Unemployment

Nov 1 2016        4.9             Jan 1   2007     4.6

Jan 1 2016         4.9                         2006     4.7 

 Jan 1 2015         5.7                         2005      5.3

Jan 1 2014         6.6                         2004      5.7

Jan 1 2013         8.0                         2003      5.8 

Jan 1 2012         8.3                         2002       5.7 

Jan 1 2011         9.1                         2001       4.2   

Jan 1 2010        9.8                          2000        4.0

Jan 1 2009        7.8                           1999       4.3

Jan 1  2008       5.0                           1998        4.6

    .........in the importance and noise of tomorrow

When the brokers are roaring like beasts one the floor of  the Bourse

And the poor have the sufferings to which they are fairly  accustomed.

Auden From 

 In Memory of W.B.Yeats

In Jan 2009 when Obama was sworn in the poor had been fairly accustomed to 5.0%. 

Not to 7.8% . That's why he was being sworn in other than the otherwise appealing

straight- shooter  war hero and his interesting running mate.

Joe Lunchpail waited for the new guy to fix it. Yeah he was a black but in the states where he had any chance

of being elected they'd gotten used to that.

We can read accounts galore (e.g. Ron Suskind's) of the desperate struggle of Obama and his team

to prevent the US from de-industrializing   and the  capitalism based economies disappearing

from everyplace west of Moldova.. Guess what? Joe Lunchpail  didn't read Suskind. . Didn't need to. Got all the information he wanted from Hannity or whatever on Fox.

Joe  speaks:

Give the new black President a chance. Probably take him a while for him  to fix  things..Maybe,May,June.

Jan 2010.

He hasn't fixed it. Mustn't know what he's doing. Have to vote for the other guys.

Nov 2010. He does

2011 yadda, yadda ,yadda. When I try the other channel  they say  "Recovery". Recovery my foot. I haven't had a paycheck for 18 months. Thanks God the wife got hired at McDonalds. Just one of those Washington lies.

Now they're  talking about Libya. Libya! Libya! 

For God's sake. Who needs it?

What about Wilkinsburg?

2012

See they re-elected that bag of wind I should never have voted for him. Amazed he's still there.

At least he's got an attractive wife. 

2015.

Trump is going to run. Trump?  Who needs it? Glad  I got hired back  at East Pittsburgh.

And the democrats are going to run  one of those Clinton's. And Bern something or other. Old guy.

Later

Did you hear what Trump answered when Howard Stern asked whether  he could call his daughter

a nice piece of [deleted  for violation of something of other FL)?

Trump said "Go ahead." To be honest I wasn't wild about that. But I don't hear the broads complaining.

2016

 See any of those debates ? Good for you!  I didn't. I'm shooting for the world record for not watching debates. Maybe the Cubs will go to the world series. Everyone else stinks.Certainly better than a Debate.

Last week.

I voted , not for Clinton's wife. She's getting past it. Not true of the Mrs. Trump. She's a looker.  I hear some stuff about his playing around. With a wife like that! What a jerk! But anything's better that Oshama..He had me out of work for 5 years. Some President! Whatever Trump's doing after- hours, he's got to be better than that.

Took me forever to vote and then when I came out some jerk asked me if I were voting against the  "Ivy league

East Coast cerebral elitists." What the F.....do I know or care about the East Coast whatever. I said "Yes" to get

rid of him. What I was voting against was people like O-whatever who caused that depression by passing Natsasomething . So all our jobs went behind a wall, Trump said.

See you in Squirrel Hill..  Guess we still have a few more months of Obama but Trump won't let him do

anything dumb like taking  away my Medicare.