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New jobless claims rise unexpectedly
my way ^ | 12/17/09 | MARTIN CRUTSINGER

Posted on 12/17/2009 6:10:02 AM PST by blueyon

WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of newly laid off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week as the recovery of the nation's battered labor market proceeds in fits and starts.

The Labor Department said Thursday that the number of new jobless claims rose to 480,000 last week, up 7,000 from the previous week. That was a worse performance than the decline to 465,000 that economists had expected.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda; bhoeconomy; economy; hopeychangey; obama; recovery; unemployment; unexpectedly
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To: ichabod1
Then you change the laws and regulations so that only your gub'mint made put-put golf carts can meet the standards and you force people to (1) buy one, (2) use public transportation or (3) walk.

To paraphrase Henry Ford: You can have any color car that you want as long as we say it's "green".

81 posted on 12/17/2009 7:36:48 AM PST by Yankee (Welcome to Obama's Fourth Reich.)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Hearing today about H. Clinton promising 100 billion dollars to China if they sign on to the Nopenhagen accords, I couldn’t help recalling the immortal John Malkovich line from the movie Rounders, “I peeey you viss your own MONEY!”

And that makes me think of the more recent immortal movie line by Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood “I drink your milkshake!”


82 posted on 12/17/2009 7:36:59 AM PST by ichabod1 ( I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet.)
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To: ichabod1
I’ve been noticing for some time that they don’t like to say the number of the DJIA, they just report the delta.

I wonder if they know something like "it's ready to crash big time...".

83 posted on 12/17/2009 7:38:12 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: John.Galt2012

By the way, announced this morning on the news, Georgia Unemployment Fund is OUT. Gone. Capoop.

The Dept of Labor is requesting Federal Funds to refill it.


84 posted on 12/17/2009 7:40:30 AM PST by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: ichabod1

Sickening is it not?!

LLS


85 posted on 12/17/2009 7:44:24 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: blueyon
Unexpectedly, the unexpected jobless rate of unexpected jobless people unexpectedly rose unexpectedly, due to unexpected circumstances of unexpectedness.

Unexpected.

86 posted on 12/17/2009 7:46:26 AM PST by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: autumnraine
By the way, announced this morning on the news, Georgia Unemployment Fund is OUT. Gone. Capoop.

How unexpected of it.

87 posted on 12/17/2009 7:47:34 AM PST by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: newfreep

Thailand?


88 posted on 12/17/2009 7:48:21 AM PST by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: fightinJAG

No. A new claim can’t be an extended claim.


89 posted on 12/17/2009 7:51:15 AM PST by Heliand
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To: KarlInOhio

90 posted on 12/17/2009 7:51:24 AM PST by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Unensickening.


91 posted on 12/17/2009 7:52:07 AM PST by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Remember, the more unemployed people that run out of benefits, the more constituents that “need” the government. The left is trying despirately to create a large pool of “needy” people because they know that “needy” people vote democRAT.


92 posted on 12/17/2009 7:58:34 AM PST by meyer (Government health care = national strike.)
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To: autumnraine

Exactly what I am talking about. Think about this for a minute and imagine the effect of going Galt. Pass the Rangel Rule = no fines or fees for underpaying or late taxes. Everyone that produces... FReepers, Tea Partyers, etc. pile on the unemployment roles which are now set at two years and backed Federally. Then only pay $5.00 income taxes and claim the Rangel Rule for the next two years. What is the result?


93 posted on 12/17/2009 7:58:40 AM PST by John.Galt2012 (I'll take Liberty and you can keep the "Change"!)
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To: Lazamataz
Unexpected.

I never expected that!

94 posted on 12/17/2009 7:59:48 AM PST by meyer (Government health care = national strike.)
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To: meyer
Yep that is what they are counting on. The conservative producers will not humiliate themselves by asking for help from the Govt., but maybe that is exactly what we need to do to throw the system completely out of whack. Instead of a slow and painful slide toward socialism while the left gains more and more power...everyone runs to the “left side of the boat” and capsizes it immediately demonstrating for all that the Left’s utopia is a ruse. It doesn't work unless 50% of the citizenry works and gives to the other 50%. Once capsized, “they” all get the boot, and we get back to rebuilding the Republic. Basically, we pull an Alinski on them.
95 posted on 12/17/2009 8:05:16 AM PST by John.Galt2012 (I'll take Liberty and you can keep the "Change"!)
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To: Night Hides Not; John W
I can't do it anymore either. I was drinking each time The One said "I want to be clear..."

I ended up with alcohol poisoning.


96 posted on 12/17/2009 8:22:49 AM PST by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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To: John.Galt2012; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne
Overload the system and encourage my wife and anyone else to submit for umemployment. My job is secure and we could get by fine without hers. If everyone piles on, unemployment spikes economy grinds to a halt even more showing the Dems to be even more incompetent. It’s like fighting cancer with chemo...just thinking out load.

The Dems have plans of their own to tweak the official unemployment numbers. We all know they are going to try to time the Porkulus money to "create" temporary jobs before the election. In addition, they are likely to allow unemployment benefits to expire so that deadbeats will get some kind of a job around Nov, 2010. Of course, that assumes that by that time the economy is not such a mess that there will be no jobs at all.

97 posted on 12/17/2009 8:23:39 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Joe Wilson said "You lie!" in a room full of 500 politicians. Who was he talking about?)
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To: shankbear

Heh, I prefer “Hoax and Chains”.


98 posted on 12/17/2009 8:25:40 AM PST by Justa
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To: John.Galt2012
The conservative producers will not humiliate themselves by asking for help from the Govt.,

I've spent several hours convincing laid-off friends to apply for unemployment benefits. They think it's welfare, I tell them it's a stipend while you look for work. They understand that looking for a new job is a full time job in itself, especially in this market.

99 posted on 12/17/2009 8:28:25 AM PST by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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To: meyer; All
"...Remember, the more unemployed people that run out of benefits, the more constituents that “need” the government. The left is trying despirately to create a large pool of “needy” people because they know that “needy” people vote democRAT..."

meyer, what you are referring to is the "Cloward Piven Strategy.

Given that Alinsky is Obama's hero and idol (since he doesn't have God) and this strategy is directly derived from Alinsky's work, this would be no surprise.

I have been one of those people from day one who believe that the whole crisis in the latter half of 2008 was deliberately brought to a head for political purposes.

100 posted on 12/17/2009 8:29:47 AM PST by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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