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To: Minus_The_Bear

If you confine the argument to JUST unemployment, 1980/81 was worse, way worse.


44 posted on 09/01/2011 7:09:22 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
No it isn't. Not even close.

This unemployment is the worst since the great depression.

Calculated Risk has been charted the data for over years. Here is the chart for this week...


47 posted on 09/01/2011 7:13:49 AM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: central_va
I couldn't find a job in 1980,so I went to the local Army recruiter. Stayed in until things turned around on the outside. The thought of hanging out working on my artistic talents and collecting food stamps NEVER would have crossed my mind.
54 posted on 09/01/2011 7:41:03 AM PDT by ladyvet ( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
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