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[xalciene]

Saturday's The Australian editorial (the second one) made some sensible points about unemployment, but I feel there are two considerations that should be acknowledged.

Firstly, the announcement that unemployment is now 4.9 per cent was perhaps a bit too surprising. It should be remembered that this is a first-release statistic, and is likely to be

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[norby_]

Darling please. I want you to go out the front door and go for a walk. Buy the new Dior cologne if you don't want to smell the birds and the bees (or find out what that entails), and if you must read every single paper ever published, why not read Liber Tatea (http://www.libertatea.ro/). The best section is the link under "Fata de la pagina 5 " (The Page 5 Girl)... it's so sexist it's hilarious (in a you have to like backwards eastern European Humour kind of way).

And also darling, don't you realise that the unemployment rate might be 4.9%, but you get like 5.something with ING *nods unconvincingly*. Also, may I titter about your comment "Australia has done well so far [if we were a developing nation]"

/clueless moment

[xalciene]

ugh sweetie darling i think you were talking about the interest rate. it was just so rude of them to stop paying me whenever i made someone unemployed. i mean HELLO what have unemployed people ever done for me?

is that all romania has to offer? ugh. just look at her nose! hello its bigger than her tits

titter - we've done better than romina. and our noses are a lot better.

[kewpid]

The Howard government pushing for full employment? How terribly Marxist! ;)

[xalciene]

don't be silly it's much more cynical than that. unemployed people are much more likely to vote for the other party (.. or Labor, which happens to be the same in this case).