Comments on: Unemployment Claims Crash System

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

[walt1944-2009]

4.5 MILLION people are on unemployment benefits.

No job, no health insurance, food stamps, little hope!

AND, according to Barack Obama and the evil, cowardly Whimpo-crats, NO $500 "ECONOMIC STIMULUS" tax reduction, since they aren''t paying any tax!

Again, how many evil, cowardly Whimpo-crats does it take to screw in a light bulb???

SIG HEIL, AND YOU THOUGHT I WAS BAD!!!, BUSH!!!

[omega40]

Reagan did....brought unemployment down from over 10% when he took office...

Posted by TexHillGirl at

The way unemployment is measured has been changed or altered someway by every administration since Reagan. The U6 or broadest measure was running at 12.5% as of November 2008. The website Shadow Stats tracks these numbers the way they were measured before all the little "gimmicks" were added in to mislead the public and they say it is running at ~16.5%

[pirmin3]

Mission Accomplished GW.

[antoniof123]

Agencies have been scrambling to hire hundreds more workers to handle the calls.

This is how the Republicans intend on handling the unemployment rate by hiring workers to handle the call. You got to admit they handled the imagration problem now they are returning home back to where they came. The conservatives destroyed America but they did it. Of course now it will take the American people to fix it and of course the wing nuts will cry like babies when we don''t let them play.

[fahren451]

Reagan did....brought unemployment down from over 10% when he took office...

Posted by TexHillGirl at 08:35 AM : Jan 07, 2009

Are you looking at average list of one of your favorite Right Wing "Think" tanks? Reagen''s over all average by election cycle just nicked under Carter''s (you know, the spawn of satan) average. And that is it, every conservatives averages has been atrocious. But I guess you had better hold on for dear life to that 1 10th, yes 1 10th of a percent average better than Carter/Satan''s average.

[fahren451]

Don''''''''t worry, it''''''''s just all the ACORN criminals out of work since the election''''''''s over...they''''''''ll flock to the unemployment lines, pump up the the numbers...and then be back to work flipping hamburgers next week...all the while the dumpocraps will continue to screech and lie and point their fingers at Bush!


Posted by TexHillGirl at 08:32 AM : Jan 07, 2009

There is a reason why you have to continually change you name. You are a cancer that just keeps coming back.

[fahren451]

The republicans would love nothing more than to try to make this look like it is Obamas fault for those numbers. So release them late after the inauguration and they will be able to blame the democrats when in all reality the unemployment occured during their reign.
Have we ever had a president with a negative approval rating when they left office???? Got a feeling we will now.

Posted by demswin08 at 08:23 AM : Jan 07, 2009

A Republican has never left office with unemployment under 5 percent.

[debinok1]

Today is the seventh of January. Where are the official unemployment numbers from December? Why haven''''t they been released yet? With so many states showing higher than expected increases in claims, it will be intersting to see what the numbers were for December. After reading the article I have a git feeling it to be higher than the seven percent they have been expecting.

gut feeling.

[debinok1]

Today is the seventh of January. Where are the official unemployment numbers from December? Why haven''t they been released yet? With so many states showing higher than expected increases in claims, it will be intersting to see what the numbers were for December. After reading the article I have a git feeling it to be higher than the seven percent they have been expecting.