Will Obama’s jobs purge top 100 million Americans as first-time UE claimants by April 15 or after Tax Day 2013?

It's helpful to see unemployment counts summarized this way. From the chart on your linked site, it looks certain the awful unemployment numbers will top 100 million sometime in April. At this point, it's little more than a guess as to when, but the accelerated job loss counts since the election leads me to go with topping the century mark in millions before the 15th.

Thanks for the quotes from some wise men who would be disturbed at the path the U.S. is on at this point, Golfer. The left seems determined to destroy what was a great country and influential global leader for nearly a century now and mostly on a healthy path for more than two. No longer. Reelecting Obama showed precisely what was mentioned about the "majority discovering that it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury." Some of the foolishness seems so obvious; it's hard to imagine the damage caused by progressives not being intentional and at the core of Obama’s strategic fundamental change.

Your posts on unemployment figures are something the public should be more aware of, Rocky. A half million more jobs lost during each of Obama's months in Office compared to Bush numbers should have been part of the narrative leading up to the election. Yes, this is still an ugly economy that no concentrated media effort or words from Obama's team can hide from educated Americans with their eyes open. Being forced to endure four more years is simply mind-boggling.

There you go confusing the uninformed and the far left with truth, facts and logic.

You know that just makes them mad. After all that truth to digest just upset their bowls because their minds, oops their unused brain has to process something they are not use to ---the truth.

I personally think Obama wants 100% unemp0loyment so his comrade friends can take over America.

Two centuries ago, a somewhat obscure Scotsman named Tytler made this profound observation: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy." - Elmer T. Peterson

Norman Mattoon Thomas (Nov. 20 1884-Dec 19, 1968) was a leading American Socialist, pacifist, and 6 time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. In a 1944 speech he said:

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of "Liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."

He went on to say: " I no longer need to run as a president candidate for the socialist party.

The Democrats have adopted our platform."

Personal experience about unemployment, and wealthy people - my own husband was laid off last June 2012, in Florida, filed for unemployment and learned that all the unemployment offices had been close by Gov Rick Scott, and that the employees left on the job were hiding behind the computer and the endlessly busy telephone, He was denied benefits by delay, then by an agent who simply did not put his claims through, with no one to go to for help. That is how the numbers in Florida were lowered.

I finally called and wrote to the Governors Office, Rick Scott himself, and to the Attorney General's office for help. Only then did we get a call back, only then did we have the claim reviewed and only then did my husband begin to receive his legally and rightfully due unemployment funds, but months after he had been laid off.

I know a wealthy couple , she is from Curacao, from a wealthy Jewish family, married a Spaniard, and they both retired and live in Spain half the year, the other half of the year they have a condo here on wealthy Brickle Ave in Miami, Florida. Spain has begun to go after the wealthy and their bank accounts, so this couple already has moved their money to some account in some Island here, I honestly forget which one, and they plan to retire here in the USA and asked me how they could get into the Medicare program.

I told them that they could have worked here and paid taxes to the usa like I did for 47 years, then retired here in the usa, and that would qualify them for Medicare.

I am not even sure they understood what I was saying, that they have no right to be on our usa Medicare benefits.

The answer is that '' Figures Don't Lie, but Liars Figure.''

Thanks for the explanation. It's encouraging to see the solid answers and acknowledgment of the left's odd virtual recovery that smacks of the Emperor's New Clothes. Hans Christian Andersen predicted behavior similar to that shown the left's demagogue and his Democratic Party's deceptive tricks long ago in a fairy tale few could have imagined being so applicable in modern, educated society.

It appears we'll hit the 100th million unemployed worker in April, and I confess I don't care all that much about your over/under question for which side of Tax Day. The issue is about tens of millions of currently displaced workers and a deeply hurting economy. How did so many choose to vote for the failure in the Oval Office? The 51 percent wafer thin margin of victory seems to show how uninformed and poorly educated increasing numbers of Americans appear to be. This promises to be a very long and unnecessarily painful four years.

After everyone gets their refund spent & then have no "reserves" left.

Then it'll go way higher than that.

Ugly times ahead, no budget, no stopping of spending, arming of al quada ...

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