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Great timing poking fun at people on the dole when so many who want to work don't have jobs.>>
>>A quick search for jobs, just in the state of Ohio, on Monster.com yielded over 5000 jobs. I think that if someone
really wanted to work, they might be able to find at least one job out of all of those posted.
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>FWIW, I heard that 50,000 jobs in the US were cut _yesterday_. Add that to the people already unemployed and I don't think those 5,000 jobs in Ohio (even if every other state has the same number, which is unlikely) are going to go very far.
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I saw a number of 75,000, but see now that was total worldwide job cuts announced by U.S. corporations yesterday. It's probably 50K domestic and 25K overseas. However it breaks down, it was clearly not a red letter day for workers or a matter of jobs being there lying around for anyone willing to get off their lazy butt.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/business/economy/27layoffs.html?_r=1&ref=businessWhile snagging the URL from the Times site I saw John Updike died today. Wow. He was not one of my favorites but nobody can say he wasn't a giant of American fiction.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/27/books/AP-Obit-Updike.html?hp
