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In Safest Places 

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These Are The 10 Safest Places In Montana[/b]

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This naturally beautiful state seems to have it all—[u]well, except for a lot of crime[/u], that is[/b]. These 10 cities are the safest of them all. 
  
Natalie Grigson

Montana: It’s one of the most naturally beautiful states in the country—rolling hills, mountains, forests, grasslands, and of course, wide open spaces for miles and miles.

Now, whether it is simply due to a lack of people (Montana is one of the least densely populated places in the country), or because the folks in Montana are just more peaceful than others, the only thing this state really seems to be lacking is crime.

According to the latest analysis here at the Movoto Real Estate Blog, these 10 cities are the safest of them all—especially our safest spot, Dillon.

1. City of Dillon
[b] 2. City of Glasgow[/b]
 3. City of Columbia Falls
 4. City of Laurel
 5. City of Miles City
 6. City of Lewistown
 7. City of Livingston (tie)
 7. City of Belgrade (tie)
 9. City of Whitefish
 10. City of Sidney

http://www.movoto.com/mt/safest-places-in-montana/

Unemployment Rate Falls To 2.9% In August
Friday, September 19th 2014
HELENA – Montana’s unemployment rate was at 4.7 percent in August, a slight increase of one-tenth of one percent from July. The unemployment rate has decreased by 0.6 percentage points since January—during that time, Montana has created more than 12,000 jobs. The unemployment rate has been between 4.5 percent to 4.7 percent since May. In August, the U.S. unemployment rate decreased by 0.1 percentage points to 6.1 percent.
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The unemployment rate in Valley County fell to just 2.9% in August compared to the July unemployment rate of 3.1%.

The total amount of employed in Valley County reached 4,209 compared to 4,293 in July.

But when you compare the unemployment rate for August of 2014 to August of 2013 you will see a big change. In August of 2013 the unemployment rate was 3.7% and the total number of employed was 3,946.


Nice to live in a good old fashioned community where everyone gets along- and common sense prevails... I really feel for some of you folks that I can tell thru your hate and fearmongering must have it rough! :wink:
 

Big Muddy rancher

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The unemployment rate in Valley County fell to just 2.9% in August compared to the July unemployment rate of 3.1%.

The total amount of employed in Valley County reached 4,209 compared to 4,293 in July.
:???: :???: :???:

So the rate fell to 2.9% from 3.1% but 84 less people were employed?

I always question that 4 months summer vacation in school.
 

Whitewing

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I find this confusing.

In one post the place is crawling with skin-head neo-nazis, and in another it's all puppy dog tails and milk and honey.
 

Mike

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I'm sure he's proud to live anywhere that was stolen from the original owners. :roll:

It's a "Subsidy" thing......................
 
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Whitewing said:
I find this confusing.

In one post the place is crawling with skin-head neo-nazis, and in another it's all puppy dog tails and milk and honey.

Oh I'm sure the numbers thing is just a printing error- old Boomer the news man must have left something out-- but I know the 2.9% is true- and I doubt many on here could match that- especially those that ran away to communist countries to live and then beech about the country rather than working to make it better...

And yes- we've had our share of extremists (both leftwingernuts and rightwingernuts) over the years but the good folks around here straighten them out pretty fast and they either fit in and not cause any problems-- or they hit the road... This part of the country is pretty tolerant- and as long as you don't try pushing extremes on folks or allowing your extremist thinking to interfer with all folks - we get along pretty well..
 

hypocritexposer

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What is Montana's U6 rate, OT

Bet if you looked at comparable formulas, Alberta would have you beat...:wink:



For August 2014 the official U-6 unemployment rate fell from 12.6% to 12.0%. But the independently produced Gallup equivalent called the “Underemployment Rate” disagrees and is at 15.1% flat from 15.1% last month. So the differential between Gallup and BLS on supposedly the same data is 3.1%.
 

hypocritexposer

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America's unemployment rate as measured by the Labor Department vastly underrepresents the number of Americans actually out of work, hedge fund manager Kyle Bass told CNBC.

Earlier this month, the government said the nation's unemployment rate fell to 6.1 percent in August, while job growth cooled with just 142,000 nonfarm payrolls added.

"Look at unemployment, the way it's calculated is it's semi-rigged," he argued in a "Squawk Box" interview. "It will trend down to the 5 percent range just because people stop looking for a job."

"If you take everyone that has dropped out of the workforce since the beginning of the financial crisis," he continued, "the unemployment number would be 11 percent."
 

littlejoe

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Whitewing said:
I find this confusing.

In one post the place is crawling with skin-head neo-nazis, and in another it's all puppy dog tails and milk and honey.

ya' got it, whiteybear! we're armed to the teeth and crazier than hell. pass it on.
 

Whitewing

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Oldtimer said:
Oh I'm sure the numbers thing is just a printing error- old Boomer the news man must have left something out-- but I know the 2.9% is true- and I doubt many on here could match that- especially those that ran away to communist countries to live and then beech about the country rather than working to make it better.

Okay you old blow hard. You've finally worn me down with your bullshit. You say I'm somehow in no position to criticize anything going on in the US and that I'm not working to make it better. I"ll take you up on the challenge of who's accomplished what for the country during their productive years.

When I entered the oilfied in 1978 I was initally employed by a small firm operating out of a tiny rental office and lab run by a very intelligent man and his silent partner. While he was brilliant at the work he did, he was not very good a managing money and even worse at managing people, hence he was still a one man show after 8 years.

Over the next 20 years, I helped him take the company from gross sales of about $500,000 PER YEAR to over $1,000,000 PER MONTH, bought out both the original partners with company earnings, and when I finally sold the company, we employed over 150 professionals with backgrounds in petroleum and chemical engineering. We also operated out of a company-owned facility that was the best in the world for its type of work. I know this because I visited all of our commercial competitors over the years and nothing better existed at the time.

That company continues chugging along today 15 years after I sold it.

I can't recall what kind of reveunes we were generating for the feds with over $1,000,000 in taxable company income monthly and 150 professional salaries, but let's just agree it wasn't chump change.

Now, Montana is almost 30% owned by the feds so I know for a fact that a portion of those hard-earned dollars I sent to DC were turned around and sent out west in support of your sorry fat ass.

So, until you can demonstrate that you've done anything in your adult life other than feed from the government trough, shut the **** up and stop telling me I have no right to criticize what I see wrong with the government you helped elect.
 
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Whitewing said:
Oldtimer said:
Oh I'm sure the numbers thing is just a printing error- old Boomer the news man must have left something out-- but I know the 2.9% is true- and I doubt many on here could match that- especially those that ran away to communist countries to live and then beech about the country rather than working to make it better.

Okay you old blow hard. You've finally worn me down with your BS. You say I'm somehow in no position to criticize anything going on in the US and that I'm not working to make it better. I"ll take you up on the challenge of who's accomplished what for the country during their productive years.

When I entered the oilfied in 1978 I was initally employed by a small firm operating out of a tiny rental office and lab run by a very intelligent man and his silent partner. While he was brilliant at the work he did, he was not very good a managing money and even worse at managing people, hence he was still a one man show after 8 years.

Over the next 20 years, I helped him take the company from gross sales of about $500,000 PER YEAR to over $1,000,000 PER MONTH, bought out both the original partners with company earnings, and when I finally sold the company, we employed over 150 professionals with backgrounds in petroleum and chemical engineering. We also operated out of a company-owned facility that was the best in the world for its type of work. I know this because I visited all of our commercial competitors over the years and nothing better existed at the time.

That company continues chugging along today 15 years after I sold it.

I can't recall what kind of reveunes we were generating for the feds with over $1,000,000 in taxable company income monthly and 150 professional salaries, but let's just agree it wasn't chump change.

Now, Montana is almost 30% owned by the feds so I know for a fact that a portion of those hard-earned dollars I sent to DC were turned around and sent out west in support of your sorry fat ass.

So, until you can demonstrate that you've done anything in your adult life other than feed from the government trough, shut the bad word up and stop telling me I have no right to criticize what I see wrong with the government you helped elect.

So you took your lifelong earnings that were earned in the US by using all the government, law enforcement and military services provided for by US taxpayers- and took it to a communist country to invest in that country! :???:

To me that is what is one of the big problems with this country today... :(
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
Whitewing said:
Oldtimer said:
Oh I'm sure the numbers thing is just a printing error- old Boomer the news man must have left something out-- but I know the 2.9% is true- and I doubt many on here could match that- especially those that ran away to communist countries to live and then beech about the country rather than working to make it better.

Okay you old blow hard. You've finally worn me down with your BS. You say I'm somehow in no position to criticize anything going on in the US and that I'm not working to make it better. I"ll take you up on the challenge of who's accomplished what for the country during their productive years.

When I entered the oilfied in 1978 I was initally employed by a small firm operating out of a tiny rental office and lab run by a very intelligent man and his silent partner. While he was brilliant at the work he did, he was not very good a managing money and even worse at managing people, hence he was still a one man show after 8 years.

Over the next 20 years, I helped him take the company from gross sales of about $500,000 PER YEAR to over $1,000,000 PER MONTH, bought out both the original partners with company earnings, and when I finally sold the company, we employed over 150 professionals with backgrounds in petroleum and chemical engineering. We also operated out of a company-owned facility that was the best in the world for its type of work. I know this because I visited all of our commercial competitors over the years and nothing better existed at the time.

That company continues chugging along today 15 years after I sold it.

I can't recall what kind of reveunes we were generating for the feds with over $1,000,000 in taxable company income monthly and 150 professional salaries, but let's just agree it wasn't chump change.

Now, Montana is almost 30% owned by the feds so I know for a fact that a portion of those hard-earned dollars I sent to DC were turned around and sent out west in support of your sorry fat ass.

So, until you can demonstrate that you've done anything in your adult life other than feed from the government trough, shut the bad word up and stop telling me I have no right to criticize what I see wrong with the government you helped elect.

So you took your lifelong earnings that were earned in the US by using all the government, law enforcement and military services provided for by US taxpayers- and took it to a communist country to invest in that country! :???:

To me that is what is one of the big problems with this country today... :(

WTF? The man (a term used very loosely) is insane! :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
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Mike said:
Oldtimer said:
Whitewing said:
Okay you old blow hard. You've finally worn me down with your BS. You say I'm somehow in no position to criticize anything going on in the US and that I'm not working to make it better. I"ll take you up on the challenge of who's accomplished what for the country during their productive years.

When I entered the oilfied in 1978 I was initally employed by a small firm operating out of a tiny rental office and lab run by a very intelligent man and his silent partner. While he was brilliant at the work he did, he was not very good a managing money and even worse at managing people, hence he was still a one man show after 8 years.

Over the next 20 years, I helped him take the company from gross sales of about $500,000 PER YEAR to over $1,000,000 PER MONTH, bought out both the original partners with company earnings, and when I finally sold the company, we employed over 150 professionals with backgrounds in petroleum and chemical engineering. We also operated out of a company-owned facility that was the best in the world for its type of work. I know this because I visited all of our commercial competitors over the years and nothing better existed at the time.

That company continues chugging along today 15 years after I sold it.

I can't recall what kind of reveunes we were generating for the feds with over $1,000,000 in taxable company income monthly and 150 professional salaries, but let's just agree it wasn't chump change.

Now, Montana is almost 30% owned by the feds so I know for a fact that a portion of those hard-earned dollars I sent to DC were turned around and sent out west in support of your sorry fat ass.

So, until you can demonstrate that you've done anything in your adult life other than feed from the government trough, shut the bad word up and stop telling me I have no right to criticize what I see wrong with the government you helped elect.

So you took your lifelong earnings that were earned in the US by using all the government, law enforcement and military services provided for by US taxpayers- and took it to a communist country to invest in that country! :???:

To me that is what is one of the big problems with this country today... :(

WTF? The man (a term used very loosely) is insane! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Whatever :roll: You will not get me to change on that... Its long been my belief that if you made your fortune/money because of the greatness of our country-- you should have the respect and patriotism to reinvest it back into this country- and not run away to some foreign soil to do so...
 

Whitewing

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Epic Fail, dumbass.

Firstly, and most importantly, you won't even respond to my question about you spending your entire adult life feeding at the public trough. But, that was to be expected.

Secondly, you know virtually nothing about where my money is invested today and yet you make sweeping assumptions and accussations. That makes you an idiot, not that that comes as a surprise to anyone here.

And finally, and in typical liberal fashion, you pull an Obama with your.....you didn't build that. No, it was all because of US government and military that I was successful, right?

After signing an agreement with my partners to buy out their share of the company, I opened operations in Mexico, Venezuela, Trinidad, the UK, Angola, Kazakhstan, and China. Those ventures more than doubled the size of the company and the resulting proceeds paid off my partners. And guess where all that taxable income from those ventures flowed fatman? I'll give ya a hint.....straight into the federal cofers with some of those dollars no doubt making their way into your tight little pockets just for protecting all of us here from skin-head tea party types running rampant in Valley County Montana. Trust me ole bigoted one, the feds were plenty glad I took the risks I did to gift them so much money from foreign sources.

What's wrong with the country is not people like me OT. It's people like you who believe it's owed them. It's people like you who believe that a man can't be successful without government showing him the way. It's people like you who believe that once you've earned it, it's not really yours and you shouldn't have the freedom to invest it where you wish. With every comment you make here it pisses me off more how you sat on the phone that night and told me how conservative you were. You're a liar.
 

Whitewing

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Mike said:
WTF? The man (a term used very loosely) is insane! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Mike, by the time I sold the company, over half our revenues were generated outside the country. And because Mexico's corporate tax structure (at least at that time) was virtually identical to ours, it was simpler to just include Mexican revenues as "US-generated" on the books so the margin was actually even greater.

As usual, the dumbass shoots off his mouth without having any idea what he's talking about. :lol:
 
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Whitewing said:
Epic Fail, dumbass.

Firstly, and most importantly, you won't even respond to my question about you spending your entire adult life feeding at the public trough. But, that was to be expected.

I've probably only answered this question a dozen times- but apparently you can't comprehend...
I have NEVER taken any government assistance... No welfare, no food stamps (altho during college days we could have qualified), NOTHING...
 

Whitewing

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Oldtimer said:
Whitewing said:
Epic Fail, dumbass.

Firstly, and most importantly, you won't even respond to my question about you spending your entire adult life feeding at the public trough. But, that was to be expected.

I've probably only answered this question a dozen times- but apparently you can't comprehend...
I have NEVER taken any government assistance... No welfare, no food stamps (altho during college days we could have qualified), NOTHING...

When I say, feeding at the gubmint trough , that doesn't necessarily mean welfare, food stamps, etc. OT. Public payroll. What percentage of your adult life did you depend on public payrolls?

Oh, and crop subsidies are most definitely 'assistance', fat one. Some even call it corporate welfare....oh wait, that was you calling it that when you thought no one knew you were accepting it as well.
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
Whitewing said:
Epic Fail, dumbass.

Firstly, and most importantly, you won't even respond to my question about you spending your entire adult life feeding at the public trough. But, that was to be expected.

I've probably only answered this question a dozen times- but apparently you can't comprehend...
I have NEVER taken any government assistance... No welfare, no food stamps (altho during college days we could have qualified), NOTHING...

Did you give back the money you got from the Dept of Ag?

No one in your family got assistance? :lol: :lol: No one? :lol:
 
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