aurora, CO. Posts: 23	The MSM reports the BLS U-3 number which is now 10.2%. The BLS U-6 figure (17%+) is the one closer to reality. BHO wants people who have lost their benefits to have some money for the holidays; A noble gesture. IMO, he is also trying to skew the Q4 retail sales number to make things look better than they are.
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11-06-2009, 02:36 PM	#14
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tenring XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: MI Posts: 1,216	Hey, if we had passed the stimulus, unemployment wouldn't have gone over 8....uh, percent, uh....yeah, never mind. Lost my train of thought, oh well, gotta go call and see when my next check is coming. __________________ "The Sound of freedom is a .45 empty bouncing off the ground" ~ Rob Leatham
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11-06-2009, 02:50 PM	#17
MartialSkill XDTalk Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 88	With things the way they are going, I am feeling a bit anxious that I can lose my job at anytime.
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