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State Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond just issued this:

The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that 59,090 laid-off workers filed first-time claims for unemployment insurance benefits in August, an increase of 72.1 percent from August of 2007.

From July to August, the initial claims declined from 59,165, a drop of one-tenth of one percent.

“The August increase is the largest over-the-year increase in initial claims since October of 2001, when we began experiencing significant layoffs following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,” Thurmond said.

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By Will Jones

September 11, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

Pair this report with the spiralling concentration of wealth by Bush’s 9/11 accomplices of the false-elite/fascist plutocracy and the American financial system’s perilous state.

The Bush Economy is the predation of Rome’s Fifth Column on the Sovereign and Free American People, whose liberty yet poses a threat to caesaropapism’s tyranny Our Whig Founders rejected in 1776.

Bush/McCain must be roundly rejected in November that Bush/Cheney hang for 9/11 and for their PNAC neo-con fascist false war for heroin, oil and the Saudi “royal” family.

Obama is our hope to restore righteousness in governance as well as economy. A man of proven integrity next to a martial incompetent, raised on Capitol Hill, schooled by Roman priests, now “married to the Mob,” the choice for the eighty percent Working Middle Class is an easy one.

The lies and hypocrisy of Bush/McCain are destroying our jobs, money and Republic. Justice must be done that the People, sovereign and prosperous once more, know the rule of Truth and Righteousness once more in this most blessed Land.

Annuit Coeptis Death for Treason Justice for our 9/11 and war dead innocents

http://www.theamericanfundament.blogspot.com

By Mark

September 11, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

Obama is a tool. The bloom is off the Obama rose. Will Jones is a lunatic.

By Will Jones

September 11, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

Mark - No facts? No rebuttal? No history? Ad hominem all you got? Poor reflection on your blood, upbringing and education. You must be a supporter of the “neo-con” fascists.

By Gary

September 11, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this

Will….the fact is your a loon. Yes anyone who thinks the President or our government caused 9/11 is a loon and does not deserved to be presented with facts or rebuttals because well frankly they are too stupid to see it. You don’t have to agree with the President and you don’t have to like Republicans, but this insinuating that the US was behind the most horrific attack ever is down right stupid. Those who have other views are not poor educated. Maybe you need to re-read history sir.

By Will Jones

September 11, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

Your inference is completely flawed.

You’re making an enormous mistake.

There is no insinuation involved here…other than your pathetic ad hominem.

Emeritus Professor David Ray Griffin, PhD, a scholar of proven integrity, proves beyond any doubt, reasonable or otherwise, that Bush and Cheney committed 9/11. Check it out at the library. It is a succinct, quick, and pristine read.

Perhaps, just perhaps, you’ll actually learn something new. If not it will merely be a further reflection on your parentage, upbringing and education.

http://www.theamericanfundament.blogspot.com

By American worker

September 11, 2008 9:28 PM | Link to this

The remedy, of course, is to bring in more cheap foreign labor - who cares about it being legal or not.

And…make all the already here illegal labor legal, so as to make them eligible for more taxpayer provided benefits.

By American worker

September 11, 2008 9:32 PM | Link to this

The remedy, of course, is to bring in more cheap foreign labor - who cares about it being legal or not.

And…make all the already here illegal labor legal, so as to make them eligible for more taxpayer provided benefits.

By American worker

September 11, 2008 9:32 PM | Link to this

The remedy, of course, is to bring in more cheap foreign labor - who cares about it being legal or not.

And…make all the already here illegal labor legal, so as to make them eligible for more taxpayer provided benefits.

By GaNative

September 12, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

I think it’s refreshing to see that the Georgia economy and State Government is suffering. Any state that steals your tax stimulus check needs to suffer. The whole suffering process is good in order to bring this country and our state back in line with reality. There are more foreclosures, people losing jobs, houses and cars than you can shake a stick at. Not to mention people being behind on personal debts like credit cards. Now that they’ve made a mess of things (and it all started when they opted to go with cheap foreign labor) and killed their own tax base (american workers), how are they going to fix it? Your average american who’s in this jobless or under employed predicament has seen their credit rating take a nose dive. Looks like to me the FICO score for credit ratings is going to have to be thrown out in order to get these empty houses sold or no one in america is going to be able to secure any kind of credit in the future. When this all started the thinking was “Those people losing their homes are people who should not have qualified for it anyway”. But now I see folks who have lived in their homes for years upon years losing it. Even our senior citizens are filing bankruptcies in record numbers. It’s hard to pledge your allegiance to a flag or sing “God Bless America” to a country that has disenfranchised you as a natural born citizen and opted to employ those on work visas. Until you get the American people back working (not underemployed or on temporary assignments) then this mess will continue. Every bank across american is seeing a decline in deposits and some are in financial troubles as the FDIC continues to regulate and close them. How can their deposits go up or be maintained when the people who made the deposits are jobless?

By GaNative

September 12, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

Of that 59,090 claims filed for first time filers on the unemployment list. You can multiply that times 10 or more for the number of Georgians who have expired their benefits. Every thing trickles down and effects every phase of the economy when you have your citizens sitting at home or under employed. I’m working a temporary assignment now, but guess what? Last week the company could not make payroll. Why? Because the client had not paid them because their revenues are down because consumers are not paying their bills on time. It all trickles down. And rather than admit that they have financial woes, when I asked the company why didn’t I get paid their reply was “We forgot to include you in the payroll processing”. Now I’m supposed to be stupid enough to believe that answer? Payroll is automated. We submit our time online. There is no way you can forget to include someone without forgetting everyone. What really happened was when the final numbers for the amout of payroll to be paid out exceeded what was actually in the bank, they went in and started striking people to hold off on paying them.

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