At Christmas, let us pray for those who cannot find work to support their families!
This video is a real shocker:
Unemployment Benefits: The 99ers
Vast numbers of Americans who were laid off back in 2008 still cannot find jobs. There simply are nowhere near enough jobs to go around.
Despite what was said in the news about extending unemployment benefits for another “thirteen months,” this was a lie. There was no extension of benefits for those who have exhausted their 99 weeks of unemployment benefits and who still cannot find work, or are working at part-time jobs that don’t pay enough to live on.
You don’t have to be a wastrel to end up in that predicament. Many of these people are older, educated professionals who did all the right things: finished college and professional school, worked diligently, kept their skills up to date, saved for their retirement. Now they are cashing in their IRAs and their 401Ks just to survive, selling their homes at huge losses, moving in with strangers, going to soup kitchens, picking through garbage for items to recycle.
Per the video, “No one is expecting Congress to vote another extension of unemployment checks, given our historic budget deficits.”
House adjourns with no mention of tier 5 unemployment extension for 99ers
December 23rd, 2010 8:58 am ET.
The House of Representatives yesterday evening passed a motion to adjourn the 111th Congress with no mention of H.R. 6556, the bill that would have provided unemployment benefits for the 99ers. The bill was sponsored by Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA).
In an eloquent eulogy for tier 5, Michael Colliss laid into Lee, writing on the website All247News, “This latest disappointment to the 99ers was little more then an effort by a relatively unknown Congresswoman to get publicity. The 99ers have suffered – and are continuing to suffer – enough. This was a totally unnecessary, and in the opinion of this writer, basically cruel and insensitive effort by a person who did not care who she hurt to gain headlines. Considering the sad, unnecessary turmoil created by Congressman Barbara Lee of California, many unemployment advocates as well as 99ers are probably asking themselves, ‘With ‘friends’ like these who needs enemies?’”
Michael Colliss worked for 21 years as a staff member in Congress. He is now retired and works as a volunteer advocate for the 99ers.
The 112th Congress begins on Wednesday, January 5th, 2011. It is unlikely to pass legislation providing unemployment benefits for the 99ers. When asked about the future of the 99ers earlier this week, White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said that the President intends to focus on job creation.
I know only too well what the President means when he “intends to focus on job creation.” This means pork-barrel jobs for the TSA gropers, for the new food-inspection Nazis, for unneeded school administrators, and for all of the bureaucrats who are putting a stranglehold on private enterprise. There will be jobs for the SEIU and for other unions that have contributed to the election of Barack Hussein Obama.
This is how Obama’s “job creation” has worked out thus far:
Hot Air: Chart of the … year
(h/t: Iron Fist)
posted at 11:36 am on December 7, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Quite a few people have had the same reaction to this chart from Business Insider and Calculated Risk as John Derbyshire at The Corner, which is to offer a res ipsa loquitur rather than clutter it with commentary. But there is more to be said about the ramifications of this chart:
But calling it the Chart of the Day seems too limiting. I’d call this the Chart of the Year, for a couple of reasons. It demonstrates the folly of the Obama administration’s insistence that we have been experiencing a recovery and any sort of significant growth in job creation. After hitting the nadir of job losses relative to our peak inter-recession employment, we have essentially flatlined for far longer than any other post-recession period. Nothing in the data shows a hint that we will soon break out of that pattern either, and Ben Bernanke says we’ll probably go four to five more years on this same trajectory.
But that’s not all, folks. The Obama Administration has been creating jobs, all right -- but not for Americans! The jobs are in other countries, in various industries that are profiting from US subsidies, sometimes through the costly stimulus program that was touted as a means of stemming American unemployment.
Our Tax Dollars ‘Saved or Created’ Jobs -- OVERSEAS!
Our economy is a mess -- millions of Americans are out of work and those who do have jobs are finding it increasingly difficult to afford the ever rising costs of living. With this in mind, it might make sense for the Obama administration to direct some of our tax dollars towards job creation, but what doesn’t make sense is the fact that millions of our dollars are being used by the Obama administration to create jobs in foreign countries!
Democrats are working very hard pushing the ‘green’ meme and fighting tirelessly to divert money to China for wind turbines -- which if made here instead could help put Americans back to work.’
[...]
Not to be outdone by his former rival & current underling, good ole Barry spent $22 MILLION dollars to train high tech workers in Sri Lanka! Jobs that, again, I’m sure many AMERICANS would have loved an opportunity to be trained for and to get. There was a lot of coverage of this in the right-blogosphere, and virtually none in the MSM (try not to look so surprised), here’s what Ed Morrissey had to say about it at Hot Air:Obama WH spends $22 million to train workers …
August 4, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
As I noted earlier, Democrats plan to punish businesses that locate higher-paying manufacturing jobs overseas with higher taxes. What will they do with a White House that will spend $22 million to train programmers in Java — and English — in Asia? The program from USAID will train 3,000 programmers to compete for business in the high-tech sector…
H-1b: Importing foreigners to displace American tech workers
As if all that were not enough, the H-1b visa program remains in effect. This program imports foreign workers to work at high-tech jobs where there is supposedly a shortage of American workers. The program was a fraud from the get-go, and it still is. Never has there been a shortage of American workers in the IT and engineering fields. Instead, the H-1b workers are being imported as contractors, at lower wages than what American workers would be paid, despite the laws that supposedly prevent that. Because most of the H-1b workers lack understanding of the American business environment, not to mention English-language communication skills, the quality of their work falls far short of that of the experienced American workers whom they have displaced. But too many CEOs and CIOs who want to cut corners to improve their short-term results make use of these H-1b workers in droves.
I am one of the 99ers.
At the age of 57, I am one of those who are considered “too old to rehire, and too young to retire.”
If Barack Hussein Obama has his way, there will never be a job at a living wage for the likes of me.
Having been laid off from an IT job early in 2008, I am one of those who have no more unemployment benefits. I am currently working as a part-time retail clerk, at minimum wage. To put it bluntly, I am a diligent and reliable worker with a clean record and a cooperative attitude, and I am exceedingly frugal, but it is flat-out impossible to survive on what I earn. I have requested more hours, but business has been much too slow.
Unless my situation drastically improves after the beginning of 2011, I am seriously considering emigration.
Also see:
- 99er unemployment benefits legislation, H.R. 6556, passage unlikely
- For the Unemployed Over 50, Fears of Never Working Again
- Shadow Government Statistics: Alternate Unemployment Charts
- 1,000 camp out 3 nights for job application
- Obama Boom leads to a loss of 131,000 jobs in July
- Here Are 13 Signs That We’re Actually In A Depression Right Now
- 20 Signs That The Economic Collapse Has Already Begun For One Out Of Every Seven Americans
- Obama’s Stimulus Money Spent Overseas, Jobs in China (h/t: Rancher)
- Stimulus money going to El Salvador shows Democrats care about our money, not about us
- Special Report: Is America the Sick Man of the Globe? (h/t: Rodan)
Originally posted on 1389 Blog.
Tags: 99ers, China, Economy, H-1b, tech industry, underemployment, Unemployment
Awesome post, please run for public office.
Obama boom go BOOM!
Of course, he said exactly the same thing a year ago.
And the year before that.
Maybe he should “focus” on something else for awhile…
99 weeks of unemployment – unreal. When the bottom fell completely out of the hydrocarbon buisness in 86, I got 12 weeks of a very small unemplyment check and that was it. Nobody in DC or anywhere else stood up in public demanding me and my colleagues get more, I assure you. In fact, since the price of oil had fallen by 2/3rds in a mere 6 months, the majority of the country was dancing in the streets. We just had to root hog or die.
Even if these people are able to survive until retirement age, their Social Security payments will be merely a pittance – payments are based on income of the most recent year. These people’s savings and investments have been decimated while just trying to keep what they have.
We’re discarding the futures of at least two generations; those at the beginning of their careers who will have lost years of progress, and those at the end who’s achievements have been rendered worthless.
I was smart I became a plumber
mawskrat wrote:
The plumber is the natural enemy of the electrician.
MacDuff wrote:
When the shit finally hits the fan it’s really going to be ugly. Civil War 2.0 is coming. It’s only a question of when and what form it will take when it gets here.
The Obama administration, the Progressives, and our courts (for the most part) have no REAL intention of addressing your plight, the plight of so many.
In my view, the problem is simple : redistribution of wealth.
Redistribution far beyond (but not apart from) any ridiculous legislation proposed or passed in DC.
A far too large percentage of those in power are actually quite happy that you are suffering, though they dare not utter that sentiment aloud.
In their view, we are being put in our proper place as a nation.
I was blessed to have found truly gainful in the natural gas field, yet everywhere I look there are groups looking to legislate this wealth producing phenomenon locally out of existence. You cannot truly gauge to what degree until you are actually involved.
They quite literally HATE profit.
I’m not sure how we are ever going to move forward economically as a nation when every profitable, productive thing is demonized out of existence.
yeh I drill the holes and come back and there are wires
run through them.
// we can both hate dry wallers though
@ Prebanned:
How come?
MacDuff wrote:
But the Boomers are well and truely screwed.
@ MacDuff:
While I agree with your point, you may want to check the “payments are based on …” part. In fact, it is based on most of one’s work history and how near to the maximum eligible for FICA withholding one makes in each of those years
@ mjazz:
I don’t do much residential, but when I do, there is always a blaganfrackish pipe in the way.
I’m a 99er. Apply for jobs, go on the interview, and see the same help wanted ad for the same job still there months later.
When I run out of money in a year they’ll tax me 30% for cashing in my retirement, and then tax it again as money earned in the fiscal year, IIRC.
@ mawskrat:
To be fair, electricians are thier own worst enemy, usually conduit is run in a workmanlike manner that completely blocks all future conduit runs.
@ lobo91:
Drudge had a thing on just that the other day. It was kind of subtle, but he had links to the current “focus” comments, and the one the year before that, and the one before that. God help us if Obama really focuses. He’ll destroy the entire job market for all of us.
@ Prebanned:
yeah I started in residential and ended up
working at a university / hospital as a Master Plumber
mjazz wrote:
No, the only real penalty is 10% … and you may get a hardship exemption. Whoever disburses the funds will, however, have to Withhold 20% of it toward reporting it as ordinary income.
@ mjazz:
Stinks.
@ Iron Fist:
Yeah…he does seem to have a reverse Midas touch…
@ mjazz:
My experience is much the same, without the pesky interview part.
I can’t even seem to get one of those…
@ grambo:
Where does the 20% go?
the great thing about trade work is the side work
you get
mjazz wrote:
Obama’s stash…
mjazz wrote:
To Uncle Sugar …. just like the withholding from a regular paycheck.
Prebanned wrote:
Awwww, thanks!
I have actually thought about it, but I don’t think it’d be wise. My husband and I both have waaaay too many physical infirmities to pull that off. In addition, we have some security issues that would likely result in bad things happening to us if we were to assume a higher profile than we have been doing.
@ lobo91:
I’ve only had maybe a couple of those myself. Applying online is a hell of a lot better than schlepping all over creation applying in person, as it used to be. I try to use gas now as little as possible.
@ grambo:
So it does amount to 30%. I was just wrong about being taxed twice.
I’m thinking there may be some kind of hardship exemption by that time.
Unless unicorns come to the door with bags of money.
@ mawskrat:
I became unemployed in 2009, started my own thing wanting to do industrial controls, ended up scraping by on residential and the occasional industrial/commercial job nobody else wanted to tackle.
Developed a reputation, started pulling in industrial control jobs and trouble calls. Got enough industrial customers to make it now but it took a year.
@ grambo:It’s witholding from earnings, so how much the feds get to keep has to be figured out on your trusty 1040.
@ lobo91:
I did my three contacts a week for 6 months, and nothing.
Mike C. wrote:
That’s what we have been doing. There is nothing for us to root up any more. I’m rooting as hard as I can and coming up with not nearly enough to live on. Them’s the facts!
Look at the chart in the article. 1986 was not a year of widespread economic recession; thus, the bottom dropping out of one industry did not make it so that you could no longer find ANY work in ANY industry that would pay enough to live on.
Therein lies the difference.
Mike C. wrote:
Yes. Just like regular earnings. You may or may not get some back the following year when you file.
But they hang on to your 20% until you do.
Prebanned wrote:
I have done a helluva lot more than three contacts a week, for well over two years!
Once in a great while I’ve gotten a phone interview. Occasionally, I get a rejection by email. In the vast majority of instances, absolutely no response whatsoever.
The ONLY job offer I have had in well over two years is for the part-time retail work, which I accepted.
@ 1389AD:
Oh yeah.
Is there any way you could start your own business?
Bumr50 wrote:
You could submit that thread as an article in and of itself.
Prebanned wrote:
Me? No. I don’t have expertise in anything that could be used as the basis for starting a business. Nor do I have any capital for that. In addition, I would not have any way to get health insurance, and I have too many health issues to afford to pay for it on my own.
The bottom has dropped out of the field that I have experience in (namely, mainframe computer work) so I got retrained in Microsoft network admin. Unfortunately, at my age, nobody will hire me for that either, unless I have some experience to go along with the certification, which I haven’t been able to get.
This is a horrifically bad time for ANYBODY to be starting a business.
At this point, I want to take a shot at getting people’s attention to correct the things in the economy that are causing this situation. The biggest issue right now is terminating H-1B, along with eliminating all of the incentives for outsourcing and offshoring.
1389AD wrote:
So, have you tried to convince somebody that your skills in one industry qualifies you for a job in their completely unrelated industry ? I have – didn’t work out at all.
I have in My House one of my Step dad’s relatives who’s in the Colombian armed forces. He’s ex AUC but joined the regular forces in 2003. He goes to Israel often, I’m getting some juicy information.
In short, Obama is trying to block Israel from selling Colombians the Merkava.
I’ll report more in a bit.
@ lobo91:
Hey Lobo!
Happy Birthday!
@ 1389AD:
I never even got anything back from the innertubes.
I applied at all the local places in person and no luck.
@ Mike C.:
These days, it’s rare enough to actually get to talk to a human, much less convince them of anything.
@ savages_girl:
Thanks
Mike C. wrote:
Well…I got the job in retail. Pretty much unrelated to IT work.
In better times, there would be enough hours of work in the store, where I could make a living at it until something else became available.
@ Prebanned:
I think they are hanging on to the cream of the crop resumes and when they think the economy may be making a turn for the better, pick the ‘winner’.
Prebanned wrote:
My response to people who asked me that was usually to mention that doing so in my field (military) is illegal in most jurisdictions.
I guess my current venture is about as close as I could come…
@ Prebanned:
I remember in the early 90′s DDC was just becoming
a big deal where I worked
Prebanned wrote:
I pestered people in person over and over for months on end to get this job.
However, on account of my not earning enough to keep going, my husband and I are considering leaving to go to some other state or country where the unemployment rate is lower, to see if I might possibly get back into IT work. He is disabled but does some work when he can, and might be able to find something for himself to do there too.
I’m going to tell my employer that I really need a lot more hours in order to survive. If they are not in a position to give me a lot more hours, I am probably going to have to try someplace like Texas…or perhaps overseas. Trouble is, it costs a ton of money to move, even though we live in a motorhome. Fuel is expensive.
I remember when I was on unemployment, it was barely enough to live on. Took three unemployment checks just to pay my rent. Then they only allowed you 6 months of unemployment. At least they’ve extended it for people in need. I now how stressful that can be. Believe me, I’m very grateful to have a (decent) job.
mjazz wrote:
That is correct … at least in my own experience.
One of our departments has been understaffed by three for the past three years. We are now, finally, being allowed to hire ONE person. HR showed me a stack of resumes two feet tall.
Of course, we have to post the job internally first …. including our operations in Honduras, Mexico, etc.etc.
There was a time when I was proud of who I worked for …..
@ mjazz:
I will never take another job as long as I live. I still have to make My customers happy. In a sense, they are my boss. But I can’t get fired, and if I work my tail off, I get paid more because I’m not on salary.
@ 1389AD:
At least you won’t have to pack.
lobo91 wrote:
I pretty much gave up looking for “permanent” jobs about 10 years ago.
I thought Obama had finally discovered that he had to support industry in order to promote job growth.
Then a coworker pointed out that he only tossed a few crumbs because he was forced to by the new power shift from the elections.
@ Prebanned:
That’s the way to go.
swamprat wrote:
And all those crumbs have strings attached to them and will be yanked back before they can have any significant impact.
swamprat wrote:
That’s the beauty of having idiotic supporters. He doesn’t have to actually do anything. He just has to say that he’s doing something, and they all believe him…
How are all those new nuclear power plants coming along that he promised to support last January?
I had a Mitsubishi with a plow attachment that I bought from my father, but I didn’t use it because I didn’t want to mess up the front end.
Eventually junked it, shoulda beat the shit out of it.
OK, now this is cool….
swamprat wrote:
Obama promised no more outsourcing. Yet his stimulus has given billions overseas.
Funny about those bills that passed without being read. Wonder what sort of stuff is hidden in all that verbage.
swamprat wrote:
Exactly!
lobo91 wrote:
Yup, it’s a genuine wonder that Obama worshipers brains generate enough electricity to keep their bodies moving.
@ doriangrey:
I want one of those…
@ doriangrey:
I still like my local bar tender
Rodan wrote:
Hmmm, maybe we can get a legislative malfeasance law passed and then prosecute those that signed legislation that they never read?
@ doriangrey:
Reminds me of the idiots who were going on all the talk shows last week touting how much Obama’s done for border security.
The funeral of that dead Border Patrol agent didn’t even slow them down…
Prebanned wrote:
That’s true – and that figured in our decision to move into the motorhome. We did that so that we could move to wherever the work is; at that time, there actually was some.
If we end up having to emigrate, we’ll either have to sell the motorhome (in which case, we’ll have to fix it up somewhat first) or sign it over to my husband’s daughter. We don’t have that much to pack, but it’s still costly to move.
@ doriangrey:
I would pay dearly for a self-filling beer cup.
Rodan wrote:
As our representative Joe Wilson pointed out, the dude’s a liar.
Or his speechwriters are; after all, Obozo can’t even call his dog without a teleprompter.
lobo91 wrote:
Yup, kind of like Barney Franks and the question about gays using the same showers as straights, then when asked if women and men should be forced to use the same showers, his response without hesitation was… Ewww no that would be icky, but it would be unacceptable discrimination for gays and straights to not shower together.
@ Rodan:
Well, see, once their standard of living is up to ours, they’ll be able to charge us as much as it would cost to produce something here.
@ doriangrey:
We need a law that all legislation be published for public examination before it is passed.( say 30 days) A website would be an ideal venue. Paper copies available for a nominal fee.
@ doriangrey:
Barney Fag no doubt thinks heterosexual sex is icky. The human race should reproduce like lesbians do: with turkey-basters…
@ 1389AD:
He is a liar.
mjazz wrote:
Or ours is down to theirs…
@ swamprat:
I wish the non obvious ones had names attached to the earmarks.
@ mjazz:
we have to become a third world country first
lobo91 wrote:
Meanwhile he is against making the E-Verify system mandatory.
Iron Fist wrote:
To bad we cant get a court to order a late term abortion on Bawney Fwanks… ( a really really really late term abortion)
@ 1389AD:
I lived in a travel trailer while I went to college on the GI bill.
Easy to clean. My electric bill was $35.
That thing should at least get 6 MPG, You could go for 50 cents per mile and have a place to live when you got there.
@ doriangrey:
That’s right. That 50 dollar chain saw isn’t so cheap when I’m making just above minimum.
Rodan wrote:
And against requiring every voter to show proof of citizenship before being allowed to vote.
Regarding Барни Франк: Is this your Christmas Wish too?
@ doriangrey:
I think it is really sad that Ann Dunham didn’t have access to safe and legal abortion. Really, really sad…
The last time I checked, five states had unemployment levels equal to, or greater than, the worst Katrina levels in Louisianna.
And Nevada’s graph looked like a bottle rocket.
Iron Fist wrote:
We need to put in a “puke” emoticon somehow.
@ doriangrey:
It would change nothing, the idiots who voted for Barney would just vote for another loon.
I used to shower with 14 other guys at a time, I would shower with Barney if I could then take Him on a two week hike. He would probably give up the first day.
@ Iron Fist:
I didn’t know he had a sister, or step sister.
Iron Fist wrote:
Would you date a woman named Stanley? How about Albert?
@ 1389AD:
You can skin the wordpress emoticons, but they just show up differently on your machine. It’d be a pain in the ass to get us all using the same ones. Wah
@ mjazz:
OK, half sister.
Iron Fist wrote:
Frank Marshall Davis knocked her up! Poor Obama Sr. he saw the kid wasn’t his.
@ mjazz:
Half sister. He doesn’t seem like much of a family guy. “Cold fish” I believe fits him best, and that extends to his daughters. He let them grow up listening to Rev.Wright. If that ain’t child abuse, not much is.
It’s hard to grasp that less than 600 people can make such a mess of things for 300 million.
435 Reps
100 Sens
1 Pres
9 SC Justices
and a buncha’ Czars and Cabinet Heads.
Stanley Ann majored in anthropology. Now that explains a few things but I won’t say just in case someone might call me …..
Iron Fist wrote:
Skin?
Here is a handy link. You can click and unclick various states as you choose. Left click and choose “open in new window”.
http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=usunemployment&met=unemployment_rate&tdim=true&dl=en&hl=en&q=%22current+unemployment+rate%22+graph
Grimcargo wrote:
Reportedly, the reason she dumped her second husband is that he became too westernized.
She was a seriously whacked out woman…
@ Iron Fist:
It will be interesting to see how his daughters turn out.
@ Brick:
What’s also sad is how hard it is to come up with replacements for these bozo’s. How in the world did so many get re-elected?
Grimcargo wrote:
Frank Marshall David were her trainer. Obama was the result.
Obama Sr. was the sucker who claimed the kid. It wasn’t his. It was Frank.
Pictures don’t lie.
Brick wrote:
I’m fixing this one for you, because the SCOTUS Justice we have to be concerned about are Sotomayor, Kagan, Ginsburg, and Breyer. The rest we pray for their well being and good health.
@ lobo91:
The reason Obama Sr. left her was because the kids wasn’t his.
mjazz wrote:
He’ll probably marry them off to tribal leaders in exchange for some goats…
lobo91 wrote:
Yeah and I think her mom and daddy were just as whacked as she was.
@ swamprat:
Dammit, right click.
Macker… Found this at the bottom of that link… Now this is just plain funny…
Macker wrote:
@ swamprat:
I wonder what happened in 2008?/
@ Macker:
Fair enough.
@ mjazz:
The evil bush regime left the noble democrats with
a president who openly was anti- industr…
I mean, housing bubble caused by banks strong armed into selling houses to people who couldn’t affor
Look! a shiny!
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by 1389 and Inside USAID, The Blogmocracy. The Blogmocracy said: Who Are The #99ers? http://goo.gl/fb/eTOZu #barackobama #china #economy #socialism #tranzis #immigration #h1b [...]
@ doriangrey:
ROFLMAIAO!
@ doriangrey:
This is why I don’t go home for Christmas anymore…
@ doriangrey:
That was swell!
@ mjazz:
* remember, you saw that word resurrected here first
@ mjazz:
Maybe we could convince the Secret Service that Obama was bitten by a zombie…
lobo91 wrote:
ROTFLMAO… If only….
doriangrey wrote:
“Teleprompter:
Okay, now act like a zombie.”
Shouldn’t be too tough, you think?
ROTFLMAO… another really great video from Kicking and Screaming H/T Macker… This one is seriously for lobo…
@ lobo91:
How swould you tell? Off prompter, he’s pretty inarticulate…
@ doriangrey:
Two paws up!
This one is pretty amusing:
The state with unemployment rate greater than 10.6 percent( which Louisianna had during Katrina)
Rhode Island 11 percent
Florida 11.6 percent
California 12 percent
Michigan 12 percent
and the winner is
NEVADA! 13.7 percent
Nevada! you have been hit hardest by a force more damaging than hurricane Katrina!
Hurricane Obama! Five states and holding strong, but down from the 7 previously held.
@ lobo91:
ROFLMAO!
@ lobo91:
Glocks!
LMAO
Aren’t all guns shiny black?
“So, let me get this straight: Your original plan was to get an expensive assault rifle with a ton of ammo, 2 Glocks, a plate carrier with no plate, and a bunch of needless gear and head for the mountains, where you have no experience, and live out the rest of your life with a bunch of other idiots not unlike yourself, spending your days cold and starving to death with your cool special warfare wannabe gear?”
“Basically, yeah”
Calo wrote:
No. Cool guns are flat black.
//
@ lobo91:
Excellent!
At first I thought this was an Arfcom gig, but then after the crack, I figured it was done by someone on lightfighter.
Besides, everyone knows all you need is one K-31 for distance, a 1911 for up close, and a dozen Glocks for area denial. Just pull the pin on a Glock and toss.
Late to this thread. There’s another graph prepared by the same guy here:
http://cr4re.com/charts/chart-images/EmploymentRecessionsNov.jpg
Note that the current recession (red) stops at Month 35. This sets Month 0 at January 2009, the month the democrats took control of Congress.