Politics: A new beginning

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
But thanks for playing. Carry on.

No problem. I will be here if you need me (until my SO gets back from Asia, that is). You carry on, too, you good little dog, you.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by bilmore
Translation: It would suck to see this work, as my entire philosophy has been devoted to explaining why it can't.

A broken clock is right twice a day.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
A broken clock is right twice a day.

so I'll be right again:

but Ty, 100K quit trying last month, when unemployment has finally been dropping for the last few months? my god, that is tragic!

that's like those movies where a guy dies in the desert because he can't get over some hill, then the camera pans out and you see an oasis, or at least a 7-11 the other side.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
so I'll be right again:

but Ty, 100K quit trying last month, when unemployment has finally been dropping for the last few months? my god, that is tragic!

that's like those movies where a guy dies in the desert because he can't get over some hill, then the camera pans out and you see an oasis, or at least a 7-11 the other side.

Has this replaced that line about the Saudis?

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Has this replaced that line about the Saudis?

I think it replaces the line about the "Soviet Union." But I am not sure.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Has this replaced that line about the Saudis?

No. that line stands, and the corrolary that Mr. Dean is bonkers. Why I replayed this one is I want you to pull back.
Dean is nuts- okay. Ty puts forth an argument that is wrong and doesn't acknowledge: this I find too troulbling.

please answer why someone would quit ther job market just when things are picking up? you don't need 100K reasons, just tell me 1.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
please answer why someone would quit ther job market just when things are picking up? you don't need 100K reasons, just tell me 1.

I am still waiting for one viable reason that would explain HOW let alone why someone would leave the job market.

So far I have heard they can live on credit, they can live in their sister's basement, teachers who don't work in the summers have left the job market, and people who only worked for luxuries can leave the job market.

But what about the people who have mortgages to pay and mouths to feed? How do they do it? Do they live on credit for that?

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Dean is nuts- okay.

Okay. He is also angry and hostile and cannot win a general election.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
No. that line stands, and the corrolary that Mr. Dean is bonkers. Why I replayed this one is I want you to pull back.
Dean is nuts- okay. Ty puts forth an argument that is wrong and doesn't acknowledge: this I find too troulbling.

please answer why someone would quit ther job market just when things are picking up? you don't need 100K reasons, just tell me 1.

Have you been drinking too? (NTTAWWT.) If the unemployment rate falls because people drop out of the work force, then what you are talking about is direct causation, not tragic irony. If people hadn't dropped out of the work force, the unemployment rate would have been higher.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Not Me
Okay. He is also angry and hostile and cannot win a general election.

The recent prevalence of this meme in the conservative media is prima facie evidence to the contrary. But if you feel confident about that, don't give Bush your money, and tell your friends to do the same.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
If people hadn't dropped out of the work force, the unemployment rate would have been higher.

How do they eat if they drop out of the work force? Are they all living on credit? What if they were a cashier making $18k a year? Do they have much credit?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Have you been drinking too? (NTTAWWT.)

I have been, and after tonight's SNL*, I'm voting for Sharpton. He's almost as entertaining as Clniton. I might think differently tomorrow, though.

*Potentially outable. Please do not tell anybody that I'm not from Des Moines, Sacramento, Oklahoma, etc.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
don't give Bush your money, and tell your friends to do the same.

I don't give Bush my money. I give my money to charity (and that includes but is not limited to the government in the form of taxes).

However, since I heard Lieberman's joke about Mary Elizabeth O'Mallay being his great-grandmother, I may give him some money just because he made me laugh.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Not Me
How do they eat if they drop out of the work force?

With a fork and a knife, and a spoon for soup and ice cream.

Are they all living on credit?

I would imagine that lending institutions don't like to extend credit to the unemployed, but I don't rightly know. Maybe you should ask some?

What if they were a cashier making $18k a year?

Then they have a better chance of finding a job in retail, don't you think?

Do they have much credit?

What am I, TRW?

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I have been, and after tonight's SNL

Don't spoil it for those of us on the Left Coast.