Posted on 12/10/2009 5:57:34 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
The Labor Department says initial claims for unemployment insurance rose by 17,000 to a seasonally adjusted 474,000. That was above analysts' expectations of 460,000.
A Labor Department analyst says claims were partly inflated by a surge following the Thanksgiving holiday week, when many state unemployment offices were closed.
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Probably people running out of benefits at this point...
Merry Christmas Infidels - from the muzzie in the white house - Hussein 0bama!
Bush’s fault
sarc
But, but the expected adjustment to the unexpected jobless claims numbers was less than expected....
But but but but....things are getting better because we spent money! Obama SAID SO! WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!
More than...(expected))?
PANIC!!!!!!!
That was offset because it was deflated by the offices being closed that week. It's a wash -- they are spinning madly.
Rush will be patting himself on the back for calling this one right.
Of course they are going up, and yes, people are running out of benefits now too, which is helping their fake figures also.
This idiot in the Whitehouse KNOWS what will work to bring the jobs roaring back, but he refuses to do it for ideological reasons. Conservatives need to point this fact out every chance they gt in front of a TV camera.
When is the ObOzO administration going to start filtering this data through East Anglia?
we all knew the T-day week report was bogus and would be revised; or in this case averaged-out into oblivion.
I like the economic analysis at http://www.shadowstats.com/ ... good work there, plus there is something to be said for getting it done “old school”
The company I’m sub-contracted to (used to be my company until my job was outsourced) is having a roof replaced on one of their acre sized buildings. As far as I can tell (and with the concurrence of my Hispanic colleagues) the entire workforce of roofers except for the Foremen are illegals.
I guess these are jobs Americans just don’t want to do.
If we had a majority of sane people in charge, they would at least back away from TARP-Funds-for-stimulus-slush-fund, Obamacare, and Crap and Trade, but maybe they think their only chance in 2010 is to bet all their chips on what they have been doing. Unfortunately, "their chips" are really our chips.
Holy Cow! That should bring that unemployment number down to about 9.5% next month. This guy is marvelous!
I personally know 12 people out of work for the last 4 months...I believe the panic button is being pushed in many of those households. People with Master’s degrees working as cashiers at Macy’s and could only land a Seasonal job. They aren’t being picky either. A few have been offered jobs in their field but it would require picking the family up and moving to another state (moving costs would be $10,000.00 alone), taking kids out of schools that they have been in for 10 years, and moving away from friends and relatives. Then you have the back and forth interview process that goes on with 3 or 4 different interviews scheduled every 2 or 3 weeks. All the while collecting unemployment that will run out.
Not one f-cking job created by Obama in year one. A total fraud. 2010 is going to be a blood bath my good people. Meanwhile we have the jerk off in chief sitting in Copenhagen patting himself on the back and people more concerned with fiction science and global warming than actually surviving.
I see what his agenda is. Get through all of his Marxist agenda goals first, destroy the U.S. economy, and then it will be hand to mouth even steven from here on out.
Didn't The Messiah say, just two days ago, that the unemployment rate had gotten better and we now were recovering from that bad, bad Bush economy?
Surely he would not mislead his subjects!
If this was due to President Bush, you’d never hear the end of it from the MSM—BUSH PERSONALLY HATES 17,000 PEOPLE!! MADE THEM LOSE/UNABLE TO FIND JOBS!!!! FILM AT 11!!
Meh. With TIITWH (the idiot in the White House) all we get is crickets. LOUD crickets. Can’t help but wonder what the breaking point will be when they finally cut him loose?? Or will they continue to circle the wagons until they’re all full of arrows???
Cheat Sheet for the MSM:
474,000 > 11,000
You’re welcome.
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