$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Buddy_J', 'W')ell, when you are encouraged from the top to do anything other than reorient your skills with their value in the marketplace, of COURSE you do disability, and wait until your unemployment runs out before actually looking for work, and no one should ever ask you to retrain into a job which might pay decent wages because...heckfire...you might need to learn some math or something! Let those oil field jobs go begging because who in the hell wants to move to another state for opportunity, if the government can't drop me a high paying job requiring no skills and not minding an employee who calls in sick half the time because they stub their toe right next to my house because sure I don't want to commute, gasoline is $4/gal, then screw it! Someone help me fill out paperwork to get on the dole! I paid taxes for those 3 months I worked one summer...now I am OWED!! FEED ME! GIVE ME CASH! WHERE ARE MY FOOD STAMPS! I NEED JOB TRAINING BECAUSE EMPLOYERS DON'T LIKE MY GED EVER SINCE THE GOVERNMENT MADE IT EASY ENOUGH THAT A CHIMPANZEE CAN GET ONE! WWWHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Enough to make working people who have to support all the newly freeloading sick
Did someone forget their meds this morning? Next time you might want to take a few breaths before writing up your post. Anyway, people 
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This is the WORST RECOVERY EVER
Re: This is the WORST RECOVERY EVER
by kublikhan » Thu 07 Feb 2013, 15:05:52
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n the boom country of Williston, North Dakota oil isn't difficult to find. A place to sleep on the other hand will take more than just sophisticated drilling equipment. "There's a huge shortage of housing, so there's a lot of people living in campers, RVs, in their cars on the streets," said Detective Amy Nickoloff with the Williston Police Department.
The population has nearly doubled in Williston in just the last few years. People keep showing up and there's no place to put them. "A lot of people who have come up here have been laid off and they can't find jobs in their hometown," said Terry Legions, Bear Paw Lodge General Manager.
The money is good, but the work is long. "We're basically on campus all the time. Six weeks on, two weeks off," said Keller. "That's seven days a week, 84 hours a week," added Legions.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')onfronted with the unusual problem of too many unfilled jobs and not enough empty beds to accommodate the new arrivals, North Dakota embraced the camps — typically made of low-slung, modular dormitory-style buildings — as the imperfect solution to keeping workers rested and oil flowing.
But now, even as the housing shortage worsens, towns like this one are denying new applications for the camps. In many places they have come to embody the danger of growing too big too fast, cluttering formerly idyllic vistas, straining utilities, overburdening emergency services and aggravating relatively novel problems like traffic jams, long lines and higher crime.
“We need a little time to catch our breath to figure out what resources we need in place before we keep expanding” In recent weeks, Williams County, where thousands of previously approved camp beds have yet to be built, and Mountrail County, where one-third of the population is living in temporary housing, imposed moratoriums on man camp development. McKenzie County, where the growth had been particularly untamed thanks to the absence of any zoning rules, is even considering breaking with a century of tradition and requiring building permits. “There is a testiness that’s developed in this last year because it’s so intense,”
A few years ago, when the oil boom was in its infancy, these long-shrinking communities were doing anything to encourage development. Now the state population is growing, money is pouring into communities and the unemployment rate remains by far the lowest in the nation, even though more job seekers arrive every day.
The oil barrel is half-full.
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Re: This is the WORST RECOVERY EVER
by Plantagenet » Thu 07 Feb 2013, 15:14:21
Every dark cloud has a silver lining.
While on a nationwide basis GDP growth is so sluggish that the post 2008 recovery is the WORST RECOVERY EVER, the economy is actually pretty darn good in parts of North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas and other areas where frakking booms are going on. High Tech is doing pretty good in SF and NY, and even real estate is showing some signs of life.
After four years of sluggish growth, ending with a thud when we got negative (!) GDP growth in Q4 2012, I'm hoping things can start to pick up here in 2013. Of course, we still have to get past the nutty budget sequester that Obama set up along with his tax increases, and then raise the debt limit again so Obama can take the USA even deeper into debt, and then start up all the new rules, healthcare exchanges, and taxes that come along with Obamacare, but I'm sure the whiz kids in DC will be up to the task of dealing with all these minor problems.
While on a nationwide basis GDP growth is so sluggish that the post 2008 recovery is the WORST RECOVERY EVER, the economy is actually pretty darn good in parts of North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas and other areas where frakking booms are going on. High Tech is doing pretty good in SF and NY, and even real estate is showing some signs of life.
After four years of sluggish growth, ending with a thud when we got negative (!) GDP growth in Q4 2012, I'm hoping things can start to pick up here in 2013. Of course, we still have to get past the nutty budget sequester that Obama set up along with his tax increases, and then raise the debt limit again so Obama can take the USA even deeper into debt, and then start up all the new rules, healthcare exchanges, and taxes that come along with Obamacare, but I'm sure the whiz kids in DC will be up to the task of dealing with all these minor problems.
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Re: This is the WORST RECOVERY EVER
by Beery1 » Thu 07 Feb 2013, 18:34:06
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'W')hile on a nationwide basis GDP growth is so sluggish that the post 2008 recovery is the WORST RECOVERY EVER, the economy is actually pretty darn good in parts of North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas and other areas where frakking booms are going on. High Tech is doing pretty good in SF and NY, and even real estate is showing some signs of life.
And the Dow hit 14,000. Also, weekly applications for unemployment benefits fell 5,000, meaning that companies continue to hire at a steady pace. And retail sales at stores that have been open at least a year rose 5 percent in January. All this despite the payroll tax hike.
So hang on... thanks to Obama, this is the WORST RECOVERY EVER, except for the economy, which seems to be recovering just fine?
That could only make sense to a complete lunatic.
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