Posted on 02/15/2009 6:41:27 PM PST by NCjim
On Friday, the day Congress passed the stimulus bill, more than 250 people arrived at the Holiday Inn in Somerset for a careers fair. There are scenes like this all over the country. In San Fransisco last week, queues for a similar fair went out of the door and around the block. In Miami last month, a thousand people waited in line, some overnight, for just 35 firefighter jobs.
But New Jersey has not quite suffered like the rest of the country, and in Somerset the line of hopefuls is long but moves reasonably fast. For the most part, they came in sober suits dressed as though - if someone made an offer - they could start work today. Most clutched résumés and stared off into the middle distance, trying not to catch anyone's eye. And in a county broadly reflective of the nation demographically, white men over the age of 40 were considerably overrepresented.
The fact that there is a queue at all in Somerset county is significant. According to the census, Somerset has a median income that is almost twice the national average and a poverty rate below 25%. If there's a line here, then there are lines everywhere.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
“in a county broadly reflective of the nation demographically, white men over the age of 40 were considerably overrepresented.”
It’s Obama’s Recession.
He’ll be suprised when the food riots begin.
>He’ll be surprised when the food riots begin.
Just wait until the ammo riots.
The Guardian occasionally stumbles on truth. This is one occasion.
Things are going to get worse and the Obamaloon and his associated loon-a-ticks (get it?? badda-boom) will soon not even be protected by the MSM.
I eagerly await that outcome.
The article says people don’t believe the so-called stimulus bill will work. Juxtapose that with Obozo’s popularity ratings over 60%. Those two things don’t go together unless you assume one thing: THE PEOPLE ARE DELUDED - JUST BLINDLY FOLLOWING SOMEONE THEY THINK WILL SAVE THEM.
Off to Cabelas tomorrow. Everyone should be prepared.
Imagine a world where pollsters knew how to tell the truth rather than the story they are paid to provide.
The national poverty rate is 12%. Somerset appears to have almost twice the national poverty rate.
Methithat the reaction will be swift, bloody and destructive.
How else are people going to react when tax cheats insist you pay YOUR taxes, when leaders tell you to go green and fly off on junkets all over the world and when the spendthrifts continually ignore the people.
Don’t waste your dollars on hard assets unless you plan to turn them over in the next 45 days for a profit.
By the end of September all of that crap will be half the price it is now.
People will be forced to sell their coins, ammunition, guns, food stores, etc. in order to pay bills.
DING DING DING!!!! We have a winner.
“People will be forced to sell their coins, ammunition, guns, food stores, etc. in order to pay bills.
I am thinking that when things get THAT bad, bills would not be that important... like who is going to collect?
This is, in a way, a replay of the Clinton years. The house flipped to the GOP as a response to policies, yet Clinton kept his popularity to a degree.
The key now is not so much Obama, but taking back the House.
Sadly, when you look back over these responses, you see Freepers who are hanging their hats on: 1) the polls are wrong; 2) the people will turn on him; 3) the MSM will turn on him; 4) the delusion will end.....and so on. None of that will be the case.
The president is popular for now - but while his stimulus package is being hailed as a victory, no one truly believes it will work
One part of this paragraph doesn't fit in with the rest. I highlighted it for the one or two who might not figure out which part that is.
I don't know what selective reality drugs this person is on, but I wish I had some.
When I lived in Somerset County back in 2001-2003, it was considered the wealthiest county in America per capita.
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