U.S. Unemployment Rate Rises to 9.6%

And these same people constantly assure us that there are plenty of donations and private charities for the unfortunates. I can hardly think of anything farther from the truth. Much has been made of private donations in fixing up or building houses after Katrina, but the fact of the matter is that private donations took care of 5,000 of them. Out of 200,000. I can think of other examples but you get the gist.
 
Charities and donations go down whenever taxes go up. Funny how things work.
 
saywhatkid said:
A lot of us don't want to own a company, or earn 7 figure salaries. We just want to work and do our thing.
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That's a choice. Wonderful. I have many friends who made that choice. But that is no reason to begrudge someone who made a different choice. Some choose to make the sacrifices and take the risks to become wealthy....that is their choice.

As for the less intelligent. I know a painter who can't read. He retired before he was 50 and is well off. I know a guy who quit school in 8th grade who now owns a large heating and A/C business here in Dallas. They made it through hard work.
 
TXgolfer said:
That's a choice. Wonderful. I have many friends who made that choice. But that is no reason to begrudge someone who made a different choice. Some choose to make the sacrifices and take the risks to become wealthy....that is their choice.

As for the less intelligent. I know a painter who can't read. He retired before he was 50 and is well off. I know a guy who quit school in 8th grade who now owns a large heating and A/C business here in Dallas. They made it through hard work.
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Great for them. They overcame long odds. The folks that choose to be employees instead of employers are not bums and freeloaders. They are just people without the interest in being owners.

People are different in many ways. You like golf. I find it discusting what they have to do to Mother Earth to make a golf course in the middle of a desert, so grown men can have a playground. You think the unemployed should get off their asses and find a way. Most of them have tried for months. While the unemployed look for scraps, large corporations send more jobs overseas, all in the name of keeping those 10% annual wage increases for the board members.
 
saywhatkid said:
While I am at it...
Most people that are out of work are not looking for a hand out. They want to work, to earn their share. They want to feel productive. People that own businesses and feel a sense of entitlement to move jobs offshore to keep them in their "required" high standard of living, at the expense of their fellow Americans, shoud think twice about telling those same Americans to suck it up and deal.
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*shrug* Tons of jobs out there.

My new lawn guy was an accountant that lived in my neighborhood. He lost his job and decided to leave his pride at home and go door to door asking if we had work he could do on the weekends while he looked for jobs during the week. After having no luck he has decided to use the money to start a landscaping biz. He has already had to hire helper.
 
saywhatkid said:
The folks that choose to be employees instead of employers are not bums and freeloaders. They are just people without the interest in being owners.
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Never said they were. That is their choice.
 
saywhatkid said:
Great for them. They overcame long odds. The folks that choose to be employees instead of employers are not bums and freeloaders. They are just people without the interest in being owners.

People are different in many ways. You like golf. I find it discusting what they have to do to Mother Earth to make a golf course in the middle of a desert, so grown men can have a playground. You think the unemployed should get off their asses and find a way. Most of them have tried for months. While the unemployed look for scraps, large corporations send more jobs overseas, all in the name of keeping those 10% annual wage increases for the board members.
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False. I know quite a few people who find jobs when they TRY to. It only takes a month at most.

One of my closest friends got three jobs at the same time two days ago, and she had to pick what she wanted to do. Of course she had some help with me hooking her up with a position at the family's business.

There are jobs out there. Some not so desirable but if you need money, you know where to go to.
 
TXgolfer said:
Proof?
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Lots out there...

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posts from hell said:
False. I know quite a few people who find jobs when they TRY to. It only takes a month at most.

One of my closest friends got three jobs at the same time two days ago, and she had to pick what she wanted to do. Of course she had some help with me hooking her up with a position at the family's business.

There are jobs out there. Some not so desirable but if you need money, you know where to go to.
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I am not trying to make excuses. Different locations have different opportunities. You helped your friend find work, and she found other work. Perhaps her skill set it in demand.
 
kokonut said:
Obtain new skills is what many people do.
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So you advocate schooling? This would require grants and loans from the government in many cases. Is this an acceptable way to disperse tax dollars?
 
saywhatkid said:
So you advocate schooling? This would require grants and loans from the government in many cases. Is this an acceptable way to disperse tax dollars?
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Take out a loan and invest in yourself. Simple. But I said obtain new skills which doesn't necessarily mean going back to school.
 
saywhatkid said:
So you advocate schooling? This would require grants and loans from the government in many cases. Is this an acceptable way to disperse tax dollars?
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:lol: geez.

My accountant didn't need a grant to learn his new skill set.
 
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The fact is that self-described “conservatives” in America are more likely to give—and give more money—than self-described “liberals.” In the year 2000, households headed by a conservative gave, on average, 30 percent more dollars to charity than households headed by a liberal. And this discrepancy in monetary donations is not simply an artifact of income differences. On the contrary, liberal families in these data earned an average of 6 percent more per year than conservative families.

These differences go beyond money. Take blood donations, for example. In 2002, conservative Americans were more likely to donate blood each year, and did so more often, than liberals. People who said they were “conservative” or “extremely conservative” made up less than one-fifth of the population, but donated more than a quarter of the blood. To put this in perspective, if political liberals and moderates gave blood like conservatives do, the blood supply in the United States would surge by nearly half.

One major explanation for the giving discrepancy between conservatives and liberals is religion. In 2004, conservatives were more than twice as likely as liberals to attend a house of worship weekly, whereas liberals were twice as likely as conservatives to attend seldom or never. There are indeed religious liberals in America, but they are currently outnumbered by religious conservatives by about four to one.
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A Nation of Givers — The American, A Magazine of Ideas

:hmm:
 
TXgolfer said:
Nice and fluffy. And how exactly do they account for anonymous gifts??
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No idea. Ask the people that used the Dept of Labor statistics to make the graph. I believe they are credited on the bottom. There are several more articles, but I felt posting a graph would suffice. I could post more articles, but you would dispute the source, the results, etc. Why bother? FoxNews would not issue a report of this nature unless it painted a different picture. So there you have it, another slanted result from MSM.
 
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