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Wed Dec-15-10 03:41 PM
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| "Losing Your Job" As Opposed To "Having It Taken Away" |
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The vast majority of unemployed Americans did not lose their jobs. Losing implies some responsibility on the part of those who lost their jobs, i.e, as in losing your keys, losing your glasses, losing your wallet. The unemployed had their jobs taken away.
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Wed Dec-15-10 03:46 PM
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| DemocratSinceBirth
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Wed Dec-15-10 03:50 PM
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| 2. Involuntary For The Most Part |
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Wed Dec-15-10 03:50 PM
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| 3. The jobs Americans held set in the West like the Sun and rose in the Far East. nt |
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Wed Dec-15-10 03:53 PM
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I know exactly where my job was on my last day of work. It was obliterated, not "lost".
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Wed Dec-15-10 03:59 PM
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Wed Dec-15-10 06:37 PM
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| 6. You're pointing out more decades-long GOP word propaganda. |
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Yup, people used to say they were fired. Then it was "laid off", making it seem temporary, then it was "lost their job", i.e. entirely the worker's fault.
In the other direction, people used to say that someone had "amassed" a fortune, now it's current usage to say that rich people "create wealth".
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