1.3 Million Jobless Americans Lose Benefits Today

[MelissaWV]

Wisconsonese Velociraptor?
Willful Vindicator?
Whimsical Volleyball?
Worldly Visionary?

I've always wondered what WV stood for...

Woldercan virgin?
Werewolf vivisection?

 

[Carson]

I disagree. You can't blame the victim here. People make rational economic decisions, and due to the broken system the rational economic decision happened to be to ride out the free benefits as long as possible. Once the incentive to be lazy was taken away the rational decision became to make real sacrifices.

Can any of us really say that if we were in that situation we'd choose to work at wal mart for 1500 a month tops when the govt would dole us out 1200 for doing nothing--all out of some sense of honor? I feel no shame in saying that i probably would not. I'm sure a few would, but in general people respond to incentives.

I suppose I'm one of the few who say people are fundamentally neither good nor bad. They simply respond in good or bad ways according to good or bad incentives with which they are faced.

Any new women coming through where I work is a rare occasion. At least half of the people of Walmart are women so perhaps I might do the honorable thing.

 

[Carson]

This whole cutoff is just the sort of thing that can get the economy back on track as to companies doing some hiring.

Painful as it might be and sucking off our side of the economy it could cascade a bunch of defaulting and cause the currency to regain some value as shown on this chart. See the dips on the Dot.com bubble, housing market and then I'm not really sure what the 2011 correction was but a lot of people couldn't afford the earn a living working or hiring because the value of the dollar was so low. At least that's the way I'm seeing it at the moment.

http://www.barchart.com/chart.php?sym=%24DOWI&style=technical&template=&p=MO&d=X&sd=05%2F03%2F1970&ed=05%2F03%2F2013&size=L&log=0&t=CANDLE&v=0&g=1&evnt=1&late=1&o1=&o2=&o3=&sh=100&indicators=&addindicator=&submitted=1&fpage=&txtDate=#jump



P.S The trouble is the gain may be short lived as you can see by the chart the effects of them bailing themselves out and the value again falling to new heights as indicated by the chart spiking up again.

 

[devil21]

Woldercan virgin?
Werewolf vivisection?

Your avatar is an example of vintage makeup so I would guess the W is your last name initial and the V indicates your interest in Vintage styles.

 

[navy-vet]

Wild Vixen

 

[seraphson]

I suppose now would be a good time to address the problem instead of the symptoms.
Oh wait, the Fed has unemployment covered with their "dual mandate". Because dialing a knob magically makes jobs.

 

[Ender]

Woldercan virgin?
Werewolf vivisection?

Always thought it was West Virginia- guess I wasn't being imaginative enough.

 

[oyarde]

Wisconsonese Velociraptor?
Willful Vindicator?
Whimsical Volleyball?
Worldly Visionary?

I've always wondered what WV stood for...

If it turns out to be Velociraptor , you should take me for a ride in your Buick , my last one was a 1973 Apollo , I wanted a Roadmaster .....

 

[DamianTV]

Wagon Vehicle
Walrus Village
Wallabee Violator
Woodland Village
Wondertwin Vendetta
Wildabeast Voyeur
Wile E. Coyote Viewer

I just couldn't help it... So, just to be fair... (pot shots at myself)

TV stands for:
Terminal Velocity
Totally Valuable
Telekinetic Vortex