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Newsjock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 02:07 PM Original message |
Two out of five working-age Californians jobless, study says |
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YvonneCa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
1. Sounds about right... |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
2. They've gutted California |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 05:08 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Enron showed particular hatred for California --- NY and CA centers of liberalism . . . |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 06:09 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. Republicans have been targeting CA for destruction for decades. |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 08:30 PM Response to Reply #12 |
26. Do you have an article or some info on the specifics? |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
3. The numbers need to be examined more closely. First, we DO need to factor in those who have given up |
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Aragorn (784 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 03:15 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. this may be the realistic best way |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 05:39 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. I'm one of those volunteers, although I certainly worked enough years to qualify for SS & a pension |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 07:45 PM Response to Reply #3 |
20. "Working aged" is perhaps the dumbest standard I've ever heard, for the |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 07:59 PM Response to Reply #3 |
22. Don't forget. ooYou need to add to the number of unemployed the |
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harkadog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 09:53 PM Response to Reply #22 |
28. Over 55 hires don't place a burden on Social Security |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 10:11 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Over 62s do, and a lot of the people I know who are unwillingly retired |
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pattmarty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 03:58 PM Response to Original message |
5. This is a little off topic, but this IS the Labor day weekend................... |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 05:13 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Right . . . I meant to post a thread asking how LABOR DAY is being celebrated in MSM????? |
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ThorDem (84 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 05:38 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. We'll have to become a nation of scientists |
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Greyskye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 07:02 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Tech isn't a silver bullet |
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lib2DaBone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 07:57 PM Response to Reply #9 |
21. As if things are not bad enough... we have to listen to trolls.. |
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ThorDem (84 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 09:52 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. Listen |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 10:55 PM Response to Reply #9 |
31. We have to have manufacturing ....it would be insane not to . . |
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Jkid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
8. Just another reason to implement universal social security |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
11. 40% unemployment. Sheesh. No wonder my practice income is down 50%. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 08:05 PM Response to Reply #11 |
23. Doctors and lawyers are the last to be paid. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
13. My friend in CA |
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aggiesal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
14. It should be easy to fix the problem in CA. |
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Newsjock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 07:04 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. A project for an enterprising (or unemployed) journalist |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
17. CA needs to attract more jobs. But what with all the fires (lots of 'em in recent years) |
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bluesmail (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 07:28 PM Response to Original message |
18. Thanks Dick. Thanks George. Oh and I won't leave out |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
19. But how many multi-limbed Californians are out of work? |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 08:12 PM Response to Original message |
24. The stark reality is much worse than the author of the article admits. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 11:01 PM Response to Reply #24 |
33. THIS is the GOP's dream of a "third world America" . . . !!! |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
25. They've basically turned California into a banana republic. The whole US is a banana republic. nt |
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OffWithTheirHeads (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-07-09 02:32 PM Response to Reply #25 |
37. Yes but they won't be happy until it's a complete feudal state |
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Moral Compass (33 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
30. 40% unemployment???? |
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TheMadMonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 11:29 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. All myths are true. (For a given value of true.) |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-06-09 10:58 PM Response to Original message |
32. And Clinton and Gore overturned 60 years of welfare guarantees .. . |
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troubledamerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-07-09 02:43 AM Response to Reply #32 |
36. Sadly... true. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-07-09 01:24 AM Response to Original message |
35. I don't know whether this makes me feel better or worse |
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newspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-07-09 03:21 PM Response to Original message |
38. does anybody remember when Clinton made his speech after NAFTA-GATT |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-07-09 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
39. My unit of 8 people and a few hundred similar ones are being laid |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-07-09 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
40. Bad for the economy. |
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