Unemployment claims surge this week

[Robert Oak]

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he number of Americans making first-time claims for state unemployment insurance benefits rose to 364,000 in the week ended Jan. 1, up from a revised 321,000 in the previous week.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=568&ncid=749&e=1&u=/nm/20050106/bs_nm/economy_jobless_dc

[benburch]

1. This is just the beginning.

But of course the Ministry of Truth will tell us that the unemployed are just shiftless and the economy s BOOMING!

[Wapsie B]

2. Doesn't matter.

This year's not an election year. /sarcasm

[liberal N proud]

3. I hope Tucker Carlson is on that list.

[Robert Oak]

4. LOL how come Robert Novak is still employed?

He outed a CIA agent and absolutely nothing has happened to him.

We have NYTimes journalists and others being prosecuted for not revealing their sources...yet Novak doesn't even get called into court.

Why is Robert Novak employed is the real question.

[Anakin Skywalker]

5. According to Freepy Sh*thead Logic

this is proof that Bush 3.16 "The economy is strong" is TRUTH, baby! Yeah!

[nickinSTL]

6. I'm not surprised

I just found out that 2 of my friends are now unemployed.

Adding to my fiancee, unemployed for 3 1/2 years now, and other friends/acquaintances having trouble keeping work.

Yeah, the economy is just great /sarcasm