1 So when they pass the amnesty bill are they going to count all them illegals as employed or unemployed?

2

Meanwhile Captain Bullshit is laser focused on the only thing that matters, getting more Democrat votes in November.

More lies from you teabaggers!  Obama is laser focused on his short game, primarily putting.

3
We went from "My administration will not rest until every one is back to work" to "Hey, quit yer bitchin; it could be worse."

4 Great news, everybody!  The public-sector unemployment rate is 0.0%!!!

5 I wants me some more Obama numbers. I hear he haz plenty in his stash.

6 Just had a guy wander into our office and ask for a job and when we said that we had no positions available he just kind of stared at the wall for what felt like 2 full minutes and then wandered back out.  I shit you not.  Felt bad for the guy but he made me a little nervous - that thousand yard stare at the wall was just creepy.....and sad. 

7 We went from "My administration will not rest until every one is back to work" to "Hey, quit yer bitchin; it could be worse."

Posted by: i like chunks at July 02, 2010 11:16 AM (uFokq)

That is a brilliant strategy. Yeah, it's bad but it could be worse. And the media just nods its empty heads in agreement

8 I'm not sure that "unemployment rate" really means anything as a number anyway. It's a notoriously hard thing to quantify. As a measure of economic productivity it doesn't help much because (say) in inventor may be "unemployed" while working on the next $10 billion dollar gadget or technology. Meanwhile, some Wall Street CEO can pull down $50 mill a year for doing essentially fuck-all and adding nothing to the nation's GDP. Still, it's clear that it's a bad job market, especially for more marginal workers. Teens, people over 45, workers in the trades, seasonal workers, industrial/factory workers...the list goes on. It's obviously worse than that bullshit 9.8% number, and by quite a lot.

9 We went from "My administration will not rest until every one is back to work" to "Hey, quit yer bitchin; it could be worse."

Smartass.

10 6 Just had a guy wander into our office and ask for a job and when we said that we had no positions available he just kind of stared at the wall for what felt like 2 full minutes and then wandered back out.  I shit you not.  Felt bad for the guy but he made me a little nervous - that thousand yard stare at the wall was just creepy.....and sad. 

Posted by: Sharp Knives and Loud Guns at July 02, 2010 11:24 AM (l6isY)

Don't feel too bad, there is a 52% chance the turkey voted for Zero.

11 Obama - The Mistake in '08.

12 Legalizing millions of people whom will compete for jobs and work at wages so low no tax paying non-welfare subsidized American could afford to, no less during a period when the real unemployment is probably close to if not over 20% = Brilliant!

Doesn't this moron get it that there is no more other peoples' money left to buy votes with and those whom are having their money confiscated to buy votes are ready to tar and feather him along with the enablers in congress?

13 Employment-seekers decline by 652,000 in June, which may reflect people giving up on job-hunting and a reluctance to hire.
Private employers added a smaller-than-expected 83,000 jobs in June, but the unemployment rate edged down to 9.5% as many workers dropped out of a labor market that remains very sluggish.

Although the jobless rate in June fell from 9.7% in May, that reflected a big drop of 652,000 people in the labor force over the month. The labor force is made up of workers and those actively looking for jobs. With the economic recovery weakening and many employers reluctant to hire, many more unemployed people may have quit looking for work, which would push down the jobless rate.

In fact, the percentage of the overall working-age population that is in the labor force fell last month to 64.7% -- near a 25-year low.

i.e. it's not just FIAF, it's FIAM-F.

Years ago someone had this conversation:
"Hey you know how we can get unemployment rate to drop?"
"No how."
"We'll just stop counting those who've given up on finding a job."
"Brilliant!"

Liars, Damn Liars and Statisticians

14 Their number is a joke.

These charts tell the real story.

We're fucked. I'm stocking up on dehydrated food. Anyone have any suggestions for a good supplier? I'm thinking about going with Mountain House.

I'm also considering buying land somewhere near fresh water as a backup/last resort if this all falls apart.

15

maddogg: Don't feel too bad, there is a 52% chance the turkey voted for Zero.

Reidemandweep: Obama - The Mistake in '08.

For the Obama Money crowd, it wasn't a mistake - they got EXACTLY what they wanted [namely, "Obama Money!"].

Remember, we are very nearly at the point where 50% of all newborn babies in this country are NOT white [we will probably cross that terrible line in either 2010, or 2011].

And when that happens - when whites become a minority, and Blacks and Mexican Indians become a majority - the USA is doomed.

No amount of Adam Smith or George Washington or Calvin Coolidge or Ayn Rand or Ronald Reagan or any-dadgum-else-body can save us at that point: Demography is Destiny.

 

16 " Just had a guy wander into our office and ask for a job and when we said that we had no positions available he just kind of stared at the wall for what felt like 2 full minutes and then wandered back out.  I shit you not.  Felt bad for the guy but he made me a little nervous - that thousand yard stare at the wall was just creepy.....and sad. "

Many people can't even mind the most basic work. Working at McDonalds might not be enough, for someone whose home required a paycheck equivalent to their advanced degree or level of experience in a field, but at least it provides enough to buy food even if the house goes under. However, how many places which used to hire highschool kids are going to give a shot to someone with a Masters or Doctorate? People are getting desperate and can't even find the most basic opportunities.

Somehow I think Barry's overture to illegals is going to go over REAL WELL when citizens can't find any work and are seeing illegals take the last desperate chance they had for a job away.

17 I know your wingnut brains are suffering from anoxia caused by all your screeching, but 9.5% is lower than 9.7%.

And the private sector has added jobs for six months straight.

I love it when you wingnuts choose the wrong side of an issue.

Just keep on rooting against the recovery.

It'll be fun to listen to you cry when you lose seats in Congress this November.

18 "Many people can't even find the most basic work."

19 And when that happens - when whites become a minority, and Blacks and Mexican Indians become a majority - the USA is doomed. Pretty brave words coming from someone who won't even sign their frigging post. Run your DNA through a service like 23andMe sometime, chum -- you may be shocked at what you find. You may not be as white as you think you are. But then, perhaps I only feel that way because I'm a mongrel myself -- the dregs and leavings of every downtrodden tribe in Europe. I also have a shameful lust for many females who are not Caucasian, so maybe it's the jungle fever making me talk this way...

20 "The economy is moving in the right direction!" -- Osama Obama, today.

In other news, the oozing sore on my johnson doesn't mean a thing. I'm clean!

21 I am shocked that even this number went "down".

But at this point, the U3 unemployment rate is meaningless for the reasons everybody's pointing out. The U3 isn't completely useless. If you aren't looking for work, then you aren't collecting unemployment.

The thing is that the U6 (which counts discouraged workers) went down a point too. 16.6 to 16.5.  I also don't know the seasonal adjustments and how they effect these things.

I don't get it. The numbers aren't adding up.  But suffice it to say that once you're in the mid 9's for U3, it really doesn't matter what the unemployment rate is month-to-month.  It's just noise.

22 Warden: These charts tell the real story.

Wow, the Employment-Population Ratio chart indicates that we just lost the entire Reagan Miracle, and we're back to Carter-era employment percentages.

Yikes!!!

 

23 I know your wingnut brains are suffering from anoxia caused by all your screeching, but 9.5% is lower than 9.7%.

You aren't paying attention to the bullshit methods of creating statistic which ignore lots of people whom are out of work.

And the private sector has added jobs for six months straight.
At a rate which is less than the rate of job losses. Until job losses are at a rate less than job gains, it's all window dressing.

I love it when you wingnuts choose the wrong side of an issue.
Still upset about the USSR huh?

Just keep on rooting against the recovery.
There is no recovery, haven't you noticed everything has been steadily going to shit?

It'll be fun to listen to you cry when you lose seats in Congress this November.
Put down the crack pipe. You obviously haven't been paying attention outside of your mother's basement to notice the majority of the country is now quite bullshit at the Democrats in Congress.

24 It'll be fun to listen to you cry when you lose seats in Congress this November. In true Capitalist fashion, let us make a gentleman's wager on that, shall we? Seriously. Money on the table. I will wager $100, in Uncle Sam's finest Federal Reserve notes (even money) that Republicans pound the everloving shit out of the donks in the Congressional races. Just to put a number on it, let's say -- 45 house seats flip to the GOP, and we pick up at least 3 Senators. (Reid, Blanche Lincoln, and Charlie Crist are going down). Put your money up, chum. I'm completely serious -- I'll let some other Moron hold the money and verify that I'm for real.

25 maybe it's the jungle fever making me talk this way...

Posted by: Monty at July 02, 2010 11:44 AM (4Pleu)

Oooooh, racist!

Know what you mean, though. I look like an average tighty whitey, but my blood is mongrelized as well. A few drops of black, Indian (blanket, not dot) and others degrade the purity of my precious bodily fluids....

I kinda dig that.

And there's this chick from the Caribbean who...well, never mind.

Just don't ask me to "celebrate my diversity!"

26 Patriotic Progressive.

Hahahahahaha! Oh, my.

27

Pretty brave words coming from someone who won't even sign their frigging post.

Sorry - I'm typing someone else's computer.

Normally you would know me as:

LINDSEY GRAHAMNESTY LICKING RAHM EMANUEL'S SALTY SHAVEN BALLS

[A while back, someone pointed out that the Ballerina probably shaves his 'nads.]

 

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>>> Somehow I think Barry's overture to illegals is going to go over REAL WELL when citizens can't find any work and are seeing illegals take the last desperate chance they had for a job away.

Bingo.  I can't believe they are even talking about this shit right now given the current enviroment. 

And yes I agree with most of the comments about my story earlier and I can see me saying some of the same things but I got a tell ya it's differnet when they are standing right in front of you.

29 Patriotic Progressive voted for the candidate of "Godamn America!"

The guy who is close friends with a domestic terrorist.

The Senator who wouldn't condemn MoveOn for their General Betrayus ads.

Such a patriot.

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I can't believe they are even talking about this shit right now given the current enviroment.

You can't understand what motivates this crowd until you allow yourself to begin to fathom the depths of their nihilism.

Someone here at AoSHQ recently called Obama an "Evangelical Nihilist", which - other than being a rather obscene perversion of the true meaning of the concept of Evangelism [to evangelize = "to spread the Good News"] - is actually a pretty excellent description of the guy.

More Mexican Indian illegal aliens decriminalized & citizenized = earlier, swifter, more complete & irreversible destruction of the USA.

That's it.

Nihilism 101.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Just pure, unadulterated nihilism.

[Same thing with the Deepwater Horizon disaster: the more raw crude dumped into the Gulf, the better.]

 

31 It'll be fun to listen to you cry when you lose seats in Congress this November.

32 Yahoo is running a story from the Communist Science Monitor that claims Barry isn't a socialist. How do they know this? Well the head of socialist parties in America say he isn't. And if you can't believe a bunch of lying commie bastards who can you believe?

33 I need to lie down   -64.29  (-0.66%)

34 In June, the average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm pay- rolls decreased by 0.1 hour to 34.1 hours. The manufacturing workweek  for all employees decreased by 0.5 hour to 40.0 hours.