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1. Of course there are plenty of jobs.  I have three of them myself.

   

   Posted by Tannenberg       02/04/2006  at  09:49 AM  



2. OCM, have you ever heard the phrase “a rising tide raises all boats”? These accumulative statistics show a rising tide only, as you said but buried in there are 300 million personal stories. 285 million of which are happy stories of people working and living full lives. The other 15 million are composed mostly of disabled or people unable to work and the rest of us take care of them. A small part of that 15 million are old retired farts living in Colorado. But we love them all.

   

   Posted by The Skipper       02/04/2006  at  09:55 AM  



3. Now that we are headed in the right direction is no reason to stop what is working or change it to something else simply because some are struggling.

   I think if we stop shoveling money at the able bodied who won’t work, the illegals and all their problems and worthless government programs and bureauacracies, the vast majority of Americans can live comfortably.

   My son falls into that disabled catagory that makes it hard for us to decide what to do. He doesn’t make enough on SSI to live alone (which in reality he can never do, for safety reasons) and at the same time, he does not have the physical capability to pursue the type of education/job that would provide the safety net/benefits/income he’d need to survive on his own (plus Uncle Sugar starts deducting from his SSI as he adds income). So he is with us and will be until some variable of that equation changes.

   And we continue to live at just enough $$$$$ to not qualify for any assistance but not enough to be safe financially nor to even consider retiring until 10 years after death.

   Anyway, I’ve digressed - to keep going in the positive direction is the right way for all to benefit. It is the money sucking do nothings and non-citizens that are dragging America down in all socio-economic factors.

   Posted by wardmama4       02/04/2006  at  01:23 PM  



4. The Democrat National Committee (DNC) responded to today’s news of another drop in joblessness by warning that overworked Americans might be “too tired to shop,” thus sending the economy into recession. —ScrappleFace

   Posted by Oink       02/04/2006  at  02:27 PM  



5. What’s the old saying?  There are 3 types of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.

   (I never forgot this saying when I took Stat in college...it rings even truer to me now!)

   Posted by shinjinrui       02/04/2006  at  11:53 PM  

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