Limbaugh: "Those Two Million Who Lost Jobs Aren't Unemployed"

[CO Liberal]

"They've gone into business for themselves."

He just said that on his radio pukefest. Does anyone have any info to refute that statement. Since Rush said it, chances are it's a lie....

[Jacobin]

1. Back on drugs again, i suppose

time to detoxify the imp again.

[rucky]

2. Sounds like something Leno would say in a monologue

the more these people get cornered, they get more & more cartoonish

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. yes they jusst gave up looking for job

Rush is trying to get the base excited and the lies are getting thicker

I wonder is he back on Oxicontin?

[prodigal_green]

9. How do they measure "stopped looking?"

The unemployment numbers reflect who is collecting unemployment. After 26 weeks, your unemployment runs out. That doesn't mean you've stopped looking for a job. I know a couple of people who have been out of work for well over a year. They look every day.

[liberalnurse]

4. The doctor must of "kicked-up"

his methadone dose.....or he got some extra out in a parking lot deal....

[DMX]

8. Hogwash

While only over 2 million jobs have been lost so far, there were a total of 8 million unemployed for the month of February, so what limbaugh said is just hogwash.

[newyawker99]

26. Hi DMX!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[JohnyCanuck]

5. They're all hard at work

in the new McDonalds and Burger King manufacturing plants.

[buddy22600]

12. I was laid off but I got a manufacturing job making $9.50

an hour working at the big McDonald's, woot, at least with my wife working still we can pay our bills, barely

[Richardo]

6. That's the government definition if you if you've run out of unemployment

or are no longer looking for work.

That's why the official unemployment rate is 5.6, not 7.4%

[TheFarseer]

7. all you would ahve to do to refue this

is to look at new business starts(they keep that stat somewhere right?) and see that it's not much different than a few years ago.

[w4rma]

13. Actually there are less and less new business starts, I think. (n/t)

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. Limbaugh talks without thinking about what comes out of his mouth

I remember when he said that a man complained to him because he was getting only $10.00 an hour and his answer to the man was that he should go out and find himself a job that pays $15.00 an hour. I think that a multi-millionaire drug addict who has sold his soul to the devil has no right giving advice to people who are just trying to make an honest living.

[MSgt213]

11. They have been reclassified as unemplyment engineers

[Rufus T. Firefly]

14. They could always move overseas

And get some of the outsource jobs.

[GumboYaYa]

15. Let them keep saying this nonsense.

This is the same type of denial that ended up costing Daddy W his job.

[madrchsod]

16. ditto head`s???

if he said the sun wasn`t going to come up tomorrow these people would believe him. with the amount of people who have been unemployed chances are every adult in the united states knows or knows of someone who is out of work and/or out of work for over 6 months...

[TheWebHead]

17. wonder if that's how he classifies

those holding "will work for food" signs...

[CO Liberal]

25. They're "Self-Employed"

:-)

[Beetwasher]

18. It's TRUE! It's REALLY TRUE!!! I Know A Lot Of Them!

I see them almost everyday going through my garbage collecting the recyclable cans...

[underpants]

19. YES privatizing garbage collection

That is true.

[supernova]

24. YES! I sell cheap trinkets at the flea market

that I bought off the TeeVee from Dick Van Patten! :eyes:

[Zorra]

29. Enterpreneurs starting their own companies

by setting up crystal meth labs?

[goclark]

20. Please Rush,take a pill!

Your maid is out of a job now because she outed you. She very well may have a new business. She now has enough money to open her own business. It will be called ..."Valley of the Dolls Factory/"

Thanks Rush, that's one person out of a job that can afford to open a new business. The rest are sitting by their radio,some are nuts listing to you for lack of something else to do.

[Teddy_Salad]

21. Rush

I think Rush may have mistakingly taken an extra Oxycontin this morning.

[SaveElmer]

22. Another inane comment!!

The self-employed are not counted as unemployed in the figures! It's just his stupidity shining through once again!

[Mountainman]

23. One thing they say is that many of the unemployed have businesses.

But 9 out of 10 new businesses fail so I doubt that you can call them employed even if they did go into business. The businesses are all "consultant" type which means feast and famine income.

This is just another convenient way for the right to lie the problems away.

[Vickers]

27. Yes, it's the much-lauded "eBay Recovery"

We're all selling stuff on eBay and making a killing.

:eyes:

[tom_paine]

28. Wow does he lie a lot!

He knows his lies don't even have to make sense and the Sturmtruppen will eat it up.

That must be kind of fun...fooling stupid Nazi-like people day after day after day after day...

Of course, given that he himself is a member of the New Order, probably makes it less fun.