Unemployed Also Feeling Impact
Peter Robinson ·
Jul 9, 2011 at 1:34pm
I see that George Savage already posted about this, below, but my eye went to the same headline in the vending machine as I was picking up a cup of coffee this morning:
An unemployment rate of more than nine percent, with another seven percent of workers having dropped out of the labor pool. More than one in six Americans of working age, in other words, either can't find work or have become so discouraged that they've quit trying. And the San Jose Mercury News wants us to feel sorry for a man whose policies have made matters worse?
Hat tip for the headline--the headline for the post, I mean, not the headline on the newspaper--to Ricochet member "tabula rasa," from whom, frankly, I just plain stole it.
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Jul '10
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Those Koi remind me of Peggy the Moocher.
Sep '10
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It would be nice to see him demonstrate solidarity with those out of work by joining their rank in 2012.
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Only in our beloved Northern California, Kenneth, would a major newspaper run "Koi Fever" as a front-page headline.
Mar '11
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I tell you, these out of work people and their jobs demands. Honestly. Derailing the greatest progressive agenda this side of LBJ.
I mean, don't they realize that the oceans are subsiding and the planet is beginning to heal? Have some perspective, man.
Jun '10
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Gosh, I hope this doesn't mean the Pres is back to using cocaine again!
Sep '10
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The subtitle should read:
"women and minorities hit hardest"
(which I think is a posthumous tip of the hat to Joe Sobran -- let's not go there.)
Jun '10
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Longer version: "Job News a Blow to Obama: Unemployed Also Feeling Impact."
Back when there was unemployment during the Clinton administration he said: "I feel your pain," and made people feel he meant it. Now we're supposed to tell Obama that we feel his pain.
If he gets re-elected I may have to move to the independent Republic of Texas.
Edited on Jul 9, 2011 at 2:03pmJul '10
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Heritage seems to be thinking along the same lines today. They just released the Top 5 Ways President Obama Tanked the Economy. It's the rapid rail to ruin. And based on Stanley Kurtz's work, Radical-in-Chief, there is not much accidental or miscalculated about it.
A friend of mine lives a block away from a former Clinton Administration official that uses his home as a staging point for spontaneous people's rallies. Buses bring them in. They get them in the right t-shirts, pass out the astroturfy signs, and practice the spontaneous chants to the annoyance of the neighbors. Other buses take them to the target for the day, some public figure that needs proper intimidation, or the Pentagon, always a favorite. Then buses bring them back and they are paid in cash and another round of buses take them home again.
There is work out there if you look for it. You might even get to see Andrew Breitbart on his roller blades.
Huzzah!
Jan '11
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No, you're all forgetting, there is no liberal bias in the media. Jon Stewart said that when the media display bias, it's just their desire for sensationalism.
Although, for the life of me, I can't see how interpreting a jobs report could possibly be sensationalizing ...
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Sheer genius!
Jun '10
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Peter Robinson
Only in our beloved Northern California, Kenneth, would a major newspaper run "Koi Fever" as a front-page headline. · Jul 9 at 1:49pm
What exactly is Koi fever? I'm in flownover country.
Jun '10
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Peter Robinson
Sheer genius! · Jul 9 at 2:06pm
Thanks, Peter. I'm going to show this to my children. They think I'm something else.
Apr '11
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Poor Barry.
Sep '10
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If this were GWB, the press stories would be all about him hitting the bottle. Is there a cigarette watch photo team camped outside the White House lawn?
Jun '10
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Remember Kitty, as long as there is a community to organize somewhere... he will never be out of work...
Jul '10
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The soonest we can arrange that is January, 2013.
Sep '10
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Sisyphus
The soonest we can arrange that is January, 2013. · Jul 9 at 2:18pm
I know, I know.
Jun '10
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I don't know about you coasters, but out here in the middle, the outlook is bleak.
My father, who works up in Wisconsin and Minnesota and Iowa, was seeing a customer last week. There was a line out the door, about 50 or 60 people long. When my Dad asked what the line was for, the manager of the plant said, "oh, we're hiring a fork lift driver today."
60 people for one fork lift position....
As for me, I've been looking to pick up another job in the summer lull of academia. I have some prior construction experience so I've been calling around town looking for some part time work. I've made something like 30-35 calls and visits with no luck at all.
Most calls end with something like either laughter or a statement like, "good luck, buddy."
Suffice to say, even in the summer when things should be picking up a bit.. the situation is bleak.
May '10
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The mask is off...the media's exposure as the courtesan to the Democrat Party is afoot.
May '10
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I bet all the unemployed people feel bad that they are burdening our President with their bad news.
Edited on Jul 9, 2011 at 2:59pm