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Initial jobless claims unexpectedly increase
Yahoo/AP ^ | 1/21/10 | staff

Posted on 01/21/2010 5:59:26 AM PST by umgud

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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear; hoosiermama
"Hopenchange."

Claims have dropped steadily since last fall, as companies cut fewer jobs. That has caused some economists to hope that hiring may increase soon.

Isn't it comforting that economists are figuring in the "hope" factor?

: o /

41 posted on 01/21/2010 6:34:08 AM PST by maggief
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To: umgud

The only thing that rivals the frequency of the term ‘unexpected’ is the constant use of the term ‘economic recovery’ in news reports. I guess rising unemployment numbers should be ‘unexpected’ in a ‘recovery’.


42 posted on 01/21/2010 6:34:23 AM PST by Right Brother
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To: umgud
I can hardly wait for Thursday's so I can get my word of the day. As it stands, the same word will be used weekly for the unforeseeable future.

Word of the day for Thursday:

UNEXPECTEDLY

43 posted on 01/21/2010 6:35:46 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! 2012 - The End Of An Error!)
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To: evad
Consequentiality

Ooh. Very nice!

44 posted on 01/21/2010 6:37:35 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: umgud
A Lexis-Nexis search of the different variances in the word “Unexpected” in regards to AP/other wire services headlines have probably shot up 10,000% since January 20, 2009, right after 12:00PM.

AP and other wire services are on par with Mad Magazine. It's becoming hard to tell which is more hilarious, but I feel the wire services have the edge since it's suppose to be serious (In their own little worlds).

45 posted on 01/21/2010 6:38:00 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: umgud

“unexpectedly”....gee whiz...

I am waiting for the day that the liberal media unexpectedly drops this word as a prefix to all the bad news.


46 posted on 01/21/2010 6:38:54 AM PST by Moby Grape (Formerly Impeach the Boy...name change necessary after the Marxist won)
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To: umgud

This would be hilarious were it not so tragic. Every friggin’ week... “unexpected/surprising”


47 posted on 01/21/2010 6:39:53 AM PST by ScottinVA (Yo, Congress!!! CAN YOU HEAR US NOW???!?!!!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
unexpectedly !

How did I guess !


I predict that, next Thursday, whatever the numbers are, they will be unexpected again.
48 posted on 01/21/2010 6:40:45 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: umgud

EUC compensation grew by over 650,000. It now stands at over 5.5 million! And yet stocks are basically even.


49 posted on 01/21/2010 6:42:35 AM PST by jjsheridan5 (Jim Webb: too little, too late. You are toast.)
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To: alicewonders

Odd the most unexpected thing to happen in decades was Teddy’s lost seat and the MSM never used the “u” word once for that. Lots of “a” words for an an angy, aggressive, electorate though.


50 posted on 01/21/2010 6:47:48 AM PST by Rennes Templar ("Though the wrong be often strong, God still rules this earthly throng")
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To: hoosiermama

“I can name a dozen who love staying home and are living off the checks, not even trying to get a job....”

Isn’t that the truth....


51 posted on 01/21/2010 6:48:05 AM PST by tcrlaf (Obama White House=Tammany Hall on the National Mall)
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To: paulycy
unexpected by whom? The Bolsheviks in the current administration or Americans who work for a living?
52 posted on 01/21/2010 6:48:17 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mr. Lucky
Americans who work for a living?

Americans who used to work for a living, I think. And anybody else with half an honest brain.

53 posted on 01/21/2010 6:49:28 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: umgud

Bush’s fault!!


54 posted on 01/21/2010 6:49:54 AM PST by Happyinmygarden (Yes, actually, I have pretty much seen and heard it all before...)
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To: umgud

Former President Bush called and told me to lay you off. I know this is unexpected, but.......


55 posted on 01/21/2010 6:50:31 AM PST by Happyinmygarden (Yes, actually, I have pretty much seen and heard it all before...)
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To: umgud

Darn. I was sure that mandating home insulation would create 2.1 million new green jobs.


56 posted on 01/21/2010 6:53:14 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: hoosiermama
As long as the unemployed receive benefits they could care less if they have a job....I can name a dozen who love staying home and are living off the checks, not even trying to get a job....

Ding...Ding...Ding

We have a winner!!

Ya know, we still have all those jobs "Americans won't do", otherwise we wouldn't still have 20 million illegal aliens.

Kill most of the EPA, all of Endangered Spieces Act, and wetland regulation of inland areas (any mud puddle with a cattail is a wetland), pass real tort reform, no taxes for 10 years on all new industry in the USA (manufacturing, mining, oil energy, etc.), change the Departments of Energy and Labor so that they actually promote industry and energy production and let the states regulate (see which states shoot themselves in the foot), make the USA a "right to work" country, and finally, eliminate polictal correctness and "social justice" from society and see how fast America becomes an economic giant.

Nothing I mentioned above is radical - it's just the way it used to be in the USA, and what spawned every great invention over the past 200 years. Is it "unexpected" that there has been very little improvement in the last 30 years. Innovation has been taxed and regulated out of existiance all over the world - here included.

Today, instead of getting the telephone, light bulb, aeroplane, and the digital computer, we get the Sham-Wow and Chop-o-Matic!

57 posted on 01/21/2010 6:55:03 AM PST by Conservative_Rob
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To: maggief

These “unexpected” results tell you more about what the fawning white guilt media knows about economics and job creation than anything else. Simple logic, very simple logic, tells you a reduction in the level of newly reported job losses does not mean an increase in job creation. Morons to the max.


58 posted on 01/21/2010 6:59:00 AM PST by easttennesseejohn
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To: umgud
Initial jobless claims unexpectedly increase

What is UNEXPECTED? The man-child in the WH is on a course of destroying America - it is all intentional. Get us to the point where the common man will welcome larger Government and all their 'GIFTS' of jobs, cars, food, housing.
59 posted on 01/21/2010 7:07:44 AM PST by Cheerio (Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Cheerio
Get us to the point where the common man will welcome larger Government and all their 'GIFTS' of jobs, cars, food, housing.

One problem with his theory. Who will work to pay the taxes if everyone lives like a democrat? Who will get out of bed to bake the bread?

60 posted on 01/21/2010 7:10:45 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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