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Economy
Jobless total exceeds population of Greece
2011-08-23
America's jobless crisis has been going on so long that the raw numbers have lost much of their power to convey the severity of the problem. The Wall Street Journal's David Wessel has found a clever new way to get at the issue.

Wessel notes that there are more officially unemployed people in the United States (13.9 million, though if you count those who have given up looking it's nearly twice that) than the total individual populations of 46 out of 50 U.S. states.

Or, if you prefer: There are more offically unemployed Americans than the combined population of Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, Idaho and the District of Columbia.

Or finally: There are more unemployed Americans than the total population of Greece or Portugal, both of which have 10.8 million people. And more than twice as many as the total population of Norway, which has 4.7 million people.
Hope and change, baby.
Posted by:DarthVader

#5  How apt, comparing the unemployed population to that of Greece.
Posted by: no mo uro   2011-08-23 14:53  

#4  >We could adopt the Afghan model and begin growing Marijuana and Poppies as a cash crops.

Be better than the Nu-Prohibition choices.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2011-08-23 11:57  

#3  Better living through chemistry. Home meth labs.
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165   2011-08-23 09:30  

#2  We could adopt the Afghan model and begin growing Marijuana and Poppies as a cash crops.
Posted by: Besoeker   2011-08-23 09:13  

#1  ION RENSE > [Telegraph.UK] QADDAFI'S DEFEAT WILL NOT SAVE OBAMA'S PRESIDENCY.

* CNN NEWS AM > "AMERICAN MORNING" Show = US, WORLD ECONOMY IS STALLING.

* STARS-N-STRIPES > "BLUE DOG" DEMOCRATS DECLINE IN NUMBER, INFLUENCE WANES.

Lines in the sand???

* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > GLOBAL RECOVERY REQUIRES POLITICAL COURAGE, + Pol Leadership, NOT MORE PCORRECT-DENIABLE, DUBIOUS CUT-N-FIT ECON METHODS + SHORT-TERM FIXES that fail to resolve anything except the size of Govt. + Govt spending.

* SAME > THE GREAT FAILURE OF GLOBALIZATION. The US + Europe are unable to identify core problems.

ARTIC = ...
> No Econ or Growth Strategy.
> Failure of Political Leaders to realize that GOOD FISCAL POLICY DOE N-O-T MEAN RUNNING UP HIGH OR MASSIVE, PERENNIAL DEFICITS.
> US INCREASINGLY DEVOL INTO A MELANGE OF DIFFERENTIATED, COMPETING SECTORS, CLASS, + REGIONAL INTERESTS. Ideo???
> TOP POITICIANS REFUSE TO DELINK PERSONAL, NON-STOP = PERPETUAL,PDENIABLE, ELECTIONEERING OR CAMPAIGNING VEE VITAL NATIONAL INTERESTS.

IIUC, IOW, the "GOOD OF THE NATION/PEOPLE" is seemingly always SECOND-FIDDLE TO PERSONAL, FOR-PROFIT/BENEFIT, I-GOT-MINE-N-THATS-ALL-THAT-MATTERS MOTIVES.

* TOPIX > NO LEADERSHIP OR GRAND STRATEGY IN WASHINGTON TO FIX NATION'S WOES.

* SAME > HAYEK IS WRONG, + SO IS BERNANKE, THE COMING [US, Global?] RECESSION WILL BE DEFLATIONARY.

* SAME > ANALYSTS: HIGH RISK OF [US-Global]ECONOMIC DEPRESSION DUE TO FAILURE OF DEBT DEAL TO MEET TARGETS.

* SAME > RISE IN US JOBLESS CLAIMS HERALDS/SIGNALS POOR RECOVERY.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > POLLS: MOST AMERICANS FAVOR AFGHAN PULLOUT.

Majority of Amers believe ...
> US has NO CLEARLY DEFINED MISSION, ROLE, OR STRATEGY IN AFGHANISTAN = AFPAK.
> The Fed in Washington should NOT BE SPENDING SCARCE TAXPAYER $$$ IN A TIME OF NATIONAL ECON TROUBLES UNTIL IT DOES THE ABOVE.
> US Troops in Afghanistan = AFPAK should be brought home ASAP, IN NMT ONE YEAR OR LESS.

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > LIFE AFTER DEBT: IN THIS MONTH'S MARKET UPHEAVALS, WE ARE WITNESSING THE END OF A SEVEN-DECADE [70 Years] LONG ECONOMIC EXPERIMENT, BUT DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY CLUE WHAT COMES NEXT?

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > TEXAS A & M PREDICTS FLOOD/WAVES OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS INTO US FROM CHINA.

D *** NG IT, FERGIT THE CARTEL WARS, OPEN BORDERS, + ILLEGAL HISPANICS - ITS THE CHINESE THAT ARE COMING, THE CHINESE ARE COMING!

PRAVDA = CHINESE MEN HAVE ALREADY STARTED TO CONQUER RUSSIA'S FEMALE POPULATION.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-08-23 00:56  

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