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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:21 PM
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Limbaugh: "Those Two Million Who Lost Jobs Aren't Unemployed"
Edited on Tue Mar-23-04 02:21 PM by CO Liberal
"They've gone into business for themselves."

He just said that on his radio pukefest. Does anyone have any info to refute that statement. Since Rush said it, chances are it's a lie....
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:22 PM
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1. Back on drugs again, i suppose
time to detoxify the imp again.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:22 PM
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2. Sounds like something Leno would say in a monologue
the more these people get cornered, they get more & more cartoonish
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:23 PM
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3. yes they jusst gave up looking for job
Rush is trying to get the base excited and the lies are getting thicker

I wonder is he back on Oxicontin?
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prodigal_green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:26 PM
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9. How do they measure "stopped looking?"
The unemployment numbers reflect who is collecting unemployment. After 26 weeks, your unemployment runs out. That doesn't mean you've stopped looking for a job. I know a couple of people who have been out of work for well over a year. They look every day.
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liberalnurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:23 PM
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4. The doctor must of "kicked-up"
Edited on Tue Mar-23-04 02:23 PM by liberalnurse
his methadone dose.....or he got some extra out in a parking lot deal....
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DMX Donating Member (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:25 PM
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8. Hogwash
While only over 2 million jobs have been lost so far, there were a total of 8 million unemployed for the month of February, so what limbaugh said is just hogwash.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 03:38 PM
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26. Hi DMX!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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JohnyCanuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:23 PM
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5. They're all hard at work


in the new McDonalds and Burger King manufacturing plants.
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buddy22600 Donating Member (426 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:32 PM
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12. I was laid off but I got a manufacturing job making $9.50
an hour working at the big McDonald's, woot, at least with my wife working still we can pay our bills, barely
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:24 PM
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6. That's the government definition if you if you've run out of unemployment
or are no longer looking for work.

That's why the official unemployment rate is 5.6, not 7.4%
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TheFarseer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:24 PM
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7. all you would ahve to do to refue this
is to look at new business starts(they keep that stat somewhere right?) and see that it's not much different than a few years ago.
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w4rma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:34 PM
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13. Actually there are less and less new business starts, I think. (n/t)
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:28 PM
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10. Limbaugh talks without thinking about what comes out of his mouth
I remember when he said that a man complained to him because he was getting only $10.00 an hour and his answer to the man was that he should go out and find himself a job that pays $15.00 an hour. I think that a multi-millionaire drug addict who has sold his soul to the devil has no right giving advice to people who are just trying to make an honest living.
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MSgt213 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:31 PM
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11. They have been reclassified as unemplyment engineers
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Rufus T. Firefly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:35 PM
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14. They could always move overseas
And get some of the outsource jobs.
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GumboYaYa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:37 PM
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15. Let them keep saying this nonsense.
This is the same type of denial that ended up costing Daddy W his job.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:37 PM
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16. ditto head`s???
if he said the sun wasn`t going to come up tomorrow these people would believe him. with the amount of people who have been unemployed chances are every adult in the united states knows or knows of someone who is out of work and/or out of work for over 6 months...
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TheWebHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:43 PM
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17. wonder if that's how he classifies
those holding "will work for food" signs...
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 03:20 PM
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25. They're "Self-Employed"
:-)
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Beetwasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:44 PM
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18. It's TRUE! It's REALLY TRUE!!! I Know A Lot Of Them!
I see them almost everyday going through my garbage collecting the recyclable cans...
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:48 PM
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19. YES privatizing garbage collection
That is true.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 03:09 PM
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24. YES! I sell cheap trinkets at the flea market
that I bought off the TeeVee from Dick Van Patten! :eyes:
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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 03:52 PM
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29. Enterpreneurs starting their own companies
by setting up crystal meth labs?
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:50 PM
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20. Please Rush,take a pill!


Your maid is out of a job now because she outed you. She very well may have a new business. She now has enough money to open her own business. It will be called ..."Valley of the Dolls Factory/"

Thanks Rush, that's one person out of a job that can afford to open a new business. The rest are sitting by their radio,some are nuts listing to you for lack of something else to do.
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Teddy_Salad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:50 PM
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21. Rush
I think Rush may have mistakingly taken an extra Oxycontin this morning.
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SaveElmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:51 PM
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22. Another inane comment!!
The self-employed are not counted as unemployed in the figures! It's just his stupidity shining through once again!
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 03:06 PM
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23. One thing they say is that many of the unemployed have businesses.
But 9 out of 10 new businesses fail so I doubt that you can call them employed even if they did go into business. The businesses are all "consultant" type which means feast and famine income.

This is just another convenient way for the right to lie the problems away.
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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 03:40 PM
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27. Yes, it's the much-lauded "eBay Recovery"
We're all selling stuff on eBay and making a killing.

:eyes:
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 03:48 PM
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28. Wow does he lie a lot!
Edited on Tue Mar-23-04 03:50 PM by tom_paine
He knows his lies don't even have to make sense and the Sturmtruppen will eat it up.

That must be kind of fun...fooling stupid Nazi-like people day after day after day after day...

Of course, given that he himself is a member of the New Order, probably makes it less fun.
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