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- paperhat, on 07/06/2008, -11/+77Russia's unemployment rate is 12% higher than America's, but Pravda isn't worried about what is happening in their own country. They are more concerned about America. How selfless of them.
- sgiffy, on 07/06/2008, -8/+47Our employment rate is still reasonably low. Now Russia's on the other hand.
- inactive, on 07/06/2008, -8/+42Can you say "HYPE"? Economic downturns happen every decade, sometimes more. And, it seems, everytime, you've got chickens crying that the sky is falling.
- countersoldat, on 07/06/2008, -4/+30wow, all sorts of spasms when Fox news is quoted here, but a sensationalist pravda story about our 5.6% unemployment rate gets diggs? This site was a lot better a year ago
- alpine75, on 07/06/2008, -6/+31Pravda?
Really?? - norman619, on 07/06/2008, -2/+23I've spent some time in Russia and find it funny how Pravda means "the Truth" yet the truth is mysteriously absent from their pages. It is called propaganda.
- diggmeup, on 07/06/2008, -7/+27this is from pravda.ru.... very opinionated story
- dilpil1, on 07/06/2008, -2/+20By the articles own admission, "The nation's unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 percent".
Doesn't really justify the title of the article. You'd think the rate was 50-90% with a headline like that. - inactive, on 07/06/2008, -15/+30It's anti-American, so of course digg users dugg this to the front page. These are the same people who whine about "faux news".
I'm burying this as spam. ***** Pravda. - inactive, on 07/06/2008, -6/+21During the elections, I talked with one of my elderly neighbors and tried to persuade her not to vote for Bush. She said, "I don't care, I am just so disgusted at the thought of those gays getting married, there's nothing that would make me not vote for Bush."
A couple of days ago, she was complaining about the rise of her insurance costs, prescription costs, gas pricess and that her son's job was outsourced and he was in foreclosure and now bankruptcy because he couldn't sell his home. I looked at her and said, "Well, I'm sure the fact that gays can't marry makes it all worth it."
She just looked at me, went into the house and slammed the door!
I'm glad the old bitch got what was coming to her as will a lot of other fvckers that thought stopping queers from getting married was more important than getting that stupid prick out of the White House!
Never forget who supported this complete failure in the Whitehouse, don't let them distance themselves from him. Whining about Libs and Dems, Clinton and Obama's pastor and gay sex, while offering nothing of substance - and most notably - no defense for the lying little sack of ***** from Texas they shackled us with!
America's enemy is the idiot who IGNORED that Bush lied to us about Iraq, IGNORED that Bush defends treason, IGNORED that Bush was asleep at the wheel on 9/11, IGNORED that Bush had already blundered our war effort in Iraq, IGNORED that Bush still tries to link Iraq and 911, IGNORED that Bush was going to run amok with our Constitution, IGNORED his continued policy that fuels extremist groups and floods intelligence agencies with "false positives" from illegal wiretapping operations—among other things and still voted to re-elect this miserable failure.
The enemy from within has perpetuated this death and devastation. Don't forget it.
It is because of a bush voter that the country is in the atrocious position it is in today. - ImperialRome, on 07/06/2008, -6/+19Of course unemployment goes up in the summer months. Thats when the kids are out of school. Thats when a new batch of progressives graduates from college with their art history degrees or womyn's studies degrees and then has to find a job.
Considering that the unemployment rate of 5.6 percent , when it was 5.5 percent three months ago, and 5 percent two years ago, this is hardly basis for alarm or panic. - victoryv, on 07/06/2008, -24/+34Hope usa recovers soon. :-). if usa is effected then many countries in world are effected.so, i wish it recovers soon.
http://webfathom.blogspot.com/2008/07/tech-compani ... - norman619, on 07/06/2008, -8/+18It's hip to hate on the US.
- lensman00, on 07/06/2008, -0/+8That's weird, your neighbor did that back in May, too:
http://digg.com/politics/Breaking_California_Court ...
Whoa! Way back in December '07 as well:
http://digg.com/politics/More_gay_men_describe_sex ...
You must have some sort of "Groundhog Day" type neighborhood. - DaveClarkOne, on 07/06/2008, -3/+11Buried for alarmist hyperbole
- SlamShut, on 07/06/2008, -0/+8One day the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Russia were walking through the park. Their discussion covered the current state of their countries.
"So," asked the Prime Minister, "how are things in America?"
"Well," replied the President. "Unemployment is rising, but we're used to fluctuations like this. Things are down now, but will be up again soon. We are optimistic. How are things in Russia?"
"Very good," says the Prime Minister. "The famine which plagued my people has ended, and this year the potato crops are plentiful. If you were to pile all of the potatoes up that mother Russia has produced this year, they would touch the foot of God himself!"
The President thought on this for a minute, then spoke. "Hold on a minute, friend-- the foot of God himself? You were raised a Communist-- there is no God!"
"That is true," shrugged the Prime Minister. "But there are no potatoes either." - sgiffy, on 07/06/2008, -2/+9Unemployment has gone up before, we have recessions before, there is no reason to suppose that this is somehow catastrophic.
- Erythroxylum, on 07/06/2008, -0/+7The US, in terms of unemployment, has got nothing on Britain, France, Germany, Russian, India and China. In fact, the only large economy which has a lower employment rate than the US is Japan - by a whopping 0.7%.
- crapmatic, on 07/06/2008, -1/+8Tell that to the lieutenants leading their troops into the bush in Nam.
- Erythroxylum, on 07/06/2008, -1/+8You're so right. They only spent 11 years, 15,000 lives and a proportional amount of money on that little episode before they realised that they weren't going to beat an enemy which was supported by pretty much every Muslim nation in the region and the US for a cause which was essentially just Soviet expansionism.
Someday I hope to be as smart as the Russians. - Rikkochet, on 07/06/2008, -0/+7He's a spammer. They do this to every front page story and most of the upcoming. They post some random comment that's vaguely positive and then a spam link.
"Haha, that pic was hilarious!" or
"Youch! Glad that wasn't me! :-D" - BedPost, on 07/06/2008, -1/+7affected*
- Goldbricker, on 07/06/2008, -0/+6Time to go back to the History books Junior.
- twomeyw23334, on 07/06/2008, -1/+7So you bought overpriced real-estate and have money in poorly performing mutual funds.... DAMN BUSH!!!!!
- crapmatic, on 07/06/2008, -0/+6what line of work are you in?
- inactive, on 07/06/2008, -0/+6He was getting dugg down because of the stupid blogspot link.
- mikephimikephi, on 07/06/2008, -1/+6Everybody panic!
- whorunbartertwn, on 07/06/2008, -0/+5Ironic ain't it? Russians are in fact the people who wasted the most money, time, and people playing bullet tag with the Taliban.
- inactive, on 07/06/2008, -3/+8Trying to introduce logic on digg is like trying to charm a girl with your intelligence. Just regress to being cool by doing keg-stands. (or in diggs case, posting alarm-type material)
- norman619, on 07/06/2008, -0/+5AchaIemoipas:
"You've never had most of your industries in other countries before.
You've never had so much money leaving the economy and never coming back: the only thing american about the entire american manufacturing industry is the consumer.
You've never really had to compete with three quarters of the planet before.
You've never suffered a recession while occupying two countries before, going on a third.
America has never been in this situation because it's entirely caused by new policies. And it's everybody's fault."
LOL!!! Looks like someone hasn't been paying much attention. The US hasn't been a manufacturing nation for a LONG time. It is not a recent thing. We have been a consumer nation for a long long time. We are a service-based economy. - yaosio, on 07/06/2008, -0/+4Shh, nobody tell them what unemployment percentage a country should have.
- SEN5241, on 07/06/2008, -1/+5Buried for gross inaccuracy.
- TheInformer, on 07/06/2008, -3/+7First it was Huffingtonpost.com. Now it's Pravda.ru. Nice sources of unbiased material!
- Nubli, on 07/06/2008, -3/+7Oh dear god, unemployment of 5.5% ALERT THE MEDIA.
- dizilbdog, on 07/06/2008, -3/+7Well you need to realize society isn't built around you and what you own or buy. Learn that and then you will be a Rich man.
- devophl, on 07/06/2008, -2/+5Of course, if you take out all the adjustments that have been made to the US unemployment rate over the last 25, the US unemployment rate would be over 10% today. Since Reagan and Greenspan started tweaking the numbers of unemployment and inflation back in 1982 to make the US economy look rosier and further tweak during the Clinton administration, you can't take the US unemployment number seriously any more. If you use the formula prior to Reagan, I heard our unemployment rate would be about 10.5% today.
- andy314159pi, on 07/06/2008, -0/+3No you can't just head off to Canada to get a job. It is *very* difficult for an American to find work in Canada as I have some friends who have tried to do this and only one of them made it. He had to some unreal stuff to gain permission to work.
- inactive, on 07/06/2008, -0/+3She probably has Alzheimer's.
- Erythroxylum, on 07/06/2008, -0/+3*Russia, unemployment.
- BotchaMcCoola, on 07/06/2008, -3/+6The sky seems ok but my mutual funds are falling fast in dollar
value even before the devaluation. My real estate values are surging
down along with savings and interest incomes. Don’t you think the
squandering of trillions on less than useless militarism is largely to
blame?Best estimates are around $1-3 trillion in outlays and
future obligations.The chicken Hawks like Bush are to blame – confusing
a diabolical terrorist crime as a military attack. Weak-kneed
and weak-brained incompetent leaders have brought us to this. - sgiffy, on 07/06/2008, -4/+6The low rates on bonds somewhat belies the idea that money is not coming back. The US is also still one of the largest manufactures in the world, and we produce a fair bit of information goods such as software. We are also a top destination for outsource for things like IT management. The dollar while weak, is still the worlds reserve currency. We spend more per capital on R&D then almost every other country and more outright then any. We are among the most educated people on the planet and our universities educate the world.
And while we not have had a recession during two wars, we did have one at the tail end of Vietnam, which involved many more troops then Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Hell in there was years of zero growth and high, at least for us, inflation. If bonds break 6 or 7% inflation tops 10 and growth shrinks for a couple years then we can start talking about a serious problem.
I am not going to deny that there are problems. Your right on the problems with a shrinking middle class and outsources. But both are not nearly as extreme enough to bring down the economy. These things are cyclical. In the 80's the fear was mergers leading to only one company on the planet. That trend reversed in many industries in the 90's.
Going to an isolationist economy would be the worst thing we could do. The economy of the world is linked and has been for about a 100 years. The last time we responded to an economic downturn with protectionism, a rather severe depression followed. And no one is seriously pushing for one world currency. Internet tin-foil hatting not withstanding. - inactive, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2That's why we measure as a PERCENTAGE. Do you really not understand this?
- SEN5241, on 07/06/2008, -3/+5Somebody think of the pink paper!
- TheInformer, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2But showing facts like those wouldn't hurt Bush, which is obviously the underlying intent of the OP.
- janielou, on 07/06/2008, -2/+4propaganda for sure, they learned it from American MSM.
- cheeseron, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2this song is better
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/moonshiner.html
I BEEN A
MOONSHINER
FOR SEVENTEEN LONG YEARS
I SPENT ALL
MY MONEY
ON WHISKEY AND BEER - stonebear, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2A generation of vipers. But to be fair, I don't know a genXer who gives a ***** beyond their own immediate interests either. Yes, they were very idealistic in their youth, but so were the boomers. As its predecessors did, genY, flush with idealism, now presumes to sit in judgment; devoting plenty of lip service to the wrongs of the world despite of its own rather disturbing apathy. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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