Meantime, some polling results from Gallup:
The American public gives President Barack Obama a strong 67% approval rating for the way in which he is handling the government's efforts to pass an economic stimulus bill...And word from the NC Employment Security Commission via the Wilkes Journal-Patriot that unemployment in Wilkes County in December 2008 was the at the highest levels for a single month in 25 YEARS. The article even mentioned the D-word. We'll get the text up as soon as we can, the WJP has a very limited website.
From the Wilkes Journal-Patriot, by Jule Hubbard:
Wilkes County's unemployment rate in December was the county's highest for a single month in 25 years.What are Wilkes County's representatives in Congress doing about this? Who was president in 1982? Oh, yeah--this guy. And who was president in 2001 and 2002? Do you see a pattern here?
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The jobless rate in Wilkes averaged 9.6 percent in 1982, during a recession described then as the nation's worst since the Great Depression of the 1930's.
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...we never fully recovered from the recession of 2001 and 2002. We just got back into it deeper [Ann Bowlin, Manager of the North Wilkesboro office of the North Carolina Employment Security Commission].
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4 comments:
I would guess that Wilkes voted Republican, the very ideology that caused their problem.. Ironic isnt it.
very ironic indeed...thought i saw something on goblueridge.net saying that foxx now wants to be involved in the stimulus negotiations? bizarre. what will she call all of these unemployed people? lazy? gay? brown?
goblueridge is the Fox news of the High Country and definite neoconservative slant Foxx is praised on a regular basis. They have a regular "good ole boy"
thing going on there .Love to bash obama, blame everything on Clinton, worship Foxx and decry that all progressives are with the terrorists. What idiots
I'm sure no one in Wilkes will accept any stimulus money. Too busy tugging on their bootstraps to take the evil government's money. I'm SURE they will stick to their (failed) ideological belief system.
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