For all you doubters and haters who said President Obama’s stimulus wouldn’t work, grab your knife and fork and prepare to eat your hat.
Never more will grown men weep as they watch their children starve. Never more will a man feel the soul-crushing blow of collecting unemployment benefits. Never more will college students ask “pot costs how much?”
For this week the Bureau of Labor Statistics released unemployment statistics for the month of January, and the news is good (click the link, then select “Alternative measure of labor underutilization U-6.”)
The “real” unemployment rate, “total unempoyed, plus all marginally attached workers plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of all civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers” has fallen to 16.5%!
This is down from December’s 17.3% and last year’s high of 17.4%.
God’s America has truly turned a corner. Renewed prosperity awaits us. The New Great Depression is over!
On the downside I will be forced to pay more for sex slaves and household help as the rising tide of prosperity lifts more and more people out of their cardboard boxes and back into McMansions
“purchased” with an interest only ARM.
x111e7thst: On the upside: FIRESALE on cardboard boxes!
I knew the economy was on the upswing when I started getting more credit card offers.
pretty soon detroit real unemployemnt will be down to 49%
and all the factories wil come back on line in a great roar! and unions won’t drive them back overseas.
ALL LESSONS HAVE BEEN LEARNED
Yes, the econonomy is doing fine.
The daytime TV commercials which the unemployed are shown: cable and telephone “triple play” ads, lawyers “sue someone for big bux” ads, and car insurance ads.
I feel like running over a lawyer while texting.
@ AustinJunkie
Okay that was f###iing funny!!!!
According to the Allstate ads, we are better off having to eat hobo beans. And Activia makes everyone poop easier.
We are truely blessed!