Ted Rall for December 20, 2010
December 17, 2010
December 22, 2010
Transcript:
He is a staple of every news story about unemployment. (Man 1: I sent out 13,000 resumes. Nothing.) (Man 2: 13,000 that's a lot.) Sometimes he's a she. (Woman: I sent out 462,307 resues to 4,200 companies in all 192 U.N. member states.) (Man 1: I hear the Somali pirates are hiring.) Obsessive job seekers. They are America's true heroes. (Man 3: I parachuted onto Bill Gates' estate to deliver 300 resumes but he had me arrested.) They help keep it real for the rest of us. (Man 4: I'm a Ph.D. in biochemistry. This is my millionth resume! Congrats!)
Michael Peterson Premium Member over 13 years ago
You’re right, Ted. Unemployment is a lie invented by the plutocrats to suppress the working class.
grapfhics over 13 years ago
Never the real numbers, for the past 2 admins the dept of labor has spent more time and energy reporting on the changes of new job seekers or unemployment applicants. these numbers, while significant to economists, reporters and talking heads are not the unemployment rate in real numbers, millions not the hundreds or thousands we hear on the evening snew job.
Lavocat over 13 years ago
If ya liked 2010, you’re gonna love 2011.
Jaedabee Premium Member over 13 years ago
I thought the unemployed were all just lazy welfare queens sucking on the big government teat? *
mattro65 over 13 years ago
Where’s my nipple?
sirrom567 over 13 years ago
Just think how absolutely free you’ll be when you’ve lost your job, your house, and your health. Nothing more to worry about!
Dtroutma over 13 years ago
^ But their lack of language skills, only able to “tweet”, show that some folks can get degrees in underwater basket weaving, get a job in “management”- and eventually be caught up in the very layoff binges they started!
Crabbyrino Premium Member over 13 years ago
but, hey, Wall Street is doing great…
syke34 over 13 years ago
I worked at a factory that made tanks and spare parts for the Army, that was over 20 yrs, ago, since budget cuts for the military, Since then odd jobs here and there.
DavidGBA over 13 years ago
Some nice guys toss all your resumes if they get a second one, so there is not fight ovee who gets the recruiting or consulting pay.
CorosiveFrog Premium Member over 13 years ago
Sooky Rottweiler says;
I can feel the job seeker’s pain right now. They are eight job opportunities for nine unemployed people? when I was a pup, my mom had eight nipples and we were a litter of nine! There was me, Rover, Buster, Ruby, Violet, Marguerite, Fido, Prince and Princess (those are twins!).
fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago
TCL, check the recent archives of “Pooch Cafe” (available free of charge right here on GoComics!) for the answer to that. The pups have their own names, before they’re adopted. When they’re paired with their new Mommies and Daddies they tell what their names are, but they may be changed entirely, or modified. Poncho was known as “Porcho” to his littermates.
http://www.gocomics.com/poochcafe/2010/06/28/