Unemployment drops to 10.0%
posted at 8:55 am on December 4, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
The Obama administration gets a little good news this morning. The unemployment rate eased back two-tenths of a point to 10.0%, only the second decline in unemployment since the start of the Obama presidency. However, the number of chronically unemployed rose again, indicating that the front-line decrease does not capture the full direction of unemployment:
The unemployment rate edged down to 10.0 percent in November, and nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged (-11,000), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. In the prior 3 months, payroll job losses had averaged 135,000 a month. In November, employment fell in construction, manufacturing, and information, while temporary help services and health care added jobs.
In November, both the number of unemployed persons, at 15.4 million, and the unemployment rate, at 10.0 percent, edged down. At the start of the recession in December 2007, the number of unemployed persons was 7.5 million, and the jobless rate was 4.9 percent. (See table A-1.)
Among the major worker groups, unemployment rates for adult men (10.5 percent), adult women (7.9 percent), teenagers (26.7 percent), hites (9.3 percent), blacks (15.6 percent), and Hispanics (12.7 percent) showed little change in November. The unemployment rate for Asians was 7.3 percent, not seasonally adjusted. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)
Among the unemployed, the number of job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs fell by 463,000 in November. The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) rose by 293,000 to 5.9 million. The percentage of unemployed persons jobless for 27 weeks or more increased by 2.7 percentage points to 38.3 percent. (See tables A-8 and A-9.)
Temp jobs and health care have been hiring, and the former could signal the start of a mild job recovery — if jobs weren’t bleeding from everywhere else.
Update: Who would have guessed that we only lost 11,000 jobs in November? I expect that number to get revised later this month. It does suggest that the mass-layoffs number will drop significantly from the highs of the last five months.
Update II: Jim Geraghty makes a good point:
However, if you hear any fool on the left contending that the Obama administration can be credited with turning the economy around, the BLS release gives us a lot of reasons to point out our economy has steadily deteriorated during this year: “Last month, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) rose by 293,000 to 5.9 million. The percentage of unemployed persons jobless for 27 weeks or more increased by 2.7 percentage points to 38.3 percent.”
Also note “construction employment declined by 27,000 over the month.” Every month since the stimulus passed, employment in the construction field has dropped, confirming the president’s admission that the “shovel ready” slogan of the stimulus package was bunk.
Porkulus has done nothing for those fields that Obama claimed to be stimulating: long-term jobs, construction, and manufacturing. The only jobs increasing this year are temp jobs, health care, and government sector jobs, the latter only occasionally.
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Let me see. Republicans want the unemployment rate to go up. Republicans want us to fail in Afghanistan. Republicans do not want us to find a solution to help millions of Americans obtain Health Care. In general Republicans want the US to fail so that Limbaugh can say “I told you so.” about Obama.
Now how are Republicans different than al-Qaeda again?
Decider on December 4, 2009 at 11:37 AM
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The republicans just want results and not some Mario and an organ grinder. Have you made your house payment yet or has bambi paid it for you?
bluegrass on December 4, 2009 at 11:49 AM
They have really been quite pathetic as of late.
Juno77 on December 4, 2009 at 11:51 AM
Just think of her as our Dumb Csar
bluegrass on December 4, 2009 at 11:53 AM
Bleeds Blue, your close personal friend Barney Frank was encouraging banks to loan to people with no credit, under threat of lawsuits, pushing Carter/Clinton’s asinine Community Reinvestment Act. When challenged on the mental and fiscal cluelessness of the idea, and of the fact Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae should have tightened oversight, Frank stated (on video) “There’s no problem with these loans, or at Fannie or Freddie. None at all.” Now this asswipe (and his Democrat cohort) are in charge of “fixing” the mess they allowed to exist and fester with little or no control. Idiotic. As far as “Republicans were keeping interest rates artificially low”, that’s also idiotic. Alan Greenspan AND his complexion-challenged MSNBC harpy wife are lifelong Democrats. And GREENSPAN is the one that produced the incomprehensible “negative interest rate” the Fed was paying less than two years ago. Do some research before you blow your nose in blog commentary. Or go back to the Huffington Post with your fellow travelers.
bradley11 on December 4, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Oh my, it appears that the stock market has given back most of it’s opening bell gains.
MarkTheGreat on December 4, 2009 at 11:56 AM
Talk about cooked books; it sounds as if they simply moved people out of the unemployed column and into the chronically unemployed column.
Theophile on December 4, 2009 at 11:57 AM
The only thing that is amazing about liberals, is how they can recycle the same lies, year after year, without feeling any sense of shame or embarasment.
MarkTheGreat on December 4, 2009 at 11:58 AM
An other day older and deeper in debt,
St Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to to President O
mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm
bluegrass on December 4, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Bets on the revised number…
Under/Over 10.4%
phreshone on December 4, 2009 at 12:01 PM
Only in politics can you have LESS jobs available than last week, the same basic amount of people… but have a LOWER unemployment rate…
And declare that as a “good” thing…
Romeo13 on December 4, 2009 at 12:02 PM
What you want me to say now Uncle Axelrod?
bluegrass on December 4, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Don’t look now, but because of this great economic news, the market is down 15pts.
PappaMac on December 4, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Please let me know where I am wrong. Sean “talking points” Hannity cheers any bad news every day. If the stock market dropped to 2000, umemployment went to 60% and we had a major terrorist attack, Hannity and his ilk would be wearing a huge smile.
How is that different than our terrorist enemies?
Decider on December 4, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Need a sip of kool-aid to wash down those salty ACORNS
bluegrass on December 4, 2009 at 12:06 PM
That’s quite a magnificent strawman you’ve created. You should be proud of it.
lorien1973 on December 4, 2009 at 12:09 PM
And when they get caught telling lies, they double down on same said lies.
Everything you said is a lie. I doubt you have ever watched Hannity or listened to Rush, you just get your talking points from the DNC and think you have actually said something meaningfull.
MarkTheGreat on December 4, 2009 at 12:11 PM
Temporary employees increased? That never happens this time of the year. Nope never.
Advocate For Change on December 4, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Any bit of good news for real people is welcomed by me, anyway. This goes beyond politics.
And anyone who wishes bad news for people just to prove a political belief is a true ass, in my opinion.
AnninCA on December 4, 2009 at 12:12 PM
So all you libs who were rooting for failure in Iraq were the enemies of the US too right?
Doulbe standards are your specialty on the left aren’t they?
Scrappy on December 4, 2009 at 12:12 PM
We have terrorist enemies???? Since when???? We should go to war against the terrorist!!! Wait, then I’d be a Warmonger, a Hawk…and that’s bad.
PappaMac on December 4, 2009 at 12:14 PM
It’s something, though. After the dip in november sales (which is devastating, btw), it’s a bright light. Sometimes, you gotta take anything you can get. This is that anything. I’m in retail; and it’s bad out here.
lorien1973 on December 4, 2009 at 12:16 PM
He can’t even spell “democrats” and “iraq” correctly. Geesh. We really need a better class of troll.
lorien1973 on December 4, 2009 at 12:17 PM
People still trust government numbers?
Firebird on December 4, 2009 at 12:27 PM
After listen to NPR nearly orgasm over the .2 decline this morning, I sent them a little note remining them of the months and months during which they agonized about the Bush economy’s “pink-slips”, when year-on-year job growth numbers declined!
drunyan8315 on December 4, 2009 at 12:29 PM
The 7.5 million jobs lost aren’t coming back. It is IMPOSSIBLE. The government is broke, all the too big to fail banks are broke. America is broke.
Let me know when Obama stops bailing out Wall Street every chance he gets, and reducing the government deficit, then I’ll start caring what you have to say.
Riposte on December 4, 2009 at 12:31 PM
Just wait till January,s numbers get here.
royzer on December 4, 2009 at 12:31 PM
Are the latest unemployment numbers perchance based on value-added data from the White House’s “Job Climate Research Unit”?
drunyan8315 on December 4, 2009 at 12:33 PM
This Idiot is on TV AGAIN. HOLY MOSES ALMIGHTY does this goof ever go one day without being on the tube. I have to mute the TV cause the sound of his voice alone makes me want to puke, let alone the driveling lies that flow from that decieving cavern of his.
royzer on December 4, 2009 at 12:34 PM
“…which began in ’06…”? I think you meant ’96 (see the chart’s on pages 8 and 9), per the National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s own numbers.
Yes it was, via the artificial demand that was created as a result of the DEMOCRATS having Fannie and Freddie alter their underwriting standards in order to provide over $4 TRILLION dollars in subprime loans.
Yeah, it was.
No…they were just the ones who were responsible for setting the stage by having Fannie and Freddie scrap decades worth of underwriting standards in order to promote “social justice”.
Why did banks make bad loans? Because Fannie and Freddie told them to, with the understanding that they would purchase the loans from the banks. Why did Fannie and Freddie do this? Because DEMOCRATS – beginning under Clinton – instructed them to.
rvastar on December 4, 2009 at 12:35 PM
We have hotter chicks.
Chuck Schick on December 4, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Plus, we only take the tonsils, leave the head in place.
lorien1973 on December 4, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Strike up the Band!
Happy Days are here again,
The skys are blue…..
BobMbx on December 4, 2009 at 12:41 PM
Word.
BobMbx on December 4, 2009 at 12:42 PM
I’d be willing to bet that the highest percentage of gains are temp jobs. There is always an increase in temp jobs at this time of year because of retail hiring and telemarketing. These people will be unemployed in January or February and will not have worked long enough to collect unemployment. Along with many of the health care jobs, these are also low paying positions with no benefits. And then there are the people whose unemployment benefits have run out.
Deanna on December 4, 2009 at 12:42 PM
That’s easy. We actually want you Leftists to fail in your efforts to denigrate and neuter Western Civilization.
rvastar on December 4, 2009 at 12:44 PM
What’s amazing is the utter incomprehension demonstrated by trolls like this. Somehow it appears they wrap Obama up ion the Flag and call him America. Rush said he hoped ‘Obama fails’ because he wanted America to succeed.
Obama succeeded with porkulus and we are paying the price (and will continue to do so for generations), crap and tax is still out there, obamacare is growling from the closet. The only people making money are obie’s friends on wall street and in other countries (Brazil for one) So to paraphrase a slogan, it looks like “Rush was Right”.
Fighton03 on December 4, 2009 at 12:45 PM
It will get revised up next month. They do that every time.
p0s3r on December 4, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Project much?
But let’s assume your premise for a second. The principle difference is…you get to keep your head. So does your family, and so do the people you bribe to be your friends.
Fighton03 on December 4, 2009 at 12:49 PM
A few weeks ago, Obama said things would get worse, and now….a drop in percentage points, for unemployment? Proof this man has absolutely, without a doubt, no idea , or clue as to what he’s doing.
capejasmine on December 4, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Even when that “good” news is a Lie?
The country LOST more jobs… they are just not counting more and more people in their count, as they have been unemployed for TOO LONG.
So, please explain how this is “Good” news?
Romeo13 on December 4, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Oh gosh I am so thankful the recession is over finally at last.
Dhuka on December 4, 2009 at 12:57 PM
I just love the way liberals assume that people who aren’t like them, aren’t real people.
MarkTheGreat on December 4, 2009 at 12:57 PM
That’s my line, Stranger!
Seriously, Bishop, Mark the Great and other are doing such a great job beating up the lizard and Bleeds Blue that I have been just hanging back and enjoying the show. I am close enough to ringside to get a little blood on me from time to time, but while spoil the fun.
BB, et al. if you think even for a second that 2010 isn’t going to be an absolute rout of Dims, you are sadly mistaken. No one believes your kind and are happily making plans to remove Dims from Office en mass because they know we are on the wrong road. Keynesian economics, Heavy handed government policies, Massive intervention including absorption of entire industries, massive illegal immigration, Global Warming Hoax in the form of control over CO2, in short the entire Liberal Agenda is imploding.
People 100 years from now will call this “the Crazy years”.
GunRunner on December 4, 2009 at 1:20 PM
Great news for those who plan to put their kids through college by wrapping presents.
viking01 on December 4, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Point 1:
Republicans don’t want to see the unemployment rate go up, we just want it accurately reported and not have the fake rate then used in the mass media’s propaganda campaign for The One. The media are probably upset they can’t give him credit for inventing Christmas, since that is the only reason “ONLY” 11,000 people were lost from payrolls.
And on that note, did you take math in between your “How to Push Identity Politics” classes. How do you lose 11,000 jobs, not gain jobs, and have the unemployment percentage go down? That’s right, you exclude people who are no longer eligible for unemployment because they’ve been unemployed too long!
Point 2:
Find me one Republican who wants us to fail in Afghanistan.
Point 3:
Republicans have been putting forth other options for the health care system. There voices are just ignored by all the media you watch. Summary: Interstate competition, increase choice in plans (1300 health care insurance companies in US, only 8 you can buy from in CA), tort reform, etc.
Does Obama and the Democrats having an epic fail help Republicans politically? Absolutely. But that does not mean we enjoy watching the suffering. There may be some excited by it, but they are sick. But not as sick as all the Democrats that felt encouraged by war deaths pre-surge because it would help them, and you can view statements by Harry Reid, John Kerry, Dick Durban, and many other Democrats trying to make political hay off of those deaths.
Again, we don’t WANT or WISH for bad news. We just want ACCURATE news and for the state run media to stop using inaccurate numbers to spin a positive out of bad news: we lost 11,000 more jobs, at least, and employment gains were in TEMPORARY jobs. Hello, we get temporary jobs every November . . .
Overall, fewer people are working. I guess by your definition, real people are only people who are still working? If that’s true, than there are fewer real people this month, because THERE ARE STILL FEWER PEOPLE working if the economy “ONLY” lost 11,000 jobs . . .
Cut taxes. Stop spending like an unbridled credit card addict. Stop the massive legislative agenda that has employers laying people off or waiting to hire to see if they are going to have health insurance or cap-and-tax taxes. Shrink government and get out of the way of business. Stop demolishing the dollar.
But that would mean an end to the socialist agenda . . . so it won’t happen under this party and our economy will continue to be destroyed until at least January 2011. Not because we want it to be, but because the party in charge is having a party and charging the American people with the cost. Eventually, the bill will have to be paid, and even if the GOP does take legislative power back in a big way, the bill may be too big for anybody to do anything about . . .
PastorJon on December 4, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Oh, by the way, this was the same media that claimed Bush was destroying the economy during his first few years in office while unemployment ran below the average for all Clinton’s time in office . . .
PastorJon on December 4, 2009 at 1:40 PM
Video – The Unemployment Game Show: Are You *Really* Unemployed?
Funny but true.
I believe there is a saying that goes something like, “There are lies, damn lies and then there are statistics”
Yakko77 on December 4, 2009 at 1:42 PM
The AP and other media act so euphoric; you’d think it dropped by 5 %.
Slip back into Obama’s pants, you buffoonish fools.
Schadenfreude on December 4, 2009 at 1:44 PM
Now how are Republicans different than al-Qaeda again?
Decider on December 4, 2009 at 11:37 AM
dthorny on December 4, 2009 at 2:01 PM
I have serious misgivings about the 11,000 number. For two days, leading economists and business leaders have predicted 120,000-150,000 jobs lost and we get one-tenth? Sounds fishy. I agree that when the “revision” comes out we’ll see 10.4%+
redneckjoe on December 4, 2009 at 2:04 PM
As the production manager for a multinational corporation I see who is doing what in several countries. These numbers have to be bogus propaganda. Perhaps driven by Wall Street insiders who sold gold short and are doing everything they can to get it below $1125.00
Yes indeed expect these numbers to be “Revised”
Beto Ochoa on December 4, 2009 at 2:08 PM
Higher employment is reported from the phantom districts, as temporaries are hired by Santa Clause, and the new/saved job titles are getting recycled in the place of those getting the boot from Obama; New White House Staff, Temp Secret Service openings until the professionals return from imposed “leave of absence”.
We’re gonna spread happiness and freedom.
Obama’s gonna change it, and re-arrange it.
We’re gonna change the world, one revision at a time.
maverick muse on December 4, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Well Bleeds Blue, not that it’s a big surprise, but you think very very wrong then. As MarkTheGreat already showed.
Anyways, looks like the thread is pretty much ruined so have fun folks.
jarodea on December 4, 2009 at 2:44 PM
In keeping with the spirit of Ed’s caption picture:
“I find your lack of faith in the unemployment numbers … disturbing.”
— Darth “Barack Obama” Vader
jwolf on December 4, 2009 at 2:47 PM
They should call you a distorter .Funny thing is not too long ago your ilk wanted failure in Iraq, Afghanistan, and cheered the rising unemployment rate under Bush (even when his was better than Clinton’s). Bush worked with the Dems on the prescription drug deal and all you gave him was ridicule. You want Al Qaida’s brother…Look in the mirror dipshite.
CWforFreedom on December 4, 2009 at 2:59 PM
What planet was that number beamed from? Colorado alone lost 10,000+ jobs.
jdkchem on December 4, 2009 at 3:01 PM
How are you different from a lying scumbag pedophile?
jdkchem on December 4, 2009 at 3:02 PM
I am not believing anything the government reports anymore.
“saved or created”
“inexact science”
How many people fell completely off the rolls?
dogsoldier on December 4, 2009 at 3:28 PM
They are nearly all dead…the former are making you wet your pants and color them…similar to mustard.
Schadenfreude on December 4, 2009 at 3:32 PM
To celebrate this wonderful news, the O’bamas will be heading to ultra-pricey Kailua beach again for Christmas and New Years’. A new house on the beach recently went on the market for $34 MILLION.
http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20091204_Obamas_will_spend_holidays_in_Hawaii.html
Del Dolemonte on December 4, 2009 at 3:53 PM
When you try to jump off your 10 story apartment building with a napkin as a parachute I’m going to tell you that won’t work either.
It isn’t that I don’t want it to work, its that I know it won’t work so I’m trying to get you to stop.
You can’t fly, a napkin isn’t a parachute, and if you do this you’re going to die… sorry I’m not like your friends who you think “don’t want you to die”.
I’d like the economy to pick up; but the plans in place won’t let it. I’d like us to win in Afghanistan; but showing a willingness to leave instead of showing resolve to our enemies will not help us do that. I’d like to give everyone free health care, and free housing, and free food, and a pony for everyone… but I don’t believe this is exactly plausible either; I don’t know where the magical money tree is to pay for everything.
I didn’t realize that believing Obama isn’t capable of Magically fixing everything is equal to terrorism.
If it is, yes I’m a terrorist. And you’re delusional.
But just because you don’t like the answer doesn’t mean you’ll suddenly magically be able to fly when you jump off the building. You won’t fly, you will die. I don’t want that to happen, and the best way I know to stop it is to tell you it won’t work.
I don’t want you to try and fail and die so I can say “I told you so” I want you not to jump.
But since you can’t see the difference, call me mean for not wanting you to be able to fly. But do me a favor, and don’t jump anyhow… even though I’m just a big meanie who would rather you plummet to your death than magically fly like superman.
gekkobear on December 4, 2009 at 3:55 PM
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Del Dolemonte on December 4, 2009 at 4:00 PM
But who was in control of the Finance Committee? Democrats. When Bush (and McCain) tried to change the laws, Dodd shot them down immediately.
And your selective memory also forgets all of the Democrats who ran Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
At least have some intellectual honesty.
Del Dolemonte on December 4, 2009 at 4:11 PM
I can remember when Bush was president and the unemployment rate dropped about 2/10 of a percent the economists said the news was grim, bleak…because the number was still over 6%. It is amazing how different things are judged when the Democrats are in power.
I do think that things might be leveling off, but there is still a long way to go.
Terrye on December 4, 2009 at 4:26 PM
When Bush became president, the Democrats were in charge of the Senate, and when he left they were in charge of the Senate.
Terrye on December 4, 2009 at 4:27 PM
My God, what an incredibly stupid thing to say.
Terrye on December 4, 2009 at 4:28 PM
So is a good crisis.
MarkTheGreat on December 4, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Nov 2009 Net Birth/Death Adjustment, not seasonally adjusted (in thousands)
Trade, Transportation, & Utilities +16
Education & Health Services +14
Professional & Business Services +11
Construction -7
Leisure & Hospitality -14
J_Crater on December 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Al-Qaeda don’t have Walmart.
simplesimon on December 4, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Serious disconnect here.
Generally, a decrease in the unemployment rate would indeed be good news, but I can’t see how it means that people are being hired again…that is, people getting meaningful jobs.
Also, I am at a loss to figure out why in this economy with tons of taxes coming down the pike why businesses would be hiring?
Dr. ZhivBlago on December 4, 2009 at 4:52 PM
I live new two major malls and in the past the police used to be directing traffic by this time in the shopping season. So far there have been no officers out because the traffic has been just like any other time of the year.
So I understand that retailers are looking for any good news, I’m just not so sure we should be celebrating this as the turning point of the recession, that’s all.
Advocate For Change on December 4, 2009 at 5:04 PM
This is so ridiculous. Just about everyone shops at WalMart, but the working poor most of all. Remember them? They are supposed to be the people that the Democrats are always trying to look out for
You are a hypocrite and a snob.
Terrye on December 4, 2009 at 5:05 PM
..she’s probably a seasonal worker hooking out on 5th Avenue. Only way she can pay that astronomical cell bill.
VoyskaPVO on December 4, 2009 at 5:31 PM
They don’t all subscribe to a caveman ‘religion’ that wants you dead. Although they will join in on giving orders for soldiers to go kill people, as anyone in Congress can do.
Dark-Star on December 4, 2009 at 5:35 PM
And we were promised by Ed and Allah that comments like this would result in banning the poster.
Just to throw out stupid remark, with no context…that was the promise…
right2bright on December 4, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Hey, great news, only 10% of the people aren’t working, which is about twice as much as when Bush got blasted by the dems.
So that makes the dems now…ohhhhh, about twice as bad as the Republicans under Bush…and with triple the spending in 1/4 the time, you can’t even calculate how bad this administration is.
This “hopey changey” thing is killing us….
right2bright on December 4, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Me thinks the employment rate was fudged. I like my fudge with nuts.
yoda on December 4, 2009 at 6:38 PM
There’s no doubt that these figures will be revised negatively in the next couple of weeks; standard operating procedure.
I had to laugh out loud at some of the comments – from Obama himself and from an ABC Radio News reader earlier – describing this as a positive “trend” – lol, one month does not a trend make.
Midas on December 4, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Phil Jones stepped aside as the head of the CRU. I guess now we know where he went.
agmartin on December 4, 2009 at 7:31 PM
File that under impossible.
CWforFreedom on December 4, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Strange…. Pubs want Al Qaida dead and you want them in court…in New York of all cases.
CWforFreedom on December 4, 2009 at 7:58 PM
I work in Human Resources and know for a fact that most businesses try to avoid layoffs during the Holiday Season which would definitely have an effect on the November and December employment numbers. A better indicator will be the February numbers. Right now, this is just a false reading of the employment situation.
ILUVTX on December 4, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Can anyone say
Christmasholiday seasonal hiring.Are these libs too stoopid to understand this?
Why did I even ask?
Maybe that “Obamamoney” given in Deetroit were counted as saved or created jobs? Hmmmmmm.
dthorny on December 4, 2009 at 8:15 PM
That 11,000 figure has to be fudged. I predicted these false numbers earlier this week as well as the idea that the Bozo circus would punt more people into the “long term unemployed” column to get them out of the U-3 number.
How many people fell off the roles altogether?
I don’t wish for bad news, but its not possible to believe ANY of the news the administration is putting out. They have a history of living in a “Universe of Lies”.
dogsoldier on December 4, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Worse yet, some in Obowma’s administration defended the inmates at Gitmo, see the AG’s law office.
dthorny on December 4, 2009 at 8:18 PM
We know several democrats will add to the unemployed ranks in 2010, well deserved, I might add.
dthorny on December 4, 2009 at 8:33 PM
This government is so full of it
http://dev.www.washingtonexaminer.com/maps/stimulus/Bogus-jobs-created-or-saved-by-the-Stimulus.html
CWforFreedom on December 4, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Who is doing the math here?
We lost another 11,000 jobs and the unemployment goes from 10.2% to 10.0%?
Good trick!
gullxn on December 4, 2009 at 10:12 PM
I was just wondering that same thought, how do you lose jobs and have the unemployment rate go down. Can someone, seriously, explain to me how that works?
kagai on December 4, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Are you enjoying the Obama/democrat depression?
Johan Klaus on December 4, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Do you hate people who shop at Walmart?
Johan Klaus on December 4, 2009 at 10:53 PM
And in charge of both houses for the last three years.
Johan Klaus on December 4, 2009 at 10:59 PM
I have had it. Today is one year and two days since I lost my job. I can’t move out of NJ because of my family, but we have 15% unemployment in my county. I know they add an additional 7% for people like me, who have run out of unemployment benefits. I have 20 years of experience and am halfway to my Masters and I can’t even get an entry level job. I am willing to take anything. I have never had a problem getting a job before and I am just fed up and disgusted by this. I have to borrow money from my home equity loan to live and to pay for my COBRA, which just went up to $650/month for just me, and not my husband, but my pancreas is so bad I have to have health insurance (but I would never want that stupid public option). I just don’t know what to do and have never been this disgusted in my life. I hope Rush is wrong on this one that BHO really does want us all not working so that we give up and apply for government assistance.
Disgusted. Any suggestions?
margategop517 on December 4, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Well, I can’t explain it, but there’s some real smart scientists who specialize in climatology, who I think can help you.
4shoes on December 4, 2009 at 11:25 PM
LOL. That I would not doubt.
kagai on December 4, 2009 at 11:44 PM
margategop517
I sorry to hear that, I hope your situation changes soon.
I not sure I understand that, you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do. If you have the opportunity to get a job what difference does it make where you are. If your the bread winner you have got to make the bread.
Stop wondering what Obama wants or what Rush said, both of them have jobs. Your have got to take care of yourself and your family. If you have been without a job for a year, I would look at a different location, but things are bad all over the country so you have to be inventive. One thing you shouldn’t do is give up.
BTW, if there were an additional 11,000 jobs lost in November how did the unemployement rate drop from 10.2 to 10? Hummm, makes you wonder.
whbates on December 5, 2009 at 12:05 AM
Have you ever wondered why the CPI, GDP and employment numbers run counter to your personal and business experiences? The problem lies in biased and often-manipulated government reporting.
MB4 on December 5, 2009 at 12:37 AM
They are trying to be “creative” like their cousins over at
The Sky is FallingGlobal Warming Central.MB4 on December 5, 2009 at 12:41 AM
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