Unemployment Rate Rises on Peninsula
The unemployment rate is back in the double digits in Clallam and Jefferson Counties. From December to January, Clallam County's jobless rate went from 9.7% to 11.1%.
During the same period, the rate in Jefferson County went from 9.4% to 10.9%.
During the same period, the rate in Jefferson County went from 9.4% to 10.9%.
posted by Tom Harper at 10:52 AM
28 Comments:
Yeah, and did you notice the pea brained teabaggers on the PDN site saying the problems in Clallam County are evidence of Obamas'failed economic policies?
So, the stock market goes from complete meltdown under Bush's reign, to record setting highs under Obamas', Washington State leads the Nation in employment gains, and we are to conclude Clallam County's problems are NOT the result of the regressive Republican dominate local government, but instead, the result of "Obamonomics"?
And ya wonder why this county can't move forward, with logic like that?
But hey at least Clallam county voted for Obama, things should be getting better real soon. :)
The PDNs poll today, asks us to select the nation that is the greatest threat.
SPREAD THE HATE AND FEAR YOU FUCKING TEABAGGERS!
"TEABAGGER" should have been a choice - the enemy within.
Anyone else notice that TWEAKER that killed his grandparents spent five years at Clallam Bay?
Clallam tweaker culture....soon this will actually be a news item around here! Once we get over our fear of Syria!
Anon 11:01am & 11:02am
Keep drinking the Kool-Aid
Yes sir, Muslim in the White House. Uh huh.
@Anon 3:03
Yes, now THAT doesn't sound like kneejerk Teabagger rhetoric?
Talk about "Keep drinking that Kool-Aid"? Whew!
Oh! Did you miss the memo?
See, Obama is part of this Global Conspiracy that is going to cleverly enslave righteous God Fearing Americans in their Soviet style socialist plot that also is plotting to take our guns away.
You've already heard how these oh-so-clever conspirators staged the Newton "massacre". It didn't REALLY happen. Those were all actors, part of this cleverly sinister plot to take our guns away, and enslave us all.
Never mind that these people can't manage the basics of government. Never mind that they cannot control their "Allies", anywhere in the world.
No, those things are far too pedestrian for these evil masterminds. They are so good at secrets, we can only imagine what they really do.
They are SO clever, they get us God Fearing smart Americans to argue about guns, while we injure and kill almost 100,000 of our fellow Americans, each year, with them!
They are so clever and sinister, they got us fearing shampoo and baby oil, and spending billions each year to protect us from it.
That Obama. What a cleverly sinister guy.
You used too many words and long sentences so I know you is a Muslim terrorist type.
I think it's stupid to blame Obama for local problems, just look around and see that there isn't enough economy here for employment for all and then move to where things are better.
City leaders may think this town can grow but I don't agree with them and I don't give a shit if they have more to lord over to fuck up.
Where did you monkeys get the hair brained mentality that it's the governments responsibility to create the economies and jobs?
That's the job of you the people, governments should only provide basic services and regulate things.
Keep in mind that governments, local or national are full of business people interested in their own power and riches, and attorneys, and other crooks.
It's nice to know Clallam is so good at quickly determining those youth worth not locking up.
Reading the brain trust that comments on the PDN site leads me to believe those folks haven't been paying attention the last 30 years and they know diddly squat about macro-economics. Small, isolated towns like Port Angeles have been dying all over the country for a long time. It's not because of Obama's policies (or even Bush's). It's because the economics of scale, transportation, infrastructure, labor and consumer markets, ancillary support, all dictate the advantage of large urban centers in a consumer/service economy.
Yer Right, Billy.
Yes, it's me. I can't remember my password because of all the meds I've been taking these days. But it IS me. I'll be taking names and kicking ass soon. Watch out!
You can blame it all on the unions, both public and private, unions have driven up labor and benefit costs so high the only choice remaining is to cut heads
Union people do want too much in wages and benefits, it's as if they think they are more special than others just because they have a skill.
I know a union man that's working on the waterfront project, nice enough guy and all that but he's making over 30 bucks an hour plus benefits and still whining that his retirement isn't go to be enough.
Cry me a fucking river, he'll just have to buy new trucks less often.
"SPREAD THE HATE AND FEAR YOU FUCKING TEABAGGERS!"
Yes, damn those hateful teabaggers...! So unlike you without a lick of hatred in your heart... Nope nope!
Yeah, those union folk are REALLY the problem. The corporate types that have syphoned of billions, and stashed in banks in Switzerland got NOTHIN' on those union folks.
Geezz.. Do you guys just open your mouths, and just get spoon fed, or what?
Anon 11:01pm
You need to wake up, your argument is not logical. Do public entities hide money overseas? NO, are public entities cutting back? YES. Ask yourself why? Tax revenue is down, the taxpayer is tapped out. Costs are up, i.e. labor and benefits. Ask someone in the public sector for yourself, say Jim Jones for instance, he'll tell you 80% of the counties cost is labor and retirement benefits.
The union health and welfare benefits are unsustainable, hence layoffs
Did you notice that the City wants to spend millions to provide the waves with battering rams, as a "fix" for their eroding bluffs at the landfill debacle?
In the recent article, the City is saying they want to add "woody debris" to help protect the seawall from being undermined by wave action.
Maybe they should take a field trip to those beaches with the big signs warning visitors that they can be injured or killed by that "woody debris" as it is thrown about in the waves.
No one has said that unions are the only problem, only part of the problem, and at times they are needed. I just fuss about the ones that get too greedy.
Anon 7:02, actually, you need to wake up. The literally thousands of corporations that have taken US consumers moneys by the billions, and taken those billions OUT of the US economy, result in the lack of "revenue". They don't mind doing businees in the US, they just like to have to pay taxes on the money.
This is not rhetoric. This is reality.
Perhaps you think minimum wages with no benefits, the model of WalWart, is a good thing. Low wages, and what seem to be "affordable" products. But it is the taxpayer, that pays for all the services and infrastructure that makes these types of corporate models "work". In reality, if they had to pay their true costs to operate, they could not afford to.
Yes, local governments all across the US are facing budget crises, in part because US corporations have moved as much of everything they can outside of the US. Even their corporate headquarters, so that they don't have to pay taxes in the US. They don't mind getting the money for products made in other countries, and take that money to banks in other countries.
Like skimming off everything of any value, leaving the country bankrupt.
Not everything about unions is perfect. Humans are like that. But the money side, and the negative impacts to country from unions don't even compare to what the corporations are doing to this country.
And, with corporate influence in US politics as it is, don't expect any changes, any time soon.
Ooops, I see the typos.
Should read "They don't mind doing business in the US, they just DON'T like to have to pay taxes on the money."
The "WalWart" is a pretty funny typo. Do I really need to correct that?
Yeah let’s blame it all on the union worker. Do your homework and go back to the 60’s and 70’s and see what union wages were and the tax’s big business paid. Compare it to the union workers wage today and the taxes workers’ pay today vs the tax’s big business pay today. This county is held up on the working man and woman’s backs while CEOs get richer. Low income workers don’t pay taxes, welfare people don’t pay taxes. So by god we should make the union worker’s wage where they don’t pay taxes just like big business. The union worker isn’t the problem, it’s the rich want to get richer. Do we really think that if wages go down big business will pass the savings on to us? No the rich will get richer, and the union worker will still hold this country up on their backs through taxes.
Anon 7:02 & Anon 9:02... Personally I think you're both right.
You sound like a bunch of Commies!
To hell with the realities of the situation, just feed me more feel good rhetoric.
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