But I get confused by another set of numbers: Careerbuilder offers over 648,000 job postings this month. Yahoo’s Hotjobs lists over 197,000. And Craigslist posts over two million new jobs every month…

…In my home state of Arizona, one can “earn” up to $240 per week while unemployed. In New York, a recipient can get up to $405 per week, and in California, the rate can be as high as $450 per week. Now let’s put that into a practical comparison. Let’s say the only available job in town is a part-time offer of $10 per hour for 20 hours per week. One could be contributing a valuable service, such as tutoring at a school, cooking in a restaurant, or handling luggage at the airport. Yet, at $200 a week, before taxes, why would anyone take such a job when he or she could earn as much as twice that amount sitting at home in pajamas?

So why would a person in NY or CA work a $10/hr job for 40 hrs a week when they can make more drawing unemployment? This is insane why would you have unemployment compensation this high? This might explain some but not all of CA high unemployment rates. Then comes the illegals who are drawing unemployment, for them this is a bonanza, no wonder remittances haven’t dropped but just leveled off. Everyone it seems is scamming the taxpayer, it has to stop!

Lord Woodhouselee wrote:
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury.

From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.”

Are we seeing the beginning of the end for our Republic?

In the El Centro, CA metropolitan area, unemployment is above 27%! They are in a regional depression and one of their own making. A move from El Centro arcoss the state line to northern Arizona would greatly improve the odds of gainful employment, a move to New Mexico would virtually guarantee a job. Check the stats.

http://conservablogs.com/publiusforum/2008/10/14/freedom-of-movement/

Illegals drawing unemployment benefits:
http://conservablogs.com/publiusforum/2008/09/13/rising-unemployment-and-illegal-immigration/

No one is immune to this save for the uber wealthy (and I hope they continue to buy things and hire people).

Our [small] company’s A/R has been hit due to the credit crunch (clients not being able to pay for services already rendered). As part owners, we are the last to get paid (if we do at all) to keep current business going. As such, we have dug into our savings (what’s left) top stay afloat. As a young family, there’s only so long that will fly so we have been fielding out our options – including a move.

What suckers we are…work hard, buy a house we can afford, cars we paid off, save for retirement, the kids’ college and for what? Only to be punished and made to pay for every horrendous personal & business decision ever made by others.

Why work hard if we’re only going to be made to pay for others ahead of our own families?

Someone should read about how William Bradford took care of the problem of socialism…

http://mises.org/story/336

I have been firing loads of resumes and no less that 60 fully filled out job applications around since October 5th. In that time, I have landed a total of four interviews, one of which was with a temp agency.

It seems to me that, just like stock market investors have been cashing out and running for the hills, employers are doing much the same thing in trimming their employment rosters and electing not to hire people, even if they need them. I had one six month contract CAD job fall apart due to the last minute pull-out of the largest investors, or so I was told.

I have to believe that Obama’s impending presidency has much to do with the sudden dearth of new jobs, and his comments on the Republic situation have probably only served to make it worse.

I first entered the job market in 1979, the last year of the Carter administration, and I landed a job in a restaurant in less than three days of looking.

This is getting really scary.

-Dave

With great power comes great responsibility ….. of course, never having held any kind of executive position, he wouldn’t know that.

Once you set aside the law, you cross the line into arbitrary and capricious whims of those in power, that’s called tyranny. In the heat of the moment what most people forget is the laws that govern us are enacted by the mutual consent of the people via their chosen representatives. Mob rule ironically is about the invalidation of self governance via the substitution of emotionalism of the moment in place of deliberative reasoning.

Yes, Obama by his tactics of emotionalism is a very dangerous person who has the potential to bring down this country into tyranny.