TwixVoy
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Tue Jul-07-09 02:23 AM
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True unemployment rate already at 20% |
Joe the Liberal
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Tue Jul-07-09 02:40 AM
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1. Well I'm glad to know I'm not alone. n/t |
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Tue Jul-07-09 06:03 AM
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2. That sounds about right. bu$h was cooking the books on a lot of stuff. |
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Tue Jul-07-09 09:42 PM
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Edited on Tue Jul-07-09 09:45 PM by obliviously
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Tue Jul-07-09 09:44 PM
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Edited on Tue Jul-07-09 09:44 PM by obliviously
Bush is giving talks to rednecks in oklahoma.
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Tue Jul-07-09 06:18 AM
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3. They have to minimize these statistics so they can still refer to a"recession". |
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Tue Jul-07-09 12:46 PM
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4. How much longer I wonder.... |
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Tue Jul-07-09 10:46 PM
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7. Yeah, as a person's unemployment ran out they are not |
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officially unemployed. What a MESS.
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Silver Swan
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Tue Jul-07-09 10:56 PM
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8. My husband has been unemployed for four years |
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He has given up on finding a job, and we just say he is retired, even though he is only 58 years old.
I know he isn't counted in the statistics.
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Tue Jul-07-09 11:55 PM
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Posters have been pointing out the true unemployment rate since the crisis began, really, well before then.
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