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Millions of Americans aren't working. Why? (Real Headline!)
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Posted on 04/07/2014 2:38:49 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA

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They are feed from job lock!/s
1 posted on 04/07/2014 2:38:49 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

‘Cause America is not working?


2 posted on 04/07/2014 2:40:33 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Red in Blue PA

You can jack taxes up only so high before the money stops being put into the economy.


3 posted on 04/07/2014 2:41:33 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Red in Blue PA

feed=freed


4 posted on 04/07/2014 2:45:52 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Urkel Obama and the O'Conomy
Ending Job Lock For Americans since 2009


5 posted on 04/07/2014 2:48:07 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The future ain't what it use to be -- Yogi Berra)
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Because the 47 percent realize that NOT working and collecting welfare checks, cashing in EBT cards, living in subsidized housing, plus hundreds of other free perks is better than working, we see - easily see - why unemployment is over 20 percent.


6 posted on 04/07/2014 2:48:45 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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Anything you subsidize, you get more of. Anything you tax, you get less of.

We are now subsidizing sloth and taxing jobs.


7 posted on 04/07/2014 2:52:12 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Because Socialism isn't working.

8 posted on 04/07/2014 2:53:18 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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We are now subsidizing sloth

When there are no jobs, or only 1 job for every 3.2 people (per the JOLT report), what do you expect them to do?
9 posted on 04/07/2014 2:54:08 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Red in Blue PA

All that means is we’re creating a huge constituency for the next left-wing charlatan who comes along and promises to recreate the WPA.


10 posted on 04/07/2014 2:57:28 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Red in Blue PA; Responsibility2nd

Millions of Americans aren’t working. Why?
“... NOT working and collecting welfare checks ...”
“... subsidizing sloth ...”
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Well, Mrs. Repeal has been unemployed for 3 years, now.
She does not collect welfare checks, and no, she is not a sloth.
There are very few jobs out there for a 60+ year old.

Before all that,
we lived a nice life, contributed to savings, and had plans for retirement.
Now,
we have cut back on everything, are living off our savings, and have no plans for retirement.

There are many, many more people that I know of that are in the same boat.
So, I’m thinking you might want to direct your comments a little differently.

If you are working in this economy, consider yourself blessed.


11 posted on 04/07/2014 3:05:57 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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I blame president bush /s


12 posted on 04/07/2014 3:09:52 PM PDT by lonestar67 (I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent / Cruz 2016)
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they’re not working ... because the administration has overseen the destruction of millions of jobs (and prevents or disincentivizes the creation of new ones)

we have 2 and a half more years of this downward spiral, gang, get used to it...


13 posted on 04/07/2014 3:11:27 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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because its bush’s fault and you’re a racist


14 posted on 04/07/2014 3:14:13 PM PDT by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period. PALIN/CRUZ 2016)
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15 posted on 04/07/2014 3:15:30 PM PDT by Errant (Surround yourself with intelligent and industrious people who help and support each other.)
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Very simple. There is no way they could even begin to claim success at 10% unemployment. Keynesianism would be relegated to the trash bin once and for all. But much like the Depression, as long as the rate slowly ticks down over time, liberals claim victory.


16 posted on 04/07/2014 3:17:14 PM PDT by StevieRay20
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To: Repeal The 17th
If you are working in this economy, consider yourself blessed.

People who criticize the unemployed and call them lazy need to walk a mile in their shoes in this economy. I do not wish ill on people, but I do hope that people who have such a disdain for the unemployed will soon become unemployed themselves. I have been out of work for 8 months and have been on 9 interviews. Luckily, I have a family support system to fall back on an savings to put to use. Accordingly, I am going back for my MBA.....but not everyone has this as an option. Best of luck.
17 posted on 04/07/2014 3:17:19 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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I misdirected my post #11 to you.
(sorry, my bad)


18 posted on 04/07/2014 3:17:55 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I intended my #11 to also be directed to you.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3141836/posts?page=11#11


19 posted on 04/07/2014 3:18:22 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Errant

A significant of those “not working” now have gone over to the bad side: they prefer to be on trumped-up SS disability and other “benefits”...they have become parasites. That isn’t being mean-spirited...it is being realistic. They feel that if you have a work ethic you are a chump.


20 posted on 04/07/2014 3:19:06 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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