Unemployment almost 10% nationally

[deerman]

mom'sfolly :

Another fine idea would be to replace Boards of Directors with people who didn't vote on each other's salaries. Make CEO, CFO etc pay actually tied to job performance. No more multimillion dollar parachutes for those leaving companies that are loosing money, no more paying CEO hundreds of millions when the company is making money.

Unemployment has this cool little built in function...you must be applying for jobs while on it. If you do not, it is immediately cut off. So it is hard to milk the system, except by applying for jobs you are wildly unqualified for. People probably do it, but is rare.

Trouble if they just have to list a place they know that are not hiring....not really looking for jobs. They do have to take just any job. Oh they really don't check your list either, know some guys just pick names of companies. Don't even leave there house.​

 

[Dunkopf]

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I ask this every time it's brought up - what deregulation?! Every time I ask, nobody answers. Don't disappoint me this time. I would also like the text and summary of the bill, thank you.

The repeal of the Glass Steagall act of 1933 is what put us on the road we are now on. Repealed in 1999. It prevented banking institutions from dabbling in investing. Or at least that's the gist of it. I'm sure you'll have a different analysis of it and why it didn't effect anything. You do like your Red Kool Aid. You'll need to find the summary yourself.

 

[booker81]

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Heck, what about Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act?

 

[Dunkopf]

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Trouble if they just have to list a place they know that are not hiring....not really looking for jobs. They do have to take just any job. Oh they really don't check your list either, know some guys just pick names of companies. Don't even leave there house.

Our country as well as every country in the world has deadbeats in it. What do you think the percentage is of people on unemployment that are happy to sit at home and earn 1/3rd of what they used to make? After looking for a job for 6 months to a year do you think that maybe some of them are just a little discouraged?

I've heard people talk about people they know that have been on unemployment for 3 years. The maximum is 99 weeks. It used to be a lot less but Obama had Congress extend it so people could stay alive and not have to give their kids to Social Services.

I also hear a lot of people talking about jobs that are available that can't be filled. I'm sure they're out there. Americas a big country though. The high unemployment is in those places where there are no jobs. So just because you see some hiring signs in your town doesn't mean it's the same all over.

 

[deerman]

I know here in Ohio , alot of company move to other States or country, because Ohio taxs rate are out of control.


So hope we can change that TAX, TAX ,AND TAX crap at least in Ohio. Tomorrow will tell.......

 

[Q9]

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I ask this every time it's brought up - what deregulation?! Every time I ask, nobody answers. Don't disappoint me this time. I would also like the text and summary of the bill, thank you.

The repeal of the Glass Steagall act of 1933 is what put us on the road we are now on. Repealed in 1999. It prevented banking institutions from dabbling in investing. Or at least that's the gist of it. I'm sure you'll have a different analysis of it and why it didn't effect anything. You do like your Red Kool Aid. You'll need to find the summary yourself.

Look, Dunkopf, I am sick and tired of having people attempt to discredit me - the age/experience card and the Kool-Aid references are getting OLD. Stick with actual arguments or don't argue.

Now, as for the Act... I see the purpose in it, and to be honest, I think it DID do a little good. The trouble is, the problem - in this case, fractional-reserve banking - was originated in the government, through the Monster from Jeykell Island, AKA the Federal Reserve. Banks would not be stupid enough to use fractional reserve banking were it not for easy cash from the Fed. The times our economy was the most stable was when it had no national bank - no BUS, no BUS 2, no Fed. The times in between those were the most stable.

My motto in my reading: Economics and history go together like milk and cookies.

 

[michickenwrangler]

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Thanks. I don't have any pics of it, but it's an a hardwood tongue-n-groove interior, hardwood floor, 2 stone walls, 2 x 6 construction and very well-insulated (forget the Chinese! Outsource to Germans! At least it'll be quality). On 5 acres with natural springs and a spring fed pond, 3 1/2 acres wooded, on the high banks of the Rifle River.

Q9, google "cussing canoeist Rifle River Michigan" for our river's notoriety.

And it's all paid for. No mortgage!

 

[Dunkopf]

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Heck, what about Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act?

That just regulates safeguarding of personal information. That's a good thing at first glance.

 

[Q9]

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Thanks. I don't have any pics of it, but it's an a hardwood tongue-n-groove interior, hardwood floor, 2 stone walls, 2 x 6 construction and very well-insulated (forget the Chinese! Outsource to Germans! At least it'll be quality). On 5 acres with natural springs and a spring fed pond, 3 1/2 acres wooded, on the high banks of the Rifle River.

Q9, google "cussing canoeist Rifle River Michigan" for our river's notoriety.

And it's all paid for. No mortgage!

Nice...

Sounds like my dad's dream home.

I don't see why anyone would think you were crazy, that sounds awesome!

 

[redhen]

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Thanks. I don't have any pics of it, but it's an a hardwood tongue-n-groove interior, hardwood floor, 2 stone walls, 2 x 6 construction and very well-insulated (forget the Chinese! Outsource to Germans! At least it'll be quality). On 5 acres with natural springs and a spring fed pond, 3 1/2 acres wooded, on the high banks of the Rifle River.

Q9, google "cussing canoeist Rifle River Michigan" for our river's notoriety.

And it's all paid for. No mortgage!

I want to live there too..
Sounds great!