Today the new jobless news came out, and it is good news.
Seasonally adjusted new claims for the four week average fell to 418,000 this week. Yeah, the patient is still bleeding to death but it has slowed to a trickle.
The news was so good that the stock index moved up. Since the lower number was less than the expected one, life is good for us all.
The US military loves the great recession. The quota for new recruiters is getting met, no matter how unpopular the never ending wars are. The Army of One wants your child. They need more cannon fodder. They can push their bombardment that joining the military is a guarenteed job. And if you child comes home in one piece, he/she can get another placement working for a private military/security firm with no problems.
WHAT??
You don't want you kid to tote a gun for the likes of Blackwater?? You must be unAmerican. After all, with three hots and a cot, plenty of food to eat, and someday maybe a paid for college fund, the military is GREAT!! Just think of the possiblities. He/she can get paid to grope for TSA at the airports. With all the new body scanners being bought and paid for, I am sure they will be hiring.
It is good for big business and small equally. They can fire and rehire the desperate who will work harder and harder than ever, and get there early and stay later. For the new hired workers know that if they lose this job, they will never find a new one. This works very well if the new hires need more weeks to qualify for unemployment. Many never qualify in the first place, but that is a small fact overlooked. After all, why are there so many lazy unemployed?? They must be lazy and not looking hard enough. Let's crank up the media and show some bums and talk about them like the human trash they are.
Never mind that the new numbers are on a shortened week for holidays. And since many are doing seasonal retail work now, the next numbers coming out will reflect all the ones who get laid off after the holidays are over.
But who cares anyway??
The drum still beats the recovery is coming soon.
I don't listen anymore.
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Depressed beyond belief. Yes I look at them and worry for the friends I know who are in dire straights .
Tried to call another email friend who lives near. Cannot get hold of her because her house was flooded in Southern CA. She just got a temp job and might lose it if she loses time. Age? 56.
Life is grand isn't Mission?
Now that was sarcasm..:(
Rated with hugs
I always temper this news with the fact that I am unemployed but appear nowhere on anyone's list.
People fall off...
The good news is the BLS is now counting up to five years!! APPARENTLY TWO YEARS IS NOT LONG ENOUGH!!
Maybe they will find me soon here.
Tinkle down economics is working just the way it was designed to work (but, not the way they told us it would work). It was supposed to redistribute the wealth to the upper crust via tax breaks. I would call that an overwhelming American success story, wouldn't you?
Piss on the People Politics is the new norm and if the tea-baggers and the Republicans get their way (and they always get their way or they scream or hold their breath until they do), things will get a lot worse for us little people before (if) it gets better.
There are now two Americas. Corporate America and third world America. The middle class is disappearing faster than Spaghettios on a homeless man's plate. I think it's time to learn Spanish and move to Brazil or someplace where a person has a chance at a future. That way we can still be Americans....South Americans. The rungs we used to work so hard to climb have all been severed just beyond our reach. While millions remain homeless, millions of empty houses will end up being bulldozed because no one can afford to live in them anymore. They will fall into disrepair and end up in the landfill with the rest of our dreams.
I guess I'm in a shitty mood today. Just call me Captain Happy Face.
You got the best comment so far, and as of yet you get the coveted gold star award for trash talk here.
I keep wanting to hear the chains jingle and watch the lurvly banksters doing the penquin shuffle in flop flops. But I ain't holding my breath here. I woulda died already, since the Great Recession is moving along so nicely here.
I can only hope the patient has plenty of blood. He is on life support already.
Life is grand as hell. I say throw the bums to the curb. The American Dream is nightmarish enough already.
I forgot about your birthday. Damn.
Happy B-Day lately to you.
Double dip indeed Janie. Many never made it out of the first dip...
Harry, now you know the true blue facts. And after all, with big brother watching us, why our lurvly country has to be the best. Of coursed, living in the best country does not mean having it all if you ain't got a job anyway.
But I am sure the spin machine media will find a couple and make headlines run 24/7 about the return of the good life.
Propaganda is all we got now.
Bless your heart for such a snarkle comment.
Now that's trash talk.
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I don't ever know what to say when folks ask me what my fave TV show is. maybe the weather channel.
He said he was buying a house that was built for $400k+ only three years ago for just over $130k.
I can't pull off sarcasm today, sorry. I'm grateful he can afford a home for his family, but I am heartbroken that so many other people are losing theirs, or taking such a financial hit when they have to sell.
As for me, my family just squeaks by, but we are making it, and I can't complain.
I just wish I could do more to help other people.
Sarcasm is the I can do best here.
I can find no 'recovery' anywhere.
Only folks trying to get by.
'Tis a sad thing too.
I do like this one.