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Funemployment: Obama's Failure Leaves many Fundeterred
Patriot Room ^ | 6-4-09 | Scott Martin

Posted on 06/04/2009 2:31:26 PM PDT by Scott Martin

If the mainstream media had been around in France 220 years ago, Marie Antoinette would be known as the world's first, and greatest, weight-loss specialist for the lower class. She was a fun gal.

Seriously. I don't recall these stories back when the MSM was attempting to inflate Bush's unemployment statistics. Do you?

LA Times: For the 'funemployed,' unemployment is welcome

Michael Van Gorkom was laid off by Yahoo in late April. He didn't panic. He didn't rush off to a therapist. Instead, the 33-year-old Santa Monica resident discovered that being jobless "kind of settled nicely."

Week one: "I thought, 'OK . . . I need to send out resumes, send some e-mails, need to do networking."

Week two: "A little less."

Every week since: "I'm going to go to the beach and enjoy some margaritas."

What most people would call unemployment, Van Gorkom embraced as "funemployment."

While millions of Americans struggle to find work as they face foreclosures and bankruptcy, others have found a silver lining in the economic meltdown. These happily jobless tend to be single and in their 20s and 30s. Some were laid off. Some quit voluntarily, lured by generous buyouts.

Buoyed by severance, savings, unemployment checks or their parents, the funemployed do not spend their days poring over job listings.

And President Obama doesn't lie a lot, he's just very "funtrustworthy." In the age of Obama, we glorify living off the government and/or your parents. Wait, this is just breaking from the LA Times...

(Excerpt) Read more at patriotroom.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: mediabias; obama; unemployment

1 posted on 06/04/2009 2:31:26 PM PDT by Scott Martin
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To: Scott Martin

When a Repub is in the White House, 5% unemployment is a recession. When a Democrat is in the White House, 10% unemployment is a chance to stop and smell the roses.


2 posted on 06/04/2009 2:33:37 PM PDT by marron
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3 posted on 06/04/2009 2:33:43 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Scott Martin

I am unemployed, but certainly not funemployed. Nice to know there are people who can afford to go to the beach while ‘funemployed’, but I am barely eeking by while my husband is calling McDonald’s every day to see if they are hiring.


4 posted on 06/04/2009 2:36:35 PM PDT by autumnraine (Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson)
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To: Scott Martin
Every week since: "I'm going to go to the beach and enjoy some margaritas."

Reality translation: "I am now a broke alcoholic and can't find work in the Obama economy."

5 posted on 06/04/2009 2:37:04 PM PDT by avacado
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To: Scott Martin
Under President Bush, after people were out of work for two days didn't their family have to eat the dog and even then three of the children died of starvation on day three?
6 posted on 06/04/2009 2:39:22 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Chrysler and GM are what Marx meant by the means of production.)
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To: Scott Martin

How do you go to the beach and drink margaritas when unemployed?
Is he living with his parents? Putting bills on his credit card and racking up huge debts?


7 posted on 06/04/2009 2:39:34 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Scott Martin

The Boston Globe ran a similar story a couple months back. Interviewed some laid off lefty sad sacks and framed it as family bonding.

Unemployment under Obama = Fun
Unemployment under Bush = Bad


8 posted on 06/04/2009 2:41:55 PM PDT by nhwingut ( Don't Blame Me. I Voted For Palin.)
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To: Scott Martin

As someone onse said, at least in the Soviet Union everyone KNEW the press was hopelessly biased.


9 posted on 06/04/2009 2:42:39 PM PDT by cvq3842
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a necessary idea for Obama to infect the sheeple with, as in Socialist economies like France unemployment never falls below 10%


10 posted on 06/04/2009 2:44:26 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Scott Martin
People who have been unemployed since November 08 are having a blast... right and the Moon is made os Swiss Cheese. The State Run Media makes me sick.

Obamessiah's policies are a total failure.

11 posted on 06/04/2009 2:45:08 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (tot)
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When unemployment is fun, unemployment pay needs to be cut.


12 posted on 06/04/2009 3:03:51 PM PDT by DonaldC
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To: DonaldC

No doubt.


13 posted on 06/04/2009 3:18:06 PM PDT by Scott Martin
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"...Buoyed by severance, savings, unemployment checks or their parents, the funemployed do not spend their days poring over job listings...."


...and a lot in the “parents support” category, I bet...:^)

14 posted on 06/04/2009 3:27:01 PM PDT by az_gila (AZ - need less democrats - one Governor down... more to go.)
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To: DonaldC
When unemployment is fun, unemployment pay needs to be cut.

When I was unemployed about 3 1/2 years ago, I was out of work for nearly 4 months. Unemployment payed me $200 a week ($150 after taxes)... But I was paying nearly $450 a month for COBRA. Not exactly enough to party at the beach. And it wasn't any fun at all.

Mark

15 posted on 06/04/2009 3:29:55 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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Well, the funemployed will find me completely funsympathetic when they run out of money.


16 posted on 06/04/2009 3:39:00 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Whoever coined the term "foolproof" underestimated the ingenuity and determination of fools.)
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To: Scott Martin
... He didn't panic. He didn't rush off to a therapist. ...

When I was unexpectedly fired from a job a number of years ago, I did panic a little bit at first. But it never even occurred to me to rush off to a therapist. If someone had suggested it, I'd have laughed in his face.

So what happened? Nothing worth yapping about really. I toughed it out for a while and then got another job.

17 posted on 06/04/2009 3:47:30 PM PDT by Salman
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