Tag Archives: Unemployment

Boss Limbaugh: The Unemployed Are Useless Eaters. Should Be Homeless.

Posted on April 8, 2013 at 6:30 pm by JM Ashby

Boss Limbaugh explains that there are too many useless eaters in this country and they’re all dragging us down. Limbaugh: In America today 90 million people aren’t working. 90 Million. Last month, folks, 633,000 people stopped looking for work. The … Continue reading →
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Central Ohio Unemployment Falls to 5.7 Percent

Posted on October 24, 2012 at 4:15 pm by JM Ashby

Are you better off than four years ago? The residents of central Ohio are. According to numbers released by the state of Ohio yesterday, the unemployment rate in the central region of the state fell to 5.7 percent in September. … Continue reading →

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Spazzy White Guys in Lower Manhattan

Posted on October 9, 2012 at 4:56 pm by Bob Cesca

The Dow is inching closer to 14,000 — up from 6,600 when the president took office. And yet they’re so completely pissed about the Obama presidency, they’re accusing him of an impeachable conspiracy to fabricate the unemployment numbers. Rather than … Continue reading →

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The Unemployment Rate Explained (Attention All Truthers)

Posted on October 5, 2012 at 3:36 pm by Bob Cesca

Matthew O’Brien from The Atlantic: The economy added 114,000 jobs in September, and added 86,000 more jobs than originally thought in July and August. Unemployment fell 0.3 percentage points to 7.8 percent, even with the labor force growing by 418,000. … Continue reading →

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Tax Cuts Do Not Create Jobs

Posted on October 4, 2012 at 3:58 pm by Bob Cesca

Last night, Mitt Romney made a rapid-fire “winning” case that tax cuts for businesses will magically create jobs. He’s horribly wrong. Fact: tax rates are the lowest they’ve ever been in history, and yet businesses are sitting on record high … Continue reading →

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Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?

Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:28 am by Bob Cesca

My Monday column answers the question posed by Mitt Romney last week with a very loud YES! In a speech filled with misleading statements and nostalgic lines about how wonderful life used to be before President Obama was inaugurated, the … Continue reading →

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You Know Who Totally Kicked Ass This Weekend?

Posted on August 20, 2012 at 11:19 am by Bob Cesca

Chris Hayes and his staff. That’s who. They dug up an clip from 2002 showing Paul Ryan making the Obama/Democratic/Keynesian case for stimulus spending during a slow recovery, on the floor of the House no less, along with a case … Continue reading →

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July Jobs Numbers are Blah

Posted on August 3, 2012 at 2:10 pm by Bob Cesca

The good news is the July numbers don’t fall in line with June or May, which had collectively prompted alarmists to lean on the backslide-into-recession panic button. That doesn’t appear as likely now. The bad news the unemployment numbers are … Continue reading →

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A Bit of Schooling for Red Scare Bots

Posted on June 25, 2012 at 11:37 am by Bob Cesca

Once again, new numbers indicate that corporate profits are at an all-time high, and employee wages just hit an all-time low (as a percentage of GDP). Way too many ignorant Republicans believe the president is a communist, harkening back to … Continue reading →

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Wishing for Economic Failure

Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:38 pm by Bob Cesca

Mitt Romney doesn’t want people to know the economy is improving. Mitt Romney’s campaign asked Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) to downplay his state’s job growth after several press releases from the governor’s campaign and messages from the Florida Chamber … Continue reading →

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