HAPPY FRIDAY! “A far more disturbing number (in Table A-1 of today’s BLS release) shows that ‘persons not in the labor force’ increased by about 840,000 between November and December, from 83,022,000 to 83,865,000. That’s seasonally-adjusted; unadjusted, the number is closer to a million… What happened to the million Americans who went missing from the BLS definition of the labor force in the single month of December? They are the ‘long-term discouraged’ or whatever, those whose prospects of finding a job are so poor that they have stopped looking.” [Asia Times via Clusterstock]
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They flew to Yemen. Hannity is now creaming in his pants.
Bah, those are just the people we sent to FEMA camps.
But they are listening for work. Listening.
Today, we are all withered dying brown shoots….
In future, all BLS stats will be compared to Detroit’s 27% (official) unemployment rate. Misery and hopelessness are relative emotions and should be treated accordingly.
No, you forget your Free-Market Republican talking points; they’re people who are too lazy to just go out there and get a job, which of course is easy to come by if you want it enough.
Stock market’s up a bit, though, so don’t despair — just buy more stock! Honestly, those BLS guys are such a bunch of whiners.
Almost one third of Americans are unemployed????
I saw some of them living in tents and boxes in the woods about 3 blocks north of the DC line.
Free porn makes it all okay, though.
[re=491562]Mr Blifil[/re]: Seriously….beats the shit out of bread and circuses.
Solyent Green is People!!!
Would someone kindly tell these people that John McCain has six or seven houses he’s not using?
I don’t like the phrase “long term discouraged.” I prefer the phrase “crawled up on the couch in their pajamas crying into a glass of whiskey unemployed.” Or maybe “too busy moving back to their mother’s to look for a job unemployed” or even “working their way through Lost DVDs before the season premiere because nobody’s called for weeks about a job unemployed.”
[re=491562]Mr Blifil[/re]: I call bullshit. Until we can browse full bush teens at the local library, we (and porn) will never be truly free.
I’m a discouraged worker, but I’ve got a lead on modeling for some of the weight loss ads you see on this very site. I’m currently auditioning guys who look like me but hot to be the “after.”
i wonder if any of those “long term discouraged” where people who were telling other people to suck it up and this is a great country anyone can find a job if they want to republicans. cause i know some of those and try not to remind them of what they said to me when i was unemployed cause they do appear to have short term memories.
[re=491571]Hooray For Anything[/re]: Alright fucker…where’d you hide the cameras? Cuz there’s no way that list is a coincidence all the way back to Monday.
[re=491559]Way Cool Larry[/re]: That number does include children, old retired people, and married women who are unemployed by choice and sponging off their husbands.
“Long term discouraged” is such a icky term. Can’t we call them something else? “Broke-lancers,” perhaps? “Brown people without customer skills”?
[re=491580]Snarkalicious[/re]: You too? I’ve been catching up on “The Wire” but my mother won’t watch it with me because of all the cursing and gun play.
OK. NOW do you believe me? WE ARE FREAKIN’ DOOMED!!! Also.
[re=491571]Hooray For Anything[/re]: And now it looks like Hopey’s State of the Union Address is gonna pre-empt the season premiere of “Lost”. He wasn’t content with just ruining Christmas, was he?
they are the ones
cleaning their guns
[re=491611]Jim89048[/re]: That’s not the change I voted for
You mean the million who surreptitiously crept across the ungated border with Canada, where they hope to buy phony IDs and get work, eh? (every Canadian question ends with “eh?”)
Don’t worry unemployment insurance has now been extended to like 2 years-ish. I think the gov is paying Cobra, which lasts 6 months but will probably be extended. After that who knows, they may extend it to forever and ever.
I just got my unemployment benefits extended. Yea for me! That Congress isn’t so bad afterall!! And thanks for printing more money, Barry — God knows Arizona wouldn’t have come up with the cash.
Now, whatever happens, don’t tell them what I’m doing with my time or I’ll be living in a cardboard box. PS: [re=491696]Paul Tardy[/re]: Nobody paid for MY Cobra!
[re=491553]JMP[/re]: correction
No, you forget your Free-Market Republican talking points; they’re people who are too lazy to just go out there and get a job, which of course is easy to come by if you PRAY FOR it enough.
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