Only the companies which I bailed out with my tax dollars, and who have already doubled my minimum monthly payment on my already set balances, and now are upping my interest rates to loanshark rates of 30% are the ones rebounding.
When they call me for my past due payment which i can no longer afford to pay due to their increase, I ask them for a job, or at least a refund of my bail out money.... No luck so far...
Right now, I REALLY regret my vote for Obama and hope the electonic world does end in 2012, so I can once again compete on the basis of my own knowledge, efforts and determination - and continue to NOT be able to get a job due to Citi and others current negative stains on me and our credit.

After 25 years of hard work, followed by my layoff, followed by my inability to get a new job due to my age and my credit... I need and am asking for help from Obama.......... and am getting NONE whatsoever!!!!!!!!!

Public sector means of production will always require local labor and can lower our tax burden.

The stock market has been "rebounding" since april, yet unemployment has been rising.

Nationally, you might be right, BUT, how will Obama's bailout help those of us who have no bailout sector business supported and who has NO state tax burden but have it based on Real Estate Taxes which remain relatively static regardless of job status and income.

Unless Obama lowers income taxes, our income taxes will remain the same, thanks to Bush, or go higher thanks to Obama.

nuh uh! it's reagan's fault!

(waits for swoop to counter with "it's carter's fault!")

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lolwhat?

suck it up, where's your sense of personal responsibility?

p.s. welcome to uspol, merc.

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What do you think of the concept of unemployment compensation that conforms to at-will employment doctrine and state at-will employment laws?

Anyone who objects to being taxed on their prevailing market based income, can opt to be compensated for being naturally unemployed. If this wage conforms to public sector poverty guidelines, official poverty can also be eliminated.

Exactly. My point was that the markets are a superficial economic indicator. They tell you next to nothing about the health of the economy. Total unemployment is a far better indicator. The stock market is only useful for promoting consumer confidence within the general public, it is near useless for any other task.

I would contend that we're looking at a pretty severe distortion when we look at the current stock markets. I mean, it took how long to go from 6000 to 10000 on the DOW the first time? About four years? And it was done with a housing bubble forming in the late 90's? No way it's recovered 4000 points legitimately in under a year. We might be as high as 7200 legitimately.

Although I did laugh really hard when my friend told me that the market was "over 9000", so I guess that might be worth the drop and the ensuing misery for the chuckle.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVFdAJRVm94

the stock market is a gauge of how investors think the economy will perform in the future.

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Where is yours, if only for your words?
I have no sense of personal irresponsibility at all and have no need to espouse the proof of them to you unless you have the power to hire me, and are not the A-hole you appear to be in this forum.
(Alright, I might be willing to work for you, within limits too, jk }

Hell, I'll work for anyone within limits, right now, under Obama.

Would that idea apply to those of us who are forced to take total retirement fund reimbuiements in order to pay our bills up to now and beyond?

define "recovery"...


and I'll tell you what, I'll make you a wager, if the unemployment rate is below oh, 9.5% in august I'll give you 200 bucks...if it not you owe me...you game?

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Hypothetically, you could apply simply because you are naturally unemployed if you do not want to participate in the market for labor.

alright, since you appear not to understand how awkwardly worded and difficult to read your post was, i'll show you where my confusion is coming from.

if only for my words? wtf does that mean?

them? wtf are you talking about? what is "them?"

this seems to imply you would work for anyone within limits right now, under obama, but under a different president you would work for....i don't know who you would work for.

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really?

how about 9% by January 2010, using the official unemployment rate as reported by the BLS (or whichever agency gives the "official" unemployment rate) and i think you just might have yourself a wager.

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