Great. Meanwhile I got laid off this week as the company I work for shut down for the week because past customers can't pay their bills and we have a cash flow problem. Hopefully it will only be a week or 2.

believer wrote: Apparently for some doing nothing is better than doing something. I dunno....in my warped reality a few peanuts are better than no peanuts.

I do agree..but like me for example..I'm laid off..and I make enough to stay caught up with my bills on unemployment..I'm sure not going to go take a job making less than I do on unemployment.

^^^If you qualify for unemployment and are doing better on it than flipping burgers I fully understand that.

What I have a beef with are all the folks who boo-hoo after their unemployment benefits run out and turn down menial jobs because it's below them to clean the toilet, or flip the burger, or bus the tables. They choose to sit back and wait until that dream job worthy of their magnificence drops in their laps or at least until the government extends unemployment benefits.

I really cannot believe that the unemployment rate dropping is a negative thing somehow.

Edit: And that graph doesn't really mean anything. Tell me a company/government/administration that meets every earnings or employment projection and you'll be showing me one that either doesn't exist or is lying.

Has this government/administration met one projection of anything except the size of the deficit?

I Wear Pants wrote: I really cannot believe that the unemployment rate dropping is a negative thing somehow.

Edit: And that graph doesn't really mean anything. Tell me a company/government/administration that meets every earnings or employment projection and you'll be showing me one that either doesn't exist or is lying.

It doesn't mean that we just pissed away 787 billion dollars? And at most companies I know, a graph like that would have the CEO looking for new employment, stat.

fish82 wrote:

I Wear Pants wrote: I really cannot believe that the unemployment rate dropping is a negative thing somehow.

Edit: And that graph doesn't really mean anything. Tell me a company/government/administration that meets every earnings or employment projection and you'll be showing me one that either doesn't exist or is lying.

It doesn't mean that we just pissed away 787 billion dollars? And at most companies I know, a graph like that would have the CEO looking for new employment, stat.

as far as I know, there's still $ that hasn't been spent (roughly 200b if iirc)

derek bomar wrote:

fish82 wrote:

I Wear Pants wrote: I really cannot believe that the unemployment rate dropping is a negative thing somehow.

Edit: And that graph doesn't really mean anything. Tell me a company/government/administration that meets every earnings or employment projection and you'll be showing me one that either doesn't exist or is lying.

It doesn't mean that we just pissed away 787 billion dollars? And at most companies I know, a graph like that would have the CEO looking for new employment, stat.

as far as I know, there's still $ that hasn't been spent (roughly 200b if iirc)

Correct. However, I've heard nothing to indicate that they don't intend to spend the rest of it.

fish82 wrote:

derek bomar wrote:

fish82 wrote:

I Wear Pants wrote: I really cannot believe that the unemployment rate dropping is a negative thing somehow.

Edit: And that graph doesn't really mean anything. Tell me a company/government/administration that meets every earnings or employment projection and you'll be showing me one that either doesn't exist or is lying.

It doesn't mean that we just pissed away 787 billion dollars? And at most companies I know, a graph like that would have the CEO looking for new employment, stat.

as far as I know, there's still $ that hasn't been spent (roughly 200b if iirc)

Correct. However, I've heard nothing to indicate that they don't intend to spend the rest of it.

well, depending on what they spend it on I don't know if you can call it pissing it away