Unemployed Also Feeling Impact

 

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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    Those Koi remind me of Peggy the Moocher.

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    @Pseudodionysius

    It would be nice to see him demonstrate solidarity with those out of work by joining their rank in 2012.

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    @PeterRobinson
    Kenneth: Those Koi remind me of Peggy the Moocher. · Jul 9 at 1:36pm

    Only in our beloved Northern California, Kenneth, would a major newspaper run “Koi Fever” as a front-page headline.

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    @CrowsNest

    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.

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    @cdor

    Gosh, I hope this doesn’t mean the Pres is back to using cocaine again!

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    @Pseudodionysius

    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.)

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    @tabularasa

    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.

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    @Sisyphus

    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!

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    @KCMulville

    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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    @PeterRobinson
    tabula rasa: Longer version: “Job News a Blow to Obama: Unemployed Also Feeling Impact.”

    Sheer genius!

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    Peter Robinson

    Kenneth: Those Koi remind me of Peggy the Moocher. · Jul 9 at 1:36pm

    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.

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    Peter Robinson

    tabula rasa: Longer version: “Job News a Blow to Obama: Unemployed Also Feeling Impact.”

    Sheer genius! · Jul 9 at 2:06pm

    Thanks, Peter. I’m going to show this to my children. They think I’m something else.

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    @MichaelPatrickTracy

    Poor Barry.

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    @Pseudodionysius

    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?

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    @rr
    Pseudodionysius: It would be nice to see him demonstrate solidarity with those out of work by joining their rank in 2012. · Jul 9 at 1:4pm

    Remember Kitty, as long as there is a community to organize somewhere… he will never be out of work…

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    @Sisyphus
    Pseudodionysius: It would be nice to see him demonstrate solidarity with those out of work by joining their rank in 2012. · Jul 9 at 1:44pm

    The soonest we can arrange that is January, 2013.

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    Sisyphus

    Pseudodionysius: It would be nice to see him demonstrate solidarity with those out of work by joining their rank in 2012. · Jul 9 at 1:44pm

    The soonest we can arrange that is January, 2013. · Jul 9 at 2:18pm

    I know, I know.

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    @rr

    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.

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    The mask is off…the media’s exposure as the courtesan to the Democrat Party is afoot.

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    @MarkWilson

    I bet all the unemployed people feel bad that they are burdening our President with their bad news.

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    @DBLittle
    tabula rasa:If he gets re-elected I may have to move to the independent Republic of Texas. · Jul 9 at 1:59pm

    Edited on Jul 09 at 02:03 pm

    Speaking of the Republic of Texas, when are all your wonderful pals from California going home? They have made Dallas unlivable.

    I drove about a hundred miles there to take flowers to the grave of a woman I was deeply fond of growing up and I apparently had the temerity, in my evilness, to flick a cigarette out the window—probably into one of their Koi ponds or something—and got, not a ticket, but almost a ticket for—not littering, or even afire hazard– but preaching public health. The people of Texas have been smoking since we got here, on horseback even. You’re not going to break them of the habit; certainly not that way: we thrive off spite. These people who do the most eyerolling about what a bunch of Godbotherers we all are are the worst scolds I have even seen and I was raised a Baptist just short of holyrolling.

    Take them back home, if you would. We did fine without them.

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    @jameslileks

    Given the president’s curious disengagement from things, I would have used the headline “Job blow news to Obama.”

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    @StuInTokyo

    With these words “Job, Blow and News” in that headline, for a minute……. I thought Bill Clinton was back in the white house……

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    Pseudodionysius

    Sisyphus

    Pseudodionysius: It would be nice to see him demonstrate solidarity with those out of work by joining their rank in 2012. · Jul 9 at 1:44pm

    The soonest we can arrange that is January, 2013. · Jul 9 at 2:18pm

    I know, I know. · Jul 9 at 2:23pm

    It did not take until 1977 to get rid of Nixon.

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    @CrowsNest

    Surely the ‘Mercury’ in the paper’s name is a mythological reference, but with headlines like that it is easily mistaken for the planet that they’re on.

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    @GeorgeSavage

    Peter, thanks for posting a photo of the Merc’s front page. Thanks to Kevin I now also know about “Koi Fever”–I have a finely honed ability to not notice anything registering on the fluff-o-meter, which is to say most of what the ever-shrinking San Jose Mercury News chooses to print nowadays.

    But I sure saw the jobs headline–just after a discussion with the missus about how to fund escalating tuition bills for our boys–and my blood immediately went on the boil.

    To put the Merc’s mind-boggling partisanship in perspective try reversing the party of the current president and guessing the headline.

    Where are the Jobs?

    McCain economic policies failing

    And you can bet all the cited economists would be expecting that one.

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    @Kervinlee

    The San Jose Mercury News: so Orwellian it’s creepy.

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    @MarkWilson
    Crow’s Nest: Surely the ‘Mercury’ in the paper’s name is a mythological reference, but with headlines like that it is easily mistaken for the planet that they’re on. · Jul 10 at 4:16am

    It’s actually a mining reference. There’s probably a joke that can be made about quicksilver.

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