Comments on: Unemployment Claims Crash System

States' Phone And Internet Systems Struggle To Keep Pace Amid Unprecedented Strain

[punkinpie1]

In response dubya is Bush. I am really surprised you
never heard that expression before.

[punkinpie1]

We have 13 days for this nightmare to be over with.
Unfortunately will be paying for his retirement for
the rest of his life. We have to endower his policies
for years to come. Good luck America, as in Ben-Hur
Row well and live.

[punkinpie1]

I personally can''t wait for Dubya to leave, it can''t
come soon enough.

[punkinpie1]

We know for a fact that trickled down economics does
not work. Look where we are at now. We are in a budget
crisis and Mr. Bush contributed to it greatly.

[omega40]

You do understand, Omega that average mean, means that most people were back to work after 17 weeks, right? RIGHT? RIGHT, Mr. Professional statistics reader?

Posted by TexHillGirl


Average (mean) duration, in weeks. Yep, these are the numbers I am reporting from the BLS

[credibility2]

On Christmas Eve, my scheduled phone-in date for reporting unemployment, the system in my area was so clogged that it took over ten hours to report my work. I even called my local unemployment office, thinking the phones were down, but was told that the increased volume was causing the delay. Previously I didn''t have any problem getting in on my first attempt. These electronic systems obviously need to be expanded to accommodate the demand, especially since local offices have cut back staff to handle folks on a one to one basis.

[omega40]

With current mean unemployment spell duration at 17 weeks,

Just a quickie for ya, Omgega...read it and weep.

Posted by TexHillGirl

nope, nice try, but our government puts seasonally unadjusted at 19.2 and seasonally adjusted at 18.8. Thanks for playing, NEXT!

[punkinpie1]

TexHillGirl is looking through rose colored glasses.
Get real. Leave Texas and travel to the states who
are having difficulties with the unemployment. Your
fine president caused a lot of these problems of this
country. Your ignorance is not bliss!

[whitemale08]

Since the Egyptians and the Babylonians, all empires knew one thing which was to keep their populations ''busy'' or employed at doing something.

The more unemployment the more breakdown of society, crime and gang or tribal warfare.

Look folks, this is not just a typical recession/depression but a BREAKDOWN CRISIS of civilization itself.

The main pillars of the global financial system have been discredited.

Folks like Ronald Reagan with is theory of ''trickle-down voodoo'' economics, or George Bush Jr.''s belief in ''supply-side'' where you just supply the credit and people will not need good wages.

Or go back even further to British agent and idiot Maynard Keynes who preached 0% interest rates so people will be forced to borrow and spend instead of produce and save.

Or how about the grandaddy of them all, Adam Smith and is ''invisible hand'' where he justifies the looting of countries indeed every country so private interests can rule the world and play god by becoming the financier of life itself.

Folks, unless we completely abolish the foolish ideas of these clowns we have no hope!

[omega40]

Time to work...sigh...

You guys keep humping your dumpocrapic pig trough of lifes and propaganda...

Enjoy yourselves...

Posted by TexHillGirl


Yeah go ahead and runaway, you were caught in another lie, big surprise.

[DragQueenWhatDragQueen]

TexHillGirl go take your medicine! You know act CAZY AS HELL when you don''t take your ACT RIGHT PILLS!

[punkinpie1]

I personally cannot wait to see what will happen with
this new Obama administration. I think this 8 years
stint of Bush is about 7 1/2yrs too long. Bush will
go down in history with the lowest poll numbers when
he leaves office.

[omega40]

Go find it like I did if you know so much about reading statistics...I found it on the REAL government database...not biz.gov...

I love it, you guys go out to some dumpocratic website that includes .gov in it and think you''''re into a real statistics site!

Posted by TexHillGirl

I am looking at the real numbers and they are not 17 weeks and that website was BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS part of the DEPARTMENT OF LABOR!

[omega40]

Nawwww, I just don''''''''t drink at the dumpocrapic pig trough of lies and propaganda like you do...

I''''''''m not part of the new whine, bichhh, and moan generations...that will believe every lie fed to them...

If you''''''''re going to quote statistics, you need to know how to read them.

Posted by TexHillGirl a

So show me anywhere in the above story or any government data source that said 17 weeks was the average duration for Nov 2008 (the last month statistics are available for). I''''m waiting.

Still waiting...

[sdemaggie]

CBS may want to reconsider the employment of the person who wrote/approved the headline...crushed crashed?????

[punkinpie1]

I will also add that instead of paying $10 billion for
2 wars we might be able to help these people out. Mr
Bush turned his back on his people, but yet he can
send them off to 2 wars we can ill afford!

[missingamerica]

That new affectation you have? Calling people "dear" and so forth?

You should congratulate yourself, because that really grates - coming from somebody you KNOW would just as soon kill every human being on the planet.

Yup, that is irritating - as you no doubt intend it to be.

[punkinpie1]

I do know that each one of the unemployed has their
own stories. Yea statistic are one thing but lets
worry about the actual people behind these statistis.
Wake up America, where is the help that is need to
get everybody back to work!

[omega40]

Oh, lordy, Rowdy.

Let me see:

You have claimed to run a restaurant.

You have claimed to sell hay for a living.

You have claimed to have been divorced what - 2 or 3 times?

Now you are claiming to have two masters degrees?

lollll...you are in reality one of two possibilities:

Hateful, or crazy.

Or both, come to think of it.

Posted by ibsteve2u

She is building quite an empire for herself. At the rate she is progressing, she should be able to buy and sell Bill Gates by late March of this year.

[missingamerica]

I begin to suspect that Rowdy found the arrival computer and the internet to be a blessing - because I have no doubt that prior to their arrival she spent two, three, or even four decades being that "mean old town gossip".

Long enough so that she couldn''t find any people who would listen to her in the little burg she lives in...