1 Given that the underlaying fundamentals are still screwed up, can I interpret that graph as showing that we have a natural 10% unemployment ceiling in this large mature economy?

2 Its bc that chart is raaaaaaacist! It needs to be more street-wiser

3

I'm waiting for the 17% unemployment. and unfortunately, I won't wait long.

We are in a spiral, and the current trend is still gonna head downward. Its Carter on Steroids. When prices start to rise with taxes, its gonna get worse. alot worse.

Show me a bloc of small businesses that plan to grow and hire. (other than ones propped up on the FedGov tits)

"The federal stimulus act has performed "exactly" as the Obama administration expected it to:" Yes, and we will fail forward into Communism. State employment cards for the privleged.

4
Strong B+.

5 This chart reminds me of the Neo Nazi flag

6 The federal stimulus act has performed "exactly" as the Obama administration expected it to,

Joe Biden said different.

7 Gabe, I think you're being a little harsh here right out of the box for a new week.  They are not lying; the stimulus has done exactly what the Obama admin expected it to do - capsized the nation.

8 This chart reminds me of the Neo Nazi flag Put down the comic book.

9

Just wait until crap and tax passes, amnesty passes, oil drilling is put off, VAT passes, and the health care taxes kick in.  It's destruction ahead.  The jackass party doesn't have a single idea that does not corrode the economy.  If they succeed in tanking it, which seems to be their plan, I wonder if things will work out to be as great for them as they suppose?  After all, nobody is going to buy our debt and keep endlessly financing their spending when it becomes clear that our ability to produce goods, services, and technological advances has been destroyed. 

10 Of course these guys think 10% unemployment and trillions of dollars of debt are a good thing because these are the same people screaming bloody murder a few years ago that 5% unemployment and billions of dollars of debt under George Bush was a bad thing.

11 Seriously, what stimulus?

12

As Zerohedge showed on Friday, the BLS's own data reveals that when adjusted for census hires, "weather" distortions and "birth-death" adjustments, the net job movement was -67,000.

The fact that the U6 is climbing again (after a pretty dramatic drop in January from 17.3 to 16.5%), nearly half (44.1%) of the reported unemployed workforce has now been out of work longer than 27 weeks, and part-time/temp work has skyrocketed over last year, and the 162,000 jobs number doesn't seem quite so rosy.  In fact, it shows that people are desperately taking anything to keep their heads above water.

So no, this jobs report is only positive on the most superficial level.

13

Last night's unemployment thread had a truly scary graph. And oil is going up.

We're screwed.

14 The chart doesn't go high enough to show the actual unemployment which is probably around 25%.

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13
And oil is going up.

We're screwed.
Posted by: Ed Anger

That's because of Bush's friends in the oil business.  Wait a minute.  What year is it?

16

9  . . . I wonder if things will work out to be as great for them as they suppose?

Of course it will.  Once they have proved that capitalism has failed they will be able to abandon the free markets, the Constitition, elections, etc. to transform this fundamentally flawed nation.

Or as another great American once said, "We have to abandon the free markets to save the free markets."

It's all gravitas.

17 Why, after so much evidence that the Obamunist regime is constantly fricking with the unemployment figures (or "tweaking" them, in the current idiom) does anybody believe that unemployment is only 9% - 10%?  Try 16% - 17%. 

18 As an addendum, no wonder they're so hot to bring the troops home.  Obama wants to to have those tanks rolling in the streets, in case the citizenry wants to express its dissatisfaction.

19 I would love to see that chart if unemployment were calculated the same way today as it was in 2007, and then if the full # of unemployed and underemployed people were counted. They are tweaking like mad to keep the # at 'only' 9.7%

20 And add in the fact that almost all the stimulus monies went to libtard states and pals of bambi.......

21 Come now, Comrade Malor, why would you make such anti-socialist comments?  Comrade Obama cares about your welfare, and both He and the Party are greatly concerned that your comments could be misunderstood by a few wrong-thinking members of our great socialist society.

Comrade, enjoy your freedom.  But you need to think about the effects of your comments before you write such emotional and non-socialist words.

That is all.

22 Obama lies, about most everything ... And this lie is verifiable.

23 The chart is irrelevant. The stimulus was never intended to do anything but serve as a mechanism for promoting long-term Democrat election prospects. And we've already seen that it's performing that function quite well.

24

Geez, Gabriel, give President Obama a chance.

He inherited a disaster and they're still learning just how bad the last guy made things and all you right wingers want to do is obstruct progress and at least the president we have now can put politics aside and get things done but you want him to fail which means you want the country to fail which means you're not really a patriot at all except when it comes to cheerleading illegal wars of imperialism to further enrich your oil buddies.

At least he's trying.

25

Retroactive lying.

If the lie is too obvious, just deny what you said and turn it into something better.

Calling them liars isn't strong enough.

26 Any update on the new chocolate rations?

27

At least he's trying.

Yes he is.  Extremely. 

 

 

28 @24 WaterCow - ya forgot the [/sarc] tag there

29 Obama is absolutely lost . . . an economic tsunami and a foreign relations failure are about to tumble down on him and he stands facing the camera, smiling like a Cheshire cat eating shit. This poor sick Republic has but a slim chance of crawling out from under this disaster.

30 If we add this many people much debt and unemployment, my fear is that the island economy will tip over and capsize.

31 Oh, knock off the Claude Rains bit.

Of course it has done just as expected - if you're an Alinskyite out to kill capitalism, it has.

32

This:  I loved this, from F&F this morning.

POLLS:

6% feel that the stimulus spending has created jobs.
7% feel that Elvis Presley is still alive.

33

Keep humpin that chicken, freepers.

Zombie Reagan weeps for his party.

34 Congrats Gabe, this is a hot topic over at Fark.  Your snark hit the spot apparently. 

35 Of course it did just what they wanted...pay off the multitudes of toadies, hacks, thugs, unions, et. al. that got your sorry asses jobs and that fool elected.

Well done.

36 "At this point I interrupted my sister as usual to say,  timesscience

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