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  • If you have a PhD in physics and you bag groceries, you are unemployed. It is that simple.

  • I didn't know what unemployment really is until I learned Macroeconomics..

  • U-3 unemployment reports the winner of this parody, expressed as an ~8.5% unemployment rate. The real report encompassing all the other contestants to this parody reflects ~17% unemployment rate for the U.S. Just so you know, California is at Great Depression level unemployment. Here is the takeaway be calm, don't panic, it will all be okay, be calm, don't panic, it will all be okay........ pacifier......bottle......paci­fier......pacifier......

  • People need to understand this. Between this and the Federal Reserve system, our economy *IS NOT* getting better! You put this together with a police state and the US global empire and the whole system is a mess. We need to try a free market for once. Ron Paul 2012!

  • If you do not look for work for 4 weeks you will be dropped from the numbers. If you work 1 hour a week you are considered employed.

  • Guy #3 is underemployed

  • I enjoyed the video! I don't mean to spam your comments, but I wrote "Unemployment Doesn't have to Suck!" on Amazon. If anyone wants some useful information on how to save money and gain other resources, I tried my best to list them all in a short guide after finding myself unemployed for a short time.

  • Ron Paul 2012 is the only one who can save us !

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  • This video clip is fun to watch to. Aside from having fun, you have the chance of knowing what unemployed really means. This could be of great help to those individuals who are studying Macroeconomics.

  • @insomniacgrace im studying macroeconomics!

  • GUYS.. can anyone tell me what the black man said

    i tried to understand it but i couldn't

    HELP ME PLEASE :(

  • You've got independent self-employed contractors in this mix too. I've experienced losing my long-term job as a contractor and no one cared about this- especially the government and their 'unemployment rate'.

  • mc donalds isn't even hiring wtf

  • In the final stages of decaying capitalism, technology increases to a point where workers are no longer needed leading to mass unemployment and revolution among the working class.

  • LMAO.. if it were not so entirely true you would get a ROTF with the LMAO.

    Great JOB on the video! What happened to you after the video? Did your status go back to unemployed or still looking.. hahaha

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  • All you inbred right wingers who are about to lose your jobs, health care and homes-keep voting republican-PLEASE!! I dare ya!

  • I say if no one is hiring, HIRE YOURSELF...invest in yourself...get a home-based business and work it...whatever income you generate doing that will be greater than not receiving an income waiting on someone else to give you a call back only to get to round 2 -interview and then be rejected. Trust me i know from experience...I have a hbb now and i'm loving it : )

  • I GOT A GOOD STORY FOR YOU GUYS, ILL MAKE IT SHORT. 2005 I got laid off, the same shite happen to me when I said I didnt look for work in a certain week. I thought the whole point was to be honest but nope you always have to the check the box that says "did you look for this week" once you check that box that says NO. You ass is out.

  • smart video check it out and make at least 200 a month completing surveys for free guarantee /watch?v=XeMfeTBvMK8

  • WELCOME TO OBAMANATION!

  • Most enjoying and fun lesson ever to study the definition of unemployment for macroeconomics

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  • I'm immune to unemployment because I make money on the internet. I've been doubling my income every year since 2007. Now I can just laugh at all the unemployed people while I live the good life. Yeah I have a steady stream of passive internet income every day. A long time ago I used to be unemployed a lot but now unemployment is like an alien thing to me. Depending on employers for a job sucks balls. I'm doing so much better by being self employed and taking care of myself.

  • ALOL at the end

  • technological unemployment is here to stay and it is only going to get worse. Yes they do hide that fact.

    Watch this. watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w It is about a resource based economy.

    That is the next step for mankind. Why because technology is here to stay.

  • I imagine it like each nation's economy is like a pond, now interlinked with each other with the new global economy. The US used to be the highest level pond so everything is running out of our pond to the lower levels. The BIG lowest pond of China is gaining all the water. Even India is feeling the hurt now. Eventually, we will all be the same level but at what consequence? Everyone's standard of living will be lowered to that of China instead of everyone else's levels raised to ours.

  • Only Dr. Paul is taking about Restoring the Dollar, Mfg. Base, stopping Outsourcing. the US is dying, becoming a Third World Country. 2 Chr 7:14

  • love the animation

  • the gameshow host is a canadian

    faaaart

    ah hahahaha

  • In November 2011 there was 15.1 million unemployed with 9.8% in November 2012. The total pool of unemployed was (15.1 million/9.8%)=154,081,632

    .

    The unemployment rate currently is 8.9% with 13.7 million unemployed totaling 153,932,584 in the workforce

    .

    Between November 2010 & March 2011, 149,048 are no longer in looking for work (154,081,632-153,932,584). This almost cancels the Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 192,000 jobs created in private industry for the month of February

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  • I can pretend to look at a newspaper. Give me unemployment benefits, too!!!

  • Hey Ex President Bush...how about giving us a great big speech on how TAX CUTS for the billioniares is going to create jobs in USA? I swear you said TAX CUTS will create jobs in USA, not in CHINA/RUSSIA/INDIA/SOUTHEAST ASIA

  • @dalecampbl7 spread organic heirloom food seed far and wide, its called"johnny appleseed economics"or"gorrila gardens",spread more organic food. wake up everyone,do your part!IF YOU ARE angry,get seed and make a organic revolution your way.SPREAD THE ORGANIC SEED EVERYWHERE TELL OTHERS! INCREASE THE FOOD SUPPLY RIGHT NOW WHILE WE GOT TIME!! GROW VERTICAL GARDENS IF YOU DONT HAVE THE SPACE! START NOW!SOLAR ENERGY,HAM RADIO,WATER!

    AN ARMY IS ONLY AS STRONG AS ITS STOMACH! SPREAD THIs

  • @dalecampbl7 You are also failing to see that the United States has the 2nd highest Corporate tax rates in the world. Because of these high taxes, the corporations are moving over seas to cheaper taxes and labor. Look at what the unions have done to GM. The unions have basically destroyed the auto industry and now because of the bailout for GM and because the unions will not play fair, GM is now moving many jobs to Mexico to get away from the high taxes and the unions.

  • you fail to see that Exxon Mobile, which made record profit, paid no taxes in the last two years...yeah...no taxes...amazing huh? how do you think lawyers come to be 700 dollars and hour and still have customer? you got it Exxon Mobile types. Boy, you really are delusional if you think the problem is with Labor Unions. Pathetic. You are also failing to see what happens to Billionares in Europe...haha...ever wonder why Europeans don't like ULTRA RICH? Remember FRENCH REVOLUTION? ETC.

  • @termase - "the United States has the 2nd highest Corporate tax rates in the world" Where do you get that figure from? Secondly, the rate may be close to 35% but what is actually PAID is closer to 16-19%. And that is from companies that actually pay their taxes. This figure comes from the IRS.

    Companies move overseas not from the tax rates but from a cheaper labor market, cheaper natural resources, and less environmental restrictions - all to simply increase profit.

  • LOL....yep.....don't you love how our government loves to twists numbers and thinks we can't tell. :))

    The Obama Regime reelection campaign

  • LMAO

  • i love the "pear" laptop

  • llz XD

  • That was freaking hilarious!

  • To anyone that might care. I recently got fired back in August. It only took 2 weeks to replace a job I hated with a better one in the same field. Every time I called the company I work for now, I got a we might be looking eventually. How about sending us your resume. Being jobless I finally sent in my resume. Do yourselves a favor and apply to places that are not advertising that they are hiring. I did and am very happy with my new employer.

  • @Pitviper1979 i dont think thats what the democrats and obama have in mind

  • I love it lol !

  • This is awesome lol.

  • Go to the Marines Toys for Tots Foundation if you cannot afford toys for your children.

  • @SamDeRe81 How about you give up one of those jobs? And you're a stripper to boot? lol good choice there...People like you need to burn in hell for your lack of compassion. LOL your such a hard worker arent you? I mean takin off your clothes for money...LOL You need to rethink life...and think about your 3 kids not having a father and stripper sllut for a mom.

  • tax the rich  hit them hard

  • @swami24u oh yeah that'll work....maybe we can get a job from a poor person

  • @SamDeRe81 Sam, What the video is "trying" to do (and doing pretty effectively) is point out the different ways in which the BLS categorizes unemployment. The video is simply stating facts about BLS methodology.

    in 1980, the finance, insurance and insurance sectors made only 8% of all US corporate profits. By the peak of this credit/housing bubble, the figure was 40%. So the 30-year Conservative Revolution was about taking on more debt and pretending to be wealthy.

    There, now get back to work!

  • why do the politicians want high unemployment ? when we can solve the problem by reducing the hours and ban overtime.......... for more info check out my " solution to reduce high unemployment " clip .

    ps.tell everybody

  • @hughezee2 they probably want to lower minimum wage for their lackey fascist friends instead of doing what roubini said, let the tax cut end and cut the payroll tax, 1% growth...unemployment is not welfare, welfare needs reform for fraud..sigh...watch?v=H26ALZTb­hIs

  • @hughezee2 just the top tax cut not the rest of us..there's the uber rich..then there's the rest of us..sigh

  • Come on Yanks, bring world peace and true liberty like what you have done before! Evolute!

  • "Eliminate payroll taxes.Replace them with a non-regressive National Sales Tax" Are you for real sales taxes hits the seiners and poor the hardest. They earn little to no income but must pay sales tax on food gas and housing. Its also a compounded tax you don't pay the tax once but in some cases hundreds of times over everything from the tools to build the factory, trucks to supply the goods, tax tax tax Get the money into the middle class and poor to get the economy moving not the other way.

  • We haven't seen anything yet. Wait til the bogus fiat stimulus runs out, that monolpoly money will be worthless soon enough. It's a slow ride to the bottum. The elected officials should just say "here, this will ease the pain til the end comes".

  • figures are reaching, or even surpassed 20% unemployment now, just in US alone.

  • Want full employment?

    Eliminate payroll taxes.

    Replace them with a non-regressive National Sales Tax (about 3%)

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  • We are deep in a depression. 1/4 to 1/3 of Americans are effectively unemployed or underemployed. A good percentage of the employed are not making a living wage. Government scumbags lie about the unemployment figures, knowing those suffering have no voice, no power to make government responsive and honest about the issue. Attractive multimillionaire US President and his Council on Foreign Relations Rockefeller-connected wife put on a good show but could not give a shit about working people.

  • that was funny. I like how ppl can have a sense of humor. but seriously it's hard out there.

  • Which presidents had the longest unemployment benefits extension?

    1 Ronald Reagan -REPUBLICAN 3.5 years of unemployment.

    2 Gerald Ford -REPUBLICAN 3.2 years of unemployment.

    3 George Bush2004-REPUBLICAN 3 years of unemployment.

    Yet like the hypocrites they are they call it welfare when Obama wants it to be longer than 1.9 years! Even though they where not dealing with the worst collapse since WWII. They are doing this to sabotage the recovery, to get elected in November.

  • @indyman77 how the hell can it be 1.9 to 3.5 years? in 2006 i lost a job i had since 1994 and i only got 6 months of unemployment

  • On unemployment? If you vote for the Republican you can kiss your benefits GOOD-BY! VOTE DEMOCRAT! Democrats care about the PEOPLE... Republicans care about making it easy for banks and corporations to rip us off. Get your friends to vote - support your local Democrat! The Obama administration and the Democrat majority aren't perfect, but they are trying. What are the Republicans doing? Trying to get rid of Social Security, Medicare and deny benefits for the unemployed. FACT!

  • On unemployment? If you vote for the Republican you can kiss your benefits GOOD-BY! VOTE DEMOCRAT! Democrats care about the PEOPLE... Republicans care about making it easy for banks and corporations to rip us off. Get your friends to vote - support your local Democrat! The Obama administration and the Democrat majority aren't perfect, but they are trying. What are the Republicans doing? Trying to get rid of Social Security, Medicare and deny benefits for the unemployed. FACT!

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  • technically... the real unemployment rate is about 22%. unless you want to work at burgerking, wendys, pizzahut ... etc

  • This is really cool! Do more please.

  • I'm REALLY tired of EVERYONE posting shit about Jews, Nazis, conspiracy theories, death threats, revolutions, illuminati, new world governments, differences between races, eliminating fiat currency, anarchy, Obama's citizenship status/race/religious affiliation, Communism, Socialism, and zionism on EVERY single video about money. For Christ's sake... We're talking about PERSONAL FINANCE people... Please just calm the fuck down.

  • there are so many pointless jobs out there. think about your job. think in which way it's completely required for your business to function. now think, how would the world continue without you doing your job? it would probably continue perfectly fine. it's a reality that i'm starting to see more and more. when a lot of jobs vanish and we realize, hey, we really didn't need all those other useless positions, things are going to get really bad for the unemployed.

  • Great. Now do one for CPI.

  • I'm unemployed!!! Wooo!!! I win =)

  • I lost my job at the end of April and have not gone a day without looking for work.It took two months after I filed for unemployment to get my first payment.

    I've worked hard all of my adult life and never asked for any kind of hand-out. I hated the idea of being on unemployment and thought it only last a few weeks at most. well here it is 3 months later, I've applied at several hundred places and have been called in for only 3 interviews. The numbers are much worse than reported-much worse.

  • It means that the real unemployment rate is well over 20%

  • Ron Paul 2012

    and read Jim Cox booklet "Minimum Wage, Maximum Damage"

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  • Make extra money in your spare time by using your existing professional skill.

    Skillinity can be one way for you to find jobs/projects that you’re interested in and make some extra money in your spare time doing what you already know how to do. We don’t charge commission, that means, you can keep all your earnings.

  • Yea...this country is going downhill fast. BLUEPRINT47: The Solution. Check out my vids/blog and send me an email if interested. God Bless!!

  • It's disheartening to be out looking for work spending money out looking in this summer heat with only a few bucks ever dwindling in my pocket feeling like the world is going to end. We need Obama to be a modern day Franklin Delano Roosevelt to get in there to help our country get back on our feet. Many people just had the carpet pulled from under their feet while trying to find solid ground.

  • As a fully employed liberal I am so glad the GOP is letting unemployment run out. Now all you idiot unemployed repubes will lose your homes and families! I'll be enjoying this immensely! God less the GOP! Suckers

  • @Vetwolf13 Vote classical liberal 

  • Funny video! Way to make me laugh so I don't cry!

    check out my video "Jobless American."

  • Spectacular perfect example loved it

  • Totally awesome presentation. Would be great if it was not true.

  • Go to change.org. On the right hand column under "Take Action," click on "We Demand An Immediate Passage Of Bill H.R. 4213 Extension Of Unemployment Benefits." Please sign the petition to extend Unemployment Benefits!

  • perfect...especially since the unemployment extension did not pass yesterday...of course they want it to look like numbers are down!

  • great video

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  • This was aewsome

  • Don't you just love how the Government works? You don't meat the requirements for unemployment. :P I love the way Mint puts it so others can understand it. I get tired of explaining it to others after awhile. Thank you Mint, and be prepared to have a lot more views.

  • Who are the A holes that gave this video t thumbs down?

  • No far from the truth at all.. actually spot on .

  • @vkain100 government

  • @vkain100 because its true, i lost a 50,000 a year job, now working 12 hours a week at a Party / Lazertag place cause i cant find a new job... I've submitted multiple applications and living off of my life savings atm. I cant collect unemployment cause i needed to be "in the job market" before i could be considered unemployed... and you just put in X amount of apps and not get any replys for 3 months before they give u benefits...

  • lol wow so true makes me fuckin sick

  • Fun vid.

  • i hate the fact some country's only count ppl that get the payment

  • lol, sad but true.

  • Well done Vid, so true.

  • epic video= thumbs up+subscribed:))

  • Fucking Awesome Video.

  • Well done - Wish that was funny-er than true

    Invoke a right to work act in every state - put tax's on hold food is more important - Don't worry war mongers about some terrorist attacks the Democrat and Republican Government doesn't like competition if you care NOT HEALTHY -lol

    Hay lets barter - no that's illegal too.

    End the Fed and the inside 911's will go with them

    Right to EAT without spoon feed BS attached

  • For over 15 years at one job, I got overtime, benefits and Profitsharing. with the UI insurance, All I get is barely enough to pay the same bills. Rent is over $700 alone!

  • Nice way of bringing up the unemployment issue. Anyway, I have posted a video.

  • Sucks. How am I supposed to enter the labor market if I don't have a job to pay for college in the first place?

  • Haha brilliant. animation

  • In 2004 when my uncles job went to Mexico, I told him "hey its a global economy" In 2005 when my sister's job went to India, I told her "hey its a global economy" in 2006 when my brother's job went to Canada, I told him "hey its just a global economy" In 2007 when my father was forced out and his job went to Brazil, I said "hey tough luck" in 2009 when my job went to China, I said "Hey, its Obama's fault and I won't have it we need the Republicans back in the Congress!"

  • Heard about the Ex-Presidents billboards going up in MN? Someone is seeming to suggest it's Obama's fault we are where we are??! I voted for him...in MN. I find it mildly racist actually

  • How is that racist? No one said anything about race except for you.... The billboard attacks Obama's POLICIES....not his race. Aparantly you are the racict who thinks our current president can do no wrong simply because he is our "first black president." Being the first black president does not automatically make him a good president, and disagreeing with Obama's policies does not make someone a racist.

  • @Dads50Party The billboards in Minnesota, MIGHT have racist rhetoric to them, whoever put them up is not commenting or making themselves known. I'm not racist, I just dislike the crime and reverse racism that occurs with blacks towards whites. And to think there isn't any, just not true. Most decent folks are decent no matter what. I don't think he's perfect at all, I'm about to be homeless with no job if he can't do anything further to help people get back to work!

  • 10% my ass it is more like 22-26% or higher.

  • Oh yeah, one more point that I don't believe that this clip makes clear - if you have not filed for unemployment benefits or if they have expired, you aren't part of the reported Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) - you are not "officially" unemployed.

    That is the significance of headlines announcing that X number of people will "fall off the unemployment rolls" - to the BLS, they simply disappear...

  • I apply though the 4the tier came and went while still job hunting. As I've applied, I still get the $25 IIRC that was tacked on as an addition to what one was getting per week. I don't know if that actually lapses before fall 2010

  • The $25 will last until the beginning of August. I work in the unemployment office in Ohio.

  • @chelsilynn25 I can use it for gas! Anyway, I am facing a tough road ahead without any income but that! The occasional CL's sale. Homeowners get another break with re-financing, but the soon to be homeless have no more aid

  • To make matters worse, the degradation of the social safety net in light of this fact remind me of an old story in ChiCom (Pre-Nixon) about there being a bounty for killing rats, but no-one could collect because it was officially declared that there was no such thing as a rat infestation in the Worker's Paradise.

  • It is shocking and indeed criminal how easily people ignore this significant fact due to political and media misrepresentation - it is no coincidence that the two most influential news outlets in the USA are FOX news and... Comedy Central.

  • Although i don't really agree, i know what you say is true. Also hilarious xD

  • amazing!

  • Outstanding

  • The Nigger Obama promised job creations with the passage of the 2nd Stimulus TARP Bill! What Happened? It's a fucking failure.

  • Isn't it about time you Yanks had a second revolution. The world's hardly going to miss a few money changers and power brokers.

  • @Mamaragan if only we had the will after 40 years of cultural Marxist infiltration which has sapped us of our strength.

  • @Mamaragan wait for it... wait for it...

  • @Mamaragan Either that or go on antipsychotics and antidepressants. my brother is on those and he is entirely oblivious to the unemployment situation, and got a job.

  • Without China the USA is screwed. If you didnt know China lends us money . Some dont like it but it is true.

  • yea and without us, China would be screwed, we are their biggest market.

  • China has been loaning the USA money you fool. I don't like the Chinks but it is a FACT. The USA is falling fast because of the greedy Jew.

  • I passed this along IMHO only I can think of worse things to atch on You TUbe than this video 5/5 as well FT

  • "That 4-hour counts as employed!!"

    Obama integrity right there.

  • @ dlmaniac, the BLS stats have been skewed that way since Nixon was in office, the disinformation goes way back before this administration.

  • @JumpinJesuits

    I thought they changed the formula in the 80's?

  • @dlmaniac

    That's nothing new. The Feds have been counting the unemployed like that for decades.

  • Thanks for informative video. Really what you are saying is 20 percent unemployment on a worst way scenario.

    Best to face upto it and go to war on new job creation strategy. The banks will not do this. Only the US Government can do it.

  • We will let see Obamanomics end next yea (Jan 2011) if success economy and go down to 2% unemployed then stay Obama., but IF failure economy and continue 10% or 8% unemployed then FED will ban (ousty) Obama!

  • Anyone here who defends either Bush or Obama just simply has there head where the sun doesn't shine, and likes the view. It's been the bailout game for decades now, printing up money to attempt to inflate away debt. "It's the Fed, dummy" - the biggest difference between Democrats & Republicans is the spelling...wake up people, your dollar is doomed, and your politicians in both parties don't care whether you work or have money...after all, they have theirs so no problem!

  • cynthia tucker agrees

  • @mvp019

    well said

    you took the thoughts right outta my head

    also bush and the clintons and obama

    should be tried for treason for selling our countrys technoligy and jobs over seas

  • I think you're kinda close but I see it this way. Democrats would like to change things, and run on change, but when in office realize they can't really do shit, and things don't really change. Republicans on the other hand don't give a shit about you, don't run on change, and when in office, they keep there promise not to do shit for you.

    Either way, the FED only works for the bankers. It's run by bankers for bankers.

  • What would Mel Gibson say?

  • yeah by those "Jews" the Rockefellers...get bent

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  • this is so true my how street is filled with them.. every year they complain about my Christmas decorations.. these people dont put anything up boring!!

  • @mvp019 Don't turn this into an anti-government rant. Don't even attempt to pretend like you understand the complexities of regulating the economy for the entire us population, Especially in a recession such as this. Once you pull a Degree out of your ass, become a politician, and stabilize the economy for the 307 million people living in the US; then you can start complaining about the way the government handles things.

  • @CSSsonicno2 Leave the insults out of this and stop 'pretending' like you know more than someone else based on a 2-3 sentence youtube comment.

    Government couldn't successfully run a hot dog stand. They don't pass economic policies, they pass political policies. Most people are bias towards their own subsidy/government hand out, are you one of them?

    Let the person complain. America was founded because people not only complained, but did something about it (the right thing I might add).

  • @gottafly125 I'm not pretending to understand economics more than anyone else. Hell, half the people here probably know more than I do, but it pisses me off when people try and act smart by over-simplifying a complex issue. A few corrupt politicians and bad political moves doesn't merit a moron, as you would state it; 'pretending' to understand politics and slander the entire US government. I see it as an idiot with far too large an ego for his own good.

  • @CSSsonicno2 Fuck you and the government.. It's nothing but a bunch of politricKKK's.. Everything out here is fucked up and going down the toilet and these self acclaimed politicians wallets are getting fatter while we stay broke..just because the governments got its dick in your ass you think your hot shit. get off your fucking high horse.