Unemployment rate to rise, could hit 10 percent

AP ^ | October 1, 2009 | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER and MARTIN CRUTSINGER

[digital-olive]

Well, I still have 2 jobs...so I guess that means that Dear Leader saved two jobs.... Even though he did nothing to help us but did plenty to hurt our industries.

F__ BO

[Soothesayer9]

25% in Tennessee.

[Soothesayer9]

So you are actually hoping for MORE unemployment?

I hope you experience what it is like to lose your house/car/family relations someday so you wont be so quick to bring down doom on everyone but yourself.

/endrant

[Hessian]

Federal minimum wage went up in July of ‘07, July of ‘08 and January of ‘09. See any effect on that there graph?

[thecabal]

[thecabal]

Hey, whatever will help the GOP get back in to power! Suck it up, peon!

[Kickass Conservative]

I guess when Democrats take over Congress and “drain the swamp”, the people that used to fill the swamp lose their jobs.

Clinton gets credit for balancing the budget in 1998 when it was actually Newt Gingrich that made it happen.

Bush gets blamed for the bad economy even though Pelosi and Reid took over Congress in 2006. Before the Rat takeover, 4% plus GDP Growth and 4.5% Unemployment with sustained record month to month job growth.

Anybody remember the talk after 9/11 that the Economy wouldn't recover for 10 years? As my Brother likes to say, selective memory trumps all.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

You are correct.

[lmr]

So you are actually hoping for MORE unemployment?

I qualified my statement by saying I don't like to see people suffer, don't twist my words.

What do you know about the economy? My wife's hours have been cut back to 1/3 of what they used to be. This loss of income will force us into bankruptcy if something doesn't give real soon.

My sister-in-law lost her job in Aerospace. She is doing better than us because she can collect unemployment and we can't.

We have 3 school-aged children and don't expect anyone to feel sorry for us, but if anyone is suffering we indeed understand their pain.

You should keep your mouth shut before you judge others because you don't know sh*t.

[lmr]

Hey, whatever will help the GOP get back in to power!

I suppose you prefer Obama, then? How about a viable 3rd party option? Don't make me laugh.

The answer is to bring the GOP back to Conservatism. If you don't understand this, then I hope you enjoy your new life under National Socialism.

[lmr]

I don't mean to rain on your parade of 'Real' Unemployment numbers, but the sheeple view that only as Right-Wing rhetoric because it isn't mentioned in the news they read and watch.

When the other side controls 70 percent of the propaganda, it's an uphill battle.

[freekitty]

Get real. It’s way about 10 percent and has been for sometime.

[The Future 2012]

VOTE FOR CHANGE 2012!!!

[Fee]

Try 16.8 based on U6 numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

[nikos1121]

you can be sure obama knows it’s over ten. that’s why he went to copenhagen.

Has anyone here been to Rio?

I mean compare it with Chicago.

ARe these people crazy to think that the Olympics would choose a town like Chicago over Paradise?

[cydcharisse]

Oh yeah, Rio’s a regular Garden of Eden. No problems there.

[thecabal]

The answer is to bring the GOP back to Conservatism.

Good luck with that. Don Quixote had a better chance of achieving his quests. I learned my lesson after McCain was foisted on us (I voted for Sarah BTW, not a 3rd party).

I hope you enjoy your new life under National Socialism.

Thanks, it's already been freaking great, thanks in part to the Me-Too Republicans.

[Arthur McGowan]

Unemployment never exceed 10% in all of 1930.

Come on, Barry; we know you can beat Herbert Hoover at killing jobs!

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

I see more and more people out of work every day.

[mrsixpack36]

Here in michigan they say it is 15 percent but it’s more like 20-22%. They don’t count the people who have given up. It is going to get real ugly when the unemployment benefits run out in mass over the next year. The problem with the unemployment is there is no incentive for people to look for work until the checks dry up.