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| Topic: Unemployed: The 'New Normal' ... | |
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Get used to it, boiz 'n grrlz ... like 'The UN' and Bidet have told us oh-so-many-times-now, the jobs America USED to have are GONE ... and, like Bidet likes to point out, they 'ain't comin' back' ...
This is how y' find out what 'hope' and 'change' REALLY means ... Lower taxes ... ? Attract business back to American shores ... ? That's crazy talk ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/15/jobless-millions-death-american-dream Jobless millions signal death of the American dream for many America appears to be a society splitting down the centre, shattering the middle class that long formed the cultural bedrock of the country and dividing it into a country of haves and have-nots. "A once unthinkable level of economic distress is in the process of becoming the new normal," warned Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman in a recent New York Times column. Or, as Steven Green, an economics lecturer at Baylor University, put it to the Observer: "We are really in a tough spot right now." There is a new name for those falling down the black hole of joblessness that has opened up in America's economy. They are the 99ers. It is a moniker that no one wants. It refers to the 99 weeks of benefits that the jobless can qualify for in America. Government cash helps those laid off keep a tenuous grip on a normal life. It keeps a roof over their heads, pays a phone bill, puts food on a table and petrol in a car. But once the 99 weeks are up the payments stop – as is happening now for millions of people – and they are 99ers. For many, that moment, which America's politicians have refused to extend, represents the moment of destitution; a sort of modern American version of the old Victorian trip to the workhouse. There are now more than a million 99ers and the number gets bigger each week. |
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i call myself Funemployed... the best thing that has happened to me in the last year lol
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I think the ones still on unemployment oughta' go on strike and demand a "Living" unemployment handout.
Handout = Money given by Hussein after they run through their allotted unemployment. |
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i call myself Funemployed... the best thing that has happened to me in the last year lol You frum Cananada. Don't they practice yearly welfare there? |
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i call myself Funemployed... the best thing that has happened to me in the last year lol lol,, great attitude |
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There's only two words people need to know in order to understand 'The New Normal' ...
"Haves" "Have - Nots" 'Hope' and 'Change' ... ? That's so 'pre-election' ... |
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which is why I repeat,,, time will tell |
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