A good friend of mine who was unemployed for over a year just got a new job last week – and he loves it! Now that’s two laid off friends who are back to work.
“I’m not quite sure what he means, but it is funny, and all it needs to be a perfect Rall cartoon is some blood.”
I think it’s that the recent rebounds have been listed as rises in consumer spending and according to a lot of recent polls Americans are wading in debt and the average is like … 12 credit cards a person*. So somehow we have a recovery with consumer spending but Americans don’t have the money to do so.
* I do not remember the exact card-per-American amount.
kennethcwarren64 almost 14 years ago
I’m not quite sure what he means, but it is funny, and all it needs to be a perfect Rall cartoon is some blood.
SuperGriz almost 14 years ago
How can he afford the bullets?
sirrom567 almost 14 years ago
The man’s right hand is missing a finger.
Kosher71 almost 14 years ago
Yes ! To the mall !
cdward almost 14 years ago
A good friend of mine who was unemployed for over a year just got a new job last week – and he loves it! Now that’s two laid off friends who are back to work.
WarBush almost 14 years ago
@Super Griz This is America! Everyone has got money for bullets.
MILDOG172 almost 14 years ago
Yes! Rob the mall because there is no money at the bank.
Jaedabee Premium Member almost 14 years ago
“I’m not quite sure what he means, but it is funny, and all it needs to be a perfect Rall cartoon is some blood.”
I think it’s that the recent rebounds have been listed as rises in consumer spending and according to a lot of recent polls Americans are wading in debt and the average is like … 12 credit cards a person*. So somehow we have a recovery with consumer spending but Americans don’t have the money to do so.* I do not remember the exact card-per-American amount.
Lt_Lanier almost 14 years ago
That new, recent bailout is what he means.
Lt_Lanier almost 14 years ago
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/05/11/census-worker-accused-of-raping-disabled-woman/19473016/?icid=main|htmlws-main-n|dl1|link5|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2F2010%2F05%2F11%2Fcensus-worker-accused-of-raping-disabled-woman%2F19473016%2F
Why no one should trust the government, it’s rife with Cabot Wrights.
thekingster almost 14 years ago
It would have been funny if the people therein were texting, as if nothing had happened.
Greece like America? Perhaps…beware.
‘Nuff said.
Lavocat almost 14 years ago
“To the Mall!” The battle cry of pistol-brandishing and long-unemployed Americans everywhere!
Yay!
Seriously, how much longer before the dam breaks and The Long Hot Summer begins?
SuperGriz almost 14 years ago
Open the fire hydrants…
sirrom567 almost 14 years ago
Man the barbecues!
SuperGriz almost 14 years ago
Bruce, very succinctly stated. Thank you.
This situation has been in effect at least since the Nixon administration.
sirrom567 almost 14 years ago
We are our own ancestors – and progeny, too.
killbillvs007 almost 14 years ago
Bruce:
That’s not how the government calculates unemployment figures, for the obvious reason that you state.
http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm
Church:
All Super Griz said [incorrectly] was that this has been the case since Nixon, not BECAUSE of Nixon, but who cares about what’s really said?
SuperGriz almost 14 years ago
killbillvs007,
Let’s work on your syntax, shall we? Now get busy.
Bruce4671,
I want to have your baby.