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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 09:06 AM Original message |
"U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Decrease to 10-Month Low of 521,000" |
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Craftsman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
1. When you slit a pig's throat eventually the bleeding slows |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 09:11 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. History sais thats a bunch of crap. |
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Craftsman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 09:12 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Show me the jobs, history will not feed families or house them |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 10:07 AM Response to Reply #4 |
15. People lose jobs even when the economy is at its greatest. |
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Craftsman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 10:09 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. But when this shear amount lose jobs it can't be good |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 02:35 PM Response to Reply #16 |
28. By definition, a recovery just means the economy is beginning to grow again instead of shrink. |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 03:22 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. GDP can grow while middle class jobs shrink, that would stank...inflation |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 09:18 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. "historically, this is exactly what a recovery looks like" Um, no. |
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Craftsman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 09:26 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. My brother in law has been out of work for 7 months in Maine |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 09:38 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Yeap, and don't forget hours worked is a LEADING indicator and were still falling in that |
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Craftsman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 09:49 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Not to mention hours are being cut. |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 10:07 AM Response to Reply #5 |
14. Its not a "jobless recovery" if unemployment levels are tapering off to normal levels. |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 10:29 AM Response to Reply #14 |
21. 9.8% is not a normal level |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 02:34 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. Thats not what I said. I'm talking about the average monthly job loss. |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 02:35 PM Response to Reply #14 |
27. There's no 500k a month new jobless claims even in a bad economy hell, we haven't had |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 09:12 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. you're harshin people's buzz, man. nt |
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Phx_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 09:32 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. That's bullshit. Jobs are always a lagging indicator. |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 09:37 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Hours worked is a leading one and they're still falling or staying lower |
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avaistheone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 09:52 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. And jobs will be a lagging indicator for years to come until manufacturing is revived |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 09:37 AM Response to Original message |
8. I fail to see how 500,000 people on average for a year filing for unemployment is a good thing.... |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 10:02 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. This report ALSO tells you that the number who are no longer on Unemployment decreased as well |
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Craftsman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 10:11 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Or did their benefits run out, like a old high school friend of mine did last month? |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 10:15 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. In some cases, yes..... |
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Craftsman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 10:21 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. And what kind of jobs |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 02:34 PM Response to Reply #18 |
25. 521,000 jobs lost is the CORRECT trajectory?!!? I respectfully disagree, that number is still ... |
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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 10:41 AM Response to Reply #8 |
23. Because it was over 700,000 in January.... |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 02:32 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Again, a slower crashing airliner isn't a good thing either..neither is good 1 is just less horrible |
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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 03:12 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. lol, spoken like someone.... |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 03:16 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. If the airliner "crashes" at 100mph vs 900mph the passengers STILL die. |
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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 03:23 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. ok, *I* can do the crazy metaphors too! |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
20. You raise a question that implies a desirable mode of coverage |
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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-08-09 10:38 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. My point.......... |
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