Jobless rate bolts to 8.5 percent, 663K jobs lost - Change You Can Believe IN!

663,000 Lost , just in March =

That's The Entire Population of One the Following Cities

Charlotte, NC
Fort Worth,TX
Las Vegas, NV
Seattle,WA
Denver,CO

Just researching and posting this gave me the heebie-jeebies
....Mark

hee⋅bie-jee⋅bies

   /ˈhibiˈdʒibiz/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [hee-bee-jee-beez] Show IPA

–noun ( used with a plural verb ) Slang .

a condition of extreme nervousness caused by fear, worry, strain, etc.; the jitters; the willies (usually prec. by the ): Just thinking about ghosts gives me the heebie-jeebies.

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Origin:
1905–10, Americanism ; rhyming compound coined by W. De Beck (1890–1942), American comic-strip cartoonist

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