Unemployment at 10.2%

“yes it is”

“I just did my first unemployment hearing...WOW! that was fun!”

“what's an unemployment hearing?”

“a past employee was appealing his benefits. We stated he voluntarily quit and he says he was laid off...a judge calls, we have a 3 way and she makes a ruling...like I said ..FUN!
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“Gotcha. I was afraid that you'd been laid off since last week chili said he was out for Gauley and you said to not be so dramatic.”

“ngb, can you guess where your quote is going?”

“nope...we are good...

yeah Crash:) I love when I make the OOCQ thread!!”

“Actually, that sorta sounds like you're suborning a judge...”

“Oh I love those movies. I thought The Suborning Supremacy was the best one. Plus I like just about anything Matt Damon does.”

“I agree Nigal. Matt Damon is great.
You know I enjoyed Suborn Free, what a neat story about a Lion being returned to the wild.”

“OKAY here we go...the Scariest Unemployment Graph

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/07/the-scariest-unemployment-graph-ive-seen-yet/60086/



The median duration of unemployment is higher today than any time in the last 50 years. That's an understatement. It is more than twice as high today than any time in the last 50 years.

OK, you're saying, but what does this mean? Does it mean we must increase the duration of unemployment benefits to protect this new class of unemployed, or does it mean we need to stop subsidizing joblessness? Does it mean we need to expand federal retraining programs, or does it mean federal retraining programs aren't working? Does it mean we need more stimulus, more state aid, more infrastructure projects, more public works ... or does it mean it's time to stop everything, stand back and let business be business?

You're going to find smart people make a case for all six of the above public policy directions. (I tend to side with the first of each coupling.) It's hard to know for sure how to design public policy for historically unique crises precisely because they are historical orphans, without precedent to show us the right way from the wrong.

One of my first reactions to this graph was: Surely this is why we don't have to worry about inflation for a very, very long time. However, here's evidence that despite the historically inverse relationship between inflation and joblessness, "the long-term unemployed put less downward pressure on inflation." Ultimately, this is a graph that should humble policy makers more than it should scare them into confidently arguing they know exactly how to fix it.”

“Why isn't this fuego?”

“If illegals were included it would be 25%. This is what happens when a country doesn't avoid what happened to another country only 20 years ago. Should Japan have made a documentary movie for the stupid Bush Badministration about playing pretend with Real Estate?”

“why do you care chili? you gave fuego checked anyways”

“I love it when you hear from the state that an employee filed a Workmans Compensation claim! Stupid guy, I saw him a few days before, playing Hacky Sack, I wrote that on the form that got sent back to the state along with not being notified by the employee he was hurt which he wasn't and was a former employee too at the time.”

“XL, I'm more in the second coupling category, if I lay down my fuego 2 cents. (hell no it don't have nothing to do with fox news either)”

“Hacky sack!? The kids still play that crap!?”

“chili...All I presented were FACTS, Pure and simple.....so how are facts Fuego?”

“Oh geesh...here we go....”

“Does it mean we must increase the duration of unemployment benefits to protect this new class of unemployed, or does it mean we need to stop subsidizing joblessness? Does it mean we need to expand federal retraining programs, or does it mean federal retraining programs aren't working? Does it mean we need more stimulus, more state aid, more infrastructure projects, more public works ... or does it mean it's time to stop everything, stand back and let business be business?

You're going to find smart people make a case for all six of the above public policy directions. (I tend to side with the first of each coupling.) It's hard to know for sure how to design public policy for historically unique crises precisely because they are historical orphans, without precedent to show us the right way from the wrong.

One of my first reactions to this graph was: Surely this is why we don't have to worry about inflation for a very, very long time. However, here's evidence that despite the historically inverse relationship between inflation and joblessness, "the long-term unemployed put less downward pressure on inflation." Ultimately, this is a graph that should humble policy makers more than it should scare them into confidently arguing they know exactly how to fix it.”
theXL400
1:19:37 PM
7/22/10

I was working off this statement.”

“And if you had taken a second to click the link...YOU WOULD SEE that was written (AS I referenced) by the author of the article.

You must not take Cotton to this whole thing of "checking information".”

“I prefer to take poly instead of cotton.

Neither of which are proper nouns that need capitalization.”

“point is it is a political issue XL..that means FUEGO.

Reported.
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“PoliticaL DoeS NoT ItselF EspeciallY DenotE FuegO --ReReportD”

“Yes it does Saleboard. NonCon or Ped (I believe it was NONCon) stated a few days ago what made Fuego Fuego. Political, Religious and I dont rememeber what else now, and I cant find the post. It was probably on one of the deleted threads.”

“NGB is right - this should be fuego. I didn't notice it wasn't - but I will ask for it to be reclassified.”

“I'm finding I am but a mere deleted thread amongst the weary warp and weft of the mighty Trail Trackers Togs.”

“The mods have to ask someone at Demand Media to reclassify a thread?

What kinda cacamamie system is that?

Can the mods delete posts and/or threads?”

“Posts and threads we can do. Demand folks can do those as well.”

“When we think that unemployment is political we really are all fuego all the time, anyway.”