2.1 Million Jobless Claims Filed Last Week, Reaching Total Of Over 40M Amid Outbreak

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Thanks, Obama.

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Look, it’s like any other situation, the key thing is to be resourceful. Don’t ask the government to solve every problem you ever have.

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OVER 40 Million Jobless Claims.
With approx. 206 Million working-age (15-65) people in the country, that means we have a unofficial Unemployment rate of; 21%

Thanks Trump. We will remember this come Nov. 3rd, 2020, despite the MSM attempts to distract us.

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I can’t believe the Obama Administration let this happen. And after they botched the hurricane Katrina response so badly… SAD!

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Don’t ask the government to solve every problem you ever have.

And you’ll be a better person for it. Plus you’ll always have that water view, living under the bridge.

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This would be funny (and it is) if so many Trumpsters didn’t actually believe that The Presidency went:
Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Obama, Trump.

Notice who is missing? Bush the Lesser. President from 2000-2008.

It’s as if 8 years simply DISAPPEARED from the history books (like these people READ anyway.)
After all, we all know that President Hillary Clinton MADE 9/11 HAPPEN, and Obama caused the 2008 Great Recession with his Tax Increases and Welfare Giveaways in 2007, and LOST THE WAR IN IRAQ in 2005!!!

Reality. What a concept.

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OT, but…

Trump better hope that these 40 million people aren’t saying mean things about him on Twitter. The AG’s working group will be crazy busy.

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SO, How many of the 40M are receiving their benefits? Of those how many are getting the extra 600?

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Continuing claims are a wink above 21 million. The extra $600 per week is slated to end on July 31. I cannot find the figures for those who are receiving the $600 boost.

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Looks like Infrastructure Weak is finally paying dividends.

Thanks, Donnie.

You make Herbert Hoover look like a stable genius.

And he started out as a “humanitarian”. You didn’t.

Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States (1929-33). Hoover’s reputation as a humanitarian faded from public consciousness when his administration proved unable to alleviate widespread joblessness, homelessness, and hunger in his own country during the early years of the Great Depression.

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More and more I’m hearing how he’s doing great things!

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Hell, he’s managed to rehabilitate James Buchanan. Millard Fillmore is looking pretty cool these days, too.

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40 Million people out of work, but the stock market is stable, so Mission Accomplished Congress! Glad to see it isn’t worth doing your jobs when a quarter of the states in the Union are about to hit the end of their fiscal year and be forced to declare bankruptcy.

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This is the American Carnage that Trump promised us in his inauguration.

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Once I was a worker on a wireless no-line
The future was mine, the world was fine
Once I was worker, but now it’s gone
Brother can you spare bitcoin?

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I wish he had emulated Fillmore in every way.

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Joyce Alene
@JoyceWhiteVance

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Everything feels wrong right now

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I hear the gubmin put a price cap of five cents on them apples.

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Screw it, then, I’m moving my apple-selling operation to China.

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