With to the addition of another 181 people to the job market, Lamar County’s unemployment rate jumped to a record-breaking 16.4% in July, up .9% from a revised June count of 15.5%. Joblessness was 8.4% in July 2008.
Lamar’s work force numbered 8,333 people in July with 6,969 working – an increase of 80 jobs –and 1,364 looking for work. In June, the numbers were 8,152 total people, 6,889 working and 1,263 seeking jobs.
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Wed, May 16, 2012 - 08:59 PM
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Thank you for your kind words. I agree that more careful driving would indeed make u [...]
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Robert,
If the government had not gotten involved in safety, air quality, and eco [...]
Wed, May 16, 2012 - 05:50 AM
Way to close to my house, My kids arent even safe at home anymore! God help us
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It really does not matter what the actual value is, so long as everyone is valued on the same fair scale. The only way the system becomes unfair is if some properties are undervalued and others are overvalued.
If all of our homes were honestly and accurately valued at 10 times the actual value, in a very short time we would pay exactly the same tax as if our homes were valued at ten times under the true fair value. This is because they have to reset the millage rate.
What we have now are some homes that are greatly undervalued, and others that have been constantly readjusted upward. They all either need adjusted low using the same uniform scale (which would eventually force a millage increase back to the same tax dollar amount to the county), or they all need to be adjusted high so the millage rate is lowered.
If the home values are lowered, the millage rate will have to increase. This means tractors, boats, cars, and other things will go up as well as the dollar amount paid for homes.
No matter what we do, we will always as a group wind up paying the same thing. All the rest of it simply moves the larger share of the burden from one person to another.
This is why tea parties are generally ships of fools. They want lower taxes, but aren't able to say what services they would eliminate.
Another interesting thing...the government can spend all the money it wants in the USA and the wealth of our country as a whole stays exactly the same. The only way our country becomes less wealthy is when we spend money overseas.
If I was doing a stimulus, it would be 100% tied to money that goes only to the USA. It would not be for asphalt roads, because that requires foreign oil and most of the money for materials would go overseas. It would not be for foreign cars, or domestic vehicles with large foreign content. If we had a real president, he would make sure every dollar possible stayed in this country no matter how much people complained. Then we could have as big a stimulus as we wanted, and our nation would maintain exactly the same wealth.
Tom