Jobs Lost in One Month: 533,000

JOBS Open Thread

That's right, in one month 1/2 million jobs gone.

How are your doing? Is your job gone, under threat, teetering, safe?

What plans are you making as insurance against the rocky economic foreseeable future?

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McCain: Less Jobs, More Wars

Yes -- He Really is that STUPID. You're Not Imagining It.

Palin just threatened war with Russia in her ABC interview. Seriously.

No, it wasn't a gaffe. Totally consistent with McCain's point of view. Check the interview: (Video at the jump.)

ABC

The governor advocated for the admittance of Georgia and Ukraine into NATO.

When Gibson said if under the NATO treaty, the United States would have to go to war if Russia again invaded Georgia, Palin responded: "Perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you're going to be expected to be called upon and help.

"And we've got to keep an eye on Russia. For Russia to have exerted such pressure in terms of invading a smaller democratic country, unprovoked, is unacceptable," she told Gibson.

Palin, who obtained her first passport last year and who has served just two years as Alaska's governor, told Gibson that she was up to the challenge of being Sen. John McCain's vice president.

In ice-skating, this move is called the "death-spiral."

McCain/Palin: LESS JOBS, MORE WARS.

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More bad news in the economy as Yahoo cuts 7%

IN more bad news for the USA economy...

Yahoo Set to Cut 1,000 Jobs
Morning Edition, January 30, 2008 · A day after reporting a 23 percent drop in quarterly profits, Yahoo says it will cut about 1,000 jobs as early as next month. That's about 7 percent of the Internet portal's work,force. The aim is to cut costs and focus on the company's most important business: online advertising.

and more in detail at Portfolio.com (where the ominous photo above was posted)

It is time to start talking about the "R" word and what comes next. It is going to be a long, hard year and it looks like we are heading back into a period of "It's the Economy, Stupid."

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