This chart is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
This chart almost needs no explanation. This recession has increased the number of unemployed people trying to get each job from an average between one and three over the last decade to six now. And that improvement you see leading into April is almost entirely due to temporary Census Bureau hiring. The census push being over, some 700,000 of those people are re-entering the rolls of the unemployed, so this ratio is heading right back up.
When there are six times as many people wanting work as there are jobs it is unspeakable for Republicans like Orrin Hatch to accuse them of being on drugs or lazy. Does this bastard not understand the nature of the crisis this country is in? Does he have no freaking idea of how much damage his party has done to the American people?
Glenn Beck cries on TV that he’s had it and he can’t wait for his crazies on the right to take him up on his plea to start shooting. Lets hope that when they do, they have some sense and target people like Hatch.
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