Friday, July 24, 2009

Green Lake County Unemployment

GL County current unemployment rate is currently 9.9 percent. Last year it was about 4.5 percent.

83 comments:

Anonymous said...

Does this include the people who have never had a real job in their life and live off the government?

Anonymous said...

This is such good news! Double the rate and no sign of recovery in sight. I just read in the local paper that GL County is now considering lay-offs as a result of budget shortfalls. I'm sure there are a few folks in the county that work at Mercury Marine and we all know where that situation is headed (Hint: with our illustrious, Commerce-unfriendly, liberal governor Doyle at the helm, my guess would be Oklahoma)! The company I work for just had more layoffs, as well as Menasha Corp.
So, if the bottom line is the bottom line, I guess that the huge stimulus package that Obuma and his cohorts shoved down our throats has really done wonders for us!
I'm working at a 25% reduction in pay and hoping to stay employed, but illegal immigrants and the 'leeches on society' will have health care and better unemployment benefits.
Oh, by the way, just read this morning how Mr. Wonderful (Barack Obuma) and his glam-fam (Michelle Obama is a glamorous, fashion icon don't cha know!) are going to be vacationing on Martha's Vineyard at some $20Million dollar estate! It will only be for a short period but they'll pay from $35,000-$50,000 for their one week getaway.
To tell you the truth...Our country would be much better off if they would just 'Go Away' and not cause any more economic upheaval!
What a sad, sad state of affairs and the lemmings keep clutching to the promise for change...What did you expect from someone who wrote a book called the audacity of hope. Whenever I hear that title it makes me think of the saying about "if you put hope in one hand and..." - look it up if you don't know it and you'll see where this country is going.
God Bless us all.

Sick to my Stomach said...

In six short months, Obama has proved to the world that he is an arrogant racist elitist who has no intention of protecting the United States of America or our precious constitution. His administration has taken over the banks, the car companies and now trying to run our health care system. What is really scary is that he still has any supporters, after he has nearly destroyed our country in a mere half a year. What really gets me is that I fully believe that he is not a citizen of the USA. He has yet to prove his citizenship, and has basically refused to do so. He should be charged with and tried for treason, and dealt with according.

Anonymous said...

What a bunch of hooey.

Anonymous said...

In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more serious acts of disloyalty to one's sovereign or nation. A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor.

Barry Soetoro (AKA Obama) surely qualifies as a traitor.

Americans have wised up. It is only the major media that keeps pounding the drums of the Obama lies. Ask yourselves a question: Why are many of America’s major newspapers that have been in business for over 100 years, filing for bankruptcy and closing every week? If you believe, as major news tell us, that the reason is lowered advertising revenue and more people getting their news from the Internet, you’re hallucinating. The real reason is because Americans are thoroughly fed up with the lies, the slanders, the politically correct brain vomit that major news pours out and their astounding absolute refusal to portray any semblance of the truth.

Nothing Obama does will continue. Everything he does will be retracted by a very near future administration.

Anonymous said...

Buddy, you are the one hallucinating.

Anonymous said...

Keep baaa-ing with the rest of the sheeple! Open your eyes, wake up and smell the liberalism! We aren't heading down a slippery slope, we are sledding down at breakneck speed and those, like you, who turn a blind eye will obviously benefit in the short-term (do you have a job...any responsibilities...do you believe in socialism, comrade?).
Obama is a loose cannon and he is using our country as his platform for incredulous change! NOT good change, but leaning so far to the left that many in his own party have turned against him.
People like you are a joke and don't do anything for society other than suck the life blood out of it.
I hope you enjoy your messiah and don't forget to get fitted for your Mao jacket.

Anonymous said...

Obama is a racist thug and Michelle is a racist witch!!!!! Gutter trash the both of them!

Anonymous said...

You Republican zombies are full of it. Get your story straight. (And I am a life-long Republican!)

Obama and the Democrats inherited the Bush eight-year fiasco. It is a miracle that our country survived Republican right-wing policies.

It is now common knowledge: Bush's administration was propped up by lies, deception and shameful propaganda.

The nation knows that Republican policies are to blame for our failed economy and flagging international image. There is no other way to frame it.

This blog is chock full of Republican right-wingers who will stop at nothing to blame others for their own failures.

Let everyone know that fact.

Rodney Blog-OY-ovich said...

I had forgotten how Bush inherited "Utopia" from William Jefferson Clinton.
All was well in the land of milk and honey and then "W" took the helm.

Give me a break...
"lies, deception and shameful propaganda"...AND
"Republican policies are to blame for our failed economy and flagging international image".
If were talking history let's not forget that Billy was only the 2nd President in our nations history to face impeachment. How conveniently forgotten that little tidbit is!

If you are/were a life-long republican you should go back to when the crap hit the fan. What the Republican administration inherited was a debaucherous presidency (I did not have sexual relations with that woman /women?)and an economy built upon falsehoods and lies.

Take a look at how things have come full circle from the Clinton circus and tell me it was all the Republicans. What a joke.
Bush was by no means perfect but to blame everything on him is asinine.

But, thankfully we have a legitimate savior in Obama and his cast of characters:
The unflappable Sub-Prime Barney (Fife) Frank,
Nancy Pelosi who always tells the truth, Harry Reid, and of course Hillary who has lost many friends over the course of her political career (many of them with her, and Bill's, assistance...can you say Ron Brown, Kathy Ferguson, et al.)

Yes, America was looked upon with greater esteem when Billary was in office...obviously a time when lies, deception and propaganda were acceptable means for advancing ones political agenda.

I do agree that everyone should know the facts...it's just hard to find them amongst all the 'gray' areas out there.

Anonymous said...

Obama is a racist thug and Michelle is a racist witch!!!!! Gutter trash the both of them!

I posted this and I stand by it. I'm neither Republican or Democrat. I don't need party affiliation to recognize the biggest con artist ever to have lived in the WH.

Anonymous said...

If anyone wonders why there is such high unemployment in Green Lake, read the posts on this blog - and then think if you were an employer looking to locate a business, would you want people like this working for you? And don't kid yourself that people looking to live or work or build businesses here don't see this.
I'm not taking sides - the Green Lake approach in general seems to be to attack, smear and tear down. Not a good plan for attracting business or tourists.
Maybe the time has come, Chief, to save Green Lake from itself by taking the whole thing down. No good comes to anyone from this type of viciousness.

Anonymous said...

Reasonable points. More food for thought...city leadership should've thought about the consequences of their actions before residents finally became fed up. Don't blame the messenger of the wrongs, blame the ones doing the wrong and help to stop it. Power to the people!

Anonymous said...

Take the blog down? Another whiny tactic to shut people up by tearing freedom of expression down. I can't hear you - la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

Anonymous said...

Exactly. If you don't like what you read on the blogsite, then quit reading it.

Anonymous said...

I often post (what you consider to be) negative comments on the Inquisitor, and I am an excellent employee, friend, neighbor and community oriented citizen. Just because some of us have constructive criticism and comments does not mean in any way, shape or form that we are tearing down this community. Quite the opposite.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.

Anonymous said...

I am a serial murderer and a good family man, community volunteer, considerate neighbor and church usher.

I love puppies and kitties, too.

Anonymous said...

Petting kittens in the light, slashing throats in the dark. I'll guess - you're a disturbed politician, right?

Anonymous said...

Dang! How'd you guess?

Gotta run to my poelittlcal meetin'!

Anonymous said...

A politican...born and bred in Wisconsin, I see.

Carl Jung said...

The last 4 posts are the reason people should have to identify themselves on this sight. At least we wouldn't have to read blather from someone who enjoys schizophrenia.

Anonymous said...

Come'on. Take the cob out of your ...

Anonymous said...

Case in point. Reaffirming the earlier post and someone(s) stupidity. Keep making those wonderful points, won't you please.

Anonymous said...

Like I said--take the cob out of your ...

The Shadow said...

The only thing wrong with President Obama is that he is a White Sox fan. GO CUBS!!!

Anonymous said...

To the person with an obvious 'cob' fetish...Kudos,spoken like a true Democrat! Baaa...baa...baa!

Anonymous said...

Nope. I ain't no Damnocract. True-blue Repo. That don't change a thing. You still have a cob up your ...

Anonymous said...

I can't think of one thing that Obama has done right since becoming president. He even throws like a girl.

Anonymous said...

Have you heard? Members of Congress won't have national health care. That alone should tell you a lot. Contact your congressmen and senators and tell them NO to nationalized health care! The government has NO business running health care, car companies, or banks. This is an EVIL administration.

Anonymous said...

After the last administration thank god for this one. I have written my reps to support the health care reform.

Anonymous said...

Are you on crack?

Anonymous said...

Must be...I think crack addicts are excited because it will be covered under the new ObamaMD system of health care. No more methadone for addicts when crack is available!
How can you even ask if the person who posted this was on crack.
If they are supporters of Obama then they are obviously on crack. I say bring on the grape Kool-Aid to wash down the new health care reform.

Anonymous said...

Get ready to be euthanized. It's coming to a hospital near you. Thanks Obama. Thank God for population control. Half the people who have babies should not be allowed to. I mean all democrats.

Anonymous said...

I, too, support the health care reform efforts.

How else will the red-necked, reactionary Republican nits pay for their lobotomies and medications?

Yes, thank goodness the greedy and corrupt Republican criminals are not in power. They are not even in the ballgame.

Anonymous said...

And the lame arse, stupidity continues. Obama's a thug, a racist, and a liar.

Anonymous said...

Crooked politicians have given all politicians a bad name. Obama took the crooked to an all time low with his thug mentality and his race-card tactics. Michelle Obama is an even uglier and more bitter version of the closet homosexual she is married to.

Anonymous said...

Proof to the blogger's earlier point: reactionary Republicans.

They can only spout-off and name call.

The one thing that Obama did say wrong is that there is a place here for all Americans.

Not true. You Republican bigots who vent on this blog can leave anytime. There is no place for your kind here.

Anonymous said...

Proof to the blogger's earlier point: reactionary Republicans.

They can only spout-off and name call.

The one thing that Obama did say wrong is that there is a place here for all Americans.

Not true. You Republican bigots who vent on this blog can leave anytime. There is no place for your kind here.

Anonymous said...

People should honestly understand the topic fully prior to posting. It is NOT nationalized medicine health insurance or socialized medicine. The public plan provisions in H.R. 3200 represent an improvement over previous draft proposals. The Senate is developing different approaches to a public plan. H.R. 3200 would require a public plan to be self-sustaining and not dependent on the federal treasury, and it would not require physicians to participate. It also does not affect the ability of physicians to engage in private contracting arrangements with patients. As the legislative process continues, the details surrounding the public plan option will change considerably.

Anonymous said...

The government should not run any aspect of health care. They have screwed up medicaid, medicare and social security. They run the post office at a huge loss. They run Amtrak at a huge loss. The takeover of the auto industry is unconstitutional and illegal. Obama is corrupt. The notion of "too big to fail" is going to destroy our country. Let them fail, only the strong will survive. Obama is truly evil. Anyone who supports him is either ignorant or evil.

Anonymous said...

I agree completely. We as a country are being steered toward destruction. Any of you who think otherwise have your heads in a hole. You are a huge part of the problem. We need to take back our country and go back to the basics of our founding fathers. Government is far too large, it was never meant to be like this. Our ancestors came here and fought for our freedom and independence. All this is now (under Obama's administration) being systematically stripped away from us. We need less government, not more. Please contact your elected representatives and let them know that government should not run health care in the USA. Don't believe the lies. This is far too important.

Anonymous said...

What is wrong with socialized medicine? Isn't that medicine for society? Sounds reasonable.

An earlier blogger stated people are being steered toward destruction. I had no idea that Dick Cheney was posting to this blog.

Anonymous said...

Call it "government medicine" if that is a term you can understand. The government is NOT supposed to run any industry. They are inept and corrupt.

Anonymous said...

The government is not suppose to run any industry?

Postal service. Social security. Parks.

You're just another reactionary lunatic.

Anonymous said...

Case in point. The government is running all of these things (and more) at a huge loss. They announced just today: Facing staggering financial losses, the Postal Service is looking at closing as many as 1,000 offices across the country. I am not a lunatic, I am sensible. You are the disillusioned one.

Anonymous said...

I think delusional is more like it. I'm so glad that the poster used such fine examples of government run entities like the USPS and Social Security.

If you are looking for great reasons NOT to have more governmental intervention, you need not look any further than the statistics regarding either of these two juggernauts. The USPS going down the crapper and the Social Security system has been heading there for a long, long, time.

Well, at least you can hang your hat on the park service, Yogi the Bear and Boo Boo...Hey Obama, what's that in your picnic basket! Oh yes, a huge block of government cheese for all the sheeple! Delusional indeed!

Anonymous said...

Typical response by reactionary Republican moron. One can anticipate their knee-jerk responses. They must "twitter" themselves senseless. (Maybe not. They are not intelligent enough to figure it out.)

The blogger is the first to cry "help me (please, anybody!--I pay taxes) when some event punctures their bubble.

Why not report on the number of failed private sector businesses?

You are just one more lazy boob that uses this blog to vent your frustration.

Go get a real job in the real world.

Go Obama!!!

Anonymous said...

There really is no argument here, the Obamalover simply has no intelligence. The government sucks at running any type of program. This is a proven fact. The idea that national health care is supposed to be self-sustaining has been proven fiscally impossible by many financial experts. It simply will not ever sustain itself. Obama is already breaking his campaign promises to not raise taxes on the middle class. He is a liar, plain and simple, saying anything he could to get elected. He doesn't have a clue what he is doing.

Why would anyone (with a brain and a real job, as I have) want government run health care? Here's a reason: so that millions of lazy, unproductive people can sponge off society even more! And we hardworking folks can pay for it. It's a nightmare in literally every country that has it, and the US will certainly not be an exception. Yes, changes need to be made in our medical system, and all of the sensible, valid ideas that would actually help this to take place are being shot down by the democrats. Nationalizing health care is NOT the answer.

Anonymous said...

Obama sucks (including all the Democrats)! Government Sucks! The Republicans Suck!

This health care plan they are trying to pass isn't even good enough for Congress - but evidently, it's good enough for us peons eh. Are you so stupid you don't see what's happening? They can't even handel the Cash for Clunkers program and you want them to take over Health Care?

If you are a baby boomer - look out because when you get sick - you are going to be sent home to die instead of getting treatment.
You who want government run health care - look at the examples in GB and Europe - they are coming here because their healthcare systems are so bad!
This is about population control, how do you think the Medicare system is going to handle the influx of health care required by all the baby boomers - they can't - so this is the governments answer - they will justify death vs a person's worth or value to society - is that what you want for you, your family, your mother, your father or your grandparents?... Go home and take a pill granny, you aren't worth saving.

Wake-up! This isn't a Republican or a Democratic issue - this is an American issue - do you like freedom - then write to your Representatives in Congress and tell them how you feel - NOW - before it's too late. Get off your soapbox and look at the big picture for once - instead of looking at your political positions, unions and government hand-outs!

Pray for our country - we are in trouble!

Anonymous said...

You have this exactly right.

Anonymous said...

C'mon for Chrissakes! It's the Chocolate Messiah's birthday and we should all just drink our grape Kool-Aide, eat our Gov't Cheese and click our heels together saying three times...There's no place like home, there's no place like home....

We are going to hell in a handbasket and the Democrats are leading the way. What the hell is our government thinking in sending Slick Willy over to make nice with the North Korean terrorists who just threatened to annihilate The United States. What promises were made to them?

Federal tax revenues are down to the lowest point they've been since the Great Depression. The federal deficit will balloon to $1.8 trillion and the national debt already exceeds $11 trillion.

And yet, in the midst of this financial free-fall our government wants to take on more and more programs that can'not be paid for. The only way to increase the tax receipts at this point is...(drum roll please)......
INCREASE INCOME TAX ON THOSE MAKING LESS THAN $250,000, which Obama has repeatedly said he WOULD NOT do. Funny that Barry's financial guru's Geithner and Bernanke disagree with him not increasing taxes.

Our tax system is already inadequate to support the promises our government has made and this just adds to the problem.

Give our country a chance and follow the lead of the last blogger who urges everyone...Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Green Party(ers), etc., to contact your Senators and Congressmen, contact your local officials, and let them know that you do NOT want a government run health care system. It could be the straw that broke the camels back. But,then again, if the camel is an illegal alien camel then it might be covered under ObamaMD's medical plan ;-)

Anonymous said...

it is costing the U.S. Federal government $100 million per day in interest on the "stimulus" money. That's the money that was supposed to keep unemployment below 8%, create thousands of new related jobs and turn around our collapsing economy. The "stimulus plan" isn't working. Obama is a fake. He should be removed from office immediately. He is trying to ruin our country and doing a damn fine job of it.

Anonymous said...

Just more racist and bigoted remarks. Even then you don't have it right. Not even close.

You last bloggers don't count, not even among your peers.

Anonymous said...

Wow, excellent rhetoric. Plain and simple - you are an idiot!
So easy to make non-specific, cookie cutter statements that mean nothing.
Oh, wait, that in itself is so Obama-ish!
You carry the Democratic/Socialistic stanchion admirably, Comrade!

Anonymous said...

You still have it wrong, bean-head.

We're true blue Reps.

Your math doesn't add up--but then, it doesn't need to in your world.

What a loser. Big time.

Anonymous said...

"Crooked politicians have given all politicians a bad name. Obama took the crooked to an all time low with his thug mentality and his race-card tactics. Michelle Obama is an even uglier and more bitter version of the closet homosexual she is married to."

This post says it all. I thought the same "what promises were made to the N. Koreans?"

Chocolate Messiah? Slick Willy? Good ones! Sounds like the names of porno stars! LOLOLOL Actually, both Obama and Clinton have been caught doing a perverted nasty outside their marriage.

Clinton: women, cigars
Obama: men, crack pipes

Anonymous said...

Another bigoted loser. Big-time.

Anonymous said...

To 'true blue Reps':
Actually, all of the numbers add up. Check them out before you make your mindless retorts. If you want to talk about math not adding up, take a look at the Obama-promises made, the monies spent, and the negative results. I think you'll see where things are heading.

Anonymous said...

We've checked the math.

You're full of it and then some.

Get on meds ASAP.

Anonymous said...

Chief....why do you allow this racist filth to remain on your website?

Anonymous said...

I think it is called freedom of expression

Anonymous said...

To the blogger calling someone a bean-head - what are the numbers then?? I would be interested in what you have to say, besides your inconsequential retoric and name calling!
It will be interesting to see how many times the Obama supporters get hit in the head with his idiotic ideas before they see the light. I know it took awhile for some Republicans with 'W' - but please - this is a no brainer... oh maybe that's the problem... no brains to begin with....

Anonymous said...

To the blogger concerned about bean-heads.

It is OK to vent against Obama and wife with racist innuendo, but you are offended because someone is referred to as a bean-head?

You're a joke. A real bean-head.

The numbers? Count for yourself, bean-head.

Anonymous said...

You are the joke - you can't even answer the question - proves to me that you are an idiot! Calling someone a bean-head is not what my question was - seems my question was answered earlier in the blog by someone much more intelligent than you... that is unless you can answer my initial question - what are the numbers? You don't seem to have the answer now do you.
Pulling the race card doesn't impress me either way - you have proved yourself and your words insignificate at best.

Anonymous said...

Just so you know, I wasn't calling you out for calling another blogger a bean-head - I was addressing you as an anonymous blogger with the reference that you gave in your response.
As for your calling other bloggers racists for disagreeing with the Obama's policies - that is absurd. Would you say the same if someone disagreed with a white President and his wife's policies - I think not... What is your agenda anyways?

Anonymous said...

"insignificate"

What a moron bean-head.

Anonymous said...

I repeat - Obama is a racist thug. His Harvard coated "street" mentality fools no one with half a brain in their head.

Michelle and Barack in the White House is like trailer trash winning the lottery. Our nation's morale and economy are now sitting up on cinder blocks without any wheels - but with hot pink, fuzzy dice "dangling" from a cracked rear view mirror and noxious, overgrown weeds in the front yard of a double wide. Hunny, Obama gonna git us sum healthcare and pay our mortgage! Crack open that 24-pack of champagne now!

Anonymous said...

I repeat. Bean-head bigot.

Anonymous said...

And the best retort you can come up with is to point out an insignificant spelling error? Very impressive with your one-line, rhetorical submissions.
Once again, meaningless blather from the teleprompter that if repeated often enough give the impression of truth.

Anonymous said...

Bean-head, bean-head... and bigot - wow such big words for an idiot. Can you not come up with something intelligent to say?

Anonymous said...

I have, you haven't, bigot bean-head.

Your blogging is like reading a brochure put out by the KKK.

You haven't enough sense to wipe yourself.

Anonymous said...

Okay, I've had enough. Whoever is ruining this blog with their childish remarks, please go away. You are not funny, cute or appreciated.

Anonymous said...

Me, too. Go away, please.

Anonymous said...

You're expecting whoever is being childish to believe they are, in fact, the childish one? And then to deprive themself of such childish insults by leaving the blog? Doesn't hurt to ask.

ATTENTION said...

Congressman Tom Petri will hold a Town Meeting in Green Lake on Monday, August 10th at the Caestecker Public Library, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. This is your chance to voice your opinion on nationalized health care and other important topics. Please tell your friends and neighbors.

Anonymous said...

To the clueless blooger that thinks these posts read like a KKK brochure - you've absolutely no idea what you're whining about. I read this blog 3 times and saw no racist innuendo!

Anonymous said...

Of course you didn't see any--you are as much a bigot as the blogger who wrote this:

"Michelle and Barack in the White House is like trailer trash winning the lottery. Our nation's morale and economy are now sitting up on cinder blocks without any wheels - but with hot pink, fuzzy dice "dangling" from a cracked rear view mirror and noxious, overgrown weeds in the front yard of a double wide. Hunny, Obama gonna git us sum healthcare and pay our mortgage! Crack open that 24-pack of champagne now!"

You are just one more bigot bean-head that have no place here. Get lost.

Anonymous said...

The post you referenced is a description of idiots with power. You are the one imagining there is more to it than that. Your own ignorance reveals itself very clearly. Stop insulting people on here (that you know nothing about) and you go away.

Anonymous said...

You are worse than a liar.

Anonymous said...

You're a mental case.

Anonymous said...

Actually, there was no mention of race in that blog. Who is the bean-head?

Anonymous said...

Maybe I am confused. Actually reading the proposed legislation, there doesn't seem like any requirement that citizens opt for the "government option". If you are satisfied with your health plan, keep it. Anyone who thinks that private insurance companies are not milking them for every cent available needs to do a little research. I am surprised that none of the posts (not one) quotes and analyzes an offending portion of the proposed Act. Actually, reading some of the above posts, I'm not surprised. Cool-Aid for both sides.

Anonymous said...

If you read the proposed legislation make sure to take note of what employers will be required to do. If this gets passed you will see many small business owners going out of business and no new ones to take their place. The implications are extremely detrimental to business and therefore, the economy. This thing is going to blow up in peoples faces.

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