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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 11:04 PM
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All this M$M handwringing about "job losses" is bullshit!!
Gee, haven't we all read the headlines here at DU in the last month or two?

50,000 laid off for Company XYZ?

and 2,500 laid off from company %$#?

I mean, it's been going on for MONTHS and MONTHS!!!!

Is today's so called "new unemployment figures" really a surprise? :shrug:

I say, 'No, they aren't and they were EXPECTED and the fact that the M$M

is saying that Wall St. "took a dive" due to the NEW bleak unemployment figures is

A LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 11:09 PM
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1. You were expecting them to tell the truth?

Why is this the lie that has got your knickers all twisted tonight?
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 11:21 PM
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3. No, of course they're lying but the fact the M$M
is making this into a big deal is the lie!! "got your knickers all twisted tonight"...?

My main point, in case you missed it, is that the M$M is trying to upset people....

by reframing this "NEW" unemployment rate and scare people. I'm just saying that it's a load of crap.

We've all known all this and if not, you should have if you read DU or the news with any regularity.



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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 11:18 PM
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2. Lies = what they do for a living. I scream at the SOBs everytime I see the TV.
Pretty much every word out of their mouths = lies & spin.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 11:24 PM
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5. Ain't that the truth !
But have you noticed the huge spin on these "new" unemployment figures?

It's such a crock! it's such a lie and then they say that Wall St

took a spin downward because they didn't EXPECT it!!

What a f'k..ning LIE!!!
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 11:26 PM
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7. Yes, they didn't expect the "downturn" either. But of course, they did.
More than that, IMO - they actively provoked it.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 11:48 PM
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11. Right on, Hannah Bell ! ** Keep ringing that bell, bell, bell..."
YouTube - Anita Ward - Ring My Bell (1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj17nmLA8gY

:woohoo:

:D
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tritsofme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 11:24 PM
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4. They were expecting bad and got worse.
That's why Wall St took a dive.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 11:26 PM
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6. BULLSHIT!! Wall ST CAUSED the lay offs!!! THEY did it!!!
THAT'S THE LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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tritsofme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 11:39 PM
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8. I just don't know what to tell you.
If the payroll report deviates far from expectations, the market either applauds or dumps on the news.

This has been happening the first Friday in the first full week of every month for many years now.
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 11:40 PM
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9. Who ever could have predicted..
planes would fly into buildings?
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 11:52 PM
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13. No kidding... it wouldn't have been that report, the 'PDU', would it?
:shrug:

:P

:hi:
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 12:08 AM
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17. they've been 'hood-winked' again!!
I can't bear to watch the media crap..but I do think I could write for them.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 12:15 AM
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21. LOL... then write for them (for a check) BUT write for US as a Union!
;)
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bottomtheweaver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 11:41 PM
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10. I've heard between half a million and 700,000 in December alone.
That does seem awfully high.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 11:53 PM
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14. But those are figures from last month!!
You get it?

:hi:
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geckosfeet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 11:52 PM
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12. Well, come on. We were just told a few weeks ago that the economy
Edited on Fri Jan-09-09 11:52 PM by geckosfeet
has been in recession for over year. It took them a year to screw up the courage to actually say that. Something any bozo on the street could have seen for themselves and they think that just cause they don't say it we don't see it.

The MSM has lost all credibility.

ALL!

Nothing left but info-tainment, titilation and the NPR snooze machine.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 11:55 PM
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15. Thank You and I agree and that's all I'm saying... we all knew this!!
It's not like this is new news!! ;)

:yourock:
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 12:00 AM
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16. Months? It's been going on for YEARS.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 12:13 AM
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20. You're right but I was specifically talking about the last few months...
I know it was the last LOOOOOOOONG years (1997) but people can only absorb so much, right?

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bottomtheweaver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 12:09 AM
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18. I notice they're really pushing the "WWII ended the Depression" idea
and I strongly suspect they're lining up WWIII to end this one too. If Iran takes the bait they get their wish.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-09 12:12 AM
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19. I do too... they ARE trying to flip our minds!
Please resist!!!

:hug:

And tell others about it !!

:yourock:
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