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"The Labor Department said Thursday that initial claims for jobless aid dropped by 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 445,000."
This is hard to believe. How many jobs are left? Or am I misreading the data?
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Excuse me? Active military service is not working? Active military are certainly working, and they are not carried on the DOL books as "unemployed" or "underemployed" or "non-working population."
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Gute- Thanks. D'oh... I changed my posting. I must have misread that in the DOL site..
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I have been rather sensitive to that attitude since Ronald Reagan referred to military family benefits as "welfare."
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My statement had nothing to do with politics, it was in response to your apparent shock at the 445,000 number. Your statement to be exact was "This is hard to believe. How many jobs are left? Or am I misreading the data?"
-Why was it hard to believe? Didn't you know we have been enduring a recession?
-About 150,000,000 jobs are left. Hey, you asked.
-No, you weren't misreading the data. You were just confused and seemed to think there are only about a million or so jobs in this country.
I was trying to help you out since you seemed so lost and confused and unable to do any research or math on your own. I try to help poor dumb Dakota and all I get is a snark in return.
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Oh, OK. So nothing to worry about. At this rate we losing "only" 26 millions jobs a year. I am sure we can "absorb" that, along with couple of more planes into buildings to boot.
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Duh. Did I not say that I was only answering your questions. If you want to argue with somebody about it, start a new thread, because that's not what I was writing about.