Comments on: Unemployment Rate Hits 5-Year High

Reaches 6.1 Percent In August; Employers Slash 84,000 Jobs, Labor Department Reports

[cyberus-2009]

Just wait ... if they get an unemployment benefit extension bill through congress the rate is going to jump again ... since they don''t count people that have run out their benefits. Which is why IMO that the rate has been dropping recently.

[tiptop101]

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: There are two. One for the people who have never done anything to better themselves, which is clearly the majority of Americans. For them, the rate is high. For the others who developed a real skill, made in effort in high school and went to college, didn''t hang around with dipshits, didn''t drink all weekend, tried hard, etc., the unemployment rate is low. I wish they would break this number down, so the correlation would be more obvious, since you probably will deny this. So, don''t punish me by confiscating more of my money to fund people who chose to be a moron.

[royalia]

Holy cow. If I think the government is doing bad things with the budget, then I will complain. In fact, as a citizen I have an OBLIGATION to complain and tell them to get it together! And your comments about assembly line jobs...wow. You have no evidence for anything you are saying. Give me stats about the proportion of assembly line workers who are Democrat vs. Republican. I am guessing that more are Democrat than Republican, but I seriously doubt that it is 95% to 5%. That would mean that Republicans are losing jobs too. And it isn''t ONLY manufacturing jobs. It is affecting the whole economy! And you quoted the wrong uemployment figure. It is 6.1%, not 5%. But you go ahead and tell everybody who is unemployed to shave, read, get some exercise, and eat better. Those are all good things to do anyway (except that the shaving shouldn''t matter), but they are NOT going to help most people get jobs if the jobs AREN''T THERE! I need to stop now. I am wasting my time with you.

[tiptop101]

Well, if you''re employed and still a democrat, go read some Ayn Rand. Read Atlas Shrugged, or the Fountainhead. Good bye.

[tiptop101]

YES, laziness is the problem. So many democrats, except for the ones that think they know something special, are working class people. MOST did not, and do not, try to better themselves. That is LAZINESS and that is the root of the problems. Self study, read, dress well, shave, cut your hair, join positive groups, stop drinking, stop letting the goverment enter into your thinking, better yourself. 99% of the dems who lost their non-thinking, no skilled assembly line jobs never have done any of these things. How do you deny that? Why? Because most are lazy. I''m not saying everyone. Some, who have prepared themselves, and the lost a job, will have a very good chance at another one. Remember, 95% are working if understand 5% unemployment. Fight your negative thinking. Read success books, buy success tapes, let that go into your mind, not THE NEWS. The news is pure NEGATIVE. What do you think happens when you have negative information bombarding your brain? GO BUY A SUCCESS AND MOTIVATION BOOK. DO IT. GET OFF THIS STUPID CHAT ***.

[royalia]

And I am gainfully employed, by the way.

[royalia]

Answer this question. Did the unemployment rate just go up or down? It went up. That means people are losing their jobs. And I am sure that I have more education than you do, and I am also sure that I worked much harder for it than you did.

[tiptop101]

BELIEVE ME, I honestly despise the republicans too. It''s just that the dems are far worse. YOU and your complaining are not going to change the deficit or balance the budget regardless who is in office. SO, stop worrying about it and do something for YOU. You are on this earth a short time. Make it great. Battling the useless government isn''t going to change anything. Prepare yourself, read, perfect your resume, practice interviewing, dont be so opinionated, don''t hang around with the dipshits on this board or in any part of your life. FIGHT IT.

[royalia]

Tiptop, I am close to reporting you for abuse of logic. Tell me what causes unemployment again? It''s lazy people? So all those people who were unemployed during the Great Depression were just lazy and bad students? And we shouldn''t have manufacturing jobs in this country? And the people who do those jobs are retards? Please tell us what you do for a living.

[tiptop101]

Classic, where are jobs? Once again, you make practically zero effort to find them and you say, where are they? Here, I''ll be the government for you and do your work and thinking.

www.CareerSitesCompany.com
www.SimplyHired.com
www.oodle.com
www.indeed.com
www.google.com/base

Those alone have over 1 million. Try researching and going to the the 100''s of thousands of employers in the US directly. Most don''t even post their jobs and hand deliver them to you.

But then again, if you didn''t try, study, dropped out, relied on the freaking govt your whole life, it may be hard. Mostly, all of you are employed, just miserable and bitter with nothing better to do than to blather about socialist policies we should implement. Here, start your education here. Ayn Rand. Clear up some of that muck floating around in your under utilized noggin.

[royalia]

Tiptop, do you hear me asking for handouts? I want somebody to balance the budget. Ya know what is worse than increasing spending and raising taxes? The answer is increasing spending and LOWERING taxes. Have you seen what that has done to our annual budget and national debt? Yes, it causes the deficit and the debt to skyrocket. Thank you Mr. Bushie!

[tiptop101]

Sorry that your lack of trying in school, lack of real ambition and motivation has caught up with you people. Who is to blame? YOU, nobody else. Your a sad fool to let the government have any effect in your life. There are and were loans and aid galore for college, but you would have had to get good grades and actually try. You should get off this useless board and start studying and using your brain for once. So we lose some mfg jobs that any RTard can perform. Look who is doing them now. Rtards in Asia. That''s a actually a good thing since it may force you to stop settling for non-thinking jobs that require no skills. With all of the freedoms you have in this country and you still cannot make it? WOW, is all I can say. Blame the gov''t. The epitome of pathetic.

[royalia]

What exactly do want explained? The number of jobs currently listed on a web site says nothing. The unemployment rate is UP. Are you denying that? How many jobs were listed on the web site a year ago? 1.5 million? Unless you are comparing it to other data in a time series analysis it says nothing. And where did you get 1 million job listings in the first place? Did you go through the web site and count?

[tiptop101]

GIVE ME MORE OF THE SAME...Like many of the 95% employed America''s, things are not so bad. If we could keep more of earnings with less taxes by not supporting dems, things would be even better. If you cared about people, that is what you should be fighting for, not more handouts. Lowering taxes would be a real help. Sorry you people have to be in such a small minority of miserable whiners. Actually, you would be miserable no matter what. There''s the point. Landslide for McCain.

[tiptop101]

Explain this... Over 1 million job openings openings listed at my favorite site... http://www.CareerSitesCompany.com

[samthetvcat]

---"The job losses have been increasingly broad-based. Only the education and health sectors have shown any significant hiring, reports Mason."---

You know why - they can''t be outsourced, and demand can''t be made to go away.

You know who I guess is emerging as the world''s superpowers in this new global economy are the countries that have an abundance of cheap energy or cheap labor. Maybe growing our own energy IS the number one economic priority, and I guess ingenuity does allow first entrants into a market to dominate (like Microsoft) (?)

I guess McCain''s got it right with his stance on being aggressive on creating energy, no holds barred. And Barack''s got it right by focusing on R&D.

Maybe a global economy isn''t just a bad thing - it provides opportunities too. Europe''s just as hurting in the energy department, maybe we could partner up and share alternative energy knowledge. And to get the leg up on R&D maybe we should be more aggressive in courting PhD''s from places like China and India (?)

I don''t know . . .

[vetforobama]

Fact: Democratic presidents have resided over the best economies of the last 100 years.

Fact: Democratic presidents have far outpaced GOP presidents over the past 20 years (BUSH/CLINTON/BUSH)

Fact: President Clinton took over the failed economics inhereted by Geoerge H. W. Bush and turned it into the largest surplus in US History.

Fact: George W. Bush took that largest surplus in history and turned it into the largest deficit in US history.

Fact: Unemployment grew under both BUSH administrations.

Fact Clinton created more jobs than both Bush administrations.

Fact: McCAIN voted with BUSH over 90% of the time and 100% of the time on major economic issues.

Fact: McCAIN plans on extending BUSH tax cuts to the wealthiest 2-3% of Americans (Trickle-down theory), while the tax breaks given to the wealthy are creating new jobs OUTSIDE the US.

Fact: The majority of independent economists favor Obama''s plan

FACT: BUSH = GOP = McCAIN

[collegedudeu]

Where are all the Bushies? Come on and tell me how great of a president Bush has been these past eight years...............Well, anyone?

[jimfinster]

vote for McCain for more of the same

[rave_on3]

...and the hits just keep on coming.

I hope you enjoyed your last eight years.