The Michiganization of America
This is a remarkable slide show depicting the growth of unemployment in the U.S. in just two and a half years. In January 2007, before the credit and financial crises and the subsequent recession, the counties in purple or black — representing unemployment of 7 percent or more — were restricted to a handful of states.
Move forward to September of this year, and the whole map looks bruised.
I don’t intend this as a “blame Obama” post. The recession and the rise in unemployment started before he took office. But even “Saturday Night Live” understands that what the administration has been trying so far — namely, spending more money and piling up even more debt that will have to be repaid — isn’t working.
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dewstarpath
November 23rd, 2009
3:18 pm
- I do not have amnesia. Facts are facts.
Except in the world of the fringe right.
Peter
November 23rd, 2009
3:18 pm
That’s correct Linda……you don’t increase the Minimum wage to poor folks…….
Bush didn’t do it for almost his entire 8 years……yet each year the Congress, and House got raises…….and they were not the pennies the minimum wage went up either !
Each year of the Bush administration, the IRS told us the Poor got Poorer, the Rich got Richer, and the Middle class got smaller.
Keep Poor People Poor Please !
Heck there are WARS to MAKE UP !
David Axelfraud
November 23rd, 2009
3:20 pm
dewstarpath, yep facts are facts. Clinton did nothing. Except get bjs from an intern.
Peter
November 23rd, 2009
3:21 pm
HA HA HA Kyle……..HA HA HA………..Yes SNL is “Right”….. HA HA HA……
The writers should move to Washington DC…….
The Mood of the country voted for the Current President, and he will need years to bail us out of the Little Bush mess !
Anita Mao Dunn
November 23rd, 2009
3:22 pm
Do I look like Mrs. Obama?
Stop trying to do sex to me Mr. President…. LOL
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 23rd, 2009
3:24 pm
yet each year the Congress, and House got raises
And it’s my understanding that those raises are automatic annual raises; they don’t even have to vote on them anymore.
Peter
November 23rd, 2009
3:25 pm
Hey David Axelfraud…..Great BS……Bottom Line: Clinton did nothing to help prevent 911…….
Clinton told Little Bush all about Bin Ladden, but Little Bush was too busy allowing the Bilking of California, and saying we were in an energy crises, to bother.
Plus Little Bush needed a WAR…….He and Cheney had too much money to earn for their respective families….WAR was very Important to not have happen !
Peter
November 23rd, 2009
3:26 pm
Hillbilly Deluxe ……..The raises were voted on about 11:00 PM by the members……. the country was barely told.
dewstarpath
November 23rd, 2009
3:27 pm
- Under Clinton, concerning the four times we were
attacked, only one attack (the first World Trade bombing)
was on U.S. soil. Six people died. The others (the Khobar
Towers Bombing, The USS Cole Bombing, and the African
Bombings in Kenya (U.S. Embassy) and Dar-es-Salaam,
Tanzania) were overseas – where security was breached at
a distance. Osama was a new threat – we were containing
Saddam at the time using no-fly zoning on and around
the 36th parallel. I do not make a career out of bashing
Bush43, and UNTIL you walk a mile in the shoes of the
POTUS, you should pause and reflect on absolute
judgement about the person the voters hired to do the job.
Churchill's MOM
November 23rd, 2009
3:29 pm
David Axelfraud
2:45 pm
Does the fact that these are states that have an energy based economy irrelevant. How are Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee,& Alabama or do you not consider them conservative. Your Duke education obviously was NOT in Economics.
Peter
November 23rd, 2009
3:29 pm
Hey Kyle…..We will have another water shortage in Atlanta, since the Governor has no new reservoirs……should we notify SNL ?
David Axelfraud
November 23rd, 2009
3:29 pm
Peter, he didn’t do anything but get bjs from interns.
dewstarpath, I don’t make a career out of Clinton. Just like to point out to people that he was a huge cause in the build up to 911. No one will argue that taking out Saddam was a bad thing. Every single democrat who signed on to the war said the same thing.
David Axelfraud
November 23rd, 2009
3:31 pm
Churchill’s MOM, I just knew you would try to make fun of my education. It’s all you little turds have. Instead of debating you attack attack attack to try to destroy credibility.
By the way, where did you attend college?
David Axelfraud
November 23rd, 2009
3:33 pm
Churchill’s MOM, again, where did you earn your degree in economics from?
Churchill's MOM
November 23rd, 2009
3:33 pm
David Axelfraud
2:48 pm
Both of the Dakotas are major recipients of your hero, Saxby, farm bill. You may think they are conservative but they are just welfare moms to the farm bill. Your Duke education is obviously not in geography either.
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 23rd, 2009
3:34 pm
Peter @ 3:26
My bad.
Churchill's MOM
November 23rd, 2009
3:36 pm
MBA, Finance UGA
David Axelfraud
November 23rd, 2009
3:37 pm
Churchill’s MOM, not only are you ridiculous, but you have the same problem as other liberal bloggers who don’t read. I never said anything about Saxby. I simply pointed out states that have low unemployment that are not run by liberals. Funny how you did not mention LA or Texas.
Again, where did you attend college?
I have a feeling that you didn’t go to one.
Churchill's MOM
November 23rd, 2009
3:38 pm
David Axelfraud
3:31 pm
That should be lack of education.
David Axelfraud
November 23rd, 2009
3:38 pm
Churchill’s MOM wrote: MBA, Finance UGA
How come you can not offer solutions to any of these blogs? Only democrat talking points.
David Axelfraud
November 23rd, 2009
3:39 pm
Churchill’s MOM, last time I checked, UGA was not in the top 50 schools across this country.
Oh, and Tech is going to destroy UGAY this week.
David Axelfraud
November 23rd, 2009
3:39 pm
Churchill’s MOM, are you wanting to compare GPA’s and SAT scores?
Chris Broe
November 23rd, 2009
3:40 pm
Estimating the country’s political mood from SNL is worse than getting your opera fix from Bugs Bunny Cartoons. (Forgive us, Wagner.)
Jess
November 23rd, 2009
3:40 pm
….it will take years to fix the mess little Bush caused…..
So Obama plans to do this by outspending Bush five to one? Drone on against Bush all you like, but he is not in a position to fix this. Only one person is in that position, and he seems determined to deal this economy it’s final death blow.
Peter
November 23rd, 2009
3:41 pm
Hey Hillbilly Deluxe …..No problem…..
My suggestion is do what Ronald Regan did…….sell Drugs, but only this time don’t buy weapons with the money ( Iran Contra Affair )…….no pay off the national debt.
Gotta Love Ronald Regan…….the most recent President who was a Drug Kingpin !
David Axelfraud
November 23rd, 2009
3:43 pm
Churchill’s MOM wrote: David Axelfraud
2:48 pm
Both of the Dakotas are major recipients of your hero, Saxby, farm bill. You may think they are conservative but they are just welfare moms to the farm bill. Your Duke education is obviously not in geography either.
Sounds like someone has school penis envy.
David Axelfraud
November 23rd, 2009
3:44 pm
Churchill’s MOM, by the way, UGA doesn’t crack the top 60 schools in the nation. Poor whittle puppy dogs. So sad.
Peter
November 23rd, 2009
3:45 pm
Hey David Axelfraud…..are you upset he was a Rhodes Scholar, or a silvery tongue devil, who got others to use their tongue ?
Perhaps you are upset because Little George was so stupid, every business he ran he ran like the USA…Into the Ground ?
Linda
November 23rd, 2009
3:46 pm
Peter @ 3:18, Raising the min. wage is great when times are good. Raising it during the worst recession in decades was stupid. It affects the lowest paid workers, the “poor” & our youth. There are millions of Americans who would work for the old min. wage if they could just find a JOB. Businesses were already operating in the red. Raising their expenses caused more job loses. The poor became unemployed. It was not in their best interests.
David Axelfraud
November 23rd, 2009
3:47 pm
Peter, Obama Hussein has a law degree from Harvard and he may go down as the most incompetent president in the history of the United States.
George Bush made mistakes but at least he got things done and governed the country. President Acorn can’t even make a decision on anything.
It took him 4 months to figure out what kind of dog to buy his kids.
Churchill's MOM
November 23rd, 2009
3:47 pm
David Axelfraud
3:43 pm
If I had penis envy, it sure would NOT be your 1/2″
Peter
November 23rd, 2009
3:47 pm
Hey Jess……. I think allot of the spending is coming back…… how many banks and institutions are paying back the loans they got during the bail out ?
David Axelfraud
November 23rd, 2009
3:48 pm
Peter, at least George W Bush had a wife who is nice looking. Unlike Bill, Bush didn’t have to sleep with interns. HA!
Peter
November 23rd, 2009
3:49 pm
OK………George Bush made mistakes but at least he got things done and governed the country.
What did Little George do ?
What is his savings Grace ?
Peter
November 23rd, 2009
3:50 pm
Haaaaaaaaaaaaa David Axelfraud ……..”Peter, at least George W Bush had a wife who is nice looking.”
Now I understand how Republican Politics work ! Thank you……it has all been very confusing until now !
Churchill's MOM
November 23rd, 2009
3:50 pm
David Axelfraud
3:44 pm
You might want to try some of those pills that Glenn Richardson failed to take.
Linda
November 23rd, 2009
3:51 pm
The Dems are much more to blame for the economic recession than the Reps & Bush is the least responsible of anyone you may want to point fingers at. Most of you have no idea why we’re in the mess we’re in.
Skip
November 23rd, 2009
3:51 pm
The raises for congress are automatic unless voted down, they never vote.
Peter
November 23rd, 2009
3:53 pm
Come on LInda………”The poor became unemployed. It was not in their best interests.”
How about the Rich CEOs, sent a great deal of American Jobs over seas where workers work for Pennies on the dollar, no regulations are in place, and then they gave themselves more money !
HA HA HA…….. like a few pennies more for the poor killed American Business ! HA HA HA……
Why don’t you see what is going on in the stock market today ? Companies are cutting workers at a record pace, and thus the profits !
Mutts R Stupid
November 23rd, 2009
3:54 pm
Kyle is a little testy today because his reason for existence, newspapers, are in much worse shape than thought. Turns out the few papers that have increasing circulation, thus giving hope to losers like the ajc, are actually double counting some subscriptions. Kyle’s old rag, the wsj, under that crooked clown from down under, was actually counting both the print and the internet subscription to the same person as two separate subscriptions. This matters to advertisers who pay for ads based on the number of subscribers. Old Rube was giving away the internet subscription if one purchased a print subscription not long ago, I know because I was a subscriber then and got both dirt cheap. But I sure did not read the paper or look at the ads twice, once on paper, and once on screen. If you really disagree with Kyle, just cancel your print subscription, it will hurt Kyle and the Urinal more that way.
jt
November 23rd, 2009
3:56 pm
“My mantra is: Vote against incumbents early (in the primaries) and often (both in the primaries and the general election).”
And EVERY incumbent that has been fired should be audited. Any “conflict of interest” financial gains should be seized.
And pelt them with rotten fruit.
David Axelfraud
November 23rd, 2009
3:57 pm
Peter, one, unemployment was 4.4% under Bush. Second, we all had jobs. Third, we were not attacked again after 911. Fourth, he had islamic radicals on the run. Fifth, the DOW hit 14,000 for the first time ever.
Shall I keep going?
Skip
November 23rd, 2009
3:58 pm
Googled it, Georgia #58. In your face Ax.
Peter
November 23rd, 2009
3:58 pm
Yes LInda………The Dems are much more to blame for the economic recession than the Reps & Bush is the least responsible of anyone you may want to point fingers at.
They were in charge during the last 8 years ! Gosh the top never has any responsibility !
Skip
November 23rd, 2009
4:00 pm
4.4, Dow, think a fake housing bubble had anything to do with it?
David Axelfraud
November 23rd, 2009
4:00 pm
Peter, Clinton’s legacy is sex with an intern. Bush’s legacy is the war on terror. But please, keep trying to reinvent Clinton. He is.
David Axelfraud
November 23rd, 2009
4:01 pm
Skip, in my face? I never mentioned Georgia, Troglodyte.
No, Clinton, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd had EVERYTHING to do with the housing bubble. As did all the dead beat idiots who bought houses they could not afford.
Ray Pugh
November 23rd, 2009
4:02 pm
And then he sent it all to hell w/ a pointless war and tax cuts for the rich… way2go Dubya!
David Axelfraud
November 23rd, 2009
4:02 pm
Skip, oh, if you want to talk about “in your face” you may want to look at what state is dead last.
MICHIGAN!
David Axelfraud
November 23rd, 2009
4:03 pm
Ray Pugh, yep, with the democrats blessing Bush sent them all to Iraq and Afghanistan.