Posted on 08/09/2002 6:41:17 AM PDT by Toidylop
You are so right, DFU.
They are a plague on this country that is going to destroy us unless stopped.
They don't care.
They want to stand atop the rubble of what was once America, beat their chests, and say, as they did when they saw the jets flying over that fateful inauguration day in 1993:
"They're ours now!"
They want the power, the rubble, the destruction matters not.
They have merged organized crime and Communist totalitarian tactics with lawyerly "smarts" to breed the "third way" that will destroy this country if not stopped.
God gave us a window of opportunity in 2000.
This November we can either push that window open for a couple more years or help slam it shut and end it here and now. Because if they take the House and the Senate, they will end it for us.
Don't forget, this article refers to the regime of former Emporor Krinton and his cronies. So the rejoinder would be more like :
If a tree falls in the woods and makes a sound but there are no witnesses to the sound, what does it matter if there was actually a sound because no witnesses means no controlling legal authority?!?!?
The al Qaeda thugs hope that we elect more like Da$$hole and McKinney in Georgia. The pro Islamakazi Rats in Congress are more dangerous than the Islamakais."
Is there any way those sentences can be emblazoned in red at the top of the FR main page?
We have many who type much important stuff here - but the key is to get out the vote for Republicans. I don't care if they are not perfect. WE KNOW WHAT DEMS DO WHEN THEY HAVE ALL THE POWER AND THAT SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO GET EVERY ABLE BODIED PERSON WHO CARES ABOUT THIS COUNTRY OUTA THEIR COMFY CHAIRS AND DOWN TO THE LOCAL REPUBLICAN OFFICE TO VOLUNTEER! Every bit of help is welcome and needed! With it, we can get an extension on this window of opportunity. Without it, we can start packing it in.
ahhh, the stinking piece of human detritus otherwise known as scumbag did many things for which he should be in jail or worse, but what you state was not one of them, and neither 6 months nor 12 months have ever had anything whatsoever to do with how unemployment stats are calculated
the bureau of labor statistics definition of employed/unemployed has been the same for many decades, only their sampling methods were changed in '94 to attempt to increase the accuracy of the count according to their long-standing definitions
it has always boiled down to you are unemployed if you don't have a job, have tried to get a job in the prior 4 weeks, and are able to work
this definition has, for many decades, left involuntary part-time workers (those who would prefer to be working full-time) and the discouraged job-seeker out of the unemployment count
whether their definitions are the best ones to use has been the subject of debate for a long time, but it has nothing to do with the sinkmaster
the full skinny from the b.l.s. is here, and here are some pertinent excerpts -
the Government conducts a monthly sample survey called the Current Population Survey (CPS) to measure the extent of unemployment in the country. The CPS has been conducted in the United States every month since 1940 when it began as a Work Projects Administration project. It has been expanded and modified several times since then. As explained later, the CPS estimates, beginning in 1994, reflect the results of a major redesign of the survey.
The basic concepts involved in identifying the employed and unemployed are quite simple:
People with jobs are employed.
People who are jobless, looking for jobs, and available for work are unemployed.
People who are neither employed nor unemployed are not in the labor force.
The survey is designed so that each person age 16 and over who is not in an institution such as a prison or mental hospital or on active duty in the Armed Forces is counted and classified in only one group. The sum of the employed and the unemployed constitutes the civilian labor force. Persons not in the labor force combined with those in the civilian labor force constitute the civilian noninstitutional population 16 years of age and over.
Not all of the wide range of job situations in the American economy fit neatly into a given category. For example, people are considered employed if they did any work at all for pay or profit during the survey week. This includes all part-time and temporary work, as well as regular full-time year-round employment. Persons also are counted as employed if they have a job at which they did not work during the survey week because they were:
On vacation
Ill
Experiencing child-care problems
Taking care of some other family or personal obligation
On maternity or paternity leave
Involved in an industrial dispute
Prevented from working by bad weather
These persons are counted among the employed and tabulated separately as "with a job but not at work," because they have a specific job to which they will return.
Persons are classified as unemployed if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior 4 weeks, and are currently available for work. Actively looking for work may consist of any of the following activities:
Contacting
An employer directly or having a job interview
A public or private employment agency
Friends or relatives
A school or university employment center
Sending out resumes or filling out applications
Placing or answering advertisements
Checking union or professional registers
Some other means of active job search
Passive methods of jobsearch do not result in jobseekers actuall potial employers, and therefore are not acceptable for classifying persons as unemployed. These would include such things as attending a job training program or course or merely reading the want ads.
Workers expecting to be recalled from layoff are counted as unemployed, whether or not they have engaged in a specific jobseeking activity. But, in all other cases, the individual must be actively engaged in some job search activity and available for work.
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It's under REPUBLICAN presidents they get caught. Perhaps you meant this has been building since Reagon left and Clinton took office. If so, please disregard this post with my apologies.
There has always been book-cooking, especially on Wall Street. However, under the Administration of No Controlling Legl Authority, book-cooking reached new depths of greedy money grabbing.
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