# Unemployment Animation **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 17, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unemployment-animation/77348 "2009-12-17T16:34:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PureXTC](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/purextc/32/5223_2.png) [@PureXTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PureXTC)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unemployment-animation/77348/21 "2009-12-17T21:36:21Z")
> [@Onyx Z32](#): > > [Detroit Wildlife on Vimeo](http://www.vimeo.com/2371774) > > Such a good little vid Awesome vid. Their downtown train system reminds me of Buffalos. 3 miles long with 13 stops with future plans to expand that never happened. But even they knew not to put it through main street. Cant wait for the full version. ---
**Author:** ![PureXTC](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/purextc/32/5223_2.png) [@PureXTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PureXTC)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 9:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unemployment-animation/77348/22 "2009-12-17T21:57:01Z")
If someone has a vimeo account could you please ask the author if he had to wait for the streets to be that empty or is it common to see downtown street that bare? ---
**Author:** ![JCuz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jcuz/32/7338_2.png) [@JCuz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JCuz)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 11:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unemployment-animation/77348/23 "2009-12-17T23:26:38Z")
wow only one county has 1.9% and below and that’s in north dakota ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 3:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unemployment-animation/77348/24 "2009-12-18T03:32:52Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > I see a disturbing correlation between non-agrarian economies and unemployment! > > Moral of the story: Economies based on government subsidies are immune from economic downturns, so the government should subsidize everything. > > That’s what you guys take from that too right? Yeah, except I don’t really want to produce a product (milk) for $15.00/cwt and sell it for $11.00/cwt. I mean the govt does throw in like $.50/cwt to help.:bloated: Edit: Good thing all of those jobs lost in Detroit were only manufacturing jobs, we have been told over and over that we don’t need those. Here is a little mind blower I have mentioned before: 51,000 plants have closed in the USA since 2000. Yeah, that’s right 51,000! ---
**Author:** ![Penfold](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/penfold/32/5007_2.png) [@Penfold](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Penfold)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unemployment-animation/77348/25 "2009-12-18T06:57:28Z")
> [@Blue Eyed Devil](#): > > 51,000 plants have closed in the USA since 2000. Yeah, that’s right 51,000! source? ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 7:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unemployment-animation/77348/26 "2009-12-18T07:04:21Z")
I don’t know I read it somewhere, Alliance for American Manufacturing maybe. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 7:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unemployment-animation/77348/27 "2009-12-18T07:04:38Z")
i beleive it… on my home computer i have some research from a couple years ago showing the number of mass lay-off events in the US over a period of time… it was astounding and the information was readily available on the net… i probably have a link or two somewhere. there are thousands of mass lay-off events (50 or more people at a time) per year in the US for years in a row… and when you consider most businesses actually employ less than 50 anyways it’s even more startling. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 7:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unemployment-animation/77348/28 "2009-12-18T07:05:50Z")
found something: [http://www.bls.gov/mls/](http://www.bls.gov/mls/) ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 7:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unemployment-animation/77348/29 "2009-12-18T07:09:37Z")
[http://www.losangeleschronicle.com/articles/view/133078](http://www.losangeleschronicle.com/articles/view/133078) “The Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) today praised the Obama Administration’s new “Framework for Revitalizing American Manufacturing.” The document comes at a crisis moment for the nation’s industrial sector, which has lost more than 5 million jobs and 51,000 factories over the past decade.” ---
**Author:** ![Penfold](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/penfold/32/5007_2.png) [@Penfold](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Penfold)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 7:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unemployment-animation/77348/30 "2009-12-18T07:26:50Z")
Thanks. That is a pretty outstanding number. ~16.24 factory closings per US county. I doubt it accounts for start-ups though. I would imagine the number for restaurants is a lot higher. It is a total shame we are losing our industrial base and therefore our economical base. ---
**Author:** ![sobo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sobo/32/5267_2.png) [@sobo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sobo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 7:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unemployment-animation/77348/31 "2009-12-18T07:58:04Z")
Revolution here we come! ---
**Author:** ![Penfold](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/penfold/32/5007_2.png) [@Penfold](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Penfold)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 8:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unemployment-animation/77348/32 "2009-12-18T08:02:15Z")
> [@sobo](#): > > Revolution here we come! Not until the supermarkets are empty and/or a loaf of bread is $100. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 8:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unemployment-animation/77348/33 "2009-12-18T08:37:40Z")
It kills me when DC is bragging that fewer people are getting laid-off. I have laid-off everyone I can, if I lay-off anymore I might as well shut the doors. So the real reason is not necessarily that things are getting better it is just that companies are hanging on by a thread and can not function with fewer people. That being said we have had some decent oreders lately but we are still miles away from hiring. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/unemployment-animation/77348.md?page=1)