Jobless rate falls to a 5 year low

[rpm]

Ok, if your too lazy or incompetent to use Google...

Charles Humphrey Keating Jr. (born December 4, 1923 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a United States lawyer, banker, and felon convicted of fraud in the savings and loan scandal of 1989.

A conservative Roman Catholic active in the Republican Party, he was formerly involved in anti-pornography efforts. His brother, William J. Keating, was a Republican Congressman from Ohio.

In the late 1950s, Keating founded the Cincinnati anti-pornography organization Citizens for Decent Literature, later Citizens for Decency through Law. In 1960 he testified against pornography before Congress.

In 1964 – 1965, he produced the movie Perversion for Profit featuring announcer George Putnam. It was a survey of then-available pornography, and an attempt to link pornography to the decline of culture and to the depravity of youth.

In 1969, President Richard Nixon appointed Keating to the President's commission on pornography, which had been begun under Nixon's predecessor, Lyndon B. Johnson. Keating unsuccessfully attempted to stop publication of the commission's rather liberal recommendations with a restraining order. Failing in that effort, he filed a dissenting report, stating "One can consult all the experts he chooses, can write reports, make studies, etc., but the fact that obscenity corrupts lies within the common sense, the reason, and the logic of every man."

Keating was also instrumental in the ineffective obscenity prosecution of pornographer Larry Flynt in 1976 in Cincinnati.

Yep, he's about as liberal as they come, eh?

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by midnight Target
So the boom of the 90's was a fake bubble caused by the internet, but the boom of the 80's and 2000's were both due to republican administrations?

got it..

Never said that.
Just was pointing out it happpens in both parties

and while we may be in somewhat of a boom in the 2000s we dont have the huge spikes upwards we had in the 80s and 90s

[bj229r]

Originally posted by rpm
Ok, if your too lazy or incompetent to use Google...


Yep, he's about as liberal as they come, eh?

'active'--wtf is 'active'? what office did he hold--what exactly did he do that could be viewed as 'active'?-- Most businessmen donate equally to both parties--(good sense) --(he OBVIOUSLY donted a lot to the 4 Democrat senators)--Catholics split evenly on Democrat/Republican voting, and being anti-porn isn't exactly heresy--lotta folks on both sides of the aisle would concur that porn has damaged society, and women in particular. Just because you have a seething hatred of conservatives doesn't mean his politics had watermelon to do with his actions. The most significant thing Wickipedia had to say about the guy's life was that he spent a few decades being VERY anti-porn--apparently some time later he became very PRO-money-anyFthewayicangetit

[Lye-El]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Learn how to build better cars

Think Detroit encompasses all of Michigan?  I've only been to Detroit area twice in my life and one of those was a Army provided bus ride to the inprocessing station many moons ago.  And I don't plan on going again.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Lye-El
Think Detroit encompasses all of Michigan?  I've only been to Detroit area twice in my life and one of those was a Army provided bus ride to the inprocessing station many moons ago.  And I don't plan on going again.

Typically they measure unemployment at the government level by state. Michigan is higher than average.

Table A.  States with unemployment rates significantly differ-
ent from that of the U.S., February 2007, seasonally adjusted
--------------------------------------------------------------
                                     |      February 2007    
              State                  |           rate      
--------------------------------------------------------------
United States .......................|           4.5          
                                     |                        
Alabama .............................|           3.3          
Alaska ............................. .|           6.1          
Colorado..................... ........|           3.8          
Delaware ............................|           3.4          
District of Columbia ................|           5.8          
Florida .............................|           3.3          
Hawaii ............................. .|           2.3          
Idaho ............................. ..|           2.8          
Iowa ............................. ...|           3.3          
Kentucky ............................|           5.7          
Maryland ............................|           3.8          
Massachusetts................ ........|           5.3          
Michigan ............................|           6.6          
Mississippi .........................|           6.7          
Montana .............................|           2.5          
Nebraska ............................|           2.9          
New Hampshire .......................|           3.7          
New Mexico ..........................|           3.5          
North Dakota ........................|           3.2          
South Carolina ......................|           6.1          
South Dakota ........................|           3.4          
Utah ............................. ...|           2.3          
Vermont .............................|           3.9          
Virginia ............................|           2.9          
Wyoming .............................|           2.3          
--------------------------------------------------------------

[Lye-El]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
Typically they measure unemployment at the government level by state. Michigan is higher than average.

 

True. But the state can vary widely. Urban and rural even greater variations .

Michigan ............................| 6.6

MICHIGAN COUNTIES RANKED BY UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
JANUARY 2007


Montcalm County

12.2%

So depending where you are at, it can be great time, or not so good. Credit will be claimed by political parties were advantageous, blame assigned were not.

[Shamus]

Montcalm has always been high for some reason but the property values on Crystal lake sure went thru the roof.

shamus