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  • MORE TIME TO READ YOUR WONKETTE! Ooh, they’ve released the March Jobs Report, let’s see whats we gots here… GAHH! It’s terrible. We must be in a recession! 663,000 jobs were slashed last month, and the unemployment rate rose to 8.5% while the secret “real” unemployment rate rose to 15.6%. Weekly initial jobless claims rose from 657,000 to 669,000 in the largest increase since October 1982. [AP, CNN]


8:54 AM on Fri April 3 2009
By Jim Newell
359 Views

  1. Time to sell the kids to science.

  2. Mild Midwesterner says at 9:10 am, April 3rd, 2009

    It could be worse… it could be raining. Oh, wait…

  3. bureaucrap says at 9:10 am, April 3rd, 2009

    With horrible news like this, the stock market inevitably will go back up to 10,000 today.

  4. ManchuCandidate says at 9:14 am, April 3rd, 2009

    But but but but but but but but but the markets went crazee going up yesterday? According to the wingnuts and Fizkal Guys that is the best indicator of the REAL Economize. It should be all good right? Right?

  5. “The fundamentals of our economy are strong.”
    - Jamacaine

  6. Come here a minute says at 9:23 am, April 3rd, 2009

    Can’t you fools get it through your thick heads? Unemployment is a lagging indicator. The stock market is a leading indicator. Truck Nutz are right on the money!!! Big sale on Truck Nutz!

  7. Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish! says at 9:25 am, April 3rd, 2009

    At least Mystery Seks Ghosts are cheaper than hookers.

  8. Capitol Hillbilly says at 9:31 am, April 3rd, 2009

    What is Good for Wonkette is Good for America.

  9. Another hysterical video about the failing auto industry. Oh President Obama, be careful what you say!
    http://www.governmentalityblog.com/my_weblog/2009/04/remember-the-ford-pinto.html

  10. Jsab: hysterical and depressing I might add.

  11. MarieDeGournay says at 10:07 am, April 3rd, 2009

    So happy I’m still in grad school. (tries to ignore the piling debt growing in the corner threatening to dismember, eat, and shit me out)

  12. norbizness says at 10:08 am, April 3rd, 2009

    It’s time for FDR’s Big Deal Plan: “Big deal, I’m rich!”*

    * Stolen, as 84% of material is, from the Onion and Onion-related products.

  13. SayItWithWookies says at 12:34 pm, April 3rd, 2009

    I heard Glenn Beck talking about this today, and he said “I first thought the numbers were terrible. But then I realized that 6.8 million jobs were lost, but 6.2 million were created. So there are jobs being created out there, America…”

    It’s amazing — even his bursts of optimism are fundamentally erroneous.

  14. Double Scorpion says at 2:26 pm, April 3rd, 2009

    Fucking bandwagoners. I’ve been unemployed since last year, back when getting fired was all about stolen coffee filters and creating a hostile work environment. None of this global financial apocalypse bullshit.

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