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60 Minutes Just Blew The Lid Off The Unemployment Situation in the USA

Posted on 10/24/2010 4:41:44 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache

Airing right now...said the real unemployment is at 17.5%...showing tons of people with masters, bachelors, phd's, you name it...unemployed for 2 years...can't even get jobs at Target.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Delaware; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: cbs; christineodonnell; elections; fiorina; jobs; megwhitman; novemberelections; obama; palin; realunemployment; teaparty; unemployment; unexpected; vanity
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To: My Favorite Headache

U6 (devined of course, they don’t supply it) is hire in some states, and that is far as I will go...


21 posted on 10/24/2010 4:52:08 PM PDT by taildragger ((Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: My Favorite Headache
Something is changing here.

I'm feeling it, too. I'm seeing on average, a couple of 'when pigs fly' stories a day.

22 posted on 10/24/2010 4:52:35 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: johniegrad

Nope. If anything this was a focus on just how badly private businesses have been killed. What I chuckled at was the reporter looking shocked at a guy with his Masters degree saying he just took a job offer from Target (his first offer in over a year)...for $9.25 an hour...he is a fiber optics engineer.


23 posted on 10/24/2010 4:52:44 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache (In a world where I feel so small, I can't stop thinking big.)
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To: biggredd1

oh I am betting they are the enlightened phd morons


24 posted on 10/24/2010 4:52:48 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys)
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To: My Favorite Headache

25 posted on 10/24/2010 4:52:48 PM PDT by Hoodat ( .For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.d)
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To: LibFreeOrDie

This puts the real unemployment rate in great depression territory.

Perhaps that’s why it *feels* like the great depression.


26 posted on 10/24/2010 4:53:08 PM PDT by Yet_Again
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To: DJ MacWoW

“you would think they would be saying thank you!”


27 posted on 10/24/2010 4:54:09 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: My Favorite Headache

It’s outrageous! Outrageous!!! Yes, I said OUTRAGEOUS!

That you would post this vanity thread without a clue WTF you are talking about. You do realize there are a lot of us on the left coast that haven’t seen your precious 60 Minutes program?


28 posted on 10/24/2010 4:54:42 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (We conservatives will always lose elections as long as we allow the MSM to choose our candidates.)
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To: OrangeHoof

I called my mother and 2 relatives...told them to turn it on...they said “like hell...mouthpiece for DNC”, I said...trust me...you have to watch this.


29 posted on 10/24/2010 4:54:55 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache (In a world where I feel so small, I can't stop thinking big.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

It’s the Clintons at work.


30 posted on 10/24/2010 4:54:58 PM PDT by ShandaLear (The price of Obamacare? 30 pieces of silver.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

They are a little late. The MSM is laying the groundwork to bring back the poor victim stories once the Republicans get in. You have to be a complete cynic to understand them. They never do anything without a reason.


31 posted on 10/24/2010 4:55:11 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (the way to win this game is not to play)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Perhaps the traditional liberals recognized that the firing of Juan Williams was a LEFTIST SOCIALIST strike, led by socialist Soros, on liberalism.

Even they realize they better get the whack-job leftists out of power before all of us end up in the gulag.

I wouldn’t bet my life on it, but it’s a starting point discussion.


32 posted on 10/24/2010 4:55:18 PM PDT by xzins (Freep-a-thon--Anyone can do a min of $10, OR you must believe in welfare, cause someone pays for you)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Of course.... I bet even the likes of P & G do not want to run soap commericals to pay Steve Crofts friggen salary. They are Galting it and they finally realize they are next. That is probably one reason they all are holding onto “cash”. They have been mugged by the Hope and Change Express, or should that be the Hope and Change Depressed...


33 posted on 10/24/2010 4:56:06 PM PDT by taildragger ((Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: combat_boots

interesting graph... WHEN did the democrap congress take over?

2006- when did unemployment start going up? 2006

when did it skyrocket up? 2008. When did Obammy take office? 2008...

I wonder if there is any connection...

nah.. it’s Bush’s fault


34 posted on 10/24/2010 4:56:23 PM PDT by Mr. K (MORE COWBELL)
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To: biggredd1
...and how many of these idiot phD’s voted for the communist?

...and how many didn't? Does it really matter?

35 posted on 10/24/2010 4:56:23 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (There's only one cure for Obamarrhea......)
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To: DanielRedfoot

Actually, I’m glad they didn’t point fingers at either political party. They didn’t have to. Airing this two weeks before the election was simply brutal for any incumbent, and particularly those who are in close elections.

The only thing that would have made it better would have been to contrast it with the high style that people like Harry Reid live in but, for “60 Minutes”, what they did report was devastating enough.


36 posted on 10/24/2010 4:56:55 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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To: My Favorite Headache

This is amazing news! I haven’t watched 60 Minutes for years, but I just hit the record button for tonight’s episode. I have to see this for myself.


37 posted on 10/24/2010 4:56:59 PM PDT by American Quilter (Support FreeRepublic and donate!)
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To: My Favorite Headache
I'm a hiring manager at my company and what amazes me is the sheer amount of resumes pouring in from people who hold bachelor and master degrees and used to work in six figure jobs. They are applying for jobs in my company that pay maybe 40-50k a year.

We are not even considering them because we know that as soon as the economy turns around, they will leave us to take another job but it's pretty incredible nevertheless. Also, the economy here in New England is actually doing better than most parts of the country. I can only imagine what it must be like elsewhere.

38 posted on 10/24/2010 4:57:13 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 38 days away from outliving Curly Howard)
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To: yldstrk

And the Kulaks...


39 posted on 10/24/2010 4:57:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. ~Mencken)
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To: My Favorite Headache

I figured 60 Liberal Minutes would just down play the real problem, blame Bush, make excuses for Obama, etc. This is nothing short of shocking especially this close to an election. Maybe they are prepping the battle space for Hilary.


40 posted on 10/24/2010 4:57:56 PM PDT by Starboard
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