Planned Layoffs in US Firms Surge To 3-Month High, And Bloodbath May Not Be Over

Reuters via AOL ^ | 12/30/2012

[GeronL]

bump

[ronnie raygun]

Sounds like thier surprised with a sense of “blood bath may not be over” optimism. Funny at the end of the article they throw in the sandy storm as this was one of the factors.

[Parley Baer]

Elections have consequences. Apparently over 50% of the people have not figured that out yet.

[ClearCase_guy]

The recent surge in layoffs is at least partly attributed to the bankruptcy of Twinkies maker Hostess in November. That accounted for 18,500 of the jobs lost.

Connect the dots: the employment situation is not good, and a big part of the problem is unions and the ill-advised political wrangling that they engage in, which results in a bad climate for doing business.

[null and void]

Interesting. My hard count of announced job losses is much higher.

AND I figure I’m only capturing about half of the actual number.

I’ve counted about 70K, and am guessing the BLS will report about 140K.

[GeronL]

I think the media and government want to downplay those kinds of numbers

[FlingWingFlyer]

The truth is, we’re going over the “cliff’ no matter what the GOOBers or the ‘RATS decide to do.

[null and void]

Yep. That’s why I have company names, city and state, actual numbers laid off and dates.

They can lie, but only by so much.

My figures can be checked. Can theirs?

[Typical_Whitey]

I would implore any businesses that are forced to make layoffs due to the high tax rates and Obamacare should first try and identify through campaign contribution information or car bumber stickers or general workplace chatter who voted for Obama and choose to let them off first because they are the ones who enabled the attack on capitalism this will also ensure that those who voted against Obama’s job killing policies can continue to work. This would provide the ultimate in FAIRNESS so the I’m sure the Democrats would be onboard with it, right?

[cherry]

my two married children and their spouses all work for private business....all but one has had his/her company do huge layoffs in the last few weeks...

all bammey voters....

what can I say....what can I do?.....not a thing...

well I do tell them frequently to get a govt job....more security...more days off....regular pensions and good medical....

if you're going to vote bammey you might as well be on the govt dole of work for the govt...

[ConfusedSwede]

There is no such thing as unemployment. They got to retrain or find a new job.

[Eleutheria5]

Has the ‘recovery’ slowed? Did it ever exist?

[itsahoot]

a big part of the problem is unions and the ill-advised political wrangling

As soon as they shut down all the shipping ports on the Eastern seaboard then things will smooth out.

[itsahoot]

My figures can be checked. Can theirs?

Nope, and they won't.

[Gabrial]

Hey, the gubmint workers are all getting raises so things must be ok.

/s

[SueRae]

Yes. And they kicked the can down the road on the planned longshoreman strike. Bronco must have called off the dogs for a little while and they didn’t want him to look bad *wink wink. We’ll see that rear its head in a month or so.

[SueRae]

Wait until the cliff thingy happens. It isn’t just Defense that is going to take a hit. FDA, PTO, hopefully EPA..and a lot of other top heavy gubmint agencies will feel some of it, too.

[upchuck]

The Challenger report comes a day ahead of the key U.S. jobs report, which is forecast to show job growth slowed sharply in November in the wake of superstorm Sandy reelection of The Won.

Damned AOL, can't get anything right.

[Tzimisce]

Meanwhile the guys who work for the President are all getting raises. :D