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In Australia you can receive unemployment benefits indefinitely. I think USA should be like this.

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You're counted as unemployed if you are (1) actively looking for a job and (2) don't have a job. Time has nothing to do with and you aren't "dropped" from the count as long as you meet those two criteria.

Unemployment nationwide is nowhere near 20%,

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What are you all talking about? President Odummy assured everyone that unemployment will not go above 8% as long as his trillion dollar Dem pork stimulus was passed. Even though almost none is to be spent during the first year on actual stimulous activities, I trust he knows what he's talking about. He's not a radically present-oriented empty suit!

What? Unemployment is at 9.5% and the administration is making statements about "double digit unemployment" being in our future? Nevermind.

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In Australia you can receive unemployment benefits indefinitely. I think USA should be like this. There are probably a small percentage of people who abuse the system but generally unemployment sucks and people want to work if they have the opportunity. I'd hate to be worried about registering as unemployed just so I could have a few years up my sleeve in case of emergency

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You're counted as unemployed if you are (1) actively looking for a job and (2) don't have a job. Time has nothing to do with and you aren't "dropped" from the count as long as you meet those two criteria.

Unemployment nationwide is nowhere near 20%,

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so what all those "not actively looking for a job" dumbass. They are still unemployed.

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What are you all talking about? President Odummy assured everyone that unemployment will not go above 8% as long as his trillion dollar Dem pork stimulus was passed. Even though almost none is to be spent during the first year on actual stimulous activities, I trust he knows what he's talking about. He's not a radically present-oriented empty suit!

What? Unemployment is at 9.5% and the administration is making statements about "double digit unemployment" being in our future? Nevermind.

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Yeah I'm sure McCain would have made things a lot better by now.

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In recent weeks, there has been a growing consensus among top economists that the U.S. economy has turned around or is close to doing so. A number of economic readings, including the government's employment report and the gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the nation's economic activity, have improved -- although they still show job losses and a modest drop in GDP.

The Fed has long been on record as saying it expected economic growth to return in the second half of 2009, although it expected a modest recovery at that time. The statement Wednesday is the most explicit declaration yet that recession that started in December 2007 has come to an end.

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What are you all talking about? President Odummy assured everyone that unemployment will not go above 8% as long as his trillion dollar Dem pork stimulus was passed. Even though almost none is to be spent during the first year on actual stimulous activities, I trust he knows what he's talking about. He's not a radically present-oriented empty suit!

What? Unemployment is at 9.5% and the administration is making statements about "double digit unemployment" being in our future? Nevermind.

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Yeah I'm sure McCain would have made things a lot better by now.

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Right, we'd be in the same position with Mccain. Only he would not have used the crisis as an excuse to borrow a trillion dollars to piss away on useless pet projects

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