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Layoffs toughest on young, older workers
Yahoo News ^ | 9/6/2009 | MIKE SCHNEIDER and ERRIN HAINES,

Posted on 09/06/2009 7:45:36 PM PDT by tflabo

ORLANDO, Fla. – Marcus Wells and Shirley Walker view their economic prospects from opposite ends of the age spectrum.

Wells, 25, was initially optimistic about his prospects for finding a new job after he was laid off as a systems analyst in January in San Jose, Calif. Now unemployment has begun to wear on the him, and he believes his age has factored into his frustration.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: layoffs
The change Dem voters expected was not the less jingle jangle now in their pockets. Hello?
1 posted on 09/06/2009 7:45:36 PM PDT by tflabo
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To: tflabo
what about those jobs Americans ‘don't want to do’...

...they can take those and send those wetbacks a packin’.

2 posted on 09/06/2009 7:50:10 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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Remember when Bush was President, unemployment was 5% and the liberal media was talking about the lousy economy?

Obama has 9.7% unemployment with a real rate closer to 16.7% and the liberal newsmedia talks about anything BUT the economy.


3 posted on 09/06/2009 7:50:50 PM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs & Glenn Beck- American Heroes! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
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Mr Wells, You dunba**, the united states military needs a few good men. Are you up for it????


4 posted on 09/06/2009 7:56:27 PM PDT by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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To: Frantzie

Correcto mundo! Sandwiched between 9/11 and the last few months of 2008 financial debacle the middle Bush years had unemployment under 5%. As you say the media lambasted bush on the economy and covers for Barry’s sorry showing——hypocrites—thy name is LSM.


5 posted on 09/06/2009 8:03:41 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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Layoffs toughest on young, older workers

But for the middle aged, it's just right. Sounds like Goldilocks and the Three Bears
6 posted on 09/06/2009 8:33:42 PM PDT by Krankor
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People need to realize that when they vote for Marxist policies that destroy innovation and wealth and blame "the rich," they're going to lose too.

Blame me for job losses

7 posted on 09/06/2009 8:36:42 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("It (Gov't) can't make you happier, healthier, wealthier, and wise" - Sarah Palin 07/26)
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Obama has 9.7% unemployment with a real rate closer to 16.7% and the liberal newsmedia talks about anything BUT the economy.

Oh no, they talk about it - in glowing terms.

For instance, 217,000 new unemployed is a "huge improvement" over the previous 500,000 unemployed. And the .3 percentage point jump was "much lower" than the expected .5 percent jump.

The MSM is actually the SRM - State Run Media.

8 posted on 09/06/2009 10:05:07 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Want to work? Don't join a union. Want to make money and not work? Join a union.)
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The change Dem voters expected was not the less jingle jangle now in their pockets. Hello?

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Kindly take note of the eerily prophetic words of the First Clydesdale, err, Lady:


9 posted on 09/07/2009 3:52:52 AM PDT by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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