Obama's $450bn employment package to save ONE job: his!
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2minkey
bootlicker
how long has that been the practice? please substantiate this claim and include timing information i.e. if this has long been the practice, then you're saying nothing.
which, of course, would be shocking.
how long has that been the practice? please substantiate this claim and include timing information i.e. if this has long been the practice, then you're saying nothing.
which, of course, would be shocking.
It has been going on since 1994 - Source
The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers.
The U-3 unemployment rate is the monthly headline number. The U-6 unemployment rate is the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) broadest unemployment measure, including short-term discouraged and other marginally-attached workers as well as those forced to work part-time because they cannot find full-time employment.
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2minkey
bootlicker
notice how the lines have almost the exact same trajectory? whose ever line you choose the VARIANCE is the same.
so by your obviously favored numbers we had some pretty high unemployment in the early 2000s too... when the economy was booming.
so in other words, thanks for trying to tell us what we already knew. it was certainly a special learning experience for me.
so by your obviously favored numbers we had some pretty high unemployment in the early 2000s too... when the economy was booming.
so in other words, thanks for trying to tell us what we already knew. it was certainly a special learning experience for me.
2minkey
bootlicker
really gonz it's just a bunch of people trying to estimate shit the best they can. and sleazing some off the top... fucking accountants...
it's not really an intelligent, coordinated effort to fuck you over. it's just the arbitrary machinations of far-removed government. but i think you like where this is going... decentralization, handling things at a local level where you can actually find a human that knows what is going on... yep, i like that, too.
it's not really an intelligent, coordinated effort to fuck you over. it's just the arbitrary machinations of far-removed government. but i think you like where this is going... decentralization, handling things at a local level where you can actually find a human that knows what is going on... yep, i like that, too.
Well, that is not a surprise considering that basically the new criteria omits some of what it used to use and the other higher rates uses what the new criteria uses but does not omit what was once used. I think I just made a tongue twister!
Hmm...well, here is what you might not have known: We’ve Now Got Depression-Level Unemployment
2minkey
bootlicker
let me know when you are done beating off around the kiddie pool.
So, you say you're a marketing guru. In the age of TV, video, radio sound bites, facebook & twitter, who's going to get the exposure to present their ideas to the biggest audience? A perfect candidate that nobody has heard of, or, a media hound who actually has a set of values & believes the rhetoric?
Sarah outdraws all the other contenders, including the President, in public appearances.
We stil can't Welcome Back McCotter because he's never been seen.
Image, plus backbone beats backbone alone.
2minkey
bootlicker
um, i didn't say i was a marketing guru, but your point is well taken. it's a popularity contest.
wow, that's dignified. maybe we can get lady gaga to loan sarah some costumes.
"has a set of values & believes the rhetoric?"
okay.
what happens when things get ugly?
might be nice to fulfill a couple more requirements. like
"can think on feet and not do anything dumb."
i don't think she can. and i'm not even sure she truly believes her own rhetoric. she's just learned some phrases that resonate with her followers. i expect in real life she's pragmatic, aggressive... and by many accounts a vindictive self-promoter.
you do realize you've described the perfect cheerleader, right?
i don't see this "backbone" you refer to. i anticipate in a real situation of the mildest complexity she would go down, hard and ugly. she gets confused. spewing things like "god, guns and guts" is not going to get her very far with, say, vladimir putin, who would flick her like a bug.
some time ago european leftists realized that the cult of personality was not a good thing. maybe it's time for american righties to learn the same thing. it may seem like a party to you all, but it's a 'would be really funny if it weren't real' fishbowl for the rest of us.
Isn't that the question with every single politician?
GW stood up & did his job.
Obama takes teleprompters to grade schools.
People call GW stupid & Obama smart. Marketing? (You said that's your specialty, didn't you?)
Sarah stood up against her party in AK. Obama voted PRESENT, something like 70% of the time. Marketing?
The only way to know is to take a chance. Palin is the first politician that I have believed since Reagan. It's more than campaign slogans. You don't need to write long-winded, elegant speeches when God bless America will work sufficiently.
