17 Replies to “"Gallup Finds U.S. Unemployment at 10.2% in Mid-March"”

1. eleven says:

   March 17, 2011 at 1:32 pm

   I can tell you from personal experience under-employment is the new hotness.

2. antillious says:

   March 17, 2011 at 1:45 pm

   Hey, don’t blame Obama, it’s not like HE was the one pushing for all those budget cuts. Those dasterdly GOP cads forced them to cut $6 billion. BILLION! You know how many jobs that would have created? Thank goodness those Democratic pragmatists stopped those crazy right wing extremists from cutting any more.

   Just think of how much worse it could be…Those… I just… Rochester, fetch me my smelling salts, I need to retire to the fainting couch.

3. Shaitan says:

   March 17, 2011 at 2:30 pm

   It’s been a fun time apply for jobs, too!

   You know, if we had only spent $750 billion on education, this wouldn’t be a problem. MORE EDUCATION SPENDING! FOR THE UNEMPLOYED KIDS!

4. Wm T Sherman says:

   March 17, 2011 at 2:40 pm

   The true unemployment rate is more like 20%.

   The screwy unemployment meter in use since the mid ’90s pegs at around 10% and can’t go any higher, as after a certain interval each rank of the jobless joins the uncounted ‘long-term unemployed’ category, i.e. “those who are fucked up worst of all.”

5. ProfShade says:

   March 17, 2011 at 2:48 pm

   I sure hope Dear Leader is picking up some job creation tips in Brazil. They’re at 6.1 percent. But they don’t have high speed trains. Or cowboy poetry fests. Frickin’ retards.

6. ProfShade says:

   March 17, 2011 at 2:52 pm

   OT: Way too funny. I found this on Don Surber’s blog: B. Obama Elementary School is being closed because it’s a financial albatross: http://tinyurl.com/4hlj6sd

7. newrouter says:

   March 17, 2011 at 3:43 pm

   Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio): “I’m pretty sure I’d be still running my small business in Ohio. I honestly never thought I’d be in Congress this long, and I had planned to go back to that.”

   link

   how about next thursday a 5pm

8. Cranky-D & Associates says:

   March 17, 2011 at 4:16 pm

   I agree, Boehner should go back to that small business in Ohio. Today.

9. newrouter says:

   March 17, 2011 at 4:37 pm

   good news for squid™ brand pitchforks

   Pitchfork Rights Case

   Eugene Volokh • March 16, 2011 7:09 pm

   In State v. Fried (Ariz. Just. Ct. Mar. 5), defendant was carrying a pitchfork as a political protest, and tried to enter the County Administration Building; the County Manager insisted that defendant leave the pitchfork outside, the defendant nonetheless entered the building with the pitchfork, and the defendant was then prosecuted for trespass.

   Held: The defendant must be found not guilty because,

   link

10. Swen says:

    March 17, 2011 at 8:37 pm

    Hey! We’re enjoying our funemployment, currently hanging in Santa Fe getting our annual dose of pretentiousness and self-importance (gotta love the bumper stickers). But you’ve got to wonder what all these suckers will do when they don’t get their government pension checks, ’cause Whole Foods doesn’t take IOUs…

11. Stephanie says:

    March 17, 2011 at 9:00 pm

    It’s even worse than the headlines. Should you be one of the unfortunate ones without a job, most companies now won’t even interview you for their job openings period. Chew on that for a minute. Unemployed people are not getting job interviews because they are … unemployed. So the job openings that are out there are just future job openings at other companies that currently aren’t hiring… til Joe in Cube H moves to his new employer and voila… a new job listing is listed an old one is filled and the Labor Department counts the opening as a ‘new job.’

    1 + -1 1.

    And don’t even get me started on those who are over 45. They are seriously fucked.

12. Stephanie says:

    March 17, 2011 at 9:03 pm

    Well that math problem ran into an html wormhole…

    1 + -1 does not equal 1. This new math is so hard for the imbeciles in Washington. And for the html gods, too.

13. LBascom says:

    March 17, 2011 at 10:12 pm

    “And don’t even get me started on those who are over 45. They are seriously fucked.”

    Thanks Steph, as a laid-off, over 45 Californian, I’ve been looking for some good news…

14. Stephanie says:

    March 17, 2011 at 10:46 pm

    I’m a laid off soon to be 50 year old. The unemployment rate here is almost 20% worse than the Labor Department’s current fantasy. Last job I had was in 2009.

15. LBascom says:

    March 17, 2011 at 10:57 pm

    Well, technically I still work for a guy. It’s him that can’t seem to get a job. He recently bid a job for $11 million, and we were second, $7 grand over. He probably had that much in port-a-potties.

    Selfish bastard insists on making a profit on every, single, bid. I’m not going to get any work with that kinda shitty attitude.

16. Stephanie says:

    March 17, 2011 at 11:03 pm

    Bidding jobs can be a bitch. In a former life, I was a project estimator and accountant for a GC. Loved the calculations and stuff but getting down and dirty on bid day was a gut wrenching experience. I am glad I don’t have to do the Maalox n Scotch bracers anymore. I miss getting the contractor’s price on shit for my home, though.

17. LBascom says:

    March 17, 2011 at 11:14 pm

    There’s a whole lotta contractors bidding at cost these days, just to keep from losing their crews and to keep the wheels turning. It’s cut throat as hell.

    Too bad there weren’t more of them “shovel ready” jobs I kept hearing about.

    *snort*

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