Posted on 07/15/2010 6:07:14 PM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
According to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are more than 31 million people currently unemployed...that's including those involuntarily working part-time and those who want a job, but have given up on trying to find one.
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Also known as f-ing losers.
Or residents of Galt's Gulch.
A galt’s gulcher isn’t someone who wants a job but has given up finding one.
They should pop up key overlays:
* Dems win Congress
* Pelosi & Reid take over
* Obama takes lead
* Obama wins nomination
* Obama wins election
* Obama wastes $1 TRILLION stimulus
* Obama signs Death Panel law; biggest entitlement in nation’s history
It’s someone who makes their own job out of the purview of the gov’t.
Very cool. Sent that sucker to my e-mail list.
Watch Dane County, Wisconsin hold on - due to the over concentration of government employment there - and also look at the Northern VA - Washington DC area - as it holds on while everything surrounding it goes to hell rapidly. If the general level of unemployment remains high - in the long run you may be seeing a significant concentration of (relative) wealth in federal and state employees. They have robust pensions, and at least for federal employees are paid better then those in comparable positions in the private sector. I have some friends who, while not entirely apolitical, were not activated until recently - and then by this issue of public sector retirement benefits. Not a high ranking hot button for me - but definitely salient for some voter segments. Hope the GOP is paying attention to this issue.
Generally they end up working odd jobs or very part time when possible. They also fall off the labor rolls, AND THEY PAY NO TAXES. They find out that making $20g’s under the table is like making $50G’s in the labor force and hence a new Greece is born.
And the relatively unscathed portion of the country in the middle is very lightly populated compared to the rest of the map. We’re in deep doo when eastern Colorado and western Kansas are doing the heavy lifting.
“We’re in deep doo when eastern Colorado and western Kansas are doing the heavy lifting.”
No, but they are. Literally. There are definitely still agriculatural jobs for the taking in this country. People just have to be willing to take them.
Many an illegal immigrant has bypassed those jobs to become an urbanite. They’re there for the taking if you don’t mind humping it in a field.
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By Amy Goldstein and Dan Keating
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
The three most prosperous large counties in the United States are in the Washington suburbs, according to census figures released yesterday, which show that the region has the second-highest income and the least poverty of any major metropolitan area in the country.
Rapidly growing Loudoun County has emerged as the wealthiest jurisdiction in the nation, with its households last year having a median income of more than $98,000. It is followed by Fairfax and Howard counties, with Montgomery County not far behind.
That accumulation of suburban wealth, local economists said, is a side effect of the enormous flow of federal money into the region through contracts for defense and homeland security work in the five years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, coming after the local technology boom of the 1990s. “When you put that together . . . you have a recipe for heightened prosperity,” said Anirban Basu, an economist at a Baltimore consulting firm.
Bump for the slowly deepening Depression.
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