May Unemployment Numbers
Earlier this year, the President’s chief economist, Dr. Christina Romer, said that the jobless rate would only hit nine percent if Washington failed to pass the trillion-dollar “stimulus” spending bill. Less than four months after the President signed the “stimulus”, the unemployment rate has hit 9.4 percent.
(Clicking on the graph will take you to the blog post about it)
Posted by JR
On June 5th, 2009 under Politics.
Comments: 2
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Comment from SJBill
Time: June 5, 2009, 11:22 am
That graph exposes some fine hypocracy there on the part of our lawmakers. Too bad you’re not going to see it posted in much of the MSM.
The unemployment figures are destined to go higher. I just filed yesterday, and I’ll bet than many of my colleagues that were released in MArch will be doing the same. It makes no sense to “collect” when you are still living off the severance package.
Up here is Silicon Vallley, you’d not believe the number of jobs that are headed offshore. Why the trend? Take some guesses that the gummint will not make.
Companies are running from the ever increasing taxes and the impending Doom in Kahlifornia lead by the Schwarzinator.
Comment from Jeopardy
Time: June 5, 2009, 12:31 pm
“Too bad you’re not going to see it posted in much of the MSM.” I know it’s a cliche, but it doesn’t fit the narrative, so it will be summarily ignored.
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