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GOM oil job losses

Dew,
if the NYT article you referred to is:
Job Losses Over Drilling Ban Fail to Materialize
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/us/25drill.html?ref=todayspaper

the article is pure propaganda. Liberals like to wail about Fox news but that NYT article is disgusting.

exerpt
Unemployment claims related to the oil industry along the Gulf Coast have been in the hundreds, not the thousands...

zero citations for that information. welpy, in my company alone the officially announced number related to the moratorium is 145 and that was as of about 1 month ago. Since that time dozens more have lost their jobs and there is rampant fear that a larger round of layoffs is coming. Several planned hires in my facility have been cancelled. A guy in my group who closed on a house about 1 month ago is probably going to be transferred. At least one of our larger Texas facilities is forcing all employees to take every Friday in November as a vacation even if it puts employees at a deficit in vacation days. So Mr.s Broder & Krauss can stuff their unsubstantiated conjecture up their collective nether regions.