NoDonkey on January 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM

Sounds like you are mad at life because you got a zero percent disability rating.

http://bellalu0.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/obama-says-forget-those-campaign-promises-think-burdens-and-heavy-lifting/

And here are the latest stats broken down by state on unemployment rate and rank, note that Oklahoma is at 4.7, they passed laws on illegal aliens, that was fought over by the Chamber of Commerce inside Oklahoma, we were discussing this on the latest post on Imus Times

http://imustimes.wordpress.com/

The Media doesn’t mention the U.S Chamber Of Commerce’s position very often, they have hand in where we find ourselves Economically today . Look there is no housing boom going on, for the construction business to employ the cheap illegal alien labor. People don’t have disposable income like they did before, they don’t go to restaurants as much, that effects the service industry ect…

http://www.bls.gov/web/laumstrk.htm

???

It didn’t get fixed even by WWII.

Government can ‘t fix things: it causes the problems. The way to “fix” it is to get the heck out of the way.

We just have a group that can’t get their dirty hands out of the mix, and we have too many people that think the government can “fix” things.

We need to quit shrieking and start learning about recessions and the solutions that actually worked — and failed — in the past.

The great depression is the only event that can offer us any real similarity to the current situation, but we never fixed the great depression WWII did.

Wake me when it is over 10%, say next May.

Vashta.Nerada on January 9, 2009 at 5:12 PM

Measured by 1930s standards it’s at 16% and rising.

You know who else were considered experts?

CEO of Countrywide
CEO of Fannie
CEO of Freddie
Maddoff
CEO of Lehman
CEO of Bear Stersn

All experts, all saying the economy is wonderful, all wrong. And yet for some reason these very same types of “experts” say all will be well with the stimulus and the masses say OK, let’s do it.

I’ve never been in combat and I think it’s ridiculous all of the benefits available to me. Give that to the guys who need it, not the desk jockeys and those of us who were fortunate enough to deploy but who got out unscathed.

NoDonkey on January 9, 2009 at 1:38 PM

Thats interesting. I’m a combat vet (Vietnam). I don’t get any benefits. What do you have available that I don’t? Is a non-combat vet any less a vet than a combat vet? You seem to imply a distiction.

Obama will try to strip the benefits from military retirees and other vets. The Dems don’t give a hoot for the vets. If we all disappeared they would be happy. Too bad we won’t go away. Too bad we get noisy when they try to cheat us out of what we earned fighting their wars or in your case being ready to.

The Republican Party has become the RINO Party. Republican national leadership has coerced members to endorse/support/follow the likes of McCain nationally. Now the convene, and emerge with the announcement that all Republicans must become as the Northeastern RINO and support Obama’s agenda as our own.

NO!

John Cornyn, with all of his natural gifts, disappoints conservatism. Asinus asinum fricat. The donkey scratches the donkey.

We need to quit shrieking and start learning about recessions and the solutions that actually worked — and failed — in the past.

Amen, brother.

He’s going for 15%.

Do or die.

keep the change on January 9, 2009 at 11:52 AM

+1

crashland on January 9, 2009 at 12:36 PM

+1

Employers shed over a half-million jobs in December as the year ended in the grips of a full-blown recession.

Ah! But that’s going to change after noon on January 20th. By the end of the day on the 21st there will be full employment, peace in the Middle East, and an economy making so much money the government can’t spend it all.

WE ELECTED BARAK OBAMA. There’s no way that all this bad stuff is going to stay around now!

[Stupid, but it's scary how many people believe all the above]

The total job loss for 2008 went over 2.6 million, mostly in the latter half of the year, as prospects for growth look dim indeed.

I’m sure the minimum wage increase had nothing to do with increased unemployment.

So far, Washington has proposed the kind of solution that created the stagnation we had in the 1970s and 1980s,

By “80s”, do you mean 80 & 81? Because most of the 80s saw prosperity.

Entelechy on January 9, 2009 at 4:41 PM

Right on schedule.

Two UCLA economists say they have figured out why the Great Depression dragged on for almost 15 years, and they blame a suspect previously thought to be beyond reproach: President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

After scrutinizing Roosevelt’s record for four years, Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian conclude in a new study that New Deal policies signed into law 71 years ago thwarted economic recovery for seven long years.