(06-09-2011 09:54 AM)BlazerFan11 Wrote:  

(06-09-2011 09:42 AM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  

(06-09-2011 07:03 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  

(06-08-2011 06:40 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  

(06-08-2011 05:07 PM)Smaug Wrote:  Relax. They will.

Hmmm, so you are predicting 10% retraction in GDP and 24 straight months of negative growth?

I thought this was interesting.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2011/06/emplo...ssion.html

he lost me at the beginning when he was equating unemployment during the Great Depression and today. I'll admit I didnt read the rest.

You realize that unemployment is measured much differently now than it was back then, don't you? Using the same standards, the numbers are a lot closer.

yes, but the hardships endured during the great depression pale in comparison to what we are going through now. It's the economic version of Godwin's Law. Once you invoke it, you lose me.

(06-09-2011 10:03 AM)TOGC Wrote:  If you've been unemployed for 26 weeks, you're not looking very hard. Since I started working, I've never been unemployed for more than nine weeks and that was almost eight years ago.

So why do you support candidates who want to increase the welfare state? You just admitted that there are jobs out there. It's just that (many) unemployed have no incentive to get off the gov't dole and take a lesser job.

(06-09-2011 10:24 AM)BlazerFan11 Wrote:  So why do you support candidates who want to increase the welfare state?

I don't support Republicans. They're the one increasing the income disparities in the country.

(06-09-2011 10:42 AM)TOGC Wrote:  

(06-09-2011 10:24 AM)BlazerFan11 Wrote:  So why do you support candidates who want to increase the welfare state?

I don't support Republicans. They're the one increasing the income disparities in the country.

Not even a good red herring.

I am pretty depressed right now.