1 Hey, I unexpectedly got wood while looking at some Megyn Fox pictures on the web.

2

Ace..make the below post sticky for a bit. I just hit the jar. It's not much, but business has been a bit slow and the wife is still funemployed after two years.

 

3 I unexpectedly gassed that hobo jungle.

4 I think the whole stimulus, budget, healthcare trifecta scared businesses into doing nothing. Just to see what would happen next. As they get more accustomed to what Obama is doing, the bloodletting is going to begin again.

Know how I know? Corporate income tax revenue is still dropping. Despite all the GDP and inflation and "consumer confidence" shinola that Commerce does to spin numbers, they can't hide their actual income tax intake. And that's low.

5
You should be thanking me. Unemployment could be at 12%.

6 A weak recovery is like the patient getting better right up until he dies.

7 Obama: If not for me, weÂ’d have 15 percent unemployment http://bit.ly/dp3ilB

8
You should be thanking me.

Deaths in Afghanistan could be even worse.

9 It's short for "unexpectedly for those of you who thought socialism would never make inroads in the US and that our economy would be run by a pack of government nitwits from, of all places, Harvard Law School".

10
You should be thanking me.

The market could be at 7000.

11 The conclusion seems to be that this economy-destruction is purposeful. Who gets to be world dictator? Soros?

12
btw, I made that idiotic remark in Racine, a community with 14% unemployment...

and the assholes still applauded me.

13 Bush caused all these problems, and Sarah Palin will make them worse.

14 You're welcome. Easier to get a tee-time when you're unemployed, isn't it?

15 unemployment figures stopped falling after ObamaCare went into effect. (That is, new unemployment claims stopped falling and leveled off at a high-ish level.)

Don't be a smart-ass.

16

Worf did say that her husband was going to "fundamentally transform the economy" and change things forever.

10% unemployment is the new norm. 

17

Appearing on CNN this morning, Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Cal., said current immigration law splits up families. She also said a more organized immigration system will help the U.S. economy.

"When the economy turns around, we'll need more workers than the ones we have in the United States," she said. "So we have to get ready for that."

See, Congresswoman Sanchez has solved all our problems at once.

18

Unemployment claims actually went up again, "unexpectedly"

HUH? Census workers... duh...

19

Sacred honor compels me to reveal that one night, Nikki Haley unexpectedly ended up in my hotel room . . . after midnight.

We all know what that means .

20
Haven't I made it clear that I do not represent you?

I am the president only to the fringe-left groups who support me.

21

By the by, my funemployment officially ends on Tuesday when I begin training to become a pharmacy technician.

Yes, it's entry-level and about as low as you can get on the pharmacological totem pole but I busted my ass to get it. I certainly didn't wait for someone to hand it to me.

22 A weak recovery is like the patient getting better right up until he dies. Posted by: huerfano at July 01, 2010 12:55 PM (rqC5o) Are we talking about Healthcare of the economy? Who's on first?

23 unemployment figures stopped falling after ObamaCare went into effect.  Unemployment claims actually went up again

So unemployment is falling up?  I fully expect this to be the line from the administration.

24

Posted by: ErikW at July 01, 2010 01:03 PM

Congrats!!

_{..any way you can get some samples??}

25

Barack Obama in...

A Clear and Present Failure

26 Congrats ErikW

27 Someone with access to Lexis needs to do a search on how many articles contain both "unexpectedly" and "experts" - or synonyms.


Stage two: Form letters every single time we see this. "Please fire your experts, they've been caught off guard 1,927,372 times this year alone."

28 You should be thanking me. I could have asked the wookie to stand next to me every time I speak.

29 Hey, I got job!

I make 12 bucks an hr., no benefits, no PTO. Employer not paying taxes, no SS, no nothing.

Welcome to the brave new world.

30

Oh yeah, color me ecstatic! I've been funemployed since '08 and there are no jobs out there for anyone with my experience. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada.

I even found one job with a major defense contractor here that I'm eminently qualified for. Have the called me? Why no, no they haven't. I'm guessing that you have to pay somebody off to get a job there anymore. Or blow somebody off.

Either way, I'm screwed. Unemployment is over for now, until the idiots in Congress get their feces amalgamated and realize that there are a lot of people hurting out here.

31

Posted by: Bubble Ba'athist at July 01, 2010 01:06 PM (AnTyA)

Posted by: Naan at July 01, 2010 01:07 PM (GARYj)

Thanks! No, no samples yet, let me get established first.

Come to think of it, when I interviewed with the lead pharmacist his eyes were pretty bloodshot. It might be easier than I think.

 

32 Seems like everyone I know still holding a job has had their salary cut or frozen.  So even actual employment is beginning to suck. 

33 Slow Joe said we won't recover those 8 million lost jobs and Barry said America can no longer be the engine of the world economy. So things are working out well for them

34

How about everyone who doesn't have a job, but wants one, gets a free ticket to the US / Mexico border.  Bring your own work gloves and a post-hole digger; bails of razor-wire and a pallet of 4x4s will be waiting for you.

Two birds, one stone.

35

Thanks! No, no samples yet, let me get established first

You have a week...then the chicken gets it!!!

36 P.S.  I don't know many government employees.  I hear they're doing quite well. 

37

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at July 01, 2010 12:55 PM (YVZlY)

Wow, the peeps in that vid sitting behind the Bamster look like stoned zombies.  Some aren't even looking at him--just staring off into space.  Absolutely no response when he said "Unemployment could be 15%"--my jaw would have absolutely dropped. 

38 You should be thanking me. Unemployment could be at 12%.

When I read that Obama said that, my first thought was: "It'll be back over 10% when the numbers are released on Friday."

I'm sticking to that.  I'm not an economist, but I think that would suggest a greater accuracy.

39

By the by, my funemployment officially ends on Tuesday when I begin training to become a pharmacy technician.

Yes, it's entry-level and about as low as you can get on the pharmacological totem pole but I busted my ass to get it. I certainly didn't wait for someone to hand it to me.

Congrats, ErikW.  It's bad out there.  I live in an area that is very much in a bubble (due to Microsoft and Boeing).  Yet even here, a friend of mine who reluctantly voted for Obama (she was a Hillary girl) had to take a 50% cut in pay at the start-up she's at.  Still the majority of people I know are completely unaffected, still shopping at Whole Foods, going to their trendy gyms and expensive yoga classes.  At the b-day party I went to yesterday, the stepbrother of the b-day girl said he had 110 hours on his current paycheck (machinist at Boeing working on the 777).   Also, on today's a.m. run, one girl showed up in her brand new Mercedes station wagon, and another girl who drives an hard top Mercedes convertible that's only a year and an half old with 10k miles on it was talking about getting a new BMW hardtop convertible.  She also talked about the new granite countertops and backsplash she and her hubby had installed in their kitchen and bathroom.  The most affluent people I know are all Democrats.  Crazy, huh?

40 The most affluent people I know are all Democrats.  Crazy, huh?

Not at all.  There are lots of explanations, but usually it's noblesse oblige or some form of that.

41 The most affluent people I know are all Democrats.  Crazy, huh?

It's related to the Kathleen Parker syndrome.  Once you become rich and get into all the right parties and crap you don't want to see horrible filthy middle-class people hoisting themselves up into your parties so you do everything possible to destroy economic upward mobility.  Conveniently, the Democrats have that "everything possible" as their platform, so it's one-stop shopping.

42

Seems like everyone I know still holding a job has had their salary cut or frozen.  So even actual employment is beginning to suck. 

Or there are two people doing the work of six.  And those two people can't say, yeah, well, I'm outta here, because there is nowhere to go. So, yeah, even employment is sucking.

43

The most affluent people I know are all Democrats.  Crazy, huh?

Posted by: runningrn at July 01, 2010 01:24 PM (CfmlF)

The same thing is happening here. I just assume that all the wealthy libs I know are somehow or other screwing somebody out of their hard earned cash. Bastards.

Seriously tho, Central Ohio is kind of a hotspot for medical technology and everyone I know in healthcare tells me that the local job market is set to skyrocket. I plan on studying Radiography in the fall so maybe I can get on the gravy train.

 

44 Once you become rich and get into all the right parties and crap you don't want to see horrible filthy middle-class people hoisting themselves up into your parties so you do everything possible to destroy economic upward mobility.

Yes.  The "I've got mine" mentality.  I've seen it with "smart growth" stuff.

45 29 that our economy would be run by a pack of government nitwits from, of all places, Harvard Law School".

What this country needs is a non-politician in the White House. Not a 'successful business person' either. I want the guy who failed. Yeah, an 'unsuccessful businessman'. The guy who knows what the hell is wrong with the tax laws, the employment laws, the taxing authorities, the endless regulations, the competition with third world countries that abuse their workers, foul the planets air and water, and send us lead-filled toys for our children to play with. I want the guy with no furniture in his living room and a "Foreclosed" sign on his front lawn. The guy who used to be successful, followed all the rules and watched as his business went to shit right before his eyes. I think he has one helluva lot better idea of how to get 20 million Americans employed again.

/ half tongue in cheek

Posted by: Public Service Message at July 01, 2010 01:07 PM (IhHdM)

Hmmm... still got furniture, but I am in the process of selling the house... closed my business down last year... Ret. Navy... joined corporate America for a few years until I helped start a software development company... which went under... then started my own Contracting service... which I was forced to shut down last year.  Heck, I don't even get unemployment because I was "self employed"...

Where do I sign?

46

Yes.  The "I've got mine" mentality.  I've seen it with "smart growth" stuff.

Nailed it here. The Eco-Fiend Left sums this mentality up perfectly.

47

Funny how they never mentioned Bush's MBA from Harvard business school but all we ever hear about is Obama's degree from Harvard Law; and he doesn't seem to know that very well. Too many trips to Pokiston.

My mother-in-law didn't even know Bush had an MBA. Called me a liar.

48

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 01, 2010 01:11 PM (i3AsK)

My favorite is to walk into an IT shop for an interview... and suddenly realize that eveyone there is speaking  a Hindi, or Urdu... which I don't...

49

"Seems like everyone I know still holding a job has had their salary cut or frozen.  So even actual employment is beginning to suck."

Wage frozen for the past 3 years. Absolutely no o.t. but I'm working and extremely glad just for that.

 

50 Oh, and just before ex-mayor Begich left to become our Senator he signed a bill that gave the state unions a 5 percent raise every year for the next five years. That was last year so he locked the current mayor into this deal. I guess the union pushed heavily for Begich. Wonder why.

51

What this country needs is a non-politician in the White House. Not a 'successful business person' either. I want the guy who failed. Yeah, an 'unsuccessful businessman'. The guy who knows what the hell is wrong with the tax laws, the employment laws, the taxing authorities, the endless regulations, the competition with third world countries that abuse their workers, foul the planets air and water, and send us lead-filled toys for our children to play with. I want the guy with no furniture in his living room and a "Foreclosed" sign on his front lawn. The guy who used to be successful, followed all the rules and watched as his business went to shit right before his eyes. I think he has one helluva lot better idea of how to get 20 million Americans employed again.

So, your plan is to elect Alvin Greene? 

Interesting...

52 Did you know Alvin Greene has a degree in political science?

Just saying.

53

Wage frozen for the past 3 years. Absolutely no o.t. but I'm working and extremely glad just for that.

 Posted by: Bosk at July 01, 2010 01:49 PM (pUO5u)

And in Chicago union thugs are striking today on road constructions sites because their $55 an hour is just unfair to working people. Oh and they want their health care costs reduced too.