Remember unemployment is governed by an accounting identity. Those who have a heart are fired by those who don’t. Today, the unemployed men gave a blessing to the whole country. They saved a little girl.

I succumbed to Twitter, but already I’m thinking about un-succumbing. I wanted to see what all the fuss is about and now I see that it is about nothing. My first follower wanted to show me her naked pictures, but not on her Twitter site…

I ask you.

Do I really need this?

In other news, They’re just predicting this now? A double dip recession? Oh noes! Whoever could have predicted that?

Listen, when your top “economists” are making apologies to the 40% of the unemployed who will remain unemployed because their skills are “unwanted” in America, continual recession into depression is what you end up with. But the Mainstream Media is going to act like this is new…BREAKING NEWS! ECONOMY ISN’T RECOVERING! I’ve been warning you for a year now. This is just the tip of the iceberg. But when it’s done, hopefully we’ll have learned our lesson about Free Trade and Trickle Down.

I’ll be following that thought up with a new post about the new permanently “unemployables” soon. Ω

by Annie Shields, Media Consortium blogger

The June labor market report announced that the unemployment rate is down from 9.7 to 9.5 percent and 83,000 private-sector jobs were created in June. Unfortunately, the situation isn’t quite so rosy. As Annie Lowrey reports in The Washington Independent, the real cause of the drop in unemployment was not more jobs, but fewer workers. Hundreds of thousands of unemployed Americans have now been reclassified as “discouraged” workers who have not actively searched for work for four weeks. As such, they are no longer part of the system.

Wherein a 39-year-old unemployed man opts to enlist in the Army so he will have medical coverage for his wife’s chemotherapy.

A new site set up by the Obama administration to help the unemployed.

An interview with the producer of ‘The Wire’, David Simon