Dems Do the Impossible: US Unemployment Rate Now Tops Europe
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 6:11 AM
Democrats do the impossible…
OpenMarket.org reported today that the US unemployment rate has finally topped Europe.
Unemployment is now higher in the U.S. than in Europe, reports the Washington Post. “The official U.S. unemployment rate, reported last Friday, now stands at 10.2 percent,” compared to “9.7 percent” in Europe. This is the highest rate in more than 26 years, and marks a huge change from the recent past, in which unemployment was double the American rate in much of Europe.
Unemployment is at 10 percent in France, which refused to adopt a U.S.-style stimulus package, and only 7.6 percent in Germany, which adopted a stimulus package that was smaller relative to its economy than ours was. (Countries that refused to adopt big stimulus packages have fared better than those that imitated President Obama. And the biggest-spending countries have suffered worst in the recession.)
A “broader measure of U.S. unemployment,” including discouraged workers, puts U.S. unemployment at 17.5 percent, reports the New York Times.
As the Post notes, “For many on the left, the lament for years has been: Why can’t America be more like Europe? Why can’t rustic Americans be more like sophisticated Europeans? The sentiment has resurfaced in recent months as the health-care debate has raged on — why can’t the American health-care system be more like Europe’s?”
Well, America is now more like Europe when it comes to unemployment. But not when it comes to social benefits and protections. The American Left knows how to import Europe’s failures, but not its successes.
But, don’t for one minute think that this bunch is through destroying the economy…
The dems still have their health care bill and cap-and-tax legislation to ram through Congress.
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bg commented:
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Congratulations B Hussein O!! (thumbsup)
you did it, you lowered the G-D boom on US!!
ex-Black Nationalist/Muslin Uncle Wright must
be very proud of you (not to mention numerous
unmentionables)..
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Andreas K. commented:
Europe’s successes?
Like Germany, where one third of the annual budget are used solely for social “spending”? There’s a district in Berlin, Neu-Kölln it is called, where the local government has to use two thirds of the budget only because there are so many people who refuse to work.
One of my cousins works 40 hours a week and goes home with ~700 Euros after tax. If you don’t work you get 1,000 Euros easily in Austria, without the nasty finance minister grabbing your money. It’s worse than that in Germany with Hartz IV. However, the Austrian left wing has come up with the idea of 1,000 Euros “Mindestsicherung” for everyone. That’s right, if you’re out of the job or anything else along that line, the government wants to pay you 1,000 Euros every month simply for not doing anything. And due to the fact that things in Austria are a bit different, people will get this money 14 times per year (we have “vacation payment” and, literally, “christmas payment”, which are two additional months of salary.)
They also punish success here. If you work hard, and end up successful, then you can be happy about paying up to 50% taxes on your salary. Once I worked 6 months per year only for the finance minister in my country because I had to pay 50% taxes on my salary. My father, a normal police officer, paid 43.7% taxes every month before he retired.
As for the health-care system. Please. It’s definitely not better in Europe. Do you really want waiting times on everything?
My mother had a surgery last year, she had varices removed from her left leg. Public hospitals told her flatly: waiting time for this kind of surgery one year. But luckily she has private insurance and went to a private hospital there they said only one thing: when do you want to come?
And it goes on like that all across Europe.
Europe is not sophisiticated. Europe is rightfully called EUSSR these days. We’re on the track to that.
curiozities commented:
This is what the Democrats want. They look up to Europe and want us to be more like them. Looks like they got what they want–never mind that it’s NOT what the vast majority of Americans want. I say we ship off all Congressional Democrats, starting with Pelousy and Dirty Harry, to Europe on one-way tickets.
bg commented:
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Andreas K. @ 2:30 pm #4
re: [EUSSR]
not exactly what i’ve been learning, but what’s the diff huh??
just a sample of much much more.. *sigh*
Boiling The Infidel Frog
Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called ‘religious rights.’
As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone.
At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs.
From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal and work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law.
When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats.
After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning.
At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare.
From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing, use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels.
After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide.
100% will usher in the peace of ‘Dar-es-Salaam’ – the Islamic House of Peace – there’s supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim.
Europe’s no-go-Muslim-zones
Islamization of Europe / America
“Our confrontation with America used to be like confronting a fortress
from outside. Today we have found an opening to enter the fortress and
to confront it from within.”
the “improbable” Constitution is flawed
“whatever” we once were, we are no longer a Christian Nation..”
“I am not a Muslim” ~ B Hussein O
the jihad is right here right now..
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jerry commented:
our Democrats that are in charge now have lost their frigging mind they will not listen to the American people ( voters ) that put them in office and the thing that is in the white house has to go to we can;t hardly wait to the next election comes so we can clear out Washington DC of these theirs that are in control now.