World Gives Obama A Big F U

[randallscott35]

I guess my point would be that right now, our president shouldn't be hobnobbing in Denmark or on Letterman's couch or making another ESPN commercial. That's my point.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

I guess my point would be that right now, our president shouldn't be hobnobbing in Denmark or on Letterman's couch or making another ESPN commercial. That's my point.

Yeah. Like Bush attending birthday parties instead of attending to Hurricane Katrina

[randallscott35]

I get to hear about green shoots and less bad and.....http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=ajY2EJWqg3ZE


U.S. Unemployment Now Lasts Longer Than Benefits: Chart of Day
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By Michael McKee and Alex Tanzi

Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- For the first time, the average amount of time it takes fired employees to find a new job exceeds the length of their standard unemployment benefits.

The CHART OF THE DAY shows the average duration of unemployment is now 26.2 weeks, longer than the 26 weeks of state benefits normally provided to workers who lose their jobs. It’s the first time that has occurred since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping records in 1948.

The jobless rate rose to 9.8 percent in September, while payrolls fell by 263,000, a Labor Department report showed today in Washington.

Congress has extended unemployment benefits twice -- first in July 2008 and then as part of the stimulus bill signed in February. Currently, the unemployed are eligible for a total of 46 weeks of benefits, and those in states where the unemployment rate is more than 6 percent are eligible for 59 weeks.

Those additional benefits expire at the end of the year, and about 1.3 million people will exhaust them by then, according to the National Employment Law Project. An extension of benefits, which was passed by the House of Representatives, is being held up in the Senate by lawmakers who object because their states would be excluded from the plan.

The purple line on the chart shows 5.4 million people have now been out of work for at least 27 weeks, representing 35.6 percent of the total number of unemployed, the most since the agency began keeping statistics in 1948.

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[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

I get to hear about green shoots and less bad and.....http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=ajY2EJWqg3ZE


U.S. Unemployment Now Lasts Longer Than Benefits: Chart of Day
Share | Email | Print | A A A

By Michael McKee and Alex Tanzi

Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- For the first time, the average amount of time it takes fired employees to find a new job exceeds the length of their standard unemployment benefits.

The CHART OF THE DAY shows the average duration of unemployment is now 26.2 weeks, longer than the 26 weeks of state benefits normally provided to workers who lose their jobs. It’s the first time that has occurred since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping records in 1948.

The jobless rate rose to 9.8 percent in September, while payrolls fell by 263,000, a Labor Department report showed today in Washington.

Congress has extended unemployment benefits twice -- first in July 2008 and then as part of the stimulus bill signed in February. Currently, the unemployed are eligible for a total of 46 weeks of benefits, and those in states where the unemployment rate is more than 6 percent are eligible for 59 weeks.

Those additional benefits expire at the end of the year, and about 1.3 million people will exhaust them by then, according to the National Employment Law Project. An extension of benefits, which was passed by the House of Representatives, is being held up in the Senate by lawmakers who object because their states would be excluded from the plan.

The purple line on the chart shows 5.4 million people have now been out of work for at least 27 weeks, representing 35.6 percent of the total number of unemployed, the most since the agency began keeping statistics in 1948.

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Olympics. Focus. You know, the thing that got Obama a big F U?

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

Yeah. Like Bush attending birthday parties instead of attending to Hurricane Katrina

Yea cause we all know Bush called on God to cause Katrina!

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Yea cause we all know Bush called on God to cause Katrina!

Kanye believes that.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

I guess my point would be that right now, our president shouldn't be hobnobbing in Denmark or on Letterman's couch or making another ESPN commercial. That's my point.

Well, I'm a youngster, so I only know recent times and can only use that as a way to guide my opinion, but his percentage of working days so far seems pretty high up there if my short memory serves me well...I don't have much of a problem with it.

But that would have been another thread. Your point above is valid enough, I suppose, if that's your point....so why try to paint it as, how did you put it, "world gives Obama a big F U?"

You've yet to do anything to back that point up at all....your personal criticism of his policy actually has nothing to do with what you alleged at the beginning.

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

Well, I'm a youngster, so I only know recent times and can only use that as a way to guide my opinion, but his percentage of working days so far seems pretty high up there if my short memory serves me well...I don't have much of a problem with it.

But that would have been another thread. Your point above is valid enough, I suppose, if that's your point....so why try to paint it as, how did you put it, "world gives Obama a big F U?"

You've yet to do anything to back that point up at all....your personal criticism of his policy actually has nothing to do with what you alleged at the beginning.

I would say that again not being in the Final 2 is a big deal. If they had lost and finished 2nd, you would see no thread from me....the case can be made its a bigger rebuke of the U.S. than Obama, fair enough....Now get to work.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

I would say that again not being in the Final 2 is a big deal. If they had lost and finished 2nd, you would see no thread from me....the case can be made its a bigger rebuke of the U.S. than Obama, fair enough....Now get to work.

This is just a BIG departure from "world gives Obama a big F U."

I'm only posting so crazily about it, because it was obviously the FIRST thing that went through my mind today when Chicago lost....that it was going to be a wonderful, yet completely pointless, way for the echo chamber to try to pin something else on Obama, which they'll do at every chance.

This is actually the "problems that RandallScott has with Obama" thread...and not what you presented it as. That's all.

[randallscott35]

Well done Brian. Here's a cookie.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

Well done Brian. Here's a cookie.

Thanks Randall -- we should do this more often.

[Danzig]

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