Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Needs to go up to 15%, and then superimpose the percentage of illegal aliens – oops, “recently arrived still being processed, but qualified for free medical and education citizens-in-waiting”. And maybe a look at the highest educational level achieved for those out of works. Demographics, damned lies, and stats. The Census Office will make all this go away.
And this stops at 8.5% in September. It’s now over 10% nationwide. Needs some new, darker colors!
When does it stop being a “recession” and transition into “depression”?
Up here in my county the unemployment is well over 18%, with most of those still working high tech jobs are H1B visa holders or green card holders. You know, diversity is all important.
Dang. THAT was depressing. No pun, and all that. (My county in NM is still in the 2.0 – 2.9 percent range.)
Yeah, very depressing. The fruits of government of the last 70 years come back to haunt. The bad thing is, even if things are beginning to pick up, it will be several years before employment ticks back up.
Oh they are going to have a summit to fix the problem. Yeah, right. A room full of assholes that have never run a business, made a payroll, or hired the first worker unless they payroll was covered by somebody else’s money are going to fix this problem. I’m cynical, angry, and wouldn’t give two cents for the very life of any one of the worthless parasites. I wish for evil things to happen to all of them and pray that God forgive me for committing such sin.
Quit holding back and tell us how you really feel. No PC quotient herein. And I wholeheartedly agree.
Picked a bad day to stop drinking I guess. Not to worry I think I’ll start again.
OldT6, I think we need to increase our intake.
If only I could afford that extra special Gin Lex was talking about sullying with cucumber slices….
Reality is a state of mind created by alcohol deprivation.
Problem in this case, the haze doesn’t improve it. Just makes it more depressing.
I haven’t seen VX around these parts lately. Could he have received another shipment of Mr. Barbencourt?
I am curious as to what is going on in the SW corner of North Dakota–only area I can make out that is currently <2%. Is that an indication of plenty(as a ratio to population)of jobs; too few people to be statistically significant, or a high percentage of people working in jobs not impacted by larger market shifts? Overall, a pretty grim 30 seconds to watch.
Puma,
North Dakota’s population is something like 9 persons per square mile, and that part of the state is mostly range/grass land.
Apparently both the cowboys/ranchers are still at work.
Regards
Scary to watch the whole of the left coast transform from what was a somewhat living being into a seemingly charred and blackened, lifeless creature. You have to give credit to whoever created the presentation, the usage of colors was indeed very dramatic.
Washington (the left coast version) is currently at 10.2% unemployment overall and things aren’t peaches and cream, but there isn’t a general sense of panic. Notwithstanding the lack of jobs, there isn’t a dearth of anything else. While there certainly are other parts of the nation going through more difficult times, we’re a considerable way off from recreating 1939.
So, I have to wonder: Just what the HELL does the Labor department think it’s doing? We’ve seen this before, and we’ve gotten through this before. Is Labor really so willing to instill widespread panic as another part of Owe-Bama’s bright-eyed ideas to save us all from ourselves with his Marxism?
Ohhhh…stupid question. Obvious answer. Sorry.
There are places in the California Central Valley that are at about 40% unemployment.
Anything to do with a little ol’ minnow? So dependent on water for everything, and unable to use it. Sheesh.
My paternal Grandmother’s family spent about 10 years as farmers near Hanford back in the early to mid 1920’s. My Great Uncle Roy used to tell me stories about the water table being only about 20′ below surface, with 12″ standpipes all over Fresno and Clovis that would gush water 24 hours a day and nobody thinking anything of it. Nowadays the water table is ~60 down and sinking.
Five years ago that valley was still thriving, growing, and nobody thought twice about the quality of life there. Something’s gotta give, and let those good people get back to living.
Mongo, I’m right here with you! It is scary… and it won’t get any better here in the good old Puget Sound area for awhile. Boeing is “sprouting wings” and flying off to South Carolina to a right-to-work environment, avoiding a $2 Billion strike loss re-occurrence from a year ago.
The map is frightening and we’re all wondering how long it’ll be before we’ll see the colors running in reverse? Hope to be around, still in business, to see it! Just like most of us here, I don’t want this to become an omen our being right where “the one” wants us: dependent on the government.
wow. great depiction. 2 and a half years ago I had 10+ people employed full time and multiple subcontractors at the same time on a regular basis. Unemployment was 4% or less in florida. Now, well, I’m happy to say at least that I’m employed in the NORVA area. You do move where the jobs are. The low unemployment in the midwest is a little skewed I think due to the lower population density and lower industries thus a more stable workforce.
A real eye opener. Scares the stuffing out of anyone paying attention.
I left the Wichita-Sedgwick County Metro area for the Mojave Desert and Edwards AFB. I have civil service position as a Crew Chief on F-16s in the 912 AMXS. I started the ninth of this month. I was previously at Hawker Beechcraft in Wichita. I got laid off the 26th of February. Yeah. Caveat. In early September, I had a mass found on the left kidney. The resulting fun and games turned a 14 September start into the 9 November start. Post surgery pathology said cancer.But I have a job now!
Oh yeah, somewhere around 12,000 to 13,000 aircraft workers in the Wichita Metro are out of work. Fast food joints are laying people off. It was in the Eagle the other day.
The say the best ideas start on the coasts and work there way inland. Well, this Denverite, feels the I got the better of this unemployment plague idea.
Here in our little corner of Occupied Territory (aka NoVA), we lept from 2 to 9% and are back to 5% over the period. At the same time, for a while in 2008 we went from the 2nd fastest growing county in the US to leading the nation in foreclosures and short sales for 6 month period. Now I think we rank 4th or 5th — in foreclosures that is…
- SJS
Dang, I missed that play button the first time around, thought it didn’t look too bad. DOH! Some one-off observations:
Lousiana is actually holding up better than any state in the south. Way to go, VX!
Atlanta just disappeared. Heck, a lot of cities just disappeared, obviously not generating much of anything before the SHTF.
In the blackness of New England, there’s all that orange and red in New Hampshire–the state with no income tax and the lowest dollar-to-student ratio and one of the highest classroom sizes in all the states.