Animated US Map Shows Startling Growth of Unemployment

An animated US map shows the "geography of a recession" - unemployment rates over the past two years.

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November 25, 2009 at 8:53 am - American Observer
Dateline: Washington, DC
SubjectofUSSA   November 25th, 2009 - 10:03 am

Clearly health care is the reason unemployment is getting worse. It’s those damned insurance companies again.

Obama_owns_it_now   November 25th, 2009 - 10:05 am

Shame that there isn’t a close up of the DC area showing the colors getting lighter! We don’t need the job growth in the Gov, we need it in the private areas. Obama owns this ecomomy now and this is exactly what he wanted to happen!

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FastFacts   November 25th, 2009 - 11:01 am

This is a scary thing to watch but this accounts for the regular unemployment, not the real unemployment which accounts to those who have stopped looking for work and have taken up one or two part time jobs. That unemployment is a 17.5. Report yesterday said that Young Black Males (16-24) are at 34.5 unemployment and going up quickly. At in young women and Unemployment for Young Blacks is at 30.4%. We need to do something, and since Obama is doing nothing, his ‘Jobs’ Convention is not about jobs WH reported, we in the private sector need to help them find work.

NEOFREEDOM   November 25th, 2009 - 11:04 am

ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES,AMERICA ; A Community Organizer from Chicago elected to be the President of the United States of America.What a JOKE. The real unemployment rate is closing in on 20% ! WAKE UP AMERICA, ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES .

Tell that loser prez of ours to S-T-F-Piehole-U!   November 25th, 2009 - 11:20 am

And our loser prez called a job summit…ELEVEN MONTHS TOO LATE!

Taylor   November 25th, 2009 - 11:28 am

http://yesbuthowever.com/google-michelle-obama-controversy-8136275/
“Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!”

Matt   November 25th, 2009 - 11:33 am

Thank you Dems for the “stimulus”.

jason   November 25th, 2009 - 11:34 am

Holy Shiite.

http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingstuff

Pffffttt   November 25th, 2009 - 11:35 am

Obama Sinks! Thanks Mr President for helping the people of America–become more unemployed!

OBAMA USHERS IN 3RD WORLD STATUS FOR AMERICANS   November 25th, 2009 - 11:39 am

GOOD JOB YOU CHICAGO THUG POS!

Sarah Palin's book lifts all boats!   November 25th, 2009 - 11:53 am

Sarah Palin’s best-selling book “Going Rogue” has created-or-saved more private sector jobs than 0bama’s ’shamulus’ bill.

duncan   November 25th, 2009 - 12:05 pm

Hows the Hope & Change so far?

Woody   November 25th, 2009 - 12:15 pm

Barack Obama will go down in history as the Republican Party’s most valuable player.

lg   November 25th, 2009 - 1:39 pm

Are these all private sector jobs throughout the country? I live in the NYC area and find it astonishing that all of us in the private sector are either unemployed or taken massive pay cuts, yet not a single state, federal or municipal employee in my area has been laid off or forced to take a pay cut yet. I guess that’s all George Bush’s fault too?

Gandhi's Fist   November 25th, 2009 - 2:55 pm

Obama = Carter. Yet will manage to go down in history as the very worst president ever.

NEOFREEDOM   November 25th, 2009 - 4:31 pm

Barack Hussein Obama = Jimmy Carter Stupid !

O'Really?   November 25th, 2009 - 4:46 pm

Obama the worst president ever? Hmmmm…

Nope! “W” has got that one all wrapped up! This is his recession due in large part to his wars, one of which was totally unnecessary.

Sundowner   November 25th, 2009 - 4:52 pm

Yeah that whole housing market collapse had nothing at all to do with those banks all failing. lol That one Bush tried to warn people about 11 times during his tenure…

You are too stupid to be allowed to breathe.

Arkyump   November 25th, 2009 - 5:24 pm

Its Bush’s fault. Obama, Obama, Obama. This is scary isn’t it.

ed357   November 25th, 2009 - 6:31 pm

OBAMACARE AND CAP AND TAX………

D’OH………….IT’S THE ECONOMY……………STUPID

912Cindy   November 25th, 2009 - 8:16 pm

I’ve been livn’ green (the 10% or over category) for almost a year. The ONLY silver lining I can see is that things are so bad people will make a change. I hope there is a tidal wave that completely takes out the Democrats in 2010. In 2012 I hope that someone with a steel spine gets into office and cuts the size of our government in at least half. Otherwise we will not survive.

William   November 25th, 2009 - 10:03 pm

We are all Blue states now

William in Arizona   November 25th, 2009 - 10:46 pm

Reasons: From 2006 on, a Democratic Congress: a warned of housing bubble due to ill-conceived lending practices; creeping tax rates forcing a move to offshore labor; bailouts; financial sector-helping TARP sham; earmark-laden stimulus package; election cycle meant many lawmakers abdicated their duties in order to campaign; poor state budget control; fuel prices; general malaise brought on by Democrats; debt and the falling dollar; and on and on …

We are on a collision course with the certain collapse of the United States here. The private sector must be allowed to drag us away from the abyss, the federal government must downsize considerably, state governments must downsize considerably, entitlement programs must be reduced or curtailed entirely, federal-state-local taxes must be frozen then reduced, payment on the federal deficit must start cutting into the capital, Congress and the current administration must be replaced, international aid must be reduced considerably, access to domestic sources of fossil fuels must be encouraged, further large-scale federal mandates must not be undertaken, and credit must be loosened.

The end of this tale is still unwritten, so how will it end?

Grace from the NE   November 26th, 2009 - 6:45 am

Clearly NOW is time for us to make legal 10-17 million illegal alliens and allow them to bring in an additional 30 million family members….sarc!

Barry Soetoro   November 26th, 2009 - 7:49 am

Back off, dudes! I am BARRY SOETORO, the Messiah. This is all George Bush’s fault. James Brown in Drag and I willl fix it.

Barack Obama   November 26th, 2009 - 9:57 am

Look pee-ons: I have to elevate the world by bringing the G-D USA down to size. You all had it good for yrs. Now its time to spread the wealth to others. Get in the Christmas spirit. Don’t fret about you not having a job. Someone in Mexico is now working cause your unemployed, time to be patriotic.

F&ck America

Steve from Wisconsin   November 26th, 2009 - 10:26 am

Dialogue with a liberal: Unemployment is over 10%; (Liberal) “It’s Bush’s fault.” Global warming’s hype is coming unraveled; (Liberal) “Sarah Palin is an idiot.” and so on ……….

Yephora   November 26th, 2009 - 10:41 am

How to interpret: Darker, like gangrene spreading, is bad.

Obiwankenobi   November 26th, 2009 - 11:07 am

yeah this is bush’s recession due to teh wars

uh sundowner is right the troll is too stupid to breathe

Obiwankenobi   November 26th, 2009 - 11:09 am

yeah this is bush’s recession due to teh wars

uh sundowner is right the troll is too stupid to breathe he also forgot to call it teh zionazis recession too

comsense08   November 26th, 2009 - 5:18 pm

This is what happens when we don’t educate our kids (properly in school and more so at home), allow them to grow up with no history of the US, and then allow them to vote! This is what happens when we spoil the little brats and allow them to believe the world revolves around them and that someone “owes” them. This is what happens when you start eroding the American culture with too many outside influences. This is what happens when we let idiots vote their hearts and not their minds. This is how America ends. We could not be taken from the outside, but we sure allowed ourselves to rot from the inside. We deserve to fail be cause we didn’t have the guts and the desire to protect the greatest nation God ever allowed on the face of the earth. We failed our selves and we failed God.

Snakedog   November 26th, 2009 - 6:32 pm

ASK the Idiot libs/commies, who ran Congress for the last 3 years.You uneducated mo-rons should ask your useless brain which is the only branch of the government can write laws (Barney Frank & Chris Dodd did in the housing market) raise taxes(Pol Pot Pelosi), pass budgets (Half-Wit Harry Reid) and sign treaties. ANSWER- Duh! I think George Bush till they took the power from him in Jan. Thats right folks another case of Bush Derangement Syndrome. Cure, push some X-Lax in your ear, real far and tune into 95 of the top 100 radio hosts in America. Yep, their Conservative. The Idiots have been running the insane education asylum for 60 years (Detroit, L.A., N.Y.C., Alanta,Chicago, etc.)promoted by the lame street media. By the way how is change & hope doing for the newspapers.

brilliance   November 26th, 2009 - 9:19 pm

We need separation of Schools And State. Of course they will brainwash in order to advance their Big Government agenda. We need separation of Labor Unions and State. If we pay their salaries, why would we let them bargain for benefits? We need Volunteer Statesmen to run for office so we can remove all Career Politicians from the Government. Clinton was Corrupt, but he was no Communist. Obama is Marxist. This is why the goons think he is a Messiah, and why Leftists will do anything to destroy Palin, Gingrich, Reagan, Beck, and the Conservative Movement.

infidel   November 27th, 2009 - 12:33 pm

It is not because of any war, we are almost always at war since at least the civil war.
Read and be amazed, its the people taking much money out and putting nothing back. WS and politicos.
Civil War 1861-1865
Indian Wars 1885-1870
Spanish American War 1898
Philippine American War 1899-1913
Banana Wars 1898-1935
World War One 1917-1918
World War Two 1939-1945
Korean War 1950-Present
Lebanon Crisis of 1958
Dominican Intervention of 1965
Vietnam War 1964-1973
Grenada 1983
Beirut 1982-1984
Panama Dec 1989- Jan 1990
Gulf War 1990-1991
Somalia 1992-1993
Bosnia-Herzegovina 1992-1995
Afghanistan 2001-Present
Philippines 2002 –Present
Iraq 2003-Present

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