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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (21925)	7/10/2003 1:18:05 PM
From: Ron	Respond to of 93284

Dubya may turn out to be Herbert Hoover in a flight suit.. Jobless Claims Defy View Of Stabilizing Employment By JOSEPH SCHUMAN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE Another week, another worrisome report about the U.S. employment situation that doesn't bode well for the American economy. The Labor Department said today that the number of first-time jobless claims last week rose by 5,000 to a total of 439,000, defying the predictions of many economists who expected a decline in initial claims for unemployment insurance. The four-week moving average, a less volatile appraisal, increased by a count of 1,000 to 426,750. Following last week's report that the U.S. unemployment rate rose to a nine-year high of 6.4%, today's news raises more doubt about the Federal Reserve's recent judgment that the job market is stabilizing. To the contrary, today's numbers indicate employers as a whole continue to lay off workers to improve their bottom line and don't yet foresee a rise in demand for their products that requires re-staffing. The government said the data for the week that ended June 28 showed the number of workers drawing unemployment benefits for more than a week rose to a 20-year high of 3,818,000.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (21925)	7/10/2003 1:41:18 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 93284

Somehow, those 7/10 of the people ended up conflating Al Qaeda with the secular Baa'th Party. Now how did that happen? Exactly the same way that we could learn the list of the Supreme In-Justices. By repetition and rote memorization of fact. Rote works well, if you want to replace one phrase with another. Or simply learn the name of Justice Scalia. It doesn't work well if you're hoping to accomplish an awakening. we have a culture of zombies in this nation who get their news from either right wing talk radio .... You examine why right wing radio is successful and model it [if it doesn't make you vomit too badly]. If you listen to right wing radio and ask yourself the question What is the underlying theme? .... I think there's an obvious answer: greed, a slightly broader view and less perjorative is me. There's a lot of self-centered people that love to hear how the government screwed them; how the people on welfare screwed them; how the minorities take their jobs or get into schools; how the immigrants take their schools over or take from the education system. As long as those illegals work the fields, or the poultry factories or the textile factories and don't get medical care or education that's just peachy keen..... Maddening to try to break through into their petty little worlds. Once someone has established a core belief, in this case greed, it's unshakable. It is rather pathetic to think that they then arrogantly consider themselves to be patriots and better than the rest of the world. They're more nationalists than they are patriots. jttmab