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California jobless rate jumps to 10.5 percent (Thanks Gub & DemRats,, Way to go, Waaaaay to go!!!)
AP on Mercury News ^ | 3/20/09 | Don Thompson - ap

Posted on 03/20/2009 10:32:29 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

SACRAMENTO — California's jobless rate climbed to 10.5 percent in February, the second month of double-digit unemployment.

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Sharp declines in construction, manufacturing, finance, trade, transportation, professional services, leisure, health and education are blamed for the losses. ...

The state has lost more than 600,000 jobs since February 2008, a 4 percent drop.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: caleconomy; calemployment; california; calunemployment; jobless; jobs; jumps; layoffs; schwarzenegger
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Just think GReen Jobs.. Right?

What a bunch of maroons running this state and nation into the abyss.

1 posted on 03/20/2009 10:32:29 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

What happened to all those “jobs ‘americans’ don’t want to do”?


2 posted on 03/20/2009 10:36:40 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Just being a "U.S. citizen" does not make one an American.)
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Hold on to your hats. That unemployment rate’ll go a lot higher when Ahnuld’s new sales tax increases kick in on April 1st.


3 posted on 03/20/2009 10:38:08 AM PDT by SamKeck
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To: NormsRevenge

California is to *BUSY* to worry about the economy when they have such important matter on thier plate like when can:

Jimmy Joe and Paul get married?


4 posted on 03/20/2009 10:38:35 AM PDT by TaraP (The RAPTURE: Separation of Church and State)
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To: SamKeck
That unemployment rate’ll go a lot higher when Ahnuld’s new sales tax increases kick in on April 1st.

We'll have to see what happens when all of us who are leaving actually get out of town.

5 posted on 03/20/2009 10:40:41 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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To: NormsRevenge
here we are the richest state in the Union with oil literally bubbling up out of the ground and water for years and we've got a 14KT MEATHEAD for a governor and a bunch of Liberal losers in the legislature...

hell, I could turn this mess around in four years...
eliminate the state income tax which would bring industry here from not only around the USA but the world, offshore drilling, co-generation nuclear power plants that would not only generate all the electricity we could ever need but enough water to irrigate the entire friggin’ state...

jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs...and every Californian would receive an annual royalty check from the oil & gas leases

“I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.”
Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy

6 posted on 03/20/2009 10:41:19 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla
Alaska has more oil and fewer citizens. They approach your vision, but still fall short. You would have to eliminate the illegal alien drag on the economy. The entitlements burden is sinking the state. The tax burden is chasing people away. The stifling anti-freedom laws are chasing more away. A benevolent, conservative monarchy might turn the place around. The "citizens" have become brainwashed freeloaders. They will continue to elect socialists as long as the postman continues to bring "freebies" confiscated from the productive.
7 posted on 03/20/2009 10:55:25 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: NormsRevenge

Don’t worry, California is fixing the problem. They are raising taxes on everything they can find. Doesn’t make any difference if people can’t afford it. Somebody has to pay for all the illegals.


8 posted on 03/20/2009 10:57:21 AM PDT by RC2 (http://www.youtube.com/user/Funbobbasso)
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To: Myrddin

Well I hope Ahnold and the democratically led state legislature is happy! Californians need to be so outraged that in the next election when they see a dem and I meaning incumbent next to their name that they vote in unison against em all!


9 posted on 03/20/2009 10:57:35 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: RC2

and as if bad isn’t enough , The gUb is pushing a spending cap initiative, Prop 1A, that is a joke.

If it passes, the temporary tax hikes will expire in 2013 supposedly.

If it fails , they expire in 2011.

as if any act of voters short of tossing the bums out will rein in spending..


10 posted on 03/20/2009 11:01:16 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: Myrddin

No shiite...tell me something we all don’t already know.

And I didn’t say we had the most oil, I “said” CA is the richest state in the Union. Who knows how much oil & gas is offshore and onshore.


11 posted on 03/20/2009 11:05:22 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: NormsRevenge

I bet it’s higher than that.


12 posted on 03/20/2009 11:13:07 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Ev Reeman
CA has been gerrymandered and infiltrated to the point that it is unlikely to ever be anything but a big pile of entitlement grabbing consumers of socialism. It's a good time to be in the U-Haul rental business in CA. An industrious person might find a cottage industry in driving back empty U-Hauls to CA.
13 posted on 03/20/2009 11:13:08 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: NormsRevenge
It's time for Tom McClintock to get out of the race and unite behind FISCAL CONSERVATIVE Arnold, since we need a REPUBLICAN Governor who will fix the business climate in California and bring the businesses back to the golden state.
14 posted on 03/20/2009 11:13:28 AM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: freedumb2003

I had a critical job in the aerospace realm for 20 years. We have contracts. I’ve either made them smile or made them mad. Physics is physics. Facts are facts. I can work in Texas but I sort of like where I am even though everybody knows me in this skill across this industry wants me because nobody knows uW engineering anymore.


15 posted on 03/20/2009 11:14:52 AM PDT by BobS
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>>I had a critical job in the aerospace realm for 20 years. We have contracts. I’ve either made them smile or made them mad. Physics is physics. Facts are facts. I can work in Texas but I sort of like where I am even though everybody knows me in this skill across this industry wants me because nobody knows uW engineering anymore.

The decision to move was a very difficult one. I was born and raised in So Cal and have deep roots there. But I won’t stay where I am not wanted and California has made it crystal clear that it doesn’t want me and it does want its illegals. It doesn’t want you, either, if you work hard and make a decent living.


16 posted on 03/20/2009 11:18:06 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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To: Myrddin

“An industrious person might find a cottage industry in driving back empty U-Hauls to CA.”

Unfortunately, many of those leaving CA are infesting other states bringing their libtard “ideas” with them, complicating the lives of the natives.


17 posted on 03/20/2009 11:20:10 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Christian and armed)
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To: NormsRevenge

If you’ve any business in Calif. you’d be stupid not to go to another state and practice your trade.


18 posted on 03/20/2009 11:21:26 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: Joe Boucher

People and businesses leaving California will make Moses’s Exodus look like a family vacation.


19 posted on 03/20/2009 11:25:31 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: BillyBoy

Yeaaaaaaaaaaa...that’s what we need to do...take advice from someone in Illinois! LMAO
We gave America Ronald Reagan and IL gave us...Hussien Obama...ya know, if you’re half-ass smart, you might wanna be reeeeeeeeeeel quiet for the next four years!

“It’s time for Tom McClintock to get out of the race?”

WTF are you talking about? what “race?”

FYI, maybe you hadn’t heard but McClintock is a U.S. Congressman now...

“unite behind FISCAL CONSERVATIVE Arnold?”

please tell us all that you’re J/K...


20 posted on 03/20/2009 11:25:56 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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