Wow Things Are Much Worse Than I Thought!

I saw this and I was stunned - simply stunned. And I feel cheated.

500 Million Americans Have Lost Jobs

By my reckoning, there are about 300MM plus people in the US. We are not allowed to force children or elderly to work and some women have the audacity to raise their kids. That would leave about 100-130MM workers.

Now I am starting to get pissed. That means I have lost 3 or more jobs I didn't even know I had. Where are my 3 unemployment checks????

Well I wouldn't worry much that means that everyone is out of a job and then those that haven't been born yet too. 500 million is 200 million greater then our population.

And she is just two heartbeats away.....

And Susan
I have recieved unemployment in the past. IN 1986, the company I worked for (the evil Halliburton) laid off 55% of the company, then made the remainder of us take 1 week out of 8 off without pay. My ex insisted I go get that $150 check or whatever it was. After the second time down there, I decided I was going to find something to do to earn money that 8th week.

Things are much worse. Saw it coming long ago. The loss picture on paper has dragged us all into the red. Living on credit and overextending your ways and means to better your life betting on the future has crashed. Many who aimed high on the next 30 years have lost what they gained. Who says paper is dead, look what it's done.

i wonder how many jobs i've lost this month....

Apple's lost Jobs.
(sort of)

- zevo

I wouldn't worry about the jobs... they come and go... it's the $10 trillion or so in "taxpayer bailout debt" that I'd worry about...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=an3k2rZMNgDw&refer=home

Kinda makes that $700B "TARP program" look kinda cute, don't it? Gotta love how the spinmeisters spin their spintastical tales to try to divert your attention from the unpleasant truth...

And nobody knows where the money's going... nobody's talking... I guess it's only fitting...

Signed, "Still Waiting for My Bailout"

ORIGINAL: Fog



but it just shows some people are even worse at math than me..hehe

Ther are three kinda of people who can do math ; those that can and those that can't.

thank Bubba Bush and Co
to me-- the whole mess with the economy
is tied to the WAR
after the WAR--started ---all prices went up
through manipalation and speculation and scare tactics and the steady price rise of "OIL"
made the price of everything else go up and stay up

and don't forget george and dick are "OILMEN"

even though oil has come down recently
it seems to me no other company's are lowering there prices
to reflect the drop in the price of energy

our local grocery store prices here in seattle area are outragous

example: a pound of butter is $5.29 are you kiddin me?

they fk'd us hard, left us hanging on day to day

while they rode off into the sunset and retirement with there Multi-Millions

they never cared about you while they were in office and they certinly don't care bout you now

they said they were gonna protect the american people? Really?

But there's was no one to protect us from them

don't agree with me?

we can surely lay this whole mess at their feet without a Doubt

and this hole is so huge
I'm not really sure obama and the dems can get us out

sadly, it may be to late-- time will tell

Good luck to everyone
i hope you have enough family and friends to help each other through this time

because an unemployment check doesn't go very far

LOL

Nope it wasn't W and his buds...although they did nothing when they could have at least tried to stop it... but they chose not to. The mess started many years..decades ago. With the politicians ignoring the constitutional limits of the federal government, to defend the USA from enemies foreign and domestic and regulate interstate commerce. That's all our government (federal level) is constitutionally allowed to do.

They have now been crossing the line and putting in place social policy (social engineering) that is crossed over the line.... but the judiciary, which is supposed to call them on it, has refused to do so.

But lets get to what I think is the heart of the matter today.... I think the trigger was the housing issue. Banks were lending money to people for homes that they could not afford, and making these deals with floating rate loans. People were being sold a bill of goods that "THEY" could afford the American dream to own a home, when the truth was... they simply could not afford the monthly cost on their low income. The real problem started when the federal government got involved and mandated by using laws and the threat of legal actions. The banks were forced by our government to lend MORE money to more people who could not afford to own a home and had no real way of paying it back. Multiply this over millions of houses and families.... and you eventually end up with millions of homes in default and recievership. Allow the interest rates to rise a few points and now these people can't pay. They don't know how to manage money, they don't have savings, they don't have the money to buy the big ticket items and soon the economy is in a downward spiral. Factory orders drop, factories lay off, the drive-by media reports, people get scared, and the cycle repeats..... over and over...until ...here we are.....

If this only happened here in the USA...that's greed and stupidity. But it happened worldwide, to people in European countries, and to people in Asian countries.... that is conspiracy and treason, by the international bankers and power brokers.

Now... the efforts of our so called leaders, to try to "stimulate" us out of this problem borders on criminal. Basically, we are borrowing more money to try and get out of debt. Some day...this will have to be paid back...with interest... what a day of reckoning we have coming. What is happening now will be chump change compared to that day..... and when this trillion dollar "stimulus" fails....what then?

And what about Mexico? oh my!!!! We have a major problem on our southern border....there's a war on our border, and it's not good news for us. Murder, kidnappings, rape, robbery, drug cartels fighting for control, the violence is up 50% already over last year at this same time..... that could easily be the "straw that breaks the camel's back" as they say. We could very easily be forced into a shooting war on our own soil as the drug cartels take over the border towns and continue to ply their trade and their violence spills into America. And that issue is mostly ignored by the media and the politicians..... who by the way want to allow millions more to come here illegally......I could go on...but I have to go to work and raise some money for the "stimulus tax".

Peace on earth...goodwill to men.

Just my 2 centavos.

thank Bubba Bush and Co
to me-- the whole mess with the economy
is tied to the WAR

umm you got your info all wrong there!

1) war is GOOD for the economy. (not good for our soldiers lives however)
2) your liberal buddy clinton is resposnible (in a lot of ways, athough really nothing more than a pawn used in this) for the housing thing.
it was he who pushed the (a house for every family) back in 98 and forced fanny mae et al to drop loan requirement standards to below that of the early 80s.
guess they forgot about the S and L crash back then...

this is far far more to this than meets the average eye.

when (until now) would the words Govt and banks ever be considered an option and accpeptable by the people?

now there is talk of nationalizing banks? wake up America.

and for those of you who think the Fed reserve is owned, opperated or controlled by the US govt better wake up as well.

all the debt the US govt owes is to these banks, (and the US treasury bond holders, and thats another scary thought)

America is NOT owned by America anymore...

thats a complete topic in itself.
i for one would NEVER want govt run healthcare (they cant manage anything without adding expensive redtape)

but the system is broken yes.

on the other hand its not the doctors themselves. after 8 yrs of school and 2 yrs internship and 25% of income to pay for insurance in a sue happy litigious society
they are entitled to make good money.

many who are not working out of big name hospitals dont make near what you think. comfortable yes rich no...

its the pharmaceutical companies, health insurance companies and hospitals themselves that are to blame.
big lobiests in the capital

ORIGINAL: jcschild
2) your liberal buddy clinton is resposnible (in a lot of ways, athough really nothing more than a pawn used in this) for the housing thing.

also, clinton was/is an oil man just like the bushes, which some tend to conveniently forget. not to mention that he sold us out to the chinese as surely as regan did with japan.

many valid points of view here
Yeah certinly enough blame to go around

no matter what side your on"Were Fk'd" all of us-- sure as the sun shines
Why?
there's no working class people--with common sense
in the congress -senate - white house-Go figure

750 billion bail out to banks from bush
3 trillion dollar war from bush
9 billion in cash missing Iraq because of bush
a couple years ago Bush said "their's more home ownership than ever" Hehehehehe
Thats because theres more people than there ever WAS
Now there's more forecloser's than there ever was
1 million illegals cross the border ever year
thats 8 million on bush's watch
wonder why your neighbor don't have a job-my fellow americans?
838 billion from obama because of bush
where is this money going?
Not to you and me
the list is to long Etc............

I ask you to take an open eyes -WIDE OPEN LOOK at THE WHOLE picture

i'm not Dem or Repub or any party-- there all full of chit--

Yeah the fix is in and were the ones who get F---k-d

OH and i doubt that anything is going to change
Why?
The wealthy puppet master's control everything

So Dance little puppet Dance
and make the most of it