[Rhodes22-list] Politics - Sexism

[Steven Alm]

Hank,

The Strib claims to quote data from the U.S. Census Bureau.  I poked around
on their site but the only unemployment stat I found was from 2000.  I don't
know why there's such a discrepency from the Labor Department's data.

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Slim,
>
> The national unemployment rate for July '08 (latest numbers available) is
> 5.7% http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
>
> Minnesota's is 0.1% higher at 5.8%
> http://www.deed.state.mn.us/lmi/Home.htm
>
> The Star Tribune is out in left field.
>
> Hank
>
>
> On 9/2/08, Steven Alm <stevenalm at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Brad, Herb, Rik, et al,
> >
> > I'm so glad you're happy.  I wouldn't want you to have to drag yourselves
> > to
> > the polls and vote for the least of two ills...um, like we all do every
> > time.  But just remember, the presidency is something you buy and the one
> > with the most $ usually wins.  I did see that McCain raised... what was
> it?
> > ...6 million in the few hours after he announced his VP pick.  That's
> > pretty
> > impressive.
> >
> > Re unemployment, according to last week's Strib, it has indeed spiked in
> MN
> > from about 8% to almost 10% but we're still lower than the natl average
> of
> > around 12%.
> >
> > http://www.startribune.com/local/27511554.html?elr=KArksUUUU
> >
> > No, it's not an all time high (The Great Depression) but it's gone up
> > steadily during the Bush/Pawlenty years.   We (in MN) were down at about
> > 2-3% range with Billy Boy.  This is no surprise.  High unemployment keeps
> > the wages and salaries down by keeping the pool of available workers up.
> > This is good for business.
> >
> > Slim
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Rik Sandberg <sanderico1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Brad,
> > >
> > > > "You are watching history in the making.  A lot of folks like me were
> > > > > planning on dragging themselves to the polls to vote against Obama
> > and
> > > > > for McCain only by default.  Now we have something to be excited
> > > > > about.  You may not understand it but the movement is real.  You go
> > > > > girl!"
> > > That is almost exactly what I was just saying to another liberal on
> > > another board yesterday. I agree .... Go Sarah!!
> > >
> > > Slim, TANFL, you guys need to get used to that idea. AND, this economy
> > > has a ways to go down before it starts getting better. Get outa' debt!!
> > >
> > > Rik
> > >
> > > Ayn Rand was a prophet - - it isn't my fault
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Herb Parsons wrote:
> > > > You said it ALL right here:
> > > >
> > > > Brad Haslett wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> You are watching history in the making.  A lot of folks like me were
> > > >> planning on dragging themselves to the polls to vote against Obama
> and
> > > >> for McCain only by default.  Now we have something to be excited
> > > >> about.  You may not understand it but the movement is real.  You go
> > > >> girl!
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > > And the funny thing is, the left is busy telling the right what a
> lousy
> > > > choice she was, and that the right's not going to like her. They must
> > > > think they're talking to the press.
> > > >
> > > >
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