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Yikes. #unemployment
11/06/09
I sense a conspiracy.
[www.guttmacher.org] #unemployment
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*The '94 change said that workers must have sought work in the prior year.
**Even though this calculation attempts to address it, it undercounts the hidden economy, illegal aliens, etc., which, whether you like it or not, are part of how we should measure our economic vitality. #unemployment
11/06/09
The calculations also do not take into account business owners who are no longer able to take a salary or have closed down their business. Small business owners or the self-employed are not eligible for unemployment. #unemployment
11/06/09
None of this means that anyone was out to stick it to small business owners. This helps them because they don't want to pay unemployment insurance on their most highly compensated employee. So, please stop bending scraps of information to reinforce your own very poorly informed worldview. It is very unhelpful. #unemployment
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I may no mention of "sticking it to small business owners." There are plenty of other ways small business owners have gotten the shaft, but not being reflected in the unemployment numbers is not one of them. #unemployment
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That's a metaphor for something right there, but I don't know what.
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I just wish newscasters in general would show the footage more responsibly and not just slip it in between the weather report on 9/11. It's very loaded footage and captures the deaths of thousands of people, even if from afar. There are many well-made documentaries about 9/11. Maybe the footage should be relegated there.
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What, exactly, is the point? To let the rest of us know that you didn't forget? To remind us? Sad face.
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9/11 is kind of like having a baby. Always there to remind you how much time has passed.
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can't believe its been 8 years. My smart little man is starting to understand the significance of what happened. He said this morning with a solemn tone "It's a sad sad day, isn't it mama?"
Way to undermine your sorrow by bragging about your stupid kid.
09/11/09
Because some of us LOST PEOPLE. Whom we loved. Deeply. And so that is my "status".
09/11/09
Seriously, though, find a better way to honor people than a fucking facebook status.
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You'd look like less of an asshole if you were i-screaming at someone who wrote "hahaha, people died and it was funny!" but I've not seen that comment here. In fact, the worst comments I've seen on this post wished cancer and rape on children. Now that guy/gal, total fuckface if you ask me.
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Didn't the Columbine killers express these kind of violent wishes upon others in their writings, too?
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(I apologize in advance for an uncharacteristic lack of snark)
09/11/09
Worked in lower midtown, company had a large window that captured it all, formerly "just strange" coworker was oddly jubilant during the whole thing (And I know that shock can garner a strange reaction in some people), but he ticked off the event like the scoring of a baseball game "And now this happened! And so did this! The Pentagon! The Capital evacuated!" he then grabbed a camera and took play-by-play pictures of the towers burning, smoldering, collapsing and proceeded to put out a sign up sheet for those of us who wanted copies for our uh, families, who were out of town. As if they were going to miss it.
No one spoke to him much after that.
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But the ritual reliving of the morning, minute by minute, doesn't help anyone "process" anything.
Pretty declarative stuff, there. And especially risky since you could be shown to be wrong on the second claim by just one person -- one -- who thinks that an occasional review of the footage is a good way of being reminded of what actually happened that day on a public scale...as distinct from all the other things that people talk about when they use the term "9/11."
09/11/09
Never forget...
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Again, I'm with you in terms of wishing horrible things on him, but I don't want to offend you. How far is too far?
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