It's amazing the kind of nonsense you hear about China these days.

Same kind of nonsense you used to hear about Japan.

And then...whole lotta nothing. China is facing increasingly massive labor unrest. It'll either boil over and destroy the system or more likely force some basic justice and slow down the export-economy Leviathan.

Flash in the pan.

Was it right after you read what you wrote? ;o)

Come on NDD, I've been reading you over at the KOS for awhile and you know better than that.

YES! Losing a job is always negative. The early 80's and 90's were recessions and losing a lot greater than 100K. But .......when you are losing them at a faster rate than being replaced even 400K is significant.

It is when the unemployment occurs is the business cycle. In normal markets there is always a certain amount of frictional unemployment.
In a recession, cyclical unemployment is VVB (very, very, bad). When you are adding 100K a month to the ranks of unemployed .... m-o-m .... would you call it "less bad?"

It has always been about class warfare.

Yes, conservatives were in fact in charge during the last 8 years. They just weren't the Ron Paul-type, nor the fictional Ronald Reagan-type (that never actually existed), nor the Barry Goldwater-type.
Instead the conservatives that were in charge during the last 8 years were the Benito Mussolini-type.

If you think the Big Brother actions of recent conservatives precludes them from being conservatives then I suggest you take the blinders off. All political philosophies have a dark side. Every single one of them.

Liberals span the spectrum as well. From FDR to Huey Long to Ralph Nader to Bill Clinton to European socialists to pseudo-communists.
Unfortunately we have another Bill Clinton in charge today.

And I'd have to say anybody losing their job, in a time of rising duration of unemployment, is certainly in the Personally Screwed Index.

I realize it's a lagging indicator- but if we do end up slipping into a wage-price deflationary spiral, then there is no reason for hope until wages stop deflating.
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Executive compensation is inversely proportional to morality and ethics.

during the peaks of the 1980s and 1990s economies, was that a negative too?

If we drop to 400k job losses this month, and 100k job losses by Labor Day, would you still call that a negative?

When i left Calif. 9 years ago i saw a morally corrupt state already 1 billion in the hole , it only cost me 700 dollars to leave that state and i was a life long resident born and raised there it only took me 2 seconds to leave California out of survival, im not surprised that in the 9 years since i left that the liberal cash spending fiends that are running and ruining California have managed to burn all their businesses and tax payer's to the point where they were leaving in the last 6 years so fast that the AFDC rolls looked like they growing when in fact it was that the ratio of people on assistance were catching up to the employed 1 in 9 are on it so who's paying for California's insane mismanagement well you are, all the working Californians whats left of them, did you know it costs 3,800 to move out of Calif right now but it only costs 600 to move to Calif, to me it says they need your money bad and the u-huals are in short supply' I know you probably think what a right winger i must be, but to tell you the truth im just a mom with 5 kids and conservative with my budget. no debt and i work for a living i never took any hand outs and never expected one either there is no free lunches in life if you want to have success and self esteem in the same sentence, as for the social services programs California has gone so far to the left of reality with all the illegal immigration excesses an excuses and people fully capable of working that get handouts, its why i left i saw this was going to hinder my own family's future i didn't want that free love liberal to excess passive attitude to all that's corrupt instilled into my future my children. good people of California you may soon consider the same leave before its too late and the corruption in this once golden state takes you too, with outrageous taxes, haters, hypocrites, political divisiveness, lack of personal responsibility & now recently the gays not even supporting their own tolerance mantra by bashing certain straight folks for a personal conviction when asked, im so glad i left this boiling cesspool of political agendas and selfish virtue less profiteers and im sure if any of this offends you, then you are glad i left too & there is no offense taken here, your thoughts are your own, i just never did belong in a place that suffers so much at the hands of a morally corrupt local,state & Fed gov, that allows left thinking groups to have all the concessions while gagging and blindfolding others who are asked to pay for it all the while being called the hypocrites for asking a simple question like why do i have to pay for those who don't do anything but whine where is the money going, who are they kidding. its a case of the state embezzling its corporate funds and not being held accountable to the people who pay them the TAX PAYER but then i have never seen any politician held to the standard they swore to live up to have you? if this were a regular corporation that by fed gov laws did what Calif gov has done to the state there would be heads rolling and indictments in the works, it no different than a savings an lone you lone they save and spend only what is needed in the budget, with a reasonable expectation of quality services and goods in return, hello look at your representatives if they open their mouths its a lie to cover up another lie.. i know its hard to hear but open your minds and your eyes there is so much more information out there that will bring clarity to you don't live in the Calif bubble just be open minded and look beyond the feel good words from this new fed administration running things, even the devil was a smooth talker wasn't he?

the ones you see on FAUX news who manipulate populist sentiment in order to continue the corporate agenda...

and the real ones who probably would be represented by people like Ron Paul, etc.

I'm talking about the real ones, not the corporate wolves.

They are all about smaller government, no intervention...
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Were you sleeping the last eight years? They are all about the complete opposite of what they yammer about. The only difference is they scream louder than everybody else.

They created the largest government agency in our history, trampled the Constitution, peoples civil rights and are into everybodies business. In fact the only freakin thing they didn't "intervene" on was Wall Street corruption.

It has always been about class warfare.

While it would be healthy for America

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
~Thomas Jefferson

I think you need to see a lot more people with a lot more time on their hands.

It has always been about class warfare.