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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.


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To: screaminsunshine

Or setting it up so the Bamster can confiscate more via one of his next solutions, i.e. 401k confiscation or leveraging all Fannie and Freddie Property as collateral for our 200 Trillion of debt.


41 posted on 10/24/2010 4:58:06 PM PDT by taildragger ((Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: DJ MacWoW

Rush made a comment a short time back that the libs will not admit they are wrong. In their mind we are just too stupid to understand and they’ll need to get more aggressive.

BO has subsequently said this in his speeches. That we are too afraid to think clearly.


42 posted on 10/24/2010 4:58:18 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Thanks very much for posting this in time for many of us in the western U.S. to watch the show.


43 posted on 10/24/2010 4:58:40 PM PDT by American Quilter (Support FreeRepublic and donate!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

of course it matters if ya vote for a communist or not. Are you nuts?


44 posted on 10/24/2010 4:58:40 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: My Favorite Headache

Where are you at?


45 posted on 10/24/2010 4:58:58 PM PDT by Ladycalif ("If you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one." Jesus)
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To: My Favorite Headache; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; SunkenCiv

I am sitting here watching “Sinbad and the Eye of Tiger” on TCM. Good lord almighty, Jane Seymour was hot in the 1970s.


46 posted on 10/24/2010 4:59:19 PM PDT by Perdogg (Nancy Pelosi did more damage to America on 03/21 than Al Qaeda did on 09/11)
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To: screaminsunshine

Oh yeah.

The wall to wall stories about tent cities and such that they are IGNORING right now.


47 posted on 10/24/2010 4:59:29 PM PDT by Califreak (November 2008 proved that Idiocracy isn't just a movie anymore)
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To: My Favorite Headache
I watched the preview, and I'll see if I can find it online. But from the preview, I am taking it at face value.

One thing is for certain, though. Come November, BOTH PARTIES will own this economy. There is only results from now on. The election isn't an end, it is just to get back in the game.

48 posted on 10/24/2010 4:59:51 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: My Favorite Headache

it is also on Usenet in the “teevee” group if anyone wants it.


49 posted on 10/24/2010 5:00:04 PM PDT by Soothesayer9
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To: taildragger

401k confiscation is coming.


50 posted on 10/24/2010 5:00:26 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: taildragger

Good cynical thinking.


51 posted on 10/24/2010 5:00:46 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (the way to win this game is not to play)
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To: driftdiver

They aren’t afraid. Obama’s plan is to destroy America and bring it into socialism/communism. The more things worsen, the harder they’ll push their false utopia of government being the answer to everything.


52 posted on 10/24/2010 5:01:38 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Lack of advertising revenue finally hitting CBS’ bottom line...and it just dawned on the Ivy League helmsman there what has been transpiring...


53 posted on 10/24/2010 5:02:02 PM PDT by mo
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To: Califreak

You got it! They are probably in the works as we speak. They think this will give them some credibility. They know the Rats are done and are prepping the comeback.


54 posted on 10/24/2010 5:02:19 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (the way to win this game is not to play)
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To: screaminsunshine

No, a realist....


55 posted on 10/24/2010 5:02:51 PM PDT by taildragger ((Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: My Favorite Headache

In dire economic ciricumstances, people begin to fear that they’re next, and actually begin to contemplate needing the food stamps and the extended unemployment benefits associated with liberal politics. That’s the dynamic here, ramping up the fear.

It’s not about who’s to blame or who’s “better” at addressing the problem, it’s about who is perceived to be more likely to support them, since they’ve been reduced to worrying about day-to-day. They’re taking the fear that should be working against them and making it personal, which is to their advantage.

That’s why Newt’s stroke of genius of a few weeks back was so stupid, he came across as attacking food stamp recipients just when a large number of people who’ve never been unemployed in their lives have begun to need the benefits they’ve paid for all their working lives and currently see no way out.

Nice goin’ Newt, you handed them their positioning on a silver platter, in an environment that was otherwise going to be almost impossible for them. Brilliant!


56 posted on 10/24/2010 5:03:05 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Cyber Liberty
You do realize there are a lot of us on the left coast that haven’t seen your precious 60 Minutes program?

I live in CA and got over that long ago. That's what the Internet is for..to get information in real time.

57 posted on 10/24/2010 5:03:19 PM PDT by ExtremeUnction
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To: Vince Ferrer

In 2008, 50% of the people polled thought the GOP still ran the Congress.


58 posted on 10/24/2010 5:03:56 PM PDT by Perdogg (Nancy Pelosi did more damage to America on 03/21 than Al Qaeda did on 09/11)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Young College people destroyed their own futures by voting Democrat in 2006 and 2008.

Having lived through the nightmare of Carter at the same age, I HAVE NO SYMPATHY for them. ELECTIONS have consequences, they really do.


59 posted on 10/24/2010 5:04:11 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Obama White House=Tammany Hall on the National Mall)
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To: SamAdams76
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

So you're passing up smart, motivated employees with known work ethics because they'll leave when things get better?

That seems incredibly short-sighted. Even if you're right and they leave when the economy picks up, when exactly do you think that's going to happen? It could be another four or five years into the future... or it may not happen at all.

60 posted on 10/24/2010 5:04:15 PM PDT by Terabitten ("Don't retreat. RELOAD!!" -Sarah Palin)
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