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Thursday, October 14. 2010

We need fewer jobs

Jerry Brown claims we need fewer jobs and more welfare. If jobs are bad, why is he trying to get a job as governor?


Often, these days, reading the news threatens my sense of reality. Consensual reality just is not what it used to be.


Today, jobless benefits applications rise.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 12:53 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Re jobless benefits.....

In the article I read they stated there were 'more than expected" applications. That as opposed to the adverb 'unexpectedly", which has been the word of choice in stories about the economy over the last year and a half.

It will be interesting to see how the spin changes if the repubs win back Congress next month.
#1 feeblemind on 2010-10-14 13:45 (Reply)
Pretty much standard Utopian drivel; Such people may have big dreams but are absolutely clueless about how to accomplish the end much less if it is possible, practical or desirable. For the most part, the answer to the last three criteria is no.
#2 Jerry in Detroit on 2010-10-14 16:14 (Reply)
Jerry Brown used to be called "Governor Moonbeam" because he was so goofy.

He hasn't changed much. He's gotten worse.

Marianne
#3 Marianne Matthews on 2010-10-14 23:07 (Reply)
These "people" don't consider political office to be a job, they consider it "a calling", "a service", and of course a way to get rich over the backs of the idiots.
#4 J.T. Wenting on 2010-10-14 23:43 (Reply)

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