We’ve Now Got Depression-Level Unemployment...

[le roi]

Originally Posted by Visvaldis

West Europeans have a high standard of living with good wages.

yeah, good work if you can get it...

a few of the countries are doing OK, but you can't ignore the protests in spain, and the problems in Ireland, France, and Portugal.

[Wapasha]

Originally Posted by BentBow

Because they are learning the illegals can and will do the middle class labor jobs, for an 1/8 of the cost.

0bama belonged to a church for 20 years that taught it's members to disavow middleclassness. The left would like everyone to believe that 0bama belonged to that church but did not agree with anything that was said inside it.

The roughly 8,000-member church has often championed liberal causes, from gay rights to opposition to the Iraq war. It also emphasizes its African roots and asks parishioners to accept the "Black Value System," which includes tenets such as "commitment to the black family," "dedication to the pursuit of education" and one critics have seized upon - "disavowal of the pursuit of 'middleclassness.'"

Obama's activist church enters spotlight - Politics - msnbc.com

[EinsteinsGhost]

Originally Posted by pghquest

US Government Changes Unemployment Metric | insignificant thoughts (http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2010/12/30/us-government-changes-unemployment-metric/ - broken link)

Thank you.

From the article:

"beginning Saturday, will raise from two years to five years the upper limit on how long someone can be listed as having been jobless. The move could help economists better measure the severity of the nation’s prolonged economic downturn."


Sounds like the new measure presents a less rosy picture than the unemployment rate did before that. So, the effect of the change is opposite of what many here would like it to be.

Originally Posted by pghquest

They also went up during the Bush years..

Bush was the President, beginning Jan 2001 through Jan 2009. Now, list those years where it went up, versus when it went down. Feel free to use the numbers from a link I provided yesterday.

Originally Posted by CK78

Genius, adjusted for inflation wages have not went up in 30 years. In fact they've gone down.

Along with it, I'm sure, you've finally figured out that Obama has been the President over all those years.

[HC475]

Originally Posted by BentBow

Because they are learning the illegals can and will do the middle class labor jobs, for an 1/8 of the cost.

Is the case at a lot of onstruction sites...