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Let's see over 8 million Americans that were on unemployment did not find ajob and exhausted thier checks just quit looking. Hence they drop out of the real numbers, they are no longer counted As unemployed. This makes the numbers fictionally drop, an illusion that the Dems and Prez seize upon to tout they are doing a good job.
Also, I see the new numbers on these so called jobs created. They show that 80 percent of these are part time. This just shows the economy is awful...
Why you say are most of these part time....
Let's see employers with over 50 employees will be required to carry healthcare insurance, the price of which continues to go up, on all employees. UNLESS, these employees work under 30 hours..... Hmmm, pay through the nose for insurance the business can't afford, pay the fines for not carrying the insurance ( these are thousands less than the insurance itself)(more on this later), cut them to part time(and NOT pay the fines), or pay the insurance but lay off people in order to make ends meet (more unemployed).
The employers are posotioning themselves for this thus, MORE part-timers.
If the employer pays the fines, this pushes these workers ( who had insurance with employer before) into the exchanges because these workers are now required (by obamacare) to have insurance. Whoops, now they have another EXTREMELY large bill they never had to budget for in the past. Since 80- 90% of American live paycheck to paycheck they will not be able to afford the insurance. They will look at the options, unaffordable healthcare or pay the fine ( which is thousands less that the insurance), any good budget minded household will have to pay the fine. Now the workings class person (family of 4) has paid close to $2400 (600 per person) for the privilege of NOT having insurance.
BUT hey, all those who now don't have insurance will have insurance (paid for by the taxpayers) but those that pay the taxes will have none AND they paid for this privilege.

Hmmmmm? Just thinking out loud......
Redistribution of healthcare?

I think itis more about the insurers not wanting to give up the "honey pot". Don't underestimate their ability to influence things.

Yes, and they own enough politicians to be able to write a law that requires you to buy their product. Somebody wrote all those thousand of pages in the Obamacare bill and it wasn't congressional staff workers.

The guberment has done nothing to reform or regulate healthcare cost and insurance. Instead they've broken the Consititution, passed the law before it was read (thanks for that Pelosi), and forced everyone to buy into an already broken system. Great!!! Looks like I'm paying the freakin fine because I still can't afford or justify the cost of health insurance. When health insurance cost more than the average person's mortgage, there's a real problem.

VOTES....Nothing more than that

But, children of recent illegal immigrants don't vote for 18 years after born in the U.S. Am I missing something?

Recalled the name, but not his politics. Read his Wiki articall. Seems like a real hot-headed, troublesome guy: Found this portion sad:

For his final successful run for Congress, Dornan had signs posted at polling places that warned voters in Spanish that they should be prepared to prove their citizenship in order to vote, suggesting that immigration officials would be present. The success of this action was believed to have kept enough Latino voters away from the polls to eke out a final victory for Dornan against Mike Farber in an election that featured allegations of domestic violence by Dornan.[8] A long court battle deemed these signs illegal and inappropriate, and he was not able to post them again at the next election, which he then lost to Loretta Sanchez.

Found it amusing in a sad way...

Because we want our dishes washed and our buildings built and our sh|tters cleaned. If it's dirty, uncomfortable or exhausting, the line to do it will be 90% immigrants. I've come to believe that a lot of unemployed Americans are passing on honest work for lame reasons that would make our fathers really p!ssed.

Knew it. Just didn't want to believe the totality of it. My 90% estimate above is probably low. I have a very hard time relating to someone who'd rather collect unemployment and do nothing than do honest work, gain a little satisfaction and self respect and make quadruple what state is paying them. I still don't get it

Hard to believe Americans would rather starve than do work that is "beneath" them.
I think that is a widely circulated canard. Besides, first thing illegals do is consult with experts who can help them cheat, er, take advantage of the help offered.
I know, because I've gotten to know a few and as hard working as they are, they also know how to ferret out the "freebies" paid for by American citizens that I never knew existed.


The other question that begs to be answered is , If unskilled illegals are welcomed into this country by (primarily) Democrats for their vote and Republican business owners (primarily) for cheap labor, then why are great numbers of mostly Third World immigrants pushing into high unemployment, floundering European countries such as Greece, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, France, etc. where citizenship is not as easily attainable as it is here. Hell, London is now majority non-white. Now, I understand why modern day depictions of King Arthur and Spartacus are so multicultural.

The poor are fat because they eat poor quality, high fat, hydrogenated crap food much like folks in Wisconsin (j/k). The rest of us are just poisoning ourselves slowly with Monsanto treated hybrids.

It beats starving in Somalia or Ethiopia.

We Are The World!

Probably the same 'someones' that faked the moon landings

Good.
The important thing is to trust & not to panic. The cultural piñata will be forcibly struck open soon and we will all partake as promised.

There's always trade offs!

That is just to make the Muslims, starve, and not be able to gain a majority in the USA.

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

Excuse me. Please stick to the talking points.

It's because they do the work Americans don't want to do: Picking apples, picking tomatoes, picking lettuce, landscaping, roofing, firing up new street gangs, selling drugs, getting multiple DUIs, rape, murder, collecting food stamps, collecting welfare cash cards, using government subsidized housing, using government health care, collecting SSDI, identity theft, filing lawsuits for various forms of discrimination, using our hospital emergency rooms as free health care clinics when they have the sniffles ...

You know, I've known handyman/gardening entrepreneurs now working in Home Depots, nurseries, etc. who were driven out of business by folks living in communal houses & willing to work for next to nothing. If that's the gauge for a "working" capitalistic system with a reasonable standard of living... Okaaaay... Yeah, they COULD become IT or perhaps go back to school for additional vocational training (until THAT skill is outsourced or overcompeted)- the sounds emitted by smug, cavalier, fat armchair quarterbacks.

America is in its death spasms. We just don't know it. We're busy with shiny things.

...and kidnappings.
I envision a bartering society similar to Cuba's. I will trade you a corn for stitching up my pants.

fromunda?

This just in:

United States sets another food stamp record: Households on food stamps at new peak and more Americans live in poverty compared to the entire population of Spain.

The gap between rich and poor in the United States continues to grow in-line with food stamp usage. Many Americans watch in dismay as they view countries like Spain rip its self apart by a massively discontent and unemployed youth movement. Many probably watch thinking that somehow, our problems can never come close to what is being experienced abroad. The irony is that we now have more Americans on food stamps than the entire population of Spain. That is right, more Americans are living food stamp payment to food stamp payment versus the entire population of a county literally suffering in depression. Yet somehow, the narrative playing out in the economy is all around a booming real estate market (profits to investors) and the peaking stock market (most Americans don’t even own stock) are big windfalls for all. Yet the gains are being captured by a small portion of the population. This is how we can reach these seemingly dichotomous situations where poverty rises in the shadow of a booming stock market.


http://www.mybudget360.com/food-stamp-usage-americans-record-high-more-than-spain-number-of-food-stamp-families/#more-5093