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President Obama walks to the stage to speaks at the Rolls-Royce Crosspointe in Prince George, Virginia, on March 9, 2012.
President Obama hailed news on Friday that the economy added jobs in February, while also previewing his case for re-election at a stop this afternoon in central Virginia.
"Day by day, we're restoring this economy from crisis," Obama told workers at the Rolls Royce Crosspointe manufacturing plant in Virginia, a key swing state. "But we can't stop there. We've got to make this economy ready for tomorrow."
The economy added 227,000 jobs in February, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said in its monthly report released this morning. The unemployment rate held steady at 8.3 percent, which was partly attributable to jobless workers re-entering the workforce.
The report builds on a streak of generally positive economic news, reports which have helped improve the president's approval rating heading into the height of the election season.
Obama's Republican opponents were put in the somewhat awkward position of having to criticize a generally positive jobs report as insufficiently robust.
"Any new job is a welcome paycheck for the American worker, but as past recoveries show, the current rate of growth will leave the American economy sputtering for years to come," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said in a written statement.
And former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum told Bloomberg Television: "[C]ertainly a quarter of a million jobs, roughly, being added is a positive step forward ... Again, you have an administration that has consistently seen bad job reports because of bad policies that have led to those job reports. And eventually the economy does recover, in spite of the headwinds that this administration has put in its place."
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, had not issued a written statement by early afternoon, but addressed the numbers more broadly at an event this morning.
"Don't forget, by the way, that this president ... told us that if he could borrow $787 billion -- almost $1 trillion -- he would keep unemployment below 8 percent," Romney said. "It has not been below 8 percent since. This president has not succeeded, this president has failed, and that's the reason we're going to get rid of him in 2012."
Romney has made his economic expertise versus Obama a cornerstone of his campaign, and increased economic momentum would threaten to undercut a central narrative of the Romney campaign.
The administration was eager, though, to trumpet the trajectory of the economy as evidence of the president's success. White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer tweeted a graphic showing the monthly jobs reports over the last few years, divided in colors by administration (red for George W. Bush, blue for Obama). That graph reflected the monthly reports over the last two years -- some more anemic than others -- reflecting job growth in the economy.
In that vein, Obama made the implicit case for why voters should entrust him -- versus his Republican challengers -- to manage the economy over the next four years.
"Our job now is to keep this economic engine churning. We can't go back to the policies that got us in this mess," he said in Prince George, VA, "we've got to have an economy that's built to last, and that starts with American manufacturing."
The president in particularly highlighted a new manufacturing initiative, and went after lawmakers Capitol Hill for holding up its implementation.
"We need Congress to act,” he said before pausing.“ “Hmm,” he continued, as the audience began to laugh, crescendoing into full cheering and applause.
Like North Carolina, which Obama visited earlier this week to make a speech on oil prices, Virginia is a key state for the president’s re-election campaign. He won it in 2008 with 53 percent, becoming the first Democrat in four decades to carry the state in a general election.
Recent polling shows Obama would be strong in a general election matchup against any of his Republican rivals in Virginia, which Mitt Romney won on Super Tuesday.
In an NBC/Marist poll released earlier this month, Obama lead the former Massachusetts governor by 17 points (50 to 38 percent) and held even bigger leads against the other three remaining candidates: Ron Paul, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.
And a small majority of Virginia voters -- 51 percent -- approved of the president’s job in the NBC/Marist poll.
NBC's Garrett Haake contributed to this post.
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I find it funny that Romney, being a vulture capitalist, thinks he knows anything about creating jobs. The irony.
Waffle Flip Romney for President.
Romney knows how to make money for himself and his buddies.
Isn't it odd that the Gopsters blame Obama for the economy when it is spiraling down, but when it is improving they say it's just a cycle. What a steaming load these presidential wannabees are!
If I threw trillions of dollars of Taxpayers Money at the economy I would expect to see some kind of improvement now also.
Does paying ten Dollars for an orange you should have been able to buy for a dollar make you a success?
Dont forget were 15 Trillion dollars in Dept, every citizen of the United States share of that burden is $49,431.00, that dept per taxpayer is $136,762.00, and the U.S.'s unfunded liabilty is 117 trillian dollars.
Bernie Madoff would be Proud, or embarresed, at how the U.S. Government has out done him exponentially.
Not to mention the fact that the President NEVER made the 8% unemployment statement. As has been pointed out here many times, it was made by advisors based on assumptions in data that was later found to have been understating the extent of the jobs loss and economic situation in 2008. But why should Romney or the GOP worry about telling the truth?
It is beyond sad that "Holding steady at 8.3% unemployment" is considered positive news by the Main Stream Media.
Good news to be sure! There is bound to be more ups and downs as things are still a little shaky, but it's certainly leveling out on more solid ground, finally.
May employer's continue to hire so consumers have a little spare change to spend.
Obama still has a very long way to go to get to his promised 8% unemployment rate and if he keeps wasting taxpayer money on boondoggles like Solyndra where each job created cost more than two million dollars each.....he will never get there.
Lets not forget that these numbers are made up. I believe Winston from the Ministry of Truth(George Orwells book "1984") says it best;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Plenty
republicans are no doubt screaming that even with 227,000 new jobs, the unemployment rate is unchanged at 8.3%. In a way this is good news, because it tells me that people who have been unemployed for a long period are finding hope enough to get out there and get a job, and employers are actually hiring such people and not just those who are already employed. I would guess that for some time the jobs will come and the unemployment rate will slowly dwindle. I can live with this. Progress is being made, and that is good news for our country and its people. Obama/Biden 2012!
At what cost were these jobs "created"? Short term gain by Obamanomics, long term, inflation and America goes under!
250,000 jobs per month need to be created for employment figures to stay even. That is why the employment figures did not change!
The Federal Debt and Deficit, 15 TRILLION DOLLARS and GROWING and NEITHER PARTY is offering solutions! Due to this debt, America is not as competitive in the world. Inflation is kicking in (gas.oil, food, heat)in America, as the world competes for oil. Our US Dollar will not purchase what it did due to Obamanomics.
From Sen. Obama's Floor Speech, March 20, 2006:
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that "the buck stops here." Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.
At the time, Senator Obama was urging Congress not to tolerate an increase that would bring the debt ceiling to $9 trillion. Under President Obama, the debt ceiling has been raised to $14.3 trillion (now over 15 Trillion). Even without counting most unfunded liabilities, the national debt is now calculated to be nearing $14.1 trillion. It increases about $4.22 billion per day (each citizen's share stands at roughly $45K, now $50K). Thus, Democrats will soon demand that the debt ceiling be raised, lest the sky fall. When they do, they will be asking for a significant boost in a ceiling that is already 60 percent higher than the one Barack Obama said was "a sign of leadership failure" five years ago.
I find it funny that you put up a quote but can't challenge or refute any part of it .... have to resort to the insipid "vulture capitalist."
Bumper sticker slogans the limit of your ability, huh?
Heck I can even challenge Romney's statement.
Romney fails to mention that unemployment not only went above Obama's projection - it exceeded Obama's own worst case scenario of unemployment going above 9% .... if no money was spent!
Further, Obama's own CBO states that it expects unemployment to remain in this range through 2014!
Another funny thing, Obama's own CBO states the actual unemployment isn't 8.3%, it is 10%+.
The above article pretty much confirms this .....
So the 227,000 people who found jobs - weren't even part of the workforce.
They were unemployed, they wanted jobs (they found jobs) but Obama wasn't counting them as unemployed - dropped them from the workforce to manipulate the unemployment rate in an effort to deceive the American public about what a pathetic president he is.
Isn't that about right?
So tell me, what do community organizers know about creating jobs?
The fact that we are heading in a positive direction finally after three years of Obama policies is good news.
At the rate of 227,000 jobs a month thats 2,270,000 jobs a year. Theres currently 23 Million unemployed according to the national dept clock. http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Each year in June 3 million or more High School and college students graduate who should be entering the work force which is more than the number of jobs being created each year. Not to mention that the High school droput rate is 30%.
We have a job growth that isnt even keeping up with the number of new workers entering the work force and we have 23 million unemployed. It will take what 20 years to get back to a normal unemployment rate?
What an astounding success. All Hail the Chief!
I feel like the Unemployment Police today! I can't believe people would spend so much time typing responses without taking the time to look up the facts!
David - Obviously the job growth is keeping up with the number of new workers entering the workforce or the U-3 Unemployment Rate would have gone up instead of remaining unchangd at 8.3%.
Bob - "Obama is not counting them as unemployed"? The Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks these numbers, and it tracked them the same way under previous administrations. If you want TOTAL Unemployment (incl. those who have quit looking) and Total Under-employment (incl. part-time) "google" Bureau of Labor Statistics U-6 which is under 15% for the first time since January of 2009.
There are no hidden numbers or secret agendas, just different ways of looking at facts.
Every one also has to remember that, when Romney was governor of Massachusetts, it was 47th in the country in job creation. He hasn't got a clue on what to do. Everyone in the GOP praises Romney for his business experience in the private sector. I don't think that running a private equity firm is the same as running the US. After all Bernie Madoff also had a lot of business experience.
Willards jobs record in Massachusetts flat out stunk.
GOP never even defends it. That would be like defending Rick Perry's intellect.
They just hope no one notices how bad it was. (like they did with Rick Perry's intellect).
For the record Romney's Massachusetts ranked 48 out of 50 in jobs.
He created only 40 thousand jobs total in 4 YEARS!
Obama's America just created 220 thousand jobs last month.
And yes, Massachusetts without Romney's dead weight created more jobs last year than Romney did in 4 years.
If GOP lackey's disagree, I challenge them to defend Willard's record on jobs.
You can't because he's a loser - *and you know this*.
What are all of you guys talking about?
Look at Pfeifer's tweeted graphic. It says it all.... Straight down the last year of Bush, straight up as soon as Obama and the stimulus occurred in early 2009. What, is that a "lie" or something?
https://twitter.com/#!/pfeiffer44/status/178159378384429056/photo/1
I bet we could get Santorum to just pray for jobs.
psst... David. Orwell wrote fiction.
Hey TNSEVl the unemployment figures are based on the number of people that apply for Unemployment insurance. If you've never been in the work force you cant apply for unemployment insurance. Youve never worked so nothing was ever paid in on your behalf.
http://workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/unemploy/uifactsheet.asp
Eligibility
How many High School and college graduates have actually been in the workforce before graduating from High School or college? A Few, None?
It is good to hear that our President is getting another chance to leave Washington. Rolls Royce is a foreign owned company. It seems that our President prefers to visit facilities owned by foreign companies rather than American companies.
Before the stimulus bill was passed the Presidents office released a report that predicted how unemployment would progress both with and without the stimulus bill. According to that report unemployment is still worse that if the stimulus bill were never passed. I guess that the President is celebrating the idea that the economy could be even worse than it is now. Of course that federal deficits have been out of control. The President promised that he would cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term but according to his own White House the President is not going to keep his promise. I estimate that the money that the federal government is currently borrowing is going to end up costing the tax payers 9 times the amount borrowed to pay it back in 170 years. In his state of the union speech the President mentioned the idea of starting to pay down the national debt but his White House is predicting annual deficits for at least the next decade. Deficit spending is like an addictive drug but eventually us tax payers are going to have to pay the bills one way or another.
The President needs to be reminded of some words of wisdom that were spoken back in March of 2006. The words were as true then as they are today.
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, "the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
Willards jobs record in Massachusetts flat out stunk.
On Mitt's last day unemployment in MA was 4.7%
Obama would give his left nut for 7.4%
tnsevol- How do you look at facts differently? Sure it's great the job market is treading water, that's better than going under! What kind of jobs were added? If a former mechanical engineer gets a job as a greeter at Walmart do you think it's a good thing? The economy started down in late 2006 and though it's stabilized a bit, it still sucks. 2006 I made $109K and 2011 I made $44K at the same job due to cutbacks. So you tell me how my life is better under the thumb of Obama! When will you understand there's three kinds of lies? Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics!!!
This is great news, the bureaucrats and uber-elite still have a job and shall tell you how to live your life. The unemployment rate for minorities and the younger crowd doesn't matter just give them another drink of Kool-aid.
Ruken, what do you call the jobs his firm helped create at Domino’s Pizza, Sealy, Brookstone, The Sports Authority, Burger King, Burlington Coat Factory, Dunkin’ Donuts, and Toys "R" Us? I hope nobody takes any business advice from you, you are very uninformed. Probably unemployed long-term too and jealous.
Hey Bob #s? Didn't you get Boehner's message today where he stated Presidents do not create JOBS?
On a different note, the MOPS are coming out for display purposes.
If I am so uninformed, you can inform me by linking your source.
I bet almost all of the posters on this board have been unemployed less than Romney has, just FYI.
Wow.
So, those figures come from a crystal ball.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_01082010.pdf
December 2007, there were 233.156 million workplace population.
February 2012, there were 242.435 million workplace population.
So over 4.166 years, our workplace population available increased 2.227 million people/year.
Of that number, shockingly (I know hard to think.....), not everyone who can work does work. You have stay at home moms, people in college, retirees, etc, etc. The peak, peak was aroun 70% in the late 90s. Using that number, you'd need 1.559 million jobs/year to satisfy an extremely healthy job market. Or 130,000 a month. Which the market has creating for 2 years now. Over the last 24 months, job creation has averaged more than 140k per month. And for the last year, a lot more than that.
Which economy is going to eliminate all unemployed people? So no. The economy doesn't have to generate enough jobs to eliminate 23 million. It needs to generate about 10 million to get back to a very healthy market. It could do that in the next 4-5 years.
Romney's only economic sense is to make companies other than his own bankrupt. Not to mention his long history of buying out troubled companies in order to make himself rich. The latest example of his claiming to let GM go bankrupt is still dripping blood from his self-inflicted wound. Ouch! it really hurts to be proven dead wrong for someone who keeps claiming his superiority in economics! Clearly, profitting from bankrupting companies is the only way he knows how to make $$. This is not growing economy!!! This is destroying economy in order to profit himself, but meanwhile destroying the economy for hundreds of thousands of workers because of the bankruptcy!!!
Surely this kind of economic approach works only for Romney and the like of him. i.e. it may work for people who's already filthy rich but not anyone else. This kind of economic approach could only polarize the rich and the ordinary americans further and further. There will be only more and more poor americans under Romney's so-called economy sense. Who's that stupid to let such a person with absolutely no integrity and no principle flip-flopper run their lives and drive them further into poverty? HELL NO! Most americans are not that stupid! Haven't GWBush/Cheney and the right wing controlled-Congress done enough to destroy the economy and polarize the wealth between the rich and the ordinary? It's time to stop this right wing created diaster before this country is totally destoryed!!!
The far right ordinary americans can keep fooling themselves until they're destroyed by the very people they root for, but the sensible citizens of this country refuse to be dragged down by the stupidity of this minority so-called christians who have absolutely no idea who Jesus Christ is!
Sigh. I didn't say you changed facts, only LOOKED at them differently. There are different Unemployment Rates which show different ways to look at unemployment. Just like there are different finacial ratios used to analyze a companies perfromance, depending on what is more important to you. Alll are based on underlying facts.
If you go to the Bureau of Labor Statistics website, they clearly state how they calculate each different rate.
So what is the civilian labor force?
So that includes those who have not yet worked.
Anymore questions?
While Obama is touting his minimal job number gains, here's an article that shows pretty much how the government is putting forth millions on jobs that have no future in this country at the present time:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/293022/colorado-s-own-green-loan-sinkhole-michelle-malkin
PJ...
How is the way the GOP comments on economic news or any other news any different than how the president does. To Mr. Obama it's quite simple...if there's a whiff of good news, it's because of him. If the news is bad, it's because of George Bush or the evil Repubicans.
This president is naive enough to think every new job derives from his policies and that no business or corporation could ever accomplish anything at all without the help of a politician. Companies sometime succeed and grow and hire people despite what government is doing, not due to what government is doing.
And things will be better for Mitt Romney once he publishes an apology to the entire nation for having been so enormously succesful. Things have certainly changed in America... when we have a nation that looks at a man of enormous success, who doesn't drink or smoke, has a good family, and married his high school sweetheart...and those things are considered as negatives. On top of that, I'm sure that the media as well as the Obama campaign have been digging for any speck of dirt on this guy and the worst they have come up with is that he has been enormously successful in his life and in business. For shame, for shame !
And I'm pretty sure that enough voters will be pulled out of the cracks and crevices to show enough displeasure with what used to be considered to be good things... to keep the man from winning the coming election.
I hope your right Nicey.
I will be more than happy when my son who graduated from High School last year will actually be able to start looking for a job. We told him not to even try when he graduated last year because of the jobs situation and theres people out there supporting families that need a job more than we needed him to start working.
My nephew is 24 and living with his Grandparents and only gets maybe 20 hours a week of work which isnt even enough to pay the bills.
How many other families do you think are out there supporting there recently graduated children and relatives because theres not enough work to go around? Do you think that could have been going on for the last couple of years?
20 Years ago he probably could have gotten a job at a fast food place like McDonalds or Burger King, because thats an unskilled labor, a starter or entry job into teh work force. Now all those jobs are taken up by unskilled imigrant labor so now todays High school graduates cant even get a start.
I'm just wondering how long its going to be before our children can actually find a job, enough work and, and make enough wages to actually be able to support themselves?
Replacing $40.00 an hour jobs with two $10.00 an hour jobs isn't exactly making things any better.
Go USA!!!!!!!!!!
As usual, Michelle Malkin is employing the Fox News method. She cherry picks one anecdote and uses it to reach a general false conclusion. You have to look at the big picture. Is Fox News still trying to make Solyndra relevent?
Santorum said to his camp, "Remind me to add fix crumbling infrastructure and economy to my next speech ? We should stop putting Women down because they are getting mad at us. This loser is weird as a three dollar bill. (PHONY)
White Collar Auto
It took 8 years to climb from 4% to almost 8% during a decent econmy but you expect a fast drop in the % after our total financial sector imploded taking everything else down like a domino effect? Don't forget that after our financial market collapsed, it took down Europe and the rest of the world and then came back here like Tsunami.
What I find even more interesting is that you people wanted to elect Mr. John McSame who was like Bush (until it was inconvenient to admit it).
You may not be happy with the progress but you cannot guarantee me that if McCain was elected, we would have not been pushed even deeper into this black hole that almost took our economy down.
Will, are you trying to suggest that Obama doesn't support the American auto industry? Seriously? BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Rob in ma-3189632
Rob, Rob, Rob, I will AGAIN post some Romney facts for you that you keep ignoring (and probably will ignore this one, too):
While the unemployment rate under Romney did fall (from 5.6 to 4.7), it was largely due to contraction of the labor force and the only state that saw a sharper drop in its labor force during Romney’s term was Louisiana, the state that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Massachusetts lagged behind the country in virtually every economic measure under Romney’s term but after Romney left, the Mass economy has rebounded much faster from the next recession it faced, creating jobs at nearly twice the national rate and ranking in the top 10 nationally.
Nice try (again) but Romney sucked. There is a reason why he didn't run for reelection - he would have ended up as a one term governor one way or another! That's right, he will tell you that it was because he was running for a GOP nominee in 2008. Too bad he got his a$$ kicked by the person who got his a$$ kicked by President Obama.
Massachusetts added 51,362 jobs during Romney's tenure, while its population grew by 26,500 residents during that same period.
Rick - simply not true.
Massachusetts hasn't added citizens. This is one of the state with a declining population that why we just lost one of our Congressional seats.
It does my heart good seeing the GOP SCRAMBLING to find bad news. They're toast for the elections and they know it.
GOP, "you just got schooled". Oh, I forget, learning is for snobs.
@Baily.... And you can't guarantee things would not have improved if McCain had been elected. So what's your point? I am glad to see you understand how MA. was able to manipulate it's unemployment numbers by "removing people from the work force". That being the case... I am sure you are just as cynical about the Obama administration using the same tactic on national unemployment numbers....Right?
And about your "McSame" label... What Bush policies has Obama not continued? Tax cuts? Ended the Iraq occupation ahead of the time frame laid out by Bush? Pulled out of Afghanistan? Ended the Patriot Act? Stopped spending way more than is brought in? Brought the country together? Oh, I do know one.... Obama's wife is allowed to use Air Force 2 at any time to ferry her, the kids, her mom and all the friends they want to invite on vacations all over the world. Why are we paying her mom's room and board anyway?
This is such bad news for teabaggers! The economy is continuing to improve and hundreds of thousands of jobs continue to be created! I can hear the rending of garments and gnashing of teeth of the right wing lunatic fringe from my window! Such hilarity!
The media is waving its Obama pom poms as fast as it can. Just go along.
Unfortunately for Mr Obama, I think that people will not have any trouble remembering that Obama including his Insurance farce, has indebted us for 6 trillion dollars., in slightly over 3 years of his reign.
I think they will be able to remember that, he cut 468 billion out of medicare to give free insurance to his voter base.
I don't think they will forget, that he is guilty of Malfeasance in Office for his illegal directions to ICE not to deport criminal aliens not guilty of another crime.
I suspect they will also remember his decision to not defend the US law, Doma, as he is required to by law another violation of the Malfeasance in Office statutes.
I think they will remember the trampling he gave the Us Bankruptcy Code and the extortion he committed on the secured creditors of GM.
Solyndra, one of 6 "green " companies that have filed bankruptcy, I Imagine they will be in people. thoughts.
The left is talking a good game, on the economy, the facts are that Obama plugged around with the insurance farce for a year, while the UE rate went from 7.5 % to 10.2%.
There are currently 1, 042,000 more people out of work that when Obama took office and the duration of the lay off period is at all time high.
When the BLS adjusts for seasonal quirks, they are using the adjustments from the mid 2000"s
where the numbers were much higher.
The use of those numbers now, adds to the growth in jobs, that are not true.
Bottom line, the situation is not getting better and there is no reasonable expectation, that they will.
No business owner or CEO, will invest any significant amou8nts of money in expansion, equipment or people as long as we have a anti business president
His pillar to post swings makes it impossible to plan out more than about 90 days.
His green fantasies are sending industry offshore at an unprecedented rate.
Last but not least, roughly 6% to 7% of all of the business, that can travel, have options on sites outside the USA and will take them if Obama is reelected..
There seems to be a large number of people in the USA, that are of the opinion, that busines and the "rich" will just stay here and pay more every year to fund their social programs.
That is not rational, why wouldn't they simply,leave?
Ah hell! We sit before our screens and criticize the hell out of these republican candidates. Truth is, that party couldn't have selected a better gang, even if they had bought 'em from al-qaeda. They all have their particular friends who claim to like 'em, but not a gwaddamn one who will vote for 'em. This whole bunch was boarding in shanties along the proverbial road from nowhere when they began. Now, they're still traveling that road, bruised, confused, feeling abused, and looking for a home somewhere near nowhere. Damn shame, and quite comical.
Wow, the unemployment rate remains STEADY at ONLY 8.3% according to the Department of Labor, but yet Mr. Obama is gonna use this as ammunition to get re-elected ? Hardy, har har.
Maybe Mr. Obama should focus on his REAL LOSERS: Stimulus #1 ($ 862,000,000,000), Hamp #1/#2/#3 and now #4, Cash for clunkers, Cash for appliances, Weatherization program, Solyndra and other solar panel companies, Omnibus, Geothermal plant in Nevada, Electric vehicle in Finland, Fast and Furious.....to name a few.
Wait a minute, Mr. Obama just proposed the taxpayers would pay for installing those Electric Charge Stations around the ENTIRE COUNTRY at taxpayers expense if you purchase an electric vehicle (NOT a $ 100,000 FESTER which received taxpayer $$$).
More reasons why this Democrat will NOT BE VOTING for Mr. Obama, even though he said "I deserve to be re-elected".
From an article I found online:
"….Both political parties are agreed that the role of the government amid the highest postwar levels of unemployment is to induce corporations to hire by giving them ever-more lucrative incentives; tax breaks, deregulation, and lower wages.
Words meant to evoke the program of Roosevelt's New Deal—when "job creation" meant government spending on infrastructure based at least to some extent on social needs—are being used to mask the program of Herbert Hoover: handouts to corporations based on the false assertion that this will translate into hiring…"
The US elections and the jobs crisis
9 March 2012
The lack of any meaningful proposal by either major US political party to address mass unemployment in the 2012 election underscores the fact that the two big business parties have nothing to offer the unemployed and are indifferent to their plight.
Whenever politicians from either party speak of plans to "create jobs," they mean only further deregulation, tax cuts, or outright cash handouts to corporations.
This fact given was vivid expression by the so-called "JOBS act," which passed 390 to 23 in the House of Representatives Thursday after gaining the White House's endorsement earlier in the week. This act, whose name is an acronym for "Jump-starting Our Business Startups," is an attempt to palm off yet another corporate boondoggle as a measure to put people to work.
The act would exempt companies worth less than $50 million from regulation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, up from the current $5 million. It will likewise quadruple the number of shareholders a bank can have before having to register with the SEC.
The near-unanimous passage of the bill, as well as its endorsement by the White House, points to the eagerness of both parties to be seen by the American people as doing something about the chronic mass unemployment gripping the United States, while in fact they are doing the bidding of the same corporations that profit from high unemployment.
The White House moved to take responsibility for the Republican-backed measure, saying that many of its proposals came from Obama's Jobs Council, while congressional Democrats complained that portions of the act were from bills they sought to introduce themselves.
The equation of handouts to big business with "job creation," once the stock in trade mainly of the Republican right, has become the common line of both parties. The Obama administration has been the quintessential expression of this shift, responding to the greatest crisis since the Great Depression with corporate handouts and tax cuts…
…This political climate sets the stage for a sweeping bipartisan assault on the living standards of working people. Last month the Obama administration and the Republicans reached a deal to cut the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 99 weeks to 73 weeks in the hardest-hit states, and from 93 weeks to 63 weeks in many states….
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/mar2012/pers-m09.shtml
Yep, there are a lot of folks scamming the UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. So, I wondered why the Democrats are for continuing the extension of these benefits until a person dies /sarcasm/. Oh, Mrs. Pelosi said the unemployment benefits NEED NOT BE PAID FOR even though she said we need to Pay as You Go for any program costing taxpayer money. Can you say.....FLIP FLOP.
Maybe that is the reason these benefits should be cut WAY back or have EXTREME check and balances.
Do a quick search to see how many BILLIONS of dollars are being sucked from the taxpayer coffers. Washington State is leading the pack.
Just another reason this Democrat will NEVER VOTE DEMOCRAT again.
OOOOh, nasty, nasty Republicans tonight!
The facts are:
We are adding 200,000 jobs per month for the last 3 months.
During the last Republican president's 2nd term, we were losing (from Politfact):
... we compiled the numbers for Bush's last three months. Between October and November, 597,000 jobs were lost; between November and December, 681,000 were lost; and between December and January, 741,000 were lost.
All the rest is BS!
Ido, if you call yourself a Democrat, what should Obama have done?
Can you clarify that Lonnie Tennant? I really hate it when people oversimplify things to the extent of saying "both parties are the exact same".
The same ole song and dance.
Conservatives keep posting years old information to sway people from the topic at hand.
I'm beginning to believe they don't want America to dig out of the bottomless pit their president put us in. They keep dragging up crazy crap to put, of all people, ex-President Bush in a good light. Sure, blame the Congress, not Bush. Blame the terrorists, not Bush.
The fact is, the failed economy emptied our coffers dry; we are talking 1929 dry. Then, the economy is the current president's fault because we didn't build 80 years of economy back in 3 years. But we're getting there.
This president should never take full responsibility of a black hole economy.
Plain and simple, cut and dried. Bush is responsible for collapsing the GLOBAL economy. Obama is responsible for bringing it back, no matter how much we get back.
dmac225
the logic is that Bush policies did not help. Let's look at one example: the bank bailout vs the auto bailout. One was successful and one paid out bonuses to the execs that caused the financial meltdown. McCain voted along Bush policiesand kept talking about HOW HE WILL CONTINUE BUSH POLICIES - until Bush became toxic.
Ahhhhh, I was waiting for one of you to point it about because that is the Republican talking point.
So let's look at the facts: Massachusetts’s population grew 1.6% from 2000 to 2007 (Romney was a gov 03-07) according to estimates by the United States Census Bureau so unless you can assume that no babies were born at that time, you can conclude that the population in the working age was getting smaller. Let's see at the national level:almost 10%.
So no, you cannot compare the shrinking population of MA to a growing population of the US.
dmac, if Obama is like Bush why does the right hate him so much? I mean the righties should be high fiving Obama for being one of them...yes, he continued the tax cuts for the rich in order to CONTINUE TAXCUTS FOR THE 99% OF AMERICANS. Yes, Bush set the date for end of Iraqi war but how do the Repubs feel about Obama ending the war...let's see Mr. McSame has been yapping how he is aginst it. So is it safe to assume that the war would still be going on (plus another one in Iran) had the Repubs been in power?
This one is just sad, dmac. sad sad sad. what vacations all over the world are you talking about? Please stop watching Faux News because they are awsome at making sh*t up!. Did you know that Bush took about 1000 days of vacation? in 8 years he was on vacation almost 3 of them. Look up the fact before you spread the crap that Faux is spoon feeding you.
Ruken "I find it funny that Romney, being a vulture capitalist, thinks he knows anything about creating jobs. The irony."
Let's see now - Romney's company created a net of over 100,000 jobs, while over 2 million net jobs have been LOST since Obama took office.
Oh, the irony of comparing Obama's record with Romney's record.
I'm sure the Democrats will find a few people who were laid off in the process of Romney turning companies around, and portray him as 'heartless', but let's look at Obama's record in this regard;
Approximately 400,000 new claims for unemployment are filed each week for the last 3+ years under Obama, which means that about 58 million Americans lost their jobs under Obama (how's that for 'heartless'), but employers (virtually all in the private sector) have added back about 56 million new hires, for a net loss under Obama of about 2 million jobs - thanks to Obama's anti-growth policies.
I'll take Romney's approach any day - he seems to know a lot more about what it takes to create NET jobs than Obama.
ROY WILSON-336103
Roy, no one disputes that Romney's company created jobs: in Mexico, and in China.
Robert...
While the list of facts you present may be 100% accurate, Mr. Obama has the advantage of having a chunk of his electorate who could not care less about those facts and another chunk that has no idea that those facts even exist.
David Noah
Billions, but okay.
Huh? Quite the analogy. LOL.
We won't. And we won't forget who got us to that point.
You and Roy continue to quote raw number that are meaningless. Like the debt. Like Obama's raw annual deficit numbers. Let me explain:
During the grand ole Bush years, he started 2 wars, created and expanded Homeland Security, signed Medicaid into law, and provided tax cut after tax cut, WITHOUT FUNDING A THING. Those Bush contributions to our debt and annual deficit are gifts that keep on giving... to the tune of $500 Billion per year minus whatever Obama could do to reduce the wars, Homeland Security, Medicaid, or the Bush Tax Cuts... which is not much with all that Republican congressional help.
And Bush's economy had it's momentum as well... momentum you people continue to ignore in your criticism of the current administration. It takes but 5 minutes to google our federal tax revenues to realize that the collapse that Bush handed us caused a $500 Billion a year in less tax revenue for a total Bush contribution of $1 Trillion per year. That's the Bush momentum.
Obama's numbers are simply the delta to the Bush "momentum". They look pretty good of late, don't they?
Presidents take credit for that which happens on their watch, but that they had nothing to do with happening. Once in a while you can actually point to something a president does or did as the main factor, and when it comes to the massive jobs lost from this country it was Bill Clinton signing NAFTA into law that was the main reason. But that is often overlooked since the jobs didn't leave all at once but over a period of a decade and longer so as to be on another presidents watch.
So while everyone is touting the policies of Obama as the reason for some job growth, how about pointing out exactly what those policies were or are that have had such an impact? Obama takes credit for an increase in domestic oil production but he has played absolutely no role in the increase, those were policies Bush started. Obama claims to have put more boots on the borders even though they were just temporary National Guard troops with no role in reducing illegals.
Most of what Obama takes credit for only makes for good soundbites for his supporters and the mainstream media that all wave his flag. But there is little truth to the claims, and it is more of being in the right place at the right time to be the lucky recipient then the results of a skillful architect. Spend baby spend is really all Obama has done in office, and you have to be a complete fool to think that is the road to anything good for this country.
Roy Wilson you are using faulty measuring tactics. The stimulus was passed in February, so if we eliminate the job losses from January, that net loss become 1.3 million. If you take out the job losses from February and March (before money was really being spend and the bill took effect), Obama has a net jobs gain. Your measurements of deficit are also flawed. Ignoring 2009, which was Bush's budget, Obama has lowered the deficit and the debt as a percentage of the GDP has not gone up.
Under republicans we sunk clear to the bottom and nearly beyond...
under democrats we have been continually moving upward...
how is that anything but good?
The jobs report is a disgrace and an embarrassment to the government. How anyone could take it as good news only demonstrates that Obama is a fraud fake and a fool
There are over 14 million Americans unemployed looking for jobs. How many are unemployed and given up looking for jobs. The U.S. is allowing 1,050,000 legal immigrants into the country every year. Most of those need employment. Then there are the 5 million high school graduates and drop outs every year looking for jobs. And during the year there are 5 million college graduates and college drop outs looking for jobs.
About 200,000 people found jobs last month or 2,400,000 a year have found jobs. What about the other 22 million plus looking for a job?????? And why has the black male unemployment rate doubled since Obummer has become president?
These are numbers that Obummer is proud about? Obummer continues to be a fraud, fake and a fool.
Obviously employment is lower than it should be; Obama inherited the largest economic collapse in some 80 years. Did you expect unemployment to be below 7% in 2 years? Stop joking yourself. There's been two year straight of job growth as of now, compared to the 800,000 jobs that were lost in Bush's last month. The 200,000 is a net work force gain (job gains - job losses).
Please enlighten us: what is your solution for creating jobs?
Mr. Anon
Reagan did it when he took over from Carter? Are you saying that Obummer is not as good as Reagan?
Exactly, they keep bringing up the 8% unemployment Obama promised with the stimulus package,( little did we know when this whole thing really started back in 2007 when Bush desperately cut all of us a check from the treasury for $1425 with instructions to go out and "spend it" on everything and anything,was the first Red flag that the economy was sinking) that we were headed towards a very deep recession, a depression in various areas of the country. That we can blame on a George Bush administration that had NO DOMESTIC policy, since he was stuck in 2 wars that were suppose to last 3 years(thankyou Rumsfeld & Chaney) and have gone into their 9 and 10th year.
Mr. Anon
Sure bomb the hell out of Afghanistan and get the troops back. You forgot your history? Afghanistan has never been conquered and we are wasting time, blood and money there. Get every soldier out of Iraq. Let those idiots kill each other and bring the money back. Get out of Nato, the Europeans are big boys let them solve their problems. The South Koreans are 10 times as strong as North Korea and let them, Japan, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand pay for that mess and put their own troops in. Hand over the tactical nuclear bombs to the South Koreans.
Obummer cut research into hydrogen fuel 90% while China, Japan, England and Norway are spending BILLIONS! Hydrogen fuel is a completely renewable fuel that will burn in every internal combustion engine and replace oil and coal and natural gas in electric generation plants. Nuclear plants can be done away with too.
Gasoline, diesel and natural gas will no longer be needed to heat factories or be a source of energy.
Norway with 5 million people already builds cars that burn hydrogen fuel and has hydrogen service centers and has renamed the longest highway the English equivalent of hydrogen alley.
Hydrogen is completely renewable, does not pollute and is inexhaustable. Obummerr cut research 90% in this years budget. We can stop importing oil from Canada, Venezuela, Nigeria, Middle East and Mexico.
Drive down production costs, put millions to work and get out of this mess. But NOT WITH OBUMMER AS PRESIDENT. I WILL WAGER HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO SPELL HYDROGEN.
Paul-2793107
Show me a president less prepared for the office. Show me a man who can't get along with his own party. Show me a fake, fraud and fool worse than Obama.
Obama sent the seal team in to kill bin Laden not capture him. When have you ever heard of a kill order for the general of an opposing army?
Why has the black male unemployment rate doubled? Why have the number of black families with two parents decreased 40% in the last 3 years? Why do 60% of black children live in a household with one guardian?
Why did Obummer give a Finnish Car Company $500,000,000 to build electric cars to coompete with general motors. Yesterday there was another company that Obama gave $529,000,000 to that went bust? Why did Obama fight with Boeing to set up a plant in South Carolina? Why did Obama include 3 billion dollars in the budget for the unions? Why did Obama cut research for hydrogen fuels 90% in the budget?
Why did Obama stop funding for planned parenthood in Texas yesterday?
The man is a fool, a fake and a fraud.
Debbie McCarten
ASk Clinton why he refused to take from the Sudanese three times, bin Laden when he was president and could have avoided the 9/11?
Under Clinton, at least three opportunities to have Bin Laden handed over to the U.S. were rejected inexplicably.
According to the Sunday Times of London, Clinton himself said his refusal to accept the offer to hand over Bin Laden was the "Biggest Mistake" of his presidency.
According to anonymous sources in the CIA, Clinton did not want Bin Laden arrested.
Without 9/11 the U.S. would not have had to clean out Iraq or Afghanistan and no recession. But let the democrats start something and then the Republicans have to clean up. VietNam cleaned by Nixon, Carter's mess cleaned by Reagan?
I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. Reagan sucked for a multitude of reasons. You can't give Reagan credit for his job numbers and not give Obama the same, at the same time as blaming Obama for his debt and not Reagan for his.
Not sure why you brought this up - I never did.
You obviously don't understand how hydrogen works. Hydrogen is not a fuel source, merely a fuel carrier. It take energy to create hyrogen, and always more than the energy gained from burning it. Electric cars are much more efficient.
George W. Bush.
Obama never specifically ruled out capturing bin Laden alive. The terrorist resisted capture, he was killed. The world is better off without that man.
Can you please give a citation for this?
angryman193
You do know that what happened at the end of Carter's Presidency was all negotiated and brought to fruition by President Carter and the rseults took place just hours after Ronald Reagan's inauguration...
did you really think that Reagon make that all happen in a matter of hours?...of course not, but because he was our new President he got to take credit for it and President Carter being the outstanding human being that he was did not try to claim the victory for himself....
and as far as Bin Laden it was President Clinton who stopped an attack on the twin towers...found the van with explosives and stopped it............it was Bush who allowed 9/11....the idea that Republicans continue to blame everything that happened over Bush's 8 years on Clinton or the 2 out of 8 years that the democrats held the majority in one of the houses is ludicrous.....just what does President Bush and republicans take credit for..........
tax breaks for the wealthy to send jobs over seas...
no child left behind that closed more schools than it helped...
medicare prescription drug program that was completely unfunded...
giving away 3 trillion in taxes...98% to the top 1% wealthiest and 1% divided among the remaining 98% of Americans...this being the largest dollar value tax cut in world history..
permanent elimination of the death tax (money lost to the government) the death tax only effected the top 1% wealthiest..
went to war against 2 countries without UN sanction..
was responsible for the largest annual deficit in history..
entered office with a criminal record..
first year in office set all time record for most days on vacation by any US President in history..
over 2 million jobs lost in the first 2 years in office..
cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any other President in history...
Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history...
Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history...
Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed...
Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have..
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Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans...
Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind..
Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history...
Presidency most secretive and un-accountable in history..
Members of Bush cabinet richest of any administration in history...
Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States...
Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history...
First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission...
Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history...
Withdrew from the World Court of Law...
First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections)..
First US president to establish a secret shadow government...
Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts...
Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history...
Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down...
want to talk about miserable accomplishments, there ya go.
Bush took the nation on a steady path down while, after inheriting the worst economy in history, President Obama has been steadily taking our nation upward....
please tell me what good the republicans have done for the American people and the nations economy...
a list would be nice.
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Debbie McCarten Yes 20% mortgages 10% unemployment and 10% inflation all were in effect when Carter left. It took Reagan two years to get them down not hours. If you are going to lie, make sure that the lies cannot be traced. Historians have ranked Carter amongst the worse presidents in history. Go check the list on the net. Check how unemployment decreased, motrgages and inflation dropped over the first two years. Check how employment increased over the eight years.
You are such a lying liberal, it is useless to waste time with you. Carter was a coward and extremely stupid.
When I first heard he didn't want to be called James buy Jimmy, I though of my first rag toy when I was three years old, that I carried around. The Russians stepped all over him. Then he didn't slowly get the Shah out and have him replaced by prowestern politicians and install an electred regime. He even didn't want to let the Shah in for medical treatment.
Then your famous Clinton using an intern for an ashtray, knew about the world trade center as a target as the first bombing took place when he was president. He KNEW that they were a target and THREE times he was offered bin Laden by the Sudanese and three times he refused to take him.
The almost 4000 dead lay on the conscience of Clinton. All that phony BS about Hillary being angry at Bill for his fooling around, you actually believe that shi*? They had a pact. She was the baglady for him when he was governor. Somebody wanted something they went to her in the Ross Law Firm and then they got their way. Tyson foods got away with throwing untreated waste in the rivers for years under Clinton. It saved them millions. They didn't have to treat or truck out the waste from the chicken and turkey farms.
When the Clintons took over Arkansas, in education and child welfare, Arkansas ranked 49th. When they left Arkansas ranked 50th. The first lady of Arkansas did a fine job, helping the children.
Explain to me what you would have done after 9/11 step by step and tell me what was the third reason that bin Laden stated for bombing the world trade center.
As you don't know and are so unintelligent, I will tell you, reason no. 3. was the American embargo on Iraq.
Why did Iraq try and import almost 100 nuclear triggers in 1991? You forget Saddam's cousin Chemical Ali? He used poison gas on the Kurds, his own people in Southern Iraq and the Iranians. Where did the factories and the stored poison gas go?
You have a lot of explaining to do. Try using the brains that nature gave you. Repeating liberal fairly tales is right up your alley. The liberals are tied to Obama like a dog is chained to a tree. They have to repeat the same failed messages again and again. They are not innovative enought to come up with anything new.
BTW why did Obummer give that Finnish Car company $500,000,000 to produce electric cars in Finland to compete with General motors. Yesterday it was announced that another company that Obummer gave $529,000,000 failed. Why did Obummer slash research into hydrogen as a fuel when China, Japan, England and Norway are spending billions and Norway is already producing vehicles using hydrogen and has built hydrogen service stations?
Where is the great new technology that Obama promised? All up in smoke! Why did Obummer sit and listen for 20 years to self admitted anti American Marxist Pastor and accept the doctrine of blacks not buying from stores with white owners?
Lots of questions you should look up and find answers for. Your hero doesn't have feet of clay. I can smell from here what they are standing in .
Angryman--Show me a Reagan administration that spent billions on a Star Wars programs and other weapons systems that went NO WHERE and I will show you that the big fallacy of our time is that the Republicans are "fiscally responsible". They have no more fiscal management than the Democrats. They're masters of fiscal rhetoric, as an example they sport good ole Rep. Paul Ryan and his famous 6 trillion debt reduction on entitlements with no revenue stream to help with the debt pay back and he conveniently blames the "Obama" administration for "out of control spending" but he never laments over 10 years of 2 wars costing America +2trillion while Bush tax cuts were in place at the same time with no funding of the war, the effective cost of these wars are over 4 trillion, that's OK though, that's "fiscal management" REPUBLICAN ACCOUNTING
angryman193
Not Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, nor Paul is Ronald Reagan. I am aware of his halo with conservatives but you have to let him go.
Debbie's post #1.73 shows you everything you need to know as to why Bush is regarded as the worse president in history.
I don't really care if Obama makes auto workers wear pink tu tus and ristricts oil to lamp oil. He is dragging the country out of the quagmire we were cast in.
You can ask why the president does this or that, the details are interesting to some. I don't care as long as I see the country is improving.
I no longer worry about overdraft fees because he had my back on that. My kids are covered with insurance while they go to college, he touched my family there. My parents have been helped with the removal of the donut hole, the president had their backs there. Thank God the president got rid of "pre-existing" conditions too, another way business rips you off. I can finally refinance my home and saving me a small fortune, thanks to the president.
Everything and more I've written touchs me or my family directly. Everyone of them.
What do the republicans touch me or my family with? Tax breaks for the rich, raping women with foreign objects, renaming post offices, reciting (poorly) the constitution, taking away my right to collective bargaining, my right to free speech, my right to vote, and sending my son off to Iran to fight another war.
You can live by your beliefs, that's o.k.
I'll live by the facts.
angryman193..
Did you know that Reagan closed government run mental institutions to make it look like he was saving money and put thousands and thousands of mentally disabled Americans out onto the street who needed round the clock care?
Tell me how that is moral, ethical or Christian...how was that helping Americans..it did not help anyone...it was all about money.
Republicans actions are consistent in helping the 1% wealthiest Americans while cutting benefits and raising taxes on the 98% and their goal is to pander ONLY to that far right wing evangelical conservative who thinks it is still 1930...
The Democrats actions are consistent in helping the 98%, at the irritation of the 1% wealthiest, while seeking to add benefits to the laboring 98% and their goal is to represent and protect and to make sure that ALL Americans, of all parties, of all creeds and religions, are healthy, educated and have their best shot at the American dream............ALL AMERICANS, NOT JUST DEMOCRATS....
Republicans are so busy dividing Americans between left and right, black and white and latino, those who would go to war and those who would not, between Christians and Muslims, busy getting the FALSE message out that the President wants people educated as an indoctrination into his personal philosophy,......the republicans are living in the 1930's where whites reined and blacks and latino's were discriminated against, where women had few rights and there was no equal rights for women in the work force, where abortions were illegal and women were still second class citizens....1930 where corruption ruled and people were blessedly ignorant and numb...the fact that republicans do not realize it is 2012 and feel that we should run the country as though it were the 1930's (complete with recession) is amazing...that there are those who feel the same is scary..
I know people who are devout republicans who watch nothing but FOX news and have bought 10 or more firearms simply because Glen Beck told them to because he stated as fact that the democrats were going to take away their right to bear arms....that the world was going to be cast into chaos and the republicans needed to be ready...................of course none of this happened and Beck was taken off the air but still these fear mongering hate mongering racist sheep continue to live under the tutelage they have been spoon fed for years...and now Rush's lies and hateful rhetoric is finally catching up with him...and still the simple minded followers who want to be stuck in time and want to make sure that everyone is ruled by their hateful, racist, fear oriented, backward narrow minded ways....thing is, the only people they want to vote and have power or wealth are the white people...
thank goodness for democrats and thinking compassionate open minded people........
sometimes I can't tell if this is 2012 or 1912....
what a joke we are to the world....greatest country is the world?....nope, if the republicans get their way we will likely digress behind third world countries...all the sacrifices people have made since coming to America seem to count for nothing to the republicans....America has always been about ingenuity, progress, freedoms, community,reaching for the unknown with confidence not fear and bettering our nation so we may stand strong in the global community...........why so the republicans want to undo all that has been done?
Debbie McCarten The closing of the mental institutions was the same federal ruling as in NYC as you know. Stop with the lies and get with the times.
Debbie, you are right we the richest one percent should just turn everything into gold and go off and leave you 99% to pay your own taxes and try and run a country without us. We don't need you and I for one don't want you crying all the time. BOO HOOO there are rich people in the U.S. and I am not one of them. TAX them take their money and make them work so we can get all the free benefits. It only takes a few hundred to leave and really sink the U.S. ship.
You take crazy Buffet at 84 "I want to pay more taxes!" Yet he is spending millions fighting the IRS over back taxes gong back 10 years.
Hey I can close tomorrow my stores, hold going out of business sales, get everything transferred put 150 people out of work and not worry about taxes, medicare, medicaid, ss, unemployment taxes, accountants and lawyers. Take a thousand more like us and the country is in big problems. And we can all say DEBBIE is to blame. Sounds like a good idea to me. Lots of places to go and get away from people like you who appreciate hard working entrepeneurs that create thousands of jobs.
Yes thousands. I only have 150 who work for me directly, but the thousands who make and build the products I sell? What about them? Then there are their families and the businesses that would take a direct hit in sales. Of course China, India or Indonesia could make them cheaper and I know you want to support people in those countries.
You haven't read the latest where Obama calls the Marxist Pastor Wright one of his best friends? And you haven't read the manifesto that Wright said that Obama agreed to to buy only from stores that are owned by blacks? Go back and read.
Debbie, debbie, debbie, if we are 1% how can we divide 99% of the population.
Obama couldn't get anything done with his 100% democratic congress for two years 2009 and 2010. And sure as hell he couldn't get anything done with a bipartisan congress if he can't work with his own party.
Remember sweetheart, congress is controlled by the Republicans and the Senate is controlled by the democrats. Reagan worked 8 years with an all democratic congress and did miracles. Clintion worked with a republican congress. Now why can't Obama work with a bipartisan congress?
So you believe everything you read and hear? You have no mind of your own? You have no common sense and free will? You are a liberal democrat tied to Obama like a dog tied to a tree?
You repeat the same B.S. Sure there are racists and fear mongerers like yourself. Get rid of the elite! Get rid of the 1%! Get rid of the intelligent people who know how to run this country! The Russian dictators said the same thing. The Cambodian dictators said the same thing. The Cambodian dictators had every person who had a highschool education or better slaughtered and you sound frighteningly the same way.
I listened to rush when he first came on radio in NYC and he is dead on. You don't and can't understand the human nature which is the basis of his oratory. Now he is more showman but he is right.
By the way Fluke lied. 3 years of birth control in planned parenthood clinic less than 15 minutes from Georgetown Law is $96.00 plus an initial consult of $25. An contraceptive shot every three months costs $8 dollars. 12 x 8=$96. Planned parenthood would have helped her friend with a cyst and they take all insurance plans. They negotiate and the women gets the treatment immediately. Go ahead call them up. 1-800-230-PLAN. Fluke lied before congress that is a serious charge. She admitted that she is a fertility activist so she know all about planned parenthood. Review the tapes of her testimony, she swore to tell the truth. She didn't.
Therefore your heroine lied before congress and that has been reported. You are not going to see much of her. At least 20 members of congress already know she lied and both committees have been informed.
Rush does go overboard but if she says she needs to spend $3000, her entire summer pay for contraceptives, then a hell of a lot of sex is going on! I am not going to waste my time on why she needs to spend $3000 on birth control when 15 minutes away, $96 covers her for three years.
Definitely this country is falling into the wrong hands. The leftist liberals who know nothing and are trying to bankrupt this country and dismantle it are hard at work. They are looking for ridiculous issues everywhere. But a lot of people see through your socialistic, lying, leftist, libel. There is a backlash and while the republicans are having a primary to select the best candidate among many, the liberal democrats are tied to Obummer. It is hard to imagine with over 43 million democrats, the best the DNC can do is Obummer and are afraid to open the primaries to challengers. What are they afraid of. All the republicans who ran for reelection had challengers. Why can't the democrats do the same thing?
Debbie for you this is 1512. You ideas and thoughts are stuck in the middle ages.
You are the jobke Debbie. You wrote it. The democrats don't want a primary. You are afraid of ONE MAN Rush LIMBAUGH. Can the world believe it, the whole democratic party is afraid of one man!!!!
What a joke! You are not even intelligent to know when he is playing the stateman or the showman! I really have to laugh.
The republicans work to create jobs and a future. 8 out of the 10 richest congressmen are democrats.
The congress had to pass a quasi act to stop insider trading as the democratic congressional representatives were getting too rich.
Now tell me DEbbie. Hillary's wealth was published on the internet at $35,000,000. Where did she get that money??????
Bill Clintin wealth hidden and open has been figured at over $200,000,000 how did he get it?
Why can he ask and demand $5,000,000 a speech? Besides allowing Tyson foods to dump untreated animal waste in the Arkansas river, why should he be so rich? Why did Hillary go to work at Rose Law Firm besides to be Bill's bag woman?
I especially was fascinated by her mock indignation she exhibited at Bill playing with Lewinski.
I lived in Australia not far from Port Douglas where Bill Clinton goes to vacation. It has an absoluely beautiful beach about 4 miles long white as snow. I was there and there were secret service and a heavy police presence and was told that Clinton was there. So I chatted with one friendly guard and he told me that when Clinton reserves the best guest house, he also reserves the best whores!
So much for a loving couple.
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Bosslimo Debbie hasn't said anything worthwhile noting. Same old leftist liberal libel. When are you people going to get a good writer and get something fo you worth writing?
By the way when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor how long did it take Roosevelt to issue a declaration of war? How many countries did the U.S. fight during WWII? Why did we fight those countries? How many American lives were lost? In present day dollars how much was spent fighting those wars? How many countries did we have with us fighting with us and how many trillions of today's dollars did it cost them? How many years did it take for England, U.S. France, Holland, Russia, and the other allies together did it take to end the conflict?
Why did bin Laden attack the U.S.? Name the three reasons. Lets see how smart all of you are. How many people were killed at Pearl Harbor? How many people were killed at the World Trade Center Bombing? How many of the people killed at the world trade center were never identified? How would you stop another attack on U.S. soil? What are you going to do about Iran and Syria?
You are the smart ass leftist liberals, you are the ones complaining, you should after 11 years have these answers at your fingertips.
By the way these comments are not attempts to convince any of you leftists liberals tied to Obama to vote for a republican. The comments are for the readers to give to them an alternate viewpoint to the leftist biased media you are all chained to.
angryman193..
ok, my last comment...
I don't believe that the 1% should be penalized but that the 1% should pay the same taxes as the 98% and that tax breaks and subsidies should not go to uber wealthy like the oil companies and that off shore accounts should be taxed....no more cheating and equal taxation and representation.
It is wonderful that you employ 150 people.......equal taxation is still fair.
What has Reverend Wright got to do with anything?..that is a dead issue.
1% can do a lot of damage....the leaders of our nation should be working to unite our people not divide it, but the partisan division has, in the last 10 or 12 years, gotten so extreme that it is causing a shift in our nation.....our very ethnically and religiously diverse nation. Presidents Reagan and Clinton had Congress and Senates that were willing to work together, but Bush republicans and those left over that are now in office WILL NOT AND DO NOT WORK WITH THE PRESIDENT....the republicans repeatedly voted down their own bills because the President backed them. Mitch McConnell stated the day after the 2010 elections that although the republicans had run on a platform of jobs their number one goal was to unseat President Obama and that as soon as the republicans took over the White House THEN the republicans would start on the jobs programs..........that, sir, is a totally NON cooperative Senate majority leader...........and the reason that the President didn't get much done in the first 2 years, as you well remember, is because instead of ramming his agenda down the throats of the republicans (as Bush did for 6 years straight) the President continually tried to get the republicans to work with the democrats--even as the republicans obstructed everything put forth, even as the republicans repeatedly lied to President that they were going to come to an agreement and they continued to obstruct the business of state....the republicans held unemployment benefits hostage at Christmas in order to get 700 BILLION dollars in tax breaks for the 1% that our government had to borrow from China...how did you feel about that?
What has Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton's wealth got to do with anything....does it matter how much people are willing to pay them for an appearance....Rush Limbaugh, who I am not afraid of but would simply love to see that lying sack of biological goo and his lies gone, is worth more than $500,000,000...that is more than the Clinton's combined...does Rush have a hidden agenda?
I can see that as you read my responses you are getting more enraged and in your last post I can see that you are having a hard time with facts....that is ok........most republicans do.
A guard for the President talked to you about the Presidents housing preferences and actually told you anything in regards to whores?...........I highly doubt it.
Honestly, angryman193, your name fits you very well..........the more enraged you get the less sense you make.
Don't worry, the democrats will save the economy and right the nation and help everyone, even you...and no, we do not expect or require thanks.
you're welcome.
"YOU PEOPLE"?..........I thought it was "WE THE PEOPLE"..................that is the difference between us...I want to have programs that help everyone and taxes that are fair for all because I believe in "we the people"....not "you people".....................we are all Americans are we not.
Can't believe you resorted to "you people"..........non productive and childish.
It is not my job to figure out how to thwart war throughout the world....that is why we need good elected officials who can work together and with other nations..
Most of my relatives were in WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam...war is horrible and they all said so passing your history exam will not change that..
and name calling is also childish and non productive.....I am not a smart ass and neither are you...we are people with differing opinions and, although there can only be one set of facts, ours seem to differ (kinkdof weird how that works).
Go in peace
Debbie McCarten
Why is Wright's influence on Obama a dead issue? It is part of what Obama is. You want to sweep such issues under the carpet as if they never existed? Do you have the same compassion for republicans? You are blaming "Bush republicans" in congress for Obama's failures? Obama had a dem congress for 2 years. Why is Rush Limbaugh such an icon for you? He simply voices opinions, much like the ED Show and Rachel Maddow. They are OPINIONS.
Ruken, when you get your G.E.D. and after you reach the age of maturity and wisdon and after you study economics, you may have some validity in making comments on this site. As you are 20 years old and want to play with the big boys, the way to learn is to study keep your ears and eyes open and keep mouth and hands controlled.
You have not investigated all the companies that have been saved and the huge number of people who have jobs today due to the companies that Romney has worked for or owned.
Venture capitalists are called in to SAVE floundering companies and set companies right that have lost their way either through poor management of lack of funds. If the venture capitalists are not there with the people to take over, right the ship, inject the needed capital, the whole company goes under with ALL the employees using their jobs. See you learned something.
Don't you just love it when a complete mental deficient with no college, no high school, no education in economics comes on and parrots some line he saw someplace else and is so deliriously happy he can see his name in a comment box? But he has nothing to say! Watching him is like watching ice thaw. You know it is going to happen, but what are the consequences?
Debbie McCarten You can't believe that the 1% is not what is keeping this country afloat. Evidently you didn't go to college and could not know about the nature's BELL SHAPED CURVE AS IT APPLIES TO INTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN NATURE. Nature has predetermined that like a bell all of human characteristics are spread out in that form. The far right END OF THE BELL CURVE, 1% are the most intelligent, then there is a slope and there are less and less intelligent and in the middle of the bell are the most of the people of average intelligence. Then the curve slants downward with less and less intelligence till you get to the lowest 1% with the least amount of intelligence.
Now this curve applies to millions of characteristics of humans and naturally occurring phenomenon. It refers to drive, common sense, free will, inventiveness, stubbornness, etc.
So Romney is in the top 1% of the characteristics of intelligence, drive, ambition, common sense etc. An ideal candidate and choice for president. And he has business sense and astuteness.
Now there are companies which cannot be saved. Management is too entrenched, the widgets can't be produced cheap enough or like buggie whips not in need. So out they go and something else takes their place car generators. Jobs get lost. Computers take over, etc. Those are the hard realities of the game.
AND YOU AND RUKEN DON'T UNDERSTAND IT. Ruken because he is too young, too brash, not intelligent and you as it appears are too indoctrinated with the liberal bias and buggie whip.
Tell Obama to publicly renounce his great friendship with Pastor Wright and his acceptance of all his theories and all his friendships with the socialistis he has been associated with and to rewire his brain to the 20th century. I want to know why his mother and stepfather got rid of him after four years in Indonesia. I want to know what influenced him to be so devisive and mentally unstable. The war in Afghanistan cannot be won. Get out of it. Let them fight amongst them selves. Get out of Nato. Let the countries in the regions take care of themselves. Retire some debt with the savings, understand the shoes he is trying to fill are too big for him and get out of the white house. He is not qualified. For heaven's sake he was a legal researcher and a voter registration flunkie. My relative who could barely read and write had that job in Florida.
You are so ignorant. The president proposes laws and direction and congress creates. Then there is negotiation. If the parties can't reach an agreement, as happens most of the time, then that law goes into limbo. No action is taken. However a very smart bipartisan president knows how to be a leader and when to bend, make deals, make arrangements, make agreements and gets something by compromise.
Obama was never put in that position before and it is too late for him to learn. Romney went through four years with a democratic congress in Massachusetts and had no trouble working with the opposite party. Why does Obama have so much trouble here working with his own party?
"THEY SMELL BLOOD! THEY SMELL INSECURITY! THEY SMELL THE PEOPLE DON'T LIKE WHAT HE IS DOING! THEY WANT TO PROTECT THEIR SKINS AND JOBS!"
Man, is this thread heated!!
Okay look, Obama has his faults. He didn't focus on immigration policy in his first term. He compromised too much. He was, at times, a bit too naive and optimistic. He had problems like Solyndra. But then again, his accomplishments beat his flaws. That, dear angryman, is a FACT. The stimulus worked whether you liked it or not; and FWI, Obama DID NOT claim that his stimulus would keep unemployment below 8%. Check PolitiFact. Only two of his economic advisers did, and they added that it was fraught with "uncertainty." And to be correct, Obama got on relatively good by his party. There were a lot of mishaps, but not enough that the Democratic Party would challenge him in 2012. And angryman, while I do agree that the rich should not be taxed in order to give "free benefits" to the poor, most benefits go to EVERYONE. SS, Medicare, EVERYONE. And as for the tax code, while the rich do pay more in taxes, they control more of the wealth. To be sure, the top 1% control 43% of the income in the US and the lower 19% control another 52%, leaving 7% to be divided among the remaining 80%. In my opinion, if the rich own most of the income in America (check Wikipedia), they ought to pay more in taxes. To be fair, I say ALL Americans should have most of their Bush tax refunds rescinded, but some left to ensure economic growth. But if you have to deal with austerity in a recovery, best to focus most tax increases on those who have prospered the most. As for your comparisons of the Democrats and Republicans, I must admit that both parties have their faults. Both are bought by special interests. But the ONE party that I find speaks the most rationality and, so to speak, "talks the talk" when it comes to helping the middle class are the Democrats. They opposed cutting collective bargaining rights to unions, not extending unemployment benefits, supported the GM bailout, etc. The Republicans didn't. The Republicans balked at extending the payroll tax cut for millions of Americans (especially the middle class), but fought tooth and nail for extending tax cuts for the wealthy. And I have to agree with Debbie; the Republicans abandoned working for jobs in favor of making Obama a "one-term president." Meanwhile, Reagan did a lot of bad things to this nation; triple the debt, Iran-Contra, cut DOMESTIC spending in favor of tax cuts, introduce FAILED supply-side economics to America. Who knew that millions could be fooled by the concept that tax cuts for the rich will "trickle down" to the rest of us?
Debbie, I support most of your points, but you have to admit that Carter wasn't the best president. I mean, he spoke about human rights and such, but made NO mention of the shah's own violations. Nor did he stand up for Lebanon when the Syrians came invading and massacred thousands of innocent people. That is not to say Reagan did; he had his chance with Lebanon and could have stood against Assad senior after the Hama massacre in the 1980s, but did NOTHING. Squat.
And Mr. Warmth, Obama did not have a solid majority in Congress. He may have dominated the House, but a solid majority in the Senate now consists of 60 fervent senators to overcome the filibuster, which the Republicans have abused to an alarming degree. And personally, I don't care about Reverend Wright. I see that Obama doesn't speak or act like Wright; he's more moderate than most of us liberals would have wanted, in fact. Yet that is still a fair issue, yet minuscule compared to the troubles that face us.
Obama Biden 2012
So not only are the top 1% the richest, but the smartest? This is ridiculous. Find me a clear correlation between intelligence (in all forms) and wealth. Really, find me one. In any case this irrelevant. Just because you are the "elite" does not mean you can trample on the rights of everyone else. The point is to help everyone have the oppurtunity to reach the status of the "1%".
And now you indicate that this financial "elite" deserves to rule everyone else? Your statement implies that one must be a businessman to be a great president. This is also ridiculous. One of the greatest Presidents of all time, Abraham Lincoln, was one of the nation's poorest Presidents.
Can you guarantee 100% that if the automakers weren't saved, another company would have taken the place? That is not how a "free market" works. If one of the major companies fails, all its competitors get bigger. If all of the American automakers failed, then the rest of the world would have been far, far ahead by the time another company could come in.
Are you this ignorant? Obama not once, but several times explained that he did not share the views of his pastor. You ignore the fact that John McCain was a friend of G. Gordon Liddy, a criminal who has told people to kill IRS agents. You ignore the fact that Ron Paul never even tried to distance himself from racists, sexists, and even neo-Nazis.
A politicians early life is irrelevant. Wait a minute, where's your birth certificate? I want it published online in full form. Only Americans should be able to discuss these matters.
Oh, you're one of these guys! These Ron Paul sympathizers. This only makes your Wright comments even more ignorant and ironic. I repeat again, Ron Paul for 20 years had racist @!$%# published under his name. For 20 years, he never denied and even defended these works. Now, he comes out of the hiding and denies that he never wrote any of them. Ron Paul once even came for an interview on a white supremacist radio show. Of course, his people have burned any evidence of that...
If you think Obama has done nothing but be passive, you don't understand much. Health Care Reform as it is now was a "compromise". The stimulus was a "compromise". Wall Street Reform was a "compromise". Yet all of these are considered among his signature legislation (all of which, as it happens, are relentlessly bashed by the Republicans).
Obama spent four years in the Senate under a Republican President. Romney has worked with the other party, yes, and he was a great governor when he did so. However, he's backed off all of his previous positions, like those on women's rights and health care. Why does Romney have so much trouble here working with his own party?
sanka44
I met a man in my youth. He was as opinionated as he was stuborn. We had become friends and, although I was neutral of his views, he continued with them unchecked. Yet still, in my eyes, he was entitled to his opinions as I was to mine.
Later, I discovered that our friendship had brought me ire from others. I was guilty by association, you see.
Those in the circle of an individual life has crossed the paths of murderers and rapists and worse. Judging one for the action of another, is a lost argument. If it were the case, we would all be guilty by association.
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I see the concern for the 1% is often brought to issue. I would challenge anyone to argue one simple fact. They are in the 1% thanks to the efforts of the 99%. Those, fortunate to have money work for them are better off than those working for the money. The issue is whether the money was earned by labor or earned from other money are somehow different.
It is only logical that money is money, no matter how it was earned. Therefore, should be taxed the same.
Obama inherited the problems that we've seen over the last four years and yet we are still alive & kicking are we not? We didn't plunge into some extreme depression and end up in fema camps and all the other worrisome images the fearmongers purported. Frankly, why change now? Things are starting to turn around howver slowly, but it is an improvement. Vote Obama in '12!
I believe a 50%-38% poll result represents a 12 point difference...
It's called Obamath, 50-38= 17. Any negatives are called Bush. Example: -25 is pronounced "bush twenty-five".
"Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning" - W Bush (GOP's education president)
Evil Business Owner: at least you're not here still trying to argue the recession isn't over after three straight months of this kind of job growth...I'd call that small dose of reality a step in the right direction for you non-stop nay sayers...
Obama may not be the perfect president, but when you take a hard, honest look at what he inherited from his predecessor, he might not look so bad after all. I refer you to these 2 article links. We entered 2 wars and for the first time in u.S. history, simultaneously cut taxes!! Therefore the entire cost of both wars were funded and still funded with borrowed money. Just read the articles on the other ripple effects these wars had to understand the role they continue to play with the national deficit and economic recovery.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090302200.html
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/12/15/what-did-the-iraq-war-cost-more-than-you-think
GW Bush will go down in history as the worst president of this country....EVER.
In other economic news, how about those taxes! Turns out that Mr. Buffet doesn't mind that a number of his companies are NOT paying THEIR taxes, while he touts raising taxes on individuals and that he pays too little. Here's today's edition:
From Bloomburg, "NetJets Inc., the private-plane company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A), was countersued by the U.S. over $366 million in taxes and penalties."
Add that to the over $2 BILLION that Mr. Buffet is currently "negotiating" with the IRS over Birkshire Hathaway's 2005 back taxes (not last years, the year before's, etc.).
So it appears that the uber wealthy are on board about paying taxes, other than theirs..... A bit ironic, yet Mr. Buffet gets a lot of acclaim from the President. Maybe Mr. Buffet is giving the President his "clout" so that he won't have to pay his taxes. That kind of sounds like giving waivers from Obamacare to states and corporations too.
PFFT Odumbo wouldnt know a job if his intern gave it to him.
Praise the great divider koolaid drinking lemmings.
ABO 2012
"W" put 23 million people on the unemployment line, "W" dumped two unfunded was on us, "W" destroy our Country. Thanks "W" ???
That's exactly right. A few months ago when the string of job gains started to climb, the right wingers wer saying its holiday jobs that will be gone by December. Then came January with 278,000 and it was a 'fluke' . Now we have February and the numbers are a 'lie'. As Biden says, God love em.
The denial has set in. With no plan of there own (as in NONE of the GOP clown candidates) they are relegated to vagina monologues and throwing rocks from the bench while the President continues to work and succeed.
Job Growth Up. Q4 GDP Revised up to 3% and likely higher in Q1. Unemployment rate dropping. And even better news is that it will be going up soon as more people continue to see hiring around them and get back in.
Let the right spin and lie all they like. They have no economic plan and they are still rooting for failure. How pathetic. America will be looking past them and looking up to those who have ideas and want to embrace the 21st century, build infrastructure and educate our kids for jobs of the future.
Come the general election the contrast between the forward thinking of a new century in a world where the same old rules don't apply versus a party that wants to drag the economy, women and everything else back to the 1950's. will be stark.
They have lost a good chunk of the independent vote, the Hispanic vote, and probably lost the women's vote for a decade or more . They have no plans to fix anything for the middle class and their shrill rhetoric will increasingly ring empty. Its the road they are on and they will lose not only the White House but perhaps the House as well.
Americandude - when you call the President names and sound like a first grader, don't expect anyone to take you seriously. (My apology to first graders everywhere!)
@2 lane gypsy..... How is it that other unemployment surveys like Rasmusen are showing an increase in unemployment from the 8.3% to 9.1%? You should ask Baily to explain to you how the government is manipulating the percentage of unemployed by decreasing the total number of people in the labor pool.
@Patriotic whatever.... "W" did not do anything congress (including the dems) did not vote to allow him to do. The democrats put 23 million on the unemployment rolls when they gained control of both the House and the Senate. If I wanted to play your game I could say "the republicans have only had control of the House for a little over a year and LOOK at how they have turned the economy around! Amazing!" But I know and you know that would be no different than the B.S. you are spewing.
PATRIOTIC AMERICAN---- Don't you folks -----------ever--------- get a little embarrassed?
Bush has been gone three years and still it's all Bush's fault.
It would almost be worth it to watch Obama get reelected. just to watch all of his base in the streets rioting, when he can no longer fund his vote buying schemes.
Sheeeesh, the Bush thingy just can't get out of the Liberal minds.
That is almost like their comments against Fox News....they say they never watch the shows, however they certainly have a lot of negative comments about them.
Oh, I really love the "Ed" and "Madduck" shows. As soon as my TV hits their segments, the TV automatically shuts OFF.
Yep, this Democrat will NOT VOTE for Mr. Obama's re-election bid to FINISH his transformation of America.
The facts are:
We are adding 200,000 jobs per month for the last 3 months.
During the last 3 months of the last Republican president's 2nd term, we were losing (from Politfact):
... we compiled the numbers for Bush's last three months. Between October and November, 597,000 jobs were lost; between November and December, 681,000 were lost; and between December and January, 741,000 were lost.
All the rest is BS!
Bush. Bush. Bush.
Very creative...start writng next about the "fair share" and "1%" so I can fall asleep.
Because this whole mess started in the Bush 2nd term and his administration was up to its neck in 2 wars, leaving office with 10.5 trillion in debt, a recession that was starting around 2007, an auto industry ready to collapse as he was leaving office---so he summons the McCain & Obama team to the White House with "What do we do! What do we do! The sky is falling!!! And, one of you poor suckers will inherit this" oh by the way, homefoclosures are happening at an alarming rate!! Good luck, while I shoot quail in Midland-Odessa, Texas. This whole mess is because of the great political falacy of our generation. That somehow, Republicans are fiscally more responsible, and they can cut taxes and somehow keep a vibrant economy. Ex.... 10 years of Bush tax cuts, really stopped the Great Repression from occurring!!
Well well well, now since the Republicans took over in the House things are starting to finally look up:)
Well,well, well, a lone member of the 7% chimed in. Better get your story straight with your Repub buddies.
Problem for you is that this congress has not done anything. You just did'nt get the memo.
Patriotic American U.S.A.
And exactly how would you have handled 9/11 after Clinton refused three times to take bin Laden into custody? Remember he was president the first time the World Trade Center was bombed. He knew it was a high priority target of the Arabs.
EEngineer
Explain to me why the number of unemployed at the end of 2008 was 11.1 million and the number of unemployed today is 14 million. That doesn't take into account the 5 million college graduates and drop outs or the 5 million highschool graduates and dropouts coming in June or the 1,050,000 legal aliens coming to the states this year, or the underemployed or the people who just quit looking for jobs.
Could it be the orders that the government(OBAMA) gave to delay all employment figures for 4 weeks?
Yes answer me those questions. This is your great leader, bipartisan arbitrator, economic genius and law firm researcher at a two bit civil rights law firm.
I have news for you. All Harvard Law students are actively sought after. They are the cream of the crop and the best job that Obama could find after Harvard Law school was a job as a researcher and never attended a trial?
You don't find that strange? Look up the report given by his law firm senior partner. It was not exactly a glowing recommendation for Obama.
Something stinks.
No, it's called a country that should have been utilizing all it's energy into figuring out how to optimally compete in the global markets and seizing as much opportunities in competing; instead, we spend the last decade up to our knees in cement fighting two un-winnable wars and most of the energy directed on how to handle the 2 conflicts- I mean 2 wars.
@Angryman
Do all of us in America a favor. Think twice before coming back here. You see, we're actually moving forward without you. You really aren't missed. If we wanted to still be in the 1930's we would have elected a Republican. We won't this time either.
Harvard is not the cream of the crop, sadly.
H-1B Genius visa allows the cream of the crop to enter this country. We (America) have fallen in education.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0Y9j_CGgM
Rick Sanctimonious:
Yeah, bad policies that led to the Bush Recession, the worst since the Great Depression. Bad policies that Rick voted for mindlessly in lockstep with the other Republican robots in Congress.
Houston!
I am 53 years old, and all my life I've heard complaints of high unemployment, recessions, the energy crisis and jobs moving overseas. Republicans act like all this just started with Obama's election. What I like about this administration is they are working on fixing the underlying weaknesses in our country that create these ups and downs. They are working on getting us off oil, developing alternative energies, reviving American manufacturing, addressing healthcare costs and improving education. I like what I see.
Amy- That's why republicans get side tracked with crazy issues, because they don't have anything legitimate to complain about.
Hey Rick.....when was the last time YOU created 227,000 jobs in one month?
Hey Newt....when was the last time YOU created 227,000 jobs in one month?
Hey Mitt.....when was the last time YOU created 227,000 jobs in one month.....in the US?
Do you really think a president creates every filled job ?
Wow.
Wadda do you all say we be patriotic Americans and support our President of the United States. This is still the greatest country in the world. To the critics of then Bush and now Obama - you were not in the White House at the time decisions had to be made and therefore have no idea the full story.
No, tony, a president does not create every new job. But he does if the right chimes about how Obama has a net loss of 2 million jobs in his first term, which WILL be turned around IF he is elected. If a president can lose jobs, he can certainly gain them.
OBAMA BIDEN 2012
Romney is right about headwinds, but wrong about who created them, the credit for that falls directly into the lap of the GOP leadership, McConnell, Boehner, Cantor and those crazy Republican governors more concerned with regulating a womans uterus than jobs.
Willard Mittens Romney:
Not a day goes by when Willard forgets to tell a pants-on-fire lie like that one. Somebody needs to stand behind him with a fire extinguisher to put out the flames shooting from his behind.
If willard needs a fire extinguisher, then obama need the whole damn fire department. Because he always lying, or taking credit for somethng he didn't do. I have a questions for you KKK loving demoraps. How does it feel to have such a hypocrite for a leader? Does it make you feel good when he screws the country? Do you get all warm in side when he lies to you? Does it make you horney when he forces his will on the people of the U.S. and churches? Do you get off when he violates the constitution? Do you have wet dreams of him stepping on the hopes and dreams of people just so you democraps can blame someone else? I put it this way. Because it must be like sex for the democraps. Because nothing else explains your stupid comments.
It feels terrible having a hypocrite in charge. When GWB campaigned on letting cheaper drugs from Canada cross border I was happy, but sad when he flipped and said no when he gained the office.
I was mortified when GWB lied and scared us into war.
It turns me off when GWB forced his will on me - spending his political capital.
Cab you provide any proof that BHO has done any of that?
exssg, what planet are you from? Reality is calling. Our president doesn't "lie" or else someone of authority (you don't count) would call him on it. Likewise on "violating" the constitution. Likewise on your "stepping on hopes and dreams"... In what way has he done any of those things? Extending unemployment? Cutting SS taxes? You must be looney!
exssg,
WOW..Would you please elaborate on your claims? Please provide facts that support your position. If you don't, then it's nothing more than an ignorant rant.
Exssg is right - Obama has third-degree burns from all his lying. But the kool-aid drinkers on the left let him get away with it because "he's so dreamy and wonderful". Most of his lies were and continue to be about health care, he lied about his own mother for pete's sake. What kind of man lies about his mother? One sick dude.
kstarr1,
I'll ask you the same question. Please elaborate on your claims with FACTS... not with the misinformation you've heard on Fox News. I'm waiting..
please, ONE "lie" that has not been debunked. 57 states, 8% and his mother are all BS, have been shown, and you know it.
Kstar- You can lie all you want about Obama, with your mind-numbing ignorance. Get ready for four more years. You are going to lose by double digits. This loss will be so humiliating, that people like you will just give-up, or even better, jump off a bridge. Good riddance.
kstarr1 - what lie about his mother????? You are so far right wing I'm sure you think women are subservient, right? We should have no rights??? Please!
Do you have any clue how much trouble this country would be in if McCain/Palin had won? And, how many damned wars we'd be invovled in???? Please just go back into your parents basement and play Star Trek!
The facts are:
We are adding 200,000 jobs per month for the last 3 months.
During the last 3 months of the last Republican president's 2nd term, we were losing (from Politfact):
... we compiled the numbers for Bush's last three months. Between October and November, 597,000 jobs were lost; between November and December, 681,000 were lost; and between December and January, 741,000 were lost.
All the rest is BS!
EEngineer that's because Democrats were in power sheesh.
No, that was because of the past 30 years of voodoo economics and right-wing social engineering. Sorry to rain on your "parade," intelligent one ol' chap, but this American ain't gonna stand your lying.
Come on, GOP!!!! Bring on your liars and hypocrites. Bring on your experienced politicians and commentators. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Paul Ryan, Grover Norquist, Sarah Palin, Slick Mitt, John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, ANYONE. I'd take them all at once, if I could. Imagine a young American taking on the entire right wing???? Now that is a debate worth watching.
BRING THEM ON, GOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Freshieee
Easy fella,
You're about to go into a battle of wits with unarmed opponents.
Ehh, I've heard right-wing BS before and it is just astounding to see that people actually believe it. But I'd gladly take any of them on, even all at once. Who knows, maybe this guy will kick their right-wing asses back to the dark caves from which they came from!
OBAMA BIDEN 2012
BRING IT ON
Freshieee
It's all BS. Figures lie and liars figure. Politicians are not excluded.
Then I guess that includes Ron Paul.
Ok, I agree with what Gingrich said. Romney is just making an a** of himself.
Yes, things are improving and we the people would very much like things to be improving at a much faster rate. However, small gains beat big losses.
I think the Republicans and Romney in particular are scared. The last thing that they need come November is for people to be feeling better about the economy. They have been campaigning on the idea they can do better. Whether the voters believe them is another story.
Well said, Iowa!
Are you blind?
$5 trillion in new debt, $4 per gallon gas, 1.5 million less jobs than Jan. 2009, Obama surge in Afghanistan. I don't like what I see.
IOWA----- Scared???
Yes, we are , 6% to 7% of our businesses that can travel have options on sites outside the USA.and will leave if Obama is reelected.
Look for an outpouring of business and the 'rich" if Obama is reelected.
I have trouble believing that anyone who was watched Obama work for the last three years could possible vote for him..
Howevere, I have made my preparations and , I'll vote and if Obama is reelected, I'll be gone before the takes the oath of office, the second time.
Bye!! where are you going? Mexico? watch out for he cartels.
Obama will be reelected. Everybody knows it.
That is one more person removed from the unemployment rolls if Robert Argent goes....
The fact that the rich prefer the GOP tells us whose interests the GOP serves....
The 6-7% number is pure bs as are most of the GOTP rants are.
I love how they seem to forget that while we add high school and college grads every year, we subtract retirees and those who pass on...
robert argent
Howevere, I have made my preparations and , I'll vote and if Obama is reelected, I'll be gone before the takes the oath of office, the second time.
Good riddance. This country doesn't need fair weather losers like you for friends. You don't get your way and become a baby. So cry about it and leave. Because it will happen whether you like it or not.
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Why is it....that we can't just be happy for good news. Small glimmers of hope here and there. Flickers of light with our economy sputtering back to life! Why is it necessary to denigrate anything remotely positive with regard to the economy? I get that is doesn't fit with the uber-conn narrative of gloom, doom and despair, but for cryin' out loud. Let's focus all of our energies on getting the economy going again.
JT: Because the Republican right would then have to admit the President may not be the devil in disguise, come to enslave America. And they actually expect to win a national election on that premise. The REAL America though, is applauding this. I hear non-stop conversations in my neighborhood, schools, community and at work among all kinds of people across party lines about the recovery and hope for the future. Just ignore the grumpy old men...they just hate being wrong.
I know....it's kind of like they don't want those 227,000 people to improve their lives and the lives of their families.
.....the future's so bright I need my shades....
Right on JT, we are approaching the 3rd anniversary of Recovery Summer.
Why do you leftys have so much trouble, that eventually Obama will run out of money that he is using to prop up, even the modest gains that he is getting.
When that happens, we will have zero options.
Our business and the rich are leaving the USA, daily, our money is going with them
When business and the rich leave, jobs go with them, you can't continue to try to use them as cash cows to fund your handouts systems, they can afford to go and they will .
robert Why are you the only one in the room that can understand this!!?? When we pay people to do nothing, that is exactly what they will do!!
The US Dept of Agriculture puts up signs at the national parks that say "Do not feed the animals. They will lose their ability to survive on their own."
The same department is proclaiming the benefits of having 46 million on food stamps. Go figure.
John How dare you point out facts!!??
John- So you think it is better to let 46 million people go into poverty, throwing our economy into ANOTHER recession, just to prove a point??? I am all for kicking free-loaders to the curb, but you make one move against a guy who lost his job and has to feed his family on food stamps and I'll come out to stop you. Do you really think that the majority of these millions LIKE getting food stamps??? Do think that all the mothers and fathers who must bear the SHAME (yes, the shame that YOU Republicans constantly bring up) of having to rely on others to feed their families??? What the hell kind of thinking is that??? Are you and the rest of your damn right-wing nutcases blind??? Food stamps not only help the unemployed, but the poor. Most poor people don't choose to be poor. Some make mistakes, others are in bad places, others are just plain unlucky. So you think denying POOR people money to pay for food is going to help??? Most people are not poor by choice; food stamps are among the many things that keep them off the streets. Take out food stamps, and you'll see poverty increase significantly and our economy collapse, forcing MORE people into poverty. And TES, that may be a fact, but John is implying that food stamps are a teat for moochers. Damn it, if everyone were like you two the US wouldn't be the land of opportunity; it would be an aristocratic wasteland where the rich mooch off of the poor. Drop the right-wing kool-aid you two and get some common sense and compassion. Thanks to people like you with have a society where people are ashamed to ask for help when they're in need of it. Seek the damn truth, you two right-wingers, for the truth shall set you free.
OBAMA BIDEN 2012
Good Job Obama keep up the good work and I hope you win the election; you certainly have had one of the most difficult periods of governance, brought on by hate groups, close minded conservatives, but, I think people will see that you are the one that is really talking about helping everyone, and, doing so by getting the job creators off their greedy asses and start hiring people.
By the way I need to ask both sides. All these millions of dollars going into theses elections from both sides, how come it does not seem to create any damn jobs? Just all the tax revenue that would be generated, seems like it should at least be helping out some of these deficits in the states having the campaigns in them. Really, someone explain to me where does all the money go?
oh, Bill, and don't forget the little green men under your bed. LOL
Yes, Obummer is talking about helping everyone. Even the welfare state that the democrats created and have been milking for votes for the last 50+ years.
What "welfare state" are you talking about? The only thing that's out there is unemployment and food stamps. What, the 15million unemployed should just starve? What's wrong with you?
If you want to define SS and Medicare/Medicade as welfare. Instead of Old Age Benefits (that they paid taxes for).
The rest of the government/economy has never been so far to right (i.e. facist as classically defined, a merging of corporate and government power).
We're getting toward fascist for sure. It's a little frightening actually.
Only a little? If we elect Mr. Ayatoll- I mean Santorum, we can expect a full blown theocracy.
The job creators are leaving BILL, they are not going to stay here and fund your freebies and Obama 's green fantasies.
It seems, that, no matter how many time you learn that, there is no such thing as a free lunch, anytime another Obama comes along, you jump right on the wagon.
Oh well, when he runs out of money you can tell him again.
Greece is a walking, talking example for you, but you folks don't seem to see anything that might hinder the freebies.
Your ignorance in thinking companies hire for no other reason than not being greedy is indicative of Obama's entitlement society where everyone has a job, just because. If they don't want a job then they still are coddled and take care of forever. If Obama wins anotehr term you can kiss you sweet life goodbye. You will be a hobo in 5 years with an attitude like that.
Socialists always run out of other people's money.
The facts are:
We are adding 200,000 jobs per month for the last 3 months.
During the last 3 months of the last Republican president's 2nd term, we were losing (from Politfact):
... we compiled the numbers for Bush's last three months. Between October and November, 597,000 jobs were lost; between November and December, 681,000 were lost; and between December and January, 741,000 were lost.
All the rest is BS!
EEngineer I am really having a hard time understanding your logic, the Democrats took over a majority control in both Senate and House in the fall of 2006 and they have had that majority until 2010 guess what happened under their watch? COLLAPSE that is what happened, now that the House is trying to be fiscally responsible, the "economy" is picking up steam that is why Obama can brag about the numbers, thanks to John Boehner, and Eric Cantor.
Haha. Willfully ignorant Republican trolls you will lose.
I'm so sorry. Really.
intelligent one-411352 seems to think that obstructionism has done the country good. Interestingly, the same people he boasts about also caused our credit rating to be cut. I suppose, that was good for the country as well.
He was probably one of the devout republicans that stood up and cheered at the loss of the Olympic bid.
If any of the Republicans are elected the nation will go into the deepest and longest recession this country has ever had. The policies they advocate will destroy the economy.
Yet the democrats have been steering the ship during this long deep recession. Our GDP sucks. I don't care if Unemployment is ZERO if GDP keeps at 2.xx- 3.xx we are treading water. Econ 101. China gets pissed if they are under 9%.
The jobs added are part time and low pay with no retirement or bennies. Add the fact that we borrowed close to a trillion to pay for these crappy jobs clearly something is amiss.
The problem is that everyone makes this about Obama. He has NOT done the job. It's that simple. Nice guy? Maybe but if he were a Republican would you be giving him a pass one this anemic recovery?
I don't think so. Stop thinking party and start thinking Country.
Unemployment= 8.3%
Employment= 91.7%
Glass is 91.7% full.
LOL OUwhine!!! REALLY!!! That's freaking funny! We are NOW in the deepest, longest recession we've ever been in, and that's all Obummer's work.
If you stop to think about it, these seven words are very powerful. If this analogy would be adopted by the people that post here, and furthermore, the people in political power, what a difference this could make. I've been searching for a definitive line that demonstrates my views, you nailed it. Good post.
Paul: "We are NOW in the deepest, longest recession we've ever been in, and that's all Obummer's work."
Really? So this economy tanked the day Obama took office? Wow, what a guy.
Paul W., you really need to get a grip on reality and try to see the bigger picture. What is it that you hate about Obama so much?
And if you fly into one of those socialist, destroying the country tirades, I think I answered my question.
PaulW, you need to get a dose of reality buddy. Obama's been repairing the problem, not creating it. Could be better, but it could have a been A LOT worse.
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Viktor - No, the economy didn't tank the day Obama took office, it actually started to tank with the democrats took control of the Senate and House in 2007 which Obama was a member of. There is plenty of blame to go around. IMO, if Obama and the democratic controlled congress had worked as hard on getting the economy back on track as they did to pass ACA we would be better off now. Obama and the democrats decided to go it alone and spent around one trillion dollars in stimulus money, and based on the results it was not the best use of the money.
The economy is starting to come back, to slowly, but no one person can take credit for that. In every recession since I have been living, I'm 71, recessions have came and gone and they will again in the future.
Obama has done nothing to repair the economy.You better start reading something else besides MSNBC.... you obviously swallow all the pap they put out.....sad......
sfcret, I get it now. When the democrats were elected they made wall street rob America. Or could it have been the de-regulation that happened before the democrats got there that caused the problems?
Nothing done to repair the economy right? If only we had let the republicans take us the way of Greece and austerity like they wanted. Republicans still want to cut programs for the poor and hungry to pay for more tax cuts for the rich.
You don't even have to question if the Greek plan is the one to make your economy better. Just look at what austerity did to their country.
Simple question is Greece better off for the austerity or worse? If you say worse which is the truth, then why would the republicans want to drag America down that path?
Most of all why would someone vote for them to do it?
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..if you want to be like Greece....just vote for Obama in November and we will be as broke as the Greeks without the early retirement benefit......
Paul: not all of us have selective amnesia and can't remember "he who must not be named" who actually managed to spend a SURPLUS into a record deficit, launch two wars and keep them off the books while pushing massive tax cuts, and bring this nation to the brink of financial ruin. That hapless genial fella, the great 'decider', was a man by the name of GW Bush...the worst president of the modern era. Read up about him...perhaps it will give you some perspective on the guy you hate who is bringing America back...
AP - Come up with more than left wing talking points if you want a serious discussion.
sfcret - the truth hurts you right wingers, doesn't it? Your clown (Bush) is the idiot who put us into this mess yet you continue to blame the one bringing us out of it. You and those like you are the ones that are causing these problems.
SeekingSanity - You wouldn't know what the truth is if it bit you in the a$$. One person did not put us into this mess and one person will not bring us out of this mess. How am I and those like me causing these problems? I am not a member of congress nor an adviser to Obama. But you on the left can't seem to accept blame for anything. How about the 6+ trillion added to the national debt with very little to show for it? How about the large increase in gas prices, which in 2008 was Bush's fault, remember all the lefties including Obama complaining and blaming Bush. How about an Obama appointee as Energy Secretary saying he would like to gasoline at $6.00+ per gallon like Europe.
Now we have a Secretary of Defense that says the United States will take it's marching orders of when to go to war from the UN or NATO, and then, just maybe, they will consult with congress.
How about a President (Obama) who decides when Congress is or is not in recess, instead of congress themselves who make their own rules?
How about a President who lies as to the amount of oil being produced in the U.S. when he knows that the increase of production is from private land (where he has no say) not federal land? Oil production in the Gulf is 17% lower than when Obama became President and down 14% on federal lands.
Typical Dem talking points of bash, bash, bash. The Dems obviously can't run on their records, so its bash, then bash some more. You are obviously on the 2012 Obama mailing list.
Here's a record for ya!
We have added 200,000 jobs per month for the last 3 months.
During the last 3 months of the last Republican president's 2nd term (from Politifact):
... we compiled the numbers for Bush's last three months. Between October and November, 597,000 jobs were lost; between November and December, 681,000 were lost; and between December and January, 741,000 were lost.
All the rest is BS!
Waaaahhh - its Bush's fault......waaaaaah, its Obamas fault.....waaaaah, it the Democratic Congress' fault...waaahh, the media gives Obama a free pass......waaaaaah, GW lied about weapons of mass destruction....waaaaah.......waaah
The negativity from the angry right is astounding.
more than astounding actually.
Yeah, it's only those neo-socialists who drink the koolaid who AREN'T negative.... keep sippin' you two.
If the left is neo-Socialist, that would make the Tea Party neo-Fascist wouldn't it?
Paul: good luck winning a national election on that 'sky is falling' , 'you don't really have a job you just think you do' thing...who knows...a few here are ready to buy that we couldn't possibly be in a recovery as long as there is a President in office they didn't vote for...maybe you could form a third "end of the world" party.
The stupidity of the ignorant left is astounding.
The stupidity of the ignorant right is even more astounding. So, Bush losing 800,000 jobs a month is ok. But Obama adding 250,000 jobs a month is just not good enough.
Now that's some broken logic.
...but Obama tripling the debt to 15 trillion dollars is logical to you?.......
Um, NYC, the debt was approximately $10-11 trillion when Obama took office. Reagan tripled it, and Bush doubled it. The major reasons the debt is increasing so fast is the increasing expenditures and loss of revenues that resulted because of the recession and the irresponsible fiscal policies of the Bush administration. Obama's only major spending packages were the stimulus, the Afghan surge, and his healthcare reform act, which will also REDUCE the deficit in the future. Next time try posting the TRUTH.
OBAMA BIDEN 2012
David, you said, "throwing trillions of dollars of Taxpayers Money at the economy"... absolutely right, Baby!
MY MONEY Not wasted on Bush's Bunker Busters in Iraq anymore!
Your money will soon be used on Bunker Buster's for Iran instead.
Not if we can keep the war-mongering Republicans from office.
I guess that's why Obama is fast tracking mega bunker busters for the past three years?
http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=11609&pageid=&pagename=
John the progressive/liberals don't want facts, they just want what makes them "feel" good, and they feel really good calling conservatives derogatory names.
Reagan never balanced a budget. GW never balanced a budget. That's fiscally responsible Republicanism at it's best, not progressive/liberalism, it's just recorded in the books. Reagan threw billions into the star war program and other weaponry systems largely floating on some naval base or stealth bombers sitting on some tarmac somewhere unable to find Islamic insurgents. Great for a Super Bowl flyover though. Bush made sure we got into murky wars with no way to win at +2 trillion and had his Bush tax cuts going at the same time (first time in U.S. history wartime) another great fiscally responsible move, then your Rep. Paul Ryan says we need to cut 6 trillion in debt and butcher up entitlements with no tax to pay for this debt reduction, no revenue, another great fiscally responsible Republican at work. The fallacy of our generation, REPUBLICANS ARE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE. My ass they are.
Strange how we've been told that a minimum of 250,000 jobs is necessary each month to account for growth, but yet the unemployment number stays @ 8.3%. I guess more and more people have stopped looking which of course, means they are NOT counted in these figures.
YES WE CAN
See post above, total unemployment is also imroving........ 15% the lowest in 3 years
No, they are counted...that's why the percentage stayed the same...more employment but also more people are coming back into the pool to look for work.
The employment participation rate is the lowest in 10 years....and getting worse. Look at this chart and tell me the job situation is improving...with a straight face. It is all Obama smoke and mirrors. Don't believe the hype.
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
Regardless of who'e looking, here's what's available:
We have added 200,000 jobs per month for the last 3 months.
During the last 3 months of the last Republican president's 2nd term (from Politfact):
... we compiled the numbers for Bush's last three months. Between October and November, 597,000 jobs were lost; between November and December, 681,000 were lost; and between December and January, 741,000 were lost.
Under which administration would you rather be looking for a job?
with the high gas prices, high spending, high unemployment rate, killing the gas pipeline deal between Canada and USA, high food prices, i think i will go with the republicans
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The gas prices are because of the sanctions we have put on Iran, whose threats on their nuclear program are driving speculators crazy.
The levels of spending were high when Bush were in office, and the only reason why they're higher now is because more people are unemployed and filing for unemployment benefits and less are paying taxes.
The high unemployment rate resulted from the collapse of the financial market after 30 years of voodoo economics and deregulation, and is going down thanks to Obama's stimulus and the recovering economy. Yet it could go down faster if the GOP actually gave a damn for the American people and would work with Obama to reduce the rate instead of striving to make him a one-term president.
Obama favored the gas pipeline but cut it off because it would travel over an aquifer supplying Midwestern farmers, and according to recent studies it would create few jobs and actually increase gas prices for Americans in the Midwest. Not to mention the fact that most of the oil would be exported.
High food prices are thanks to the economic collapse that was caused by supply-side economics and growing inflation. So you can blame the GOP for higher food prices.
Seems like you'd be better off going against the GOP, as they have caused many of America's problems.
OBAMA BIDEN 2012
DEMOCRAT CONGRESS 2012
Oh, but fox news says if Obama approved the keystone pipeline our troubles would be over.
freshiee, i do not agree with you about the xl pipe line, that project will solve the gas prices, unemployment rate should be down with the high spending and spending all that money but it did not happen, down grade the USA rate. so freshiee i respect your opinion but it is not right, and by the way gas prices does not have nothing to do with Iran
this analysis show how bad the these 4 years the unemployment rate from 2008-2012 compare to other yearsv
If Republicans care about jobs why do they spend all their time is every state passing laws on mandatory vaginal probes?
When did they start doing that in all 50 states? I didn't know they were spending all their time doing so. Thanks for the update.
They are trying to pass one in Pennsylvania.
Why did Obama vote for infanticide while he was a Senator in Illinois for?
When did they start doing that in all 50 states?
^ Actually they tried to in Congress. But Obama and Harry Reid shut them down as usual.
Natch this caused Rush Limbaugh to start PMS-ing, and we know how messy that can be, don't w
fetus's are not babies. They are potential babies. Otherwise every miscarriage would be grounds for negligent homicide (involuntary manslaughter) charges against the mother, especially if she was a smoker or had a drink at any time during the pregnancy.
...and with every period, halve-babies die. This must be stopped!!!
And every time a male masturbates, a genocide of half babies occurs. The horror!
More ultrasonographer jobs
Under the most partisan government ever where regardless of the issue, half will applaud while the other half boos, there will never be "a positive day" for America as a whole.
Is that what you want?
United you stand, divided you fall.
Zeebol: Thank heavens the country was not divided under the "decider" and we were ALL for two wars and massive debt taking us to the brink of financial ruin. ah, Yup....those were the good ol' days....united under complete failure. Is that what you want? Well you can have it...but you're not going to find many with you beyond your fellow sky is falling crowd... No thanks. Been there, ain't goin back to laughable Republican "fiscal" responsibility.
With the real unemployment rate of over 15% I would not tout the unemployment rate. Strange over 30 years ago this country had a high unemployment rate and within a few years, it became a low unemployment figure yet government policies to reduce enemployment then are not being used.
Wealthy people used to invest in American industries and American jobs instead of financial instruments that benefit no one but themselves and Wall Street.
Capital Gains taxes used to be high enough so that people left their money in long-term investments which provided companies with capital to invest.
Wal-Mart used to promote "Made in the USA" instead of encouraging their suppliers to manufacture in China.
And real unemployment is UNDER 15%.........
So few people get this.
They are so blinded by the thought that lower taxes = more business they can't actually see how people behave.
If you lower a Corporate Tax Income (or create ways to avoid it, as the current system does), more wealth will be extracted from the company. Not re-invested in the company.
People that actually own companies (and don't have access to stock options to get huge payments) re-invest in their companies to earn more money. Either directly (35% tax) or by paying themselves a wage.
Capital Gains has muddled that even more, because now if you're rich, it doesn't make any sense to get a direct wage payment (thus even more stock manipulation by even more people), and it doesn't make any sense to actually "risk" starting a business. Why risk your money starting a business to earn money taxed at 35% or wage pay, when you can dump it in stocks and pay 15%.
Nicey -
Well put. I wish more people understood that the majority of monetary and intelluctual capital in this country is spent on activities that create nothing except wealth for the investor and his broker - stock options, futures, derivatives, CDO's - and on schemes to avoid being taxed at even the lower capital gains rate.
Here's the other part of the stroy that MSNLC doesn't show:
Counting only those Americans who are actively looking for work, the jobless rate is 8.3 percent, just like it was in January. But counting those who stopped looking for work within the last year, the rate is 9.8 percent.
And counting all of the above, plus those who settled for part-time jobs, the rate is 14.9 percent.
Read more: #ixzz1oeR6npPq
No, read the article AGAIN. There are not only more people who are working, there are more who are LOOKING for work...thus the percentage is still at 8.3 even with several hundred thousand jobs added. (The formulas don't change just because you don't like the President).
The post above correct the true umeployment figure is almost 15% if you look at the U6 numbers which no president is going to talk about becuase that number is the kiss of death. Average Americans know what the real unemployment number is and we aren't being fool by the King of Fools and his minons.
Stopping looking is also known as retirement. Those who no longer participate may be off golfing and playing with the grandkids, but the GOTPers make it sound like a dirty word.
This same news site posted an article yesterday calling the claims of higher employment into question. Duh...
For a rousing good depression, reelect Obummer in 2012. For any hope of a future, vote for ANYBODY BUT OBAMA.
Vote for ANYBODY BUT OBAMA.
^Listen to GOP lackeys. They so hate their own sorry-ar$ed loser candidates that they can only ask us to vote out of hatred.
This is why you will lose.
Obama is a winner and has done a great job. We actually LIKE our candidate. Too bad you can't say the same.
Scomma, I'm not GOP. I'm independent, and independents wont support that dipstick this time. So, Barry will be back to Chicago soon enough.
Speak for yourself.
Paul: Yeah, your postings sure have you pegged as an Independent, not as just another right-wing shill.
(Duh - oh, never mind....)
Paul figures since he doesn't agree 100% with the far-right hate mongers of doom that makes him an independent.
So, Paul since you are touting the ABO point of view just who out of the field of Republican ABO candidates are you pushing for?
Romney, the originator of the AHCA (you know the one you non-Democrats label ObamaCare) and the one who recently told us that his economic plan couldn't be scored?
Santorum, the one who says that there should be no separation of Church and State?
Gingrich, Mr. wild-eyed grandiose, stick anything that moves, life long Washington insider?
Paul, the fake Republican but true Libertarian?
Tell us Paul, which of these ABO's is better than the current President?
Well wait for your answer, but somehow I don't think we'll get one that is coherent. What I do expect is some sort of anti-Obama comeback because anyone with a rational brain would know that the ABO choices are simply a return to the times of Bush/Cheney I.
Paul W - As a registered Independent I can tell you that you damned well DON'T speak for Independents. We'lll vote Obama over the GOP idiots who are running and want to take the country backward. You are NO Independent!
I'm from MA and independent and I will be voting for anyone but BO. I want a President that will cut spending and balance the budget. I do not want to live in United States of Greece. Tried of his failed green energy bs. Who is going to pay $50 for a light bulb but this genius just award Phillips a grant for a 50 dollar light bulb. I can't take any more of this insansity.
gideb114 - you would be more believable if you didn't do the $50 light bulb stupidity. The insanity is from the far right and gets less sane every day. No true Independent would cast a vote for one of the buffoons running for the GOP.
The facts are:
We are adding 200,000 jobs per month for the last 3 months.
During the last 3 months of the last Republican president's 2nd term, we were losing (from Politfact):
... we compiled the numbers for Bush's last three months. Between October and November, 597,000 jobs were lost; between November and December, 681,000 were lost; and between December and January, 741,000 were lost.
Looks like a rousing good depression to me (under Bush, that is). Think I'll vote Democratic!
Not true, this Independent will vote for Obama, because after watching a dozen GOP debates, I fail to be impressed with anyone but Obama.
gide
Obama DID try to reduce spending and balance the budget. He offered a $4 trillion deficit reduction package that was balanced and contained both spending cuts AND tax increases. 75% were budget cuts, and the rest were tax increases on the upper class. Speaker Boehner liked the idea, but later turned it down when he was reminded of his pledge to Traitor Norquist and his Tea Party brethren. And now HE has the balls to accuse Obama of being the cause of our credit downgrade. Obama COMPROMISED on deficit reduction TWICE; one was in his plan, and the other was in the enacted $2.2 trillion cuts over 10 years. It's time we some revenues on the table, and that is not going to happen from Mitt Romney, who has pledged not to raise taxes OR EVEN LET TAX BREAKS EXPIRE. You'll never balance the budget without tax increases. That, old gide, is a fact.
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Obama is a very two faced person and a liar as well, Obama jumped on the band wagon to degrade Rush Limbaugh for his comments on Sandra Fluke the democrat plant who was put there just to start trouble, how ever he gladly accepted a MILLION dollars from Mr. Bill Mars, this man puts down women on a daily basis, he degrades them beyond belief he trashes women openly and yet he is good enough for Obama to be around and not Rush Limbaugh, just how two faced is that? So in November 2012 we will vote out Obama in a very FAST & FURIOUSLY way.
stclaire: Yeah, what a devious scheme by the Democrats to have Issa set up this panel discussion and to have Limbaugh do his whacked-out thing, just so the national discourse could be turned away from the improving economy.
Sandra Fluke was there to start trouble? She was there to represent the female side of the story. Did you read or listen to her testimony? It was not about herself or free sex. It was about the other positive aspects of birth control - something the panel of clergy assembled by Issa cares nothing about.
Here is the difference between teaparty conservatives and everyone else - to Sandra Fluke, the pill is about alternative medications for ovarian ailments and providing a more reliable family planning method for married couples. For Rush Limbaugh, the pill is orgies and free sex - no wonder he's on his 4th marriage. He has no children, do you suppose his spouses have all been on the pill?
I think Rush is an Onanist.
Rush Limbaugh thinks that women need to take more birth control pills the more sex they have.
End of story.
Rush Limbaugh is the recognised mouth piece of the republican party while Bill Mahr is an HBO comedian. Do you not see the difference?
I laugh at the stuff that Bill Mahr says and I rarely take his statements as representing mainstream thought on serious subjects. But Rush has his followers mesmerized and hanging on his every word. They take whatever he says as gospel and beyond questioning, then spread it around as edicts from on high. Do you not see the difference?
Does any politician have to apologize to Bill Mahr because they said something unflattering about him? Happens all the time with Rush. Rush considers himself a king maker and republicans buy into it and treat him as one - therefore, Rush has a greater responsibility and should be held to a higher standard.
Liberals are very quick to denounce any wrongdoing by their people. Recall that Bill Maher was fired from his ABC show after 9/11 for making a comment that the Bush administration didn't like. Recall Juan Williams being fired from CNN, and Ed Schultz being suspended for calling some radio DJ a slut. If anything, liberals are too quick to apologize and take action.
At least they take action. The defense of Rush Limbaugh is startling and disgusting. The right is terrified of the man. I like Bill Maher, but I didn't like when he made sexist comments about Sarah Palin in 2008. He used the same rationale the right uses to make racist comments about President Obama: Once they decide they hate him for political reasons, it becomes OK to say racist/ sexist things. He was right that Palin is an unqualified twit, but the name-calling was uncalled for.
StClaire: You make no sense whatsoever. It was the Republicans who refused to allow any women to testify on contraceptives, remember? How on earth is it the young woman's fault for daring to speak out on public policy impacting ALL women, and being called a "slut" and a "prostitute" on national radio for the effort? What decent human being defends that kind of personal attack?? You've lost this one...badly....He didn't mean it of course, but even Rush knew enough to apologize after no one with any common sense would have anything to do with him. Pretty soon, it's going to be you, Limbaugh, and what's left of your American Taliban movement. No one else wants nothing to do with your little club of "jerks".
Again Obama is two faced no matter what you say, he took dirty money from the POTTY mouth King Bill Mars, this man degrades women far worse than any thing Rush Limbaugh said, and yet Obama took ONE MILLION dollars from him so what does that make Obama, two faced, and more two faced.
Stclaire - I see "fast and furiously" idiotic post is back. No matter what you say President is an honorable and very good President who is trying to fix the quagmire Bush left behind (look the word up). Romney, Santorum, Gingrigh, Paul - that the best your backward party has to offer! Please -
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I'm so tired of hearing if your a comedian you get a pass for saying disgusting things about women. So if your going to use the Bill Maher is a comedian defense then as you liberals like to tell people all the time Russ is just an entertainer. So I guess as an entertainer its all right for him to call her a slut. P ersonally I think they are both wrong and degrading women for any reason shouldn't be tolerated.
Again Obama must like potty mouth women hating people, that is why he took the one million dollars, he is two faced and the American people have finally seen through his lies, and failed policies, we will vote him out in 2012 in a very FAST & FURIOUS way.
Bill Maher is not a liberal. He blasts both sides of the aisle and considers himself an independent.
His endorsement of President Obama is equally because of his dislike for the GOP contenders.
Among the thousand out right lies of Rush Limbaugh going all the way back to the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 and that the govt should stay out of regulating clean up. Exxon would do the right thing in the cleanup. You believe that, I'll sell you an acre of land south of Sioux Falls, South Dakota in the middle of corn for $5,000 per acre!! FOOL.
more rhetorical bs from the great mistake....3.5 years later its still bushes fault...no president in history has blamed the previous administration like this one does...unbelievably disgraceful !!!!!
You must be very young. Is this your first election? Every single President blames their predecessor. Need proof? Look at the Republican messiah:
"The problems we inherited were far worse than most inside and out of government had expected; the recession was deeper than most inside and out of government had predicted. Curing those problems has taken more time and a higher toll than any of us wanted."
Ronald Reagan, 1983 State of the Union
bc: Aren't you ridiculous?? After the worst recession in modern times under the worst President in modern times, we're finally on the road to recovery and you still need to whine and moan. Get a hobby man...
Clotho - bcplus23 is, I'm guessing, 23 and not too well versed in reality. Probably really impressed with Rush!
Oh worship the Great Reagan, oh hail the great conservative of the modern area, we worship and praise you, Ronny, who never signed a balanced budget in 8 years!!! The great fallacy of American politics that you Republicans are fiscally responsible. BULL.
10.5 trillion in debt when your Bush left office, 2 wars +2trillion unpaid for, auto industry ready to collapse and all your great Bush can do is summon the McCain and Obama teams to the White House 1 month before the election with the ole "one of you poor suckers will inherit this, what are goin do???" "And, by the way home foreclosures appear to be escalating at an alarming rate" good luck, I'm going down to Midland-Odessa, Texas to chop firewood and shoot quail... Not Dan Quayle, but bird quail.
Because Bush really is to BLAME for so much of this mess, notice that not ONE time has any GOP debators ever brought up any shining example of Obama's predecessor as gleaming examples of WHAT???? Nothing!! They want nothing to do with the Bush era, and pray no question like, " We had 8 years of the Bush administration, what can any of you say that would lead the American people that any of you candidates would be different than George?" From a Republican viewpoint.
It's disgusting and un-American for Republicans to undermine the economy because they think it will help them politically.
President Obama keeps introducing jobs and economic policies that the Republicans have to block to keep the economy from improving faster.
The "Hate America First" Republicans can't stand it when good news comes out about the economy.
re: 3.5 years later its still bushes fault....
^ Hmm, let's teach you how to read, follow along....
The economy added 227,000 jobs in February, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said in its monthly report released this morning. The unemployment rate held steady at 8.3 percent, which was partly attributable to jobless workers re-entering the workforce.
The report builds on a streak of generally positive economic news, reports which have helped improve the president's approval rating.
^ Hmm, seems like Obama is getting the "blame" to me. :)
Its no more unAmerican than the fantasy Obama's campaign is creating about a recovery that doesn't exist.
Tell me, why did the republicans vote against jobs if our recovery is so bad? Don't republicans care for America at all?
They felt it was more important to protect the rich 1% from getting a small sur-tax than to put Ameircans to work.
Sounds like to me the republicans don't want a recovery to happen and then want to blame that on President Obama.
For the America you have grown to love, Obama/Biden 2012
Tell me why the President was call Dems yesterday asking the not to vote for the Key Stone Pipeline? I thought BO cared about creating jobs.
Obama lies and he lies a lot and he is very good at twisting the truth, but Americans have seen through his false promises, failed policies, high gas prices, interfering with the Catholic Church, and shoving Obama care down the throats of Americans who said they did NOT want it, he said no to Keystone and yet China is drilling for oil just 60 miles off the coast of Florida, he let the Mexican drug lords get supplied with guns in a Fast & Furious way, he bailed out GM and Chrysler and Chrysler is owned by FIAT an Italian car company, he helped his friends at the failed Solyndra and Ener1, this man has down graded our military, he accepted one million dollars from the potty mouth King Bill Maher yet he put down Rush Limbaugh and all of America knows that Sandra Fluke was a Democratic plant to start trouble and take the heat off Obama interfering with the Catholic Church, Obama is a pure liar and we all know it now.
Once again...
We are adding 200,000 jobs per month for the last 3 months.
During the last 3 months of the last Republican president's 2nd term (from Politfact):
... we compiled the numbers for Bush's last three months. Between October and November, 597,000 jobs were lost; between November and December, 681,000 were lost; and between December and January, 741,000 were lost.
All the rest is BS!
The keystone pipeline is about very few jobs but poses an incredible risk to one of our larger underground water supplies.
I don't know if you have heard about the last busted pipeline carrying the same slime that would be in the keystone pipeline. First the chemicals to make it flow was released into the air and all the people within miles got very sick. Then the goo sank, just like it would sink into our water supply.
The oil companies were claiming they could clean up the mess in two months, well 20 months later due to the sinking problem it is not cleaned up yet.
Why do we want to run a pipeline across our country when the Canadian don't want it in their country? I guess Canadians are against jobs too. So the Koch brothers get richer and we as Americans get the opportunity to die with lack of water for growing food and drinking.
Don't forget the republicans voted against keeping the oil in America, it is just going to a world market.
Humans can live without cars, but not food and water.
Are you ready to die so the Koch brothers can become richer?
Actually, it IS still Bush's fault! It is a testament to how bad the failures of Republican policies were that our economy is still struggling today.
The 8 year long Republican debacle coupled with the current Republicans blocking every effort to improve the economy, and Americans are right to blame Bush!
It is not Bush's fault, Obama has had 3 years of failed policies, and to begin for the first 2 straight years Obama and the Democrats had total control and what did they do, nothing except give trillions of Tax Payers money away, shove down our throats Obama care, he has given us high gas prices, higher food prices, and higher insurance premiums, he has tried to force the Catholic church to go against their beliefs, he vacations very well, and he spends money like it is water, he has down graded out military, he said no to Keystone, he has friends like Bill Maher, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayres, and many more radicals, he has apologized for America and held China up high, he lies and twists the truth, he has to go in 2012 in the most FAST & FURIOUS way.!
Sorry, st claire, but Obama didn't cause higher prices (the recession and concern about Iran did), he didn't shove Obamacare down our throats (unless you call having it pass democratically), did NOT give trillions away (the stimulus worked, for that matter), did not force higher premiums (healthcare costs have been rising for years), only told the Catholic Church to abide by the same rules that all other employers ought to (a majority of Catholics liked his plan, including this one), has vacationed very little compared to predecessors, was forced to spend money to keep the economy afloat (the debt was thanks to the recession and Bush's fiscal policies), offered a CREDIBLE deficit reduction package to reduce the debt, DID NOT downgrade our credit rating or our military (Republicans did that for the credit rating), IS NOT A RADICAL, has NOT held China up high, doesn't lie (at least not a lot), apologized for America's questionable actions BECAUSE WE HAVE SCREWED UP and has to STAY in 2012 in the most FAST & FURIOUS WAY!!!! Nice try at distorting the truth, st claire.
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$787 Billion is pocket change compared to what Obama has actually borrowed and is borrowing, so what has he produced in the way of jobs; 46% of all Americans are living in or at the edge of poverty.
Obama hails this as a great success, but one has to answer, for whom it it a great success, the 46% or the 1%ers he's been giving all that money to?
I can make up percentages out of thin air too!
Ruken
Then you must work for the Obama campaign. They are very good at making up things. Its a matter of public record put out by the government that 46% of all Americans are living in or at the edge of poverty.
Its also a matter of public record that at the beginning of August,2011 when Obama's debt crises hit, your families share of the national debt rose from $45,000.00 to $122,303.00 under 2.75 years of Obama borrowing.
Its a matter of public record that Obama includes in his claims of new jobs that he created, summer hiring and holiday part time temporary jobs. And isn't it true that most of his job claims are in fact, those types of jobs.
I have yet to see a source for this garbage number pounding.
Aside from the $787 trillion for the stimulus, what additional spending has Obama done that was not already committed by Bush?
Obama put the 2 wars on the books. Bush never did that and they were never part of any budget submitted to, or approved, by congress. Obama has included all war costs as part of his budgets.
So the deficit spending over the last 3 years is for programs from the Bush admin.
1). Two unfunded wars,
2). an unfunded medicare prescription program,
3). two tax cuts,
4). interest payments on the previous 3 items.
Add in the $787 billion stimulus (1/3 of which was more tax cuts insisted upon by republicans), and there's our current deficit. And those first 4 items are generating our current yearly deficit.
Obama has proposed tax increases matched by 3 times that amount in cuts and reform packages to social programs - but the Grover Norquist petition signers would not go for it. After the failed 30 year experiment on trickle down economics you'd think our congressmen would abandon the juvenile idea of a seventh grader (when Grover first thought up his petition) and try something else that has a chance of working.
Dodd/Frank UNFUNDED.
Obama-Care UNFUNDED.
Stimulus - UNFUNDED
Libya "no-war" UNFUNDED
THE IRONY IS THAT ALL OF OBAMA'S UNFUNDED THINGS HAS EXCEEDED THAT OF BUSH IN DOLLAR$.
If all else fails, tell a lie and call it the truth. Come to be known as the republican way.
Americans first, that would be the racist and sexist way of the Democrats to twist the truth and out right lie, the Obama way.
455 infrastructure improvements all accross America due to the stimulus,go by Oklahoma City, I-44 & I-40 stimulus at work, 1 "little" project.
Technically, "truth," the stimulus was probably funded in part by taxes (or by borrowing), Obamacare pays for itself in reforms and fees and actually REDUCES the deficit, Dodd-Frank is a REGULATION, not a program, and requires no funding. Libya was probably funded by federal revenues. Well, technically, we can't know for certain how Libya was funded. The stimulus might have been partially paid for, but I'm not sure. But at least most of those expenditures were in AMERICA, instead of in a misguided war.
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We'll the GOP has some explaining to do since their the "fiscally" responsible party how we managed to spend +2 trillion on 2 wars and have the Bush tax cuts during the same 10 years period. Good fiscal management???
Obama hails this as a great success, but one has to answer, for whom it it a great success, the 46% or the 1%ers he's been giving all that money to?
^ Obama's been giving money to Mitt Romney?
Mitt Romney just got a payroll tax cut?
Mitt Romney just got 220 thousand new jobs in February?
Impossible.
Remember Romney brags about being "unemployed".
He runs for President for a living.
What are you talking about man! :)
ScommaG
What has Romney got to do with Obama and his record? The post office announced it lost $3.3 billion and has started laying off 35,000 workers of the 128,000 it plans to layoff. Where is Obama's leadership in dealing with this disgrace and incompetence of government? Seems that all his vacations haven't help him come up with a solution to this problem have they?
National retailers have announced 813 store closing and that was in the first two months of the year. More store closing are in the future as they struggle to save off bankruptcy's. That doesn't include the all the small retailers that have closed their doors for good.
And I suppose we are to ignore all the major manufacturers who have announced their plans to layoff this year because like in the past, we will see Obama taking credit as new jobs created for the summer part time hiring as if they were permanent long term full time jobs.
Keep believing in his fantasy recovery. You'll get what you deserve when reality smacks you in the face.
The USPS has not directly received taxpayer-dollars since the early 1980s with the minor exception of subsidies for costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters.
Unlike its private sector competitors, this agency is hamstrung by having to request rate changes from congress. Why are you blaming the president for an agency under the control of the Republican House???
Most retailers are affected by online buying. Customers may go to a brick and mortar store to see and handle a product, then they go home and buy it from Amazon or some other online store.
Oh great and magnificent one named 'what happened', what is your suggestion to fix this problem? Or are you simply a complainer who has no answers? What is in any of the republican platforms that addresses this problem?
I'll check back later tonight.
Scomma G: well considering 92% of us are working...your "fantasy" recovery looks pretty good compared to the disaster that we just came through under the Republican pooh-bah who took a surplus and turned it upside down within his first term. And I guess we want to all ignore the manufacturing jobs that are coming back too? Well, you go ahead with your pity party...the rest of us will be very thankful we're finally in recovery.
Barry Husain is a JOKE!!!!!! In the long run if we as a nation re-elect such a man, we will all be lloked at as fools. I don't think the other candidates are the right men for the job but we gave him his chance, it didn't work out... Who's running with the Green peace party this year?
Yeah, like having Nader drain away votes from Gore in 2000. That's a great idea, Edison.
Au Contraire, we will look like fools only if we elect another knee jerk, bow down to Rush Limbaugh back stabbing republican who wants to get goverment off our backs and into a woman's vagina.
The evidence tells us that it DID work out, Andy. Didn't you read the article?
The facts are:
We are adding 200,000 jobs per month for the last 3 months.
During the last 3 months of the last Republican president's 2nd term, we were losing (from Politfact):
... we compiled the numbers for Bush's last three months. Between October and November, 597,000 jobs were lost; between November and December, 681,000 were lost; and between December and January, 741,000 were lost.
All the rest is BS!
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Last week of febuary had 358,000 filed for unemployment...One week! And the rate stays at 8.3% Obama should get an Oscar, to put next to his Peace Prize.
SprtstrXLCH:
Correct!
Here is the real reason behind the figures. The Obama Administration as taken control of the configuration of the monthly employment data away from the states and fabicate their own reports. Plus, each month, the figures are later adjusted upward. This is the first time any Administration has done so. They are constantly removing people off of the unemployment roles even though they are still jobless. The actual unemployment figures are much higher. They celebrate the so-so news making it seem like good news. The USA needs 300,000 + jobs created each month at an minimum. It is a Con Game run by B H Obama and his staff.
Companies are starting to hire a bit more due to being the election years and Obama will be gone after 2012.
Oh stop the bull, it's recovering because the recession started back in 2007 under Bush and spiraled all the way to a deep recession/ depression, so let's call it The Great Repression, and it's beginning to cycle back to recovery regardless if one of your Republican's are in the White House or not. This whole mess started with a Bush presidency that had NO DOMESTIC policy due to the fact they were up to their necks in 2 time consuming wasteful wars, and really couldn't focus on the United States and the economy until the recession hit in 2007 and then it was too FREAKIN late, and guess who gets all the blame for it?? Congress & Obama.
This has nothing to do with a "Con Game" by Obama, it's more do do with the Average American over 5 years, tightening their belt, lowering their debt ratio, and now starting to spend again and a miracle begins to occur, the economy shows the beginning of a RECOVERY, and guess what??? You don't need a damn Repulican in the White House to pull it off.
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I am just amazed at how the GOP is saying that Obama is lying. What the hell??? How the hell did you figure this out??? What is your damn source??? This is another right-wing conspiracy theory. Obama is a Muslim, Obama is un-America. Obama is a communist. When will you stop??? Why are you doing this??? Are you racist??? What the hell???
And Homer, unemployment is the number of people who are actively looking for work but cannot find a job. That is Economics 101. And the Labor Department has other labor statistics. Check U-6. Jeez, are the Republicans stupid or what?? My God, we are screwed if millions of people are buying this BS. Republicans: the ECONOMY IS IMPROVING. GET THAT THROUGH YOUR FREAKING HEAD AND LIVE WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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They won't stop their rhetoric attacks due to the fact that the GOP is turning into an extinct dinasour of a party. They still have this imagery of a Ronald Reagan type of a person coming out of know where to resurrect the party, you remember?? the big Ronald Reagan the conservatives symbol of "conservativism" the one who never balanced a budget in 8 years at the realm. The party is trying real hard to make one, and you have the 3 + Ron Paul and a good majority of Independents(Not the Paul W. type Independents) who are looking favorably at Obama for a second term.