Comments on: New Jobless Claims Make Unexpected Jump

Latest Unemployment Figures Are Worst In 26 Years; Consumer Spending Down For Fifth Straight Month

[u-r-right]

Why people voted for a old, two-bit actor such as Ron Reagan, I''ll never understand. What result do you expect from a old cowboy star.

[tawpdawg111]

We are shedding jobs at an alarming rate of 5 or 6 hundred thousand a month now. How can we POSSIBLY have an unemployment rate within 1 percent of what it was in 1995?

[bjcone8559]

These numbers go back to the Reagan years. Somebody remind me why he is considered a ''''great'''' president? In 1982 home mortgage rates were 18% --- never again tell me conservative Republicans are fiscally responsible. I''''ll take Democrat tax-and-spend over Republican borrow-and-spend any day of the week.


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Posted by oleander8

Reasgan took the unemployment rate from 6.0% to 10+% in hiss first year.


1980-01-01 6.3
1980-02-01 6.3
1980-03-01 6.3
1980-04-01 6.9
1980-05-01 7.5
1980-06-01 7.6
1980-07-01 7.8
1980-08-01 7.7
1980-09-01 7.5
1980-10-01 7.5
1980-11-01 7.5
1980-12-01 7.2
1981-01-01 7.5
1981-02-01 7.4
1981-03-01 7.4
1981-04-01 7.2
1981-05-01 7.5
1981-06-01 7.5
1981-07-01 7.2
1981-08-01 7.4
1981-09-01 7.6
1981-10-01 7.9
1981-11-01 8.3
1981-12-01 8.5
1982-01-01 8.6
1982-02-01 8.9
1982-03-01 9.0
1982-04-01 9.3
1982-05-01 9.4
1982-06-01 9.6
1982-07-01 9.8
1982-08-01 9.8
1982-09-01 10.1
1982-10-01 10.4
1982-11-01 10.8

[rickwar]

New Jobless Claims Make Unexpected Jump

DUH!

[dsjones26]

Thank good we elected Obama. Remmeber when McCain said our economy was basically strong. The GOP drove this country into the ground and the still are blaming Clinton & the DEMS for all the ills in the world. The Goose-Steeping, Kool-Aid Drinking, GOP Brown-Nose Lickers Leaders from Tom "Bug Killer" Dashal to George "What the F***K" Bush all need to be jailed for Treason.

[gowens1]

I can just see Bush and Cheney kicking back in the white House laughing at how they hosed the American citizens and got away with it for eight long years. Merry f.ing Christmas America.......

[debinok1]

30,000 jobs lost in a week, and its going to get worse, what Bush did to this economy is a crime against the people, now when is congress going to hold him accountable?

[torva-2009]

This year''s holiday message from the GOP...s.crew you America!

There needs to be a new conservative party, without the religous bigotry and greed that is the surviving remnant of today''s Republican Party!

[docpeter1953]

These numbers go back to the Reagan years. Somebody remind me why he is considered a ''''great'''' president? In 1982 home mortgage rates were 18% --- never again tell me conservative Republicans are fiscally responsible. I''''ll take Democrat tax-and-spend over Republican borrow-and-spend any day of the week.

Posted by oleander8 at 10:40 AM : Dec 24, 2008
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Because he slept through most of his riegn?

If he would have been awake he could/would have done a lot more damage to the economy?

Before you critize me, I am just asking!

[oleander8]

"...highest level of unemployment claims since November 1982." "...GDP will plunge at an annual rate of 6 percent, which would be the worst showing in 26 years."

These numbers go back to the Reagan years. Somebody remind me why he is considered a ''great'' president? In 1982 home mortgage rates were 18% --- never again tell me conservative Republicans are fiscally responsible. I''ll take Democrat tax-and-spend over Republican borrow-and-spend any day of the week.