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Speaking to a gathering of women brought to the White House to discuss economic issues, President Obama said he believed conversations about women’s issues have become “oversimplified” lately.
“There's been a lot of talk about women and women's issues lately as there should be, but I do think the conversation's been oversimplified," Obama said at the White House forum on women and the economy. "Women are not some monolithic bloc. Women are not an interest group. You shouldn't be treated that way."
The president noted the work his administration has done to advance women’s issues, including his signature of the Lilly Ledbetter anti-pay discrimination act and the increase of loans to small businesses, many of which go to women-owned companies.
“When it comes to our efforts on behalf of women and girls," he said, "I'm proud of our efforts."
He also warned against the policies Republicans seek to put in place which he said would set women back, alluding to recent debates over access to preventive care and funding of Planned Parenthood.
“What we can't do now is go back to the policies that got us into so many of the problems that we've been dealing with in the first place,” Obama said. “People say we should get rid of Planned Parenthood. They're not just talking about restricting a woman's ability to make her own health decision; they're talking about denying as a practical matter the preventive care like mammograms that millions of Americans rely on.”
The Planned Parenthood comment may have been in reference to Mitt Romney’s March 14th statement in which he named several government programs he said he would cut.
“Planned Parenthood, we're going to get rid of that,” he said, in part, during an interview with a Missouri television station. His adviser Eric Fehrnstrom later said Romney was referring to cutting government funding for Planned Parenthood, not shutting down the program entirely.
At the women’s forum, Obama also took a dig at Congress’ inaction, he said he thought the legislative body would accomplish more if there were more women on Capitol Hill.
“Is it possible Congress will get more done if there are more women in Congress?” he said, grinning. “I think it's fair to say. That is almost guaranteed.”
At the beginning of his speech Obama also commented on the Labor Department’s March jobs report, which showed that the economy added 120,000 jobs, fewer than the 200,000 or more jobs that have been added every month so far this year, and a ticked-down unemployment rate of 8.2 percent.
While he said he “welcomed today’s news” of continued economic growth, he added that “it’s clear to every American that there will still be ups and downs along the way, and that we’ve got a lot more work to do.”
Republicans said the unemployment number was still far too high, with the Republican National Committee noting that “of the 740,000 jobs lost since Obama took office, 683,000 of them were held by women.”
“President Obama and his fellow Democrats love to say they stand for women, but women can no longer stand the Obama economy. Women deserve better, and in November we will hold him accountable,” RNC co-chair Sharon Day said in a statement.
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Good strategy O!! But you may actually be understating the threat to Women from the GOP, TeaBaggers, and Rush LimpBalls............
Whoo Hoo!
Way to ki$$ @$$ Mr. President!
(show me the clown nose, fisty!)
We are women hear us ROAR in numbers to big to ignore...
Too bad the GNOP didn't get the memo! ☺
"Way to ki$$ @$$ Mr. President!"
...judging from your post, do you prefer to ki$$ the @$$ of misogynists?
nevermind......
LMAO! Holy Cow Fiesty DumbFux.....now THAT was hilarious! For real?!
I have many, many women in my life (some pretty liberal freaks too) and nottttta one is casting their vote because I won't give them free rubbers or allow them into a private golf club....lol
Now, run off and burn that bra Feisty DumbFux (Crap, now I have an image of her Walmart "delicates" in my head...lmao)
P.S. - All of this "bra burning" going on, flamed by the looney lib chicks on this board.....
You do realize you're chanting for a MAN to lead you? Right? Or did you not get the memo? lol
You had more than enough chances 3 1/2 years ago to put a woman in the White House but you said, "Nope, we like men leading our world".
Losers
Nice thinking Michael. Spot on!
Today we applaud our president who stands arm and arm with women as the GOP/religious groups continue to butt into their personal decisions. Hillary Clinton has done a great job in this Administration.
All in all, it's a win win for us all.
This is one important difference between the president and Romney. Romney has a lot of sons, and must turn to Ann for translation, for Pete's sake!
But really it's the GOP/TP brand as a whole, and wanting to go back in time in regard to everything -- labor rights, the social contract and safety nets for the poor and elderly, legislating morality, women's rights -- everything!
If Teapublicans could have slavery, prohibition, industrial pollution, and women pregnant and in the kitchen (with no voting rights) they would be happy. It's mind-bending to be in the 21st Century and having to defend not just abortion, but contraception.
Even just since the 2008 election, thanks in large part to Teabagger radicals and Norquist blackmail, the GOP has moved so far to the Right it's reached a level where people need to start doing time in the Big House. This isn't hyperbole. If they can lie about having 2/3 majority in Michigan, and undermine democracy with A.L.E.C. funding, regulate abortion clinics out of existence, and a long list of litany that borders on illegal behavior if not treason, where will it stop?
Thank goodness for the Obama's and a voice of reason that gives us at least a little hope for the future of our great nation.
P.S. -- Speaking of A.L.E.C., can we please get a list of corporations funding this organization? Coke and Pepsi have left, while Wal-Mart is still there, but we need all the names to boycott. Thanks!
Like Hilary Clinton, Hilda Solis, Kathy Sebelius, Sonya Sotomajor, Elena Kagan..etal....Those guys?
You meant to say HIS...not THIS.......lmao
This is a man's administration, 'member?
Right on, right on.
If that's the case, can you please refresh me on why Hillary was not the liberal candidate in '08 again?
I'll be over here by the burning bra bonfire keeping warm while I wait for a reply....lmao
Michael -
If just being a woman was the only qualification that mattered to women, we'd have been listening to Vice-President Palin for the last four years and Michele Bachmann would be the front-runner today instead of Mitt Romney.
Do you vote for men just because they're men? Never mind, I think I already know the answer.....
Hillary Clinton was a good candidate. Barack Obama was a great one.
Nuff said.
sickofthebickering, Michael1969 - you totally don't get it do you? That's okay. We don't expect much from the GOP and we're never surprised by how low they can go.
Feisty - They'll hear us in November - loud and clear!!!
THANK GAWDDDDD! FINALLY, someone on the looney left gets it!
All of my typing was not in vane. You vote for people that match your ideologies, NOT for peple based on a group, or stereotype!
Joann got my sarcasm!
Michael -
Sarcasm? Is that what you're calling the stuff you spew here every day?
Next you'll be telling us you typed "in vane" instead of "in vain" and misspelled my name when it was right in front of you because that's "sarcasm" too, right?
Michael - we women vote for the BEST candidate. That's what you don't understand. Hillary will probably be the BEST candidate in 2016 but Obama was best in 2008 and clearly heads above everything the GOP is offering in 2012! I realize it's hard for you to wrap your head around quality but give it a try!
Kudos Mr. President. Thanks for standing with us.
TP, Pat, Feisty, Great posts!
Rush is a pig--(AMEN on your name!) Sorry, but I VOTED for Obama based on his promises to improve gay rights and protect women's rights to an abortion/birth control, and on his promise to shut our southern border.
The FIRST THING HE DID was to appoint yet ANOTHER Catholic to the Supremes, without (by his own admission,) even ASKING her how she felt about abortion.
Then in order to placate his OWN party, he signed an exec order (which, BTW, he refused to do for gays!) which denies women coverage for abortions (EVEN if they personally pay extra premiums) from ANY insurance company that gets one penny of money as a result of the bill. And remember, that was to satisfy DEMS--he had enough votes to pass that pig bill WITHOUT one single pub vote. And lets DON'T forget--the ones who will be shut out of access to abortion /birth control are POOR women. Rich women could get an abortion even before Roe v Wade, by going to their 'country club doctor' complaining of 'cramps' which he would then do a 'D & C' for, --which coincidentally would also remove that inconvenient fetus.)
He has for THREE years backpedaled and waffled on gay rights, has done little to nothing to improve the job prospects of poor BLACK workers (and in fact, is doing EVERYTHING he can to keep their competition for those lower paying jobs, the illegals, HERE competing with them.
With friends like Obama, who needs the pubs for enemies?
Ruh-Roh.....this plus Olbermann, the nose breather, suing Al "Bull@!$%# Artist" Gore?!?
The bonfire's getting warmer!....lol
MOmaid - clearly you voted on a very narrow set of items if you actually voted for Obama. I voted for him because he was heads above McCain/Palin (really - would anyone with intelligence have voted for those two). He has accomplished some things he wanted but remember that he isn't all powerful and it takes consensus to get things done.
And, if you think any of the items you list as important will be handled well by the GOP - you're not thinking at all. Get a clue and grow up!
Michael1969 - we already have the bonfire planned for November when Obama gets his 2nd term!
@True Patriot: Here is the information you are looking for:
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ALEC_Corporations
My Muslim Republican Brothers, it is time! Rise up and gather around Mullah Romney! The Communists use condoms!
It is Obama that stood in the way of a woman becoming President. If he was really that woman oriented he should decline to run for reelection in favor of our current secretary of state. Our President's broken promises on the economy are too glaring to hide. The secretary of state does not have that baggage to deal with.
Charctine -- Thanks. And holy cow, there are too many to list. So here is just the Corporate Board:
As of 2011:[1]
UPS might help explain why the US Postal Service is under attack... And why am I not surprised to see a lot of energy and Big Pharma on the list, as well as Utah, Arizona companies, and... Koch Companies? I've long since boycotted Walmart, but all you poor folks out there, the few pennies you save shopping at that place isn't worth it.
We have a lot of work to do folks, so let's get busy! Visit the URL and check out what is in your state.
Will Haas - just an utterly ridiculous post! Hillary will run and win in 2016 - after Obama's 2nd term. Why doesn't Romney step aside and let - oh wait - all the intelligent women have left the GOP! Never mind!
Dear Republican Party: See, here's the thing: you can't write laws in state houses dedicated to making women second class citizens and then be HORRIFIED when people notice that you have a what? WAR ON WOMEN! We vote. We watch. And frankly, that state sponsored rape thing you had going for you in Virginia was a step too far. But when (where was it, Arizona?) it was proposed that women have to give their employers a doctor's note to explain why they needed contraceptives, yeah, we pretty much know that not only are you mentally ill, you are misogynists.
Now, I do realize that the only thing in your job creation arsenal is to create a situation in which men of the Republican Party do not have to compete with women for jobs.
But, we will remember this....
Great info on ALEC. Thanks for posting it.
SeekingSanity (1.20) -- Here you go again with your amazing comments!
I voted for him because he was heads above McCain/Palin (really - would anyone with intelligence have voted for those two).
So you are saying that the 59,934,814 Americans that did vote for McCain/Palin have no intelligence. Can you really be that daft (senseless, stupid, insane, crazy, foolish)?
james: that McCain seriously proposed Palin as a VP candidate shows how flawed his judgment is. That people watched and listened to Palin on the campaign trail, and said "ah yes, here is someone who is completely ready to be President at a moment's notice, I shall vote for them" defies credulity.
I agree with Seeking Sanity: one does have to question their IQ.
SeekingSanity (1.25) -- you are the gift that keeps on giving.
you said -- all the intelligent women have left the GOP!
really, no intelligent women in the GOP, none nary a one??
check out these folks and then decide how valid your preposterous statement is:
Janice Rogers Brown (born May 11, 1949) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She previously was an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, holding that post from May 2, 1996 until her appointment to the D.C. Circuit. President George W. Bush nominated her to her current position in 2003. However, her nomination was stalled in the U.S. Senate for almost two years because of Democratic opposition. (Democrats obstructed, go figure)
Condoleezza Rice ( /ˌkɒndəˈliːzə/; born November 14, 1954) is an American political scientist and diplomat. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and was the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush. Rice was the first female African-American secretary of state, as well as the second African American (after Colin Powell), and the second woman (after Madeleine Albright).
Alveda Celeste King (born January 22, 1951) is an American Christian minister, conservative, pro-life activist, and author. She is a niece of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and daughter of the late civil rights activist Rev. A. D. William King, Sr. and his wife Naomi Barber King. She is the full-time Pastoral Associate of African-American Outreach for the Roman Catholic pro-life group, Priests for Life.
Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay
Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard CEO
Plenty more. Now you may not agree with them but to just call them unintelligent is just plain wrong. Think before you spout.
Hell, even Nicole Wallace admitted she couldn't vote for him & the village idiot!
new (1.29) really? Because you do not agree with someone you feel empowered to challenge their IQ or intelligence? No one in the GOP is intelligent? You really believe that?
james: when the evidence is present that Palin should be a beauty school dropout, not a serious contender for the VP, I can say without equivocation that I question her supporters intelligence and perspicacity.
Dont_carry_it_all -- Thanks. I know Teabaggers who shop almost exlusively at Walmart, and have asked what happend to "Made in the America?" The reply was screw everyone, it's all about me, Me, ME. That pretty much sums it up for Teabaggers. They can't see what slave labor and Chinese goods are doing to the global economy and jobs here in the US, or worse, they don't care. But A.L.E.C. needs to be exposed and shut down ASAP.
james-1937467 -- Yes, if after those 59,934,814 Americans watch Game Change about McCain/Palin and still don't feel "senseless, stupid, insane, crazy, foolish" there's no helping these people. And we know those facts about the 2008 campaign because insiders defected due to complete disgust.
Now, what do we still hear from the low-information voters in the Teapublican Party? Anybody but Obama -- really, seriously?
james-1937467 -- We know you're reaching when you have to mention Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina--who was ousted by HP, but as with men in the GOP/TP like Herman Cain who somehow rose to a high level in a company, or Rick Perry who somehow has remained governor for 10 years only reinforces my lack of faith in mankind that such idiots are promoted while so many far-more talented people are not. And to top it all off, Teapublicans have the audacity to talk about "exceptionalism."
Exceptionalism, the American Dream, and all the values (including family and moral values) that we hold dear are exemplified by President Obama.
True,
So you are saying that Carly Fiorina was ousted because she was a woman? And with family that Obama has (undocumented aunt and uncle), I"m sure that is the high level of family values we all aspire to attain.
And so nice that you dismiss achievements made by Cain and Perry as "somehow". Have you once thought that they attained those successes in life based on hard work and being intelligent?
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JK1969- I can say without hesitation that there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Rick Perry has NEVER attained anything in life because of his intelligence.
And, as someone who has worked for large and medium-sized corporations for many years, I can say with certainty that Herman Cain undoubtedly made it to CEO through politics and back-stabbing, stepping on the backs of others on his way up the corporate ladder. Hard work and intellligence had very little to do with reaching that level.
So. Within 48 hours President Obama addresses women's issues. Walker repeals the Equal Pay Enforcement Act (2009), and RNC Priebus says the "war on women" is a fiction and then compares it to "caterpillars in a canyon."
?!
Maybe it is time to form Caterpillars Unite!
Romney is either planning to do away with Planned Parenthood, as he clearly stated, or he's pandering to the misogynists again. Either way, he plainly does not support women's rights.
His most recent waffle occurred when asked if he thought women should be admitted to the Augusta National Golf Club:
"Certainly if I were a member, if I could run Augusta, which isn't likely to happen, of course I'd have women into Augusta."
Grow a set, Mittens. How hard would it be to take an unequivocal stand for women--just once?? How much political capital would it cost? The answer, of course, is that his GOP base doesn't want women to have equal rights, so he won't take a stand against them, not even if it's the right thing to do for over half the population of this country.
Fifty-two percent of American voters are women, and most of us happen to be sharp enough to know when we're being f---ed over. We will go to the polls in November, and no matter our party affiliation, we will re-elect the man who supports us.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Good Morning True Patriot -- I hear you. We must care and pay attention. A.L.E.C is an egregious affront to much.
Have a wonderful Easter!
With A.L.E.C. being uncovered for the slime they truly are, what will be interesting to know is how they will reorganize. While companies may leave or the group may be disbanded, their ideologies will not change.
Fiesty You DO NOT speak for me. This woman thinks with more than her hormones. I am actually insulted by people like you. You put us back 20 years everytime you open your mouth.
True: 1.34 well said but I will say this. The teapublicans don't care if the slave labor is ruining the economy. As you said, they are all about ME ME ME!(and the H**L with you!) Such a good Christian value, you know!.
Equal pay for equal work is anethma to GOP'ers even if it affects them.
Micheal,
GOD must be PISSED OFF with You,
You know what ! "SHE" will come down this November in Great Number.
A pious priest and a young victim. Some Catholics may find what i says, more offensive than the covering-up of the criminal behavior of their church's employees. And the reference to our taxes supporting these corrupt institutions relates to the US court's recent approval of tax funding of these criminal operations. It could also be seen as a reference to Ireland's history of tax support for the pleasures of the priesthood.
I felt that evangelical Christianity had been "HIJACKED" politically by GOP.When did it become anti-feminist? When did evangelical Christianity become Anti-Gay? When did it become supportive of Capital Punishment? Pro-war? Pro-Killing.?Religion Hatred?Race Hatred? When did evangelical Christianity become so negative towards other religious groups?
But,I did not want to be seen as prejudice,I do believe,
There are a also group of evangelicals who would say, "Wait a minute. We're evangelicals but we want to respect other religions. We don't want to call its prophet evil. We don't want to call the religion evil. We believe that we have got to learn to live in the same world with our brothers and sisters and we want to be friends. We do not want to be in some kind of a holy war."
So left with rare and fews.
Occasionally, though, we are stunned, sometimes traumatized, when people we have known for many years, and for whom we have entertained the highest regard, do outrageous things that seem so terribly out of character for them. What has happened? We thumb through the pages of our minds trying to make sense of seemingly senseless deeds.
@Michael1969 - small weenie, huh?
JK1963-- Wow, it's not about anything other than merit and qualifications for the highest office in the nation, and world for that matter. You mentioned Condi Rice, and I would add Sandra Day O'Conner, heck even Geraldine Ferraro, because it's not about Party either--well it used to not be about Party.
The problem with the GOP/TP is going so far to the Right with such a narrow "purity" test that there are no credible Teapublicans to run for office, let alone in the current "leadership." Herman Cain (or Allen West) will not attract the black vote, or Marco Rubio the Latino vote, or Michele Bachmann the women's vote. Why? Because these individuals are, to quote Sen. Grassley, "stupid!"
Candy-2333348-- Thank you for mentioning the most recent Scott Walker mind-bending legislative act of rejecting equal pay for women. This guy is not only up for recall, but is under investigation -- Like Blogo, he apparently is clueless (or "stupid") as well -- power corrupts.
kaybeetoys-- Thank you for restating some of the Teapublican attacks against women as well that Romney is "stupidly" embracing. Planned Parenthood in particular makes no sense--it is a myth like the "welfare queen" and is a battle the GOP/TP wages that is a waste if they want to win the war. Planned Parenthood does less than 1% of abortions, and these are only per Roe v Wade and the Hyde Amendment (i.e., no tax dollars used) and only for very poor women who suffer incest more than the rest of the population (think of the movie Precious).
Just this week the GOP/TP passed more anti-abortion laws (rape/incest no longer an exception), regulated abortion clinics out of existence, e.g., building code BS, and Scott Walker rejected equal pay legislation. People keep telling these "stupid" Teapublicans that if they don't want to be accused of a War on Women, then stop it!
Mike from AZ,
I too have worked for very large corporations and I believe you are mistaken in your belief that it is all about back stabbing and stepping on people. But the exact same set of assumptions you make about CEO's can equally be applied to the office of the President as well, no?
Didn't Dubya lose almost as many jobs in a month towards the end of his presidency? For several consecutive months?
Just saying. Get your head out of your collective a$$es RNC.
Find one month at 740K in the months of and after Bush.
Thanks for playing but you lose.
Unless Ali or someone messed up the quote about only "740,000 jobs lost since Obama took office", you are right.
As Roy pointed out the other day, the net number of jobs lost under Obama, according to, ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/suppl/empsit.ceseed1.txt, is ...
5,431,000 net lost jobs under Obama.
Repubs do have a point, that number contains a lot, literally millions of women.
I guess Obama thinks he can buy women off with free birth control though, huh? Who needs a job if you can get free contraceptives?
Obama actually talked about the inequity of womens' dry cleaning .... (instead of jobs, gas prices, price of groceries ....) ... dry cleaning is one of the policies / problems that got us into this mess - "the policies we can't go back to."
Sheesh .... this guy is pathetic.
And libs really think women are this stupid to be deflected by this nonsense?
bob - I hope they aren't...........again.
Talk to the hand,
My bad, 533,000 lost in the month of November 2008, largest number of US jobs lost in a single month since 1974. That is the closest i see. That is ONE MONTH. 1.3 million jobs in the last three months of 2008. Yep Dubya sat in the Oval Office. Sorry i got the numbers wrong, but the numbers also don't lie.
Oh and i said "ALMOST".
Look at the article. It is about President Obama's support for women. Now I see some trying to deflect the conversation because the discussion about women must be uncomfortable for them because they know they're losing on that issue.
5,431,000 net lost jobs under Obama.
Bryan, you need to go back to Obama butt boy school.
Lesson 1 - don't talk about unemployment.
Lesson 2 Talk about Bush, Tea Party, Big Oil, Wallstreet, 1%ers.
Lesson 3 - when faced with facts by anyone call them racist.
Always remember when the going gets tough to get over to Media Matters for some fresh talking points.
9,000,000 job deficit left by President Bush 43 for America to deal with.
baldeagle11 -- You are very astute.
For all those who keep whining about spending cuts and job losses, keep this in mind. Every spending cut results in lost jobs. The monthly jobs figures are net jobs. That means the private sector job gains less the public sector job losses. It will not be possible to make the huge spending cuts you keep asking for without huge job losses.
Bob,
Take this to the bank. Any statistics you garner from Roy vary between flat out internet lies to so badly skewed as to be meaningless. George Bush in 8 years had a net loss of private jobs of 673,000 the 1st time in economic history a president has had an eight year net loss in private jobs. Government jobs grew by 2.25 million as opposed to budget cuts costing costing 357,000 jobs under Obama. After hitting the job trough in 2010 the Obama Administration has seen 4,770,000 unadjusted jobs created for a net job creation of 953,000.
jkh
thanks Jim. I'd like to read more.
Would you be kind enough to point me to your source(s)
Like to see those sources myself. C'mon Jim, you can do it.
I find it hilarious that the conservative commentors on here are just pushing the talking point that the GOP spokes person was pushing. Do any republicans actually think for themselves? If the GOP didn't put out their talking point memo, these hacks would just have to comment off the most recent one. You ever wonder why many GOP posters are off topic, they didn't get the most recent talking point memo. What a bunch of baffoons!
NOBODY MOVE!
Job losses under Obama are often based off of a flawed set of data. Obviously if you count the first few months of his presidency, his job record doesn't look so great. However, if you start with his first fiscal year, which started in September 2009 (and that's when stimulus money started being appropriated), then he has a net jobs gain (zfacts.com/node/338).
So yes, technically Obama does have a net jobs loss, but that's only if you count his first few months in office, before stimulus money was spent. As for Bush, if you look at the same chart I just showed, you'll see that January 2009 had over 800,000 jobs lost.
BS there was never a month of 750K or 800K job losses. You libs gotta get some new talking points. Facts just don't substantiate your nonsense/
Interesting statement. How do you account for 755k job loss between 11/12-2008; 750k between 12-2008 and 1-2009; 811k between 1/2-2009.
Oh no!
don't confuse RNC/TEA taking points with FACTS!
Heads will explode!
Cite your source please. Any source I have found makes no such claim, unless you include two months and at that you would be understating.
Talk,
2008: Oct = -489,000; Nov = -803,000; Dec = -661,000
2009: Jan = -818,000; Feb = -724,000; Mar = -799,000; Apr = -692,000
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net_1mth
See the chart near bottom
And actually if you kool-aid drinking morons would take a look, it was a certainty that a dem was to win the white house in the 2008 elections. Business and real Americans knew what that meant and battened down the hatches not being confident in a Democrat controlled Congress and White House. Since, they have gotten tired and learned to work around it hoping that 2012 will bring a new realization. Kind of like the 2010 election did. They knew that the ACA was going to pass with the majority since they HAD the majority. However, if you look at the vote tally, it wasn't a walk away vote.
Nice try Dennis. But that doesn't say anything about loss. Just how many jobs there were.
Talk,
Since you do not want to believe factual data even that the numbers for Friday’s job report match exactly what the chart shows for Mar 2012 (+120,000).
Then try this chart that show from 2008 to 2009 there were 6 million fewer people employed – an average of 500,000 jobs lost every month that year.
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/suppl/empsit.ceseeb1.txt
Dennis - you have more patience than I. Given the snippy, pertinent posts from Hand, I would have told he/she/it to go find the source. Of course, as we now see, doesn't matter how many links you provide he/she/it, they are no good.
Hey Dennis and your followers, did you note that between Dec. of 2011 and Jan. of 2012 there were 120,000 less jobs available in the US therefore the "humongous" drop in the UE rate? And with 120K jobs gained, what is the deal with the 300K plus numbers for weekly "first time" UE claims. Kind of negates the "increase numbers doesn't it???
And Red - your microwave in the basement just beeped at you. Get your nachos.
It's called the participation rate.
Hand - if you are going to sit there and piss and moan about the labor statistics provided by the BLS website, take your prowess skill sets as a statistician and economist and make your case to the board as to why they should follow your economic models vs. the models developed by the true professionals.
Also - to correct my earlier typo in 2.23, I typed pissy, pertinent, I meant pissy, impertinent.
Talk,
Unbelievers will always be unbelievers regardless of the evidence and facts.
You have more bliss than any person posting here recently.
So no reasonable response. okay.
Talk,
My response was as reasonable as your changing topics and you total inability to provide any citation to either prove your point or disprove mine.
Oh yes President Obama speaks for women not. He speaks to get elected and he uses the contraceptive issue to divide us. Interesting fact Planned Parenhood on the Texas Gulf Coast is under investigation for fraud to the tune of $5 million. State law doesn't let the government of Texas fund anyone they are investigating for fraud. I wonder why. What did the Obama adminstration do they pulled their share of the medicaid funds from the womans program because Texas woudn't fund an organization they were investigating for fraud. But the told everybody else that the state cut their funding. Bunch a liars.
Sorry boys and girls I was at Gulstream Park feeding some horses. The most comprehensive labor statistics are found at www.bis.gov for all employment statistics raw and seasonally adjusted. If you don't feel like culling through a nice currently updated synopsis can be found at mollysmiddleamerica.blogspot.com I don't often source with anything but US government economic stats but this is an accurate and continually updated source. I have checked their sourcing for accuracy several times and it has been spot on.
jkh
Guess Ann Romney will have to pick up the slack for her hubby on this one.
Oh, but wait, she no doubt feels the same way he does, must be really nice to be super rich!....Laws are for 'little people'....the middle class and working poor!
Being cynical, say something important to the discussion, please
If you listen to Romney you see a man who is the product of GOP policies since Ronald Reagan.
If you listen to President Barack Obama, you see a man who is the product of democratic policies over my lifetime.
Romney wants to get rid of Planned Parenthood and unions. Romney is against gays serving in the military. Romney believes The Dream Act is a hand out. Romney believes Russia is our enemy. Romney believed we should have sent OUR sons and daughters into Iraq to kill innocent Iraqi's. Romney believes that only the wealthy in our Nation deserve breaks. Romney hides his money. Mitt's PAC funded anti marriage gay group. Romney is a huge supporter of the Ryan plan.
The Maddow Blog/Steve Benen:
Romney is "very supportive" of a budget plan that ends Medicare's guaranteed benefit, takes health care coverage from millions, radically redistributes wealth in the wrong direction, slashes taxes on the very wealthy, and would "take food from poor children, make it harder for low-income students to get a college degree, and squeeze funding for research, education, and infrastructure."
It doesn't even help reduce the deficit, which is another issue Romney sometimes pretends to care about.
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Women are not an interest group. Neither are their children, their children's education or their children's health care. Period.
Pat--Boston MA--Wow, a die hard left wing liberal source's translation of what she would LOVE Romney to stand for to make her sainted O more re-electable!
WHAT an unbiased source.
Women ARE an interest group. We just aren't that easily PIGEONHOLED by politicos on EITHER side.
And for SURE our kids are an interest group, since the past two presidents BOTH are continuing to dump MASSIVE deficits on them to pay off 'down the line'.
Good post, as always, Pat.
MOmaid I like you am willing to put the cute little tykes who call me grandma first. I Can't face them 10 years from now and tell them we didn't have the guts to fix this problem. I just fear that if we keep printing money to pay bills that at some point the currency will have to be devalued. I've seen that happen in another country and it isn't pretty. Either we fix this problem or the laws of economics will fix it for us.
Um, Mo, you do know that the reason why we have huge deficits is because of conservative policies, right??? You do know that the Bush tax cuts (passed by a Republican Congress) are the number 2 driver of our deficit??? The first is the recession, which was caused by deregulation of the financial markets and trouble in the housing market (fault of predator lending and unregulated loan guarantees). And as far as I'm concerned, Ronald Reagan started the entire deregulatory spiral. Plus the growing economic inequality caused by trickle-down economics has really hurt the middle class, harming our recovery and increasing the deficit. Seems to me that the right wing is the cause of our problems. What say you????
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GOPer's have no credibility with woman who know they are equal under the constitution. Dean Heller, John Ensigns mini-me Nevada Senate replacement, has continued the Christian Brotherhood policy of screwing women. Dick supports the Blunt Amendment and then 3 days later is sitting on stage as part of a 'womens' conference. What a douchebag. Sharon Day, you can pick her out of the RNC crowd, she's the one with dirty knees, like Bachmann and Palin.
"she's the one with dirty knees, like Bachmann and Palin"
That's so wrong (tee hee), but true.
Palin must not have been good at it since her 'rising star' status has flamed/screeched out!
The NRC/John McCain should be ashamed!
Its not just women. The GOPers have no credibility with people of color, Hispanics, poor people, elderly people, young people, gays, trangenders etc., teachers and many more. The only real supporters are white anglosaxon male Fascist wannabes, religious extremists, and the 1%ers.
American-American--GOP'ers have no credibility with women? NEITHER do DEMS.
WOMEN know how to make a budget and keep it. Women know that Obama and the dems are doing EVERYTHING they can to saddle this country with 20 million illegals-made-legal, mostly poor, poorly educated, and non English speaking, to compete with our kids NOW in the schools for teacher attention/school money, in the future for jobs, and to be SUPPORTED by the 'entitlements' in the future, all in the name of gaining a few votes.
Women know that Obama talks out of one side of his mouth about women's reproductive rights, while signing them away in the HCB, and in his first Supreme court appointee.
There is VERY little to choose between pubs and dems in their CLAIMS to be for women's issues. MOST aren't. They are simply pandering to their base to get re-elected.
MOmaid - I love that, in your ignorance, you saddle Obama with things that have gone on in this country long before he became President. bush put the country into a financial tailspin; illegals were here LONG before Obama became President but he has had more ejected from the US than any other President; your concept of illegals shows your ignorance more than you can imagine. President Obama has made excellent choices for the Supreme Court and will make at least one more in his next term. Perhaps you might want to actually THINK before you post!
Actually on reproductive rights the RNC was totally down with providing abortions:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/12/rnc-insurance-plan-covers_n_356069.html
Remember?
MOMaid- I work in food manufacturing, one of the few manufacturing industries left in our country. You talk about "illegals" competing with your kids for jobs.
Let me tell you something, as someone with 20 years experience on the front lines: your kids (I'm speaking in general terms, not you specifically) don't want to work on an assembly line. They feel they deserve a promotion for showing up more than half the time for a month. They can't understand why it matters if they come to work or not. Nothing is ever their fault. They feel that their time is worth $20 an hour, even though they have no skills, no experience, and no drive to improve and learn.
On the other hand, immigrants (many of whom speak little or no English) show up to work every day. Are thrilled to have a steady paycheck with benefits. Work hard and seek to improve whenever possible. Accept responsiblity for their mistakes, don't buck when disciplined for cause. Understand the concept of starting at the bottom and working their way up.
I'm sorry. If your kids want to work, they need a serious attitude adjustment if they ever want to get away from the McDonald's drive-thru.
I know I'm equal under the law and I know the law isn't what makes me equal. I don't need the government to take care of me I've been an adult since Wisconsin gave me that bar card in 68. I've worked for 42 years and took care of myself the whole time no gevernment handouts untill I retired and I paid into this one that whole 42 years. Seeking sanity you can argue over whose fault it is until the whole thing crashes but that won't solve the problem. I no longer care whose fault it is. The whole entitlement problem started with the Great Society and both parties have bought into it since then. For the last 40 years they have been writing checks we couldn't cash and neither party has taken responsibility. I wil vote for whoever seems to have a plan that addresses the problem before our economy crashes completely. Obama has done what every other president in my lifetime has done appointed people to the Supreme Court who are of the same political leaning he is.
One would have to ask, then WHY are YOU collecting Social Security/Medicare and CASHING the checks while sucking off the EVIL Gubment tit?
Ahhh... too freakin funny! Sucking the entitlements dry on one hand and screaming about self-reliance on the other...
Well past time to put your checkbook where your mouth is... honey! ;o)
Well then, if you had even an inkling of a moral compass you would RETURN those 'demon' checks, since it goes against everything you are expounding! lmfao!
I don't think I've ever read a more hypocritical comment than yours... peaches...
Try commenting on whatever convictions you have next time & proof read what you write - you come across as a full blown idiot! ;o)
You're right - women like YOU embarrass the @!$%# out of me!
NO @!$%# Shirley! You really aren't too bright are ya! lol
“There's been a lot of talk about women and women's issues lately as there should be, but I do think the conversation's been oversimplified," Obama said.
Well, why should women's issues be any different than any others? The Republican candidates this year are oversimplifying EVERY conversation. "I know how to fix the economy". "I'll repeal ObamaCare". "I'll guarantee $2.50 a gallon gas". "I'll make sure Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon". "I've spent my entire career in the public sector". "Obama bad". "Me better".
What was that lovely oversimplification Romney spouted the other day? "This election will be about principle. Freedom and opportunity will be on the ballot.....I am offering a real choice and a new beginning. I am running for president because I have the experience and the vision to get us out of this mess."
Sounds great. Means nothing.
Thoreau once said "Simplify, simplify". The GOP says "Oversimplify, oversimplify - if people actually start thinking too much, we're up the creek".
Hello JoAnne, nicely put. Romney really doesn't put forth anything new or clever, does he? He's not someone you think of as a real leader with real clear vision for the 21st Century. He keeps looking back, instead of forward.
He's basically parroting what the Koch Bros./lobbyists and corporations want him to say. He has completely left out of the equation the 99% who are left.
So what does he do? He hands out free subs.
The whole freedom loving spouted by the TeaPeople, has absolutely no meaning. The only freedom they value is their own: their freedom to tell everybody to think, have the same 'values' and act like they do.
Free individual thinking in TeaPeople world is NOT allowed!
If one thinks too much, they start to second guess themselves and the original thought or idea gets buried in "what ifs" and is totally lost. I know. I have seen it over the years in businesses where I have worked. You think yourself right into the wrong assumptions and decisions.
Talk to the Hand - and if one doesn't think at all, they vote Republican!
**** waves to Pat ****
I'm not sure even Romney himself knows what his "vision" is any more, unless it's "I'm not Obama".
If President Obama said tomorrow that Mitt Romney would be a good president, Romney would immediately start that whole hyperventilating thing he always does and claim it wasn't true.
JoAnn--and just don't forget that in the LAST presidential election cycle, the punditry was "HOPE AND CHANGE".
To quote someone I usually have little but contempt for:
Hows that working out for you?
I'm female, 60, and have a gay son, and a child bearing age daughter, and my reply is, not so hot.
And I VOTED for Obama.
MOmaid - and you think things would have been better with McCain/Palin, who would have persecuted your son and absolutely trashed any rights your daughter has. And, you think Romney won't make BOTH their lives a living hell?? Get real!!
Momaid:
Don't your repubs advocate that it is your responsibility to improve your OWN lot in life? Why don't you do something about your life yourself? Why expect help from Obama? Pick yourself up by your own bootstraps honey!! Isn't that the Repub mantra?
I loooooooove the change Obama has brought to America. People that hate America like Republicans, yourself and Osama bin Laden,...........not so much.
Why not get Osama bin Laden's opinion? Oh. That's right. He's unavailable for comment.
Seeking Sanity - Keep looking. You aren't even close yet until you pull your head out.
You are truly a sheep, baaaaaaaaahhh.
JoAnne - The GOP is just taking into acount their audience. If they don't keep it simple theire constitutents may not be able to follow. Conservatives = good Liberals = Bad, is about all many of these jokers can comprehend.
Apparently MOmaid thought Obama was going to swoop in and solve all her problems for her. That and she also hasn't been paying attention to what the alternative to Obama is going to be. You think Obama is bad, just wait till you get a load of a President Romney. If you knew anything about American politics, you would know change doesn't happen overnight. If moving in the right direction is not good enough for you, well then you will never be satisfied. Get used to it.
D-Nice- especially with the totally obstructionist Congress Obama's had to deal with since we libs slept through the 2010 midterms.
With 2 wars in progress, an economy on the brink and the Teabaggers invasion of Washington, Obama really didn't have a lot of time for social issues.
I voted for Obama too last time not this time and in truth McCain and Palin wouldn't have been much different. The presidential ticket for the last 40 years has hardly made a blip on society or the economy.
MOmaid! Why did you feel it necessary to mention you have a gay son? Is that a problem for you? And your daughter is of child bearing age? Do you think Mittens is going to help her with contraception? Do you know now your son can serve openly in the military? How long do you think Mitt/GOPteabags will let that stand?
I don't understand unless you think both of your children are a problem to you. Sounds like you should talk to them instead of posting here. Just saying.....
Obama saying is for women is a huge joke! He stands for no one but himself and his agenda and will lie and bully anyone who stands in his way. Obviously some of you don't listen to what he says and watch what he does. They are two completely different things. He is a master of deception. Should have been impeached long ago! If he gets reelected you can kiss your free life goodbye. Ignorance cannot be used as an excuse for not knowing where he stands when he has been so in your face about it. He said he wants to change America as we know it and he has. Hatred among people is ramping up like we haven't seen since the civil rights movement. Who is to blame? Obama and the media are to blame. They jump on every civil issue and scream racism before they even know the facts. Moral issues should not be legislated! Moral issues are not civil rights issues! You cannot legislate God! You cannot legislate someones faith! There has been a lot in the media about racism towards the black community but no reporting on the facts that over 90% of all crimes are done by black men. Why is that? Can we say that when a black man attacks a white man that he is racist? Why not? Not all black people are bad and not all white people are bad. The color of your skin does not make you good or bad. Your character makes you good or bad. So lets put things in proper prospective and quit screaming racism and look at what can be done about uniting this country instead of ripping it apart!
grandmas rule - you clearly don't know how to comprehend what is said by President Obama and the GOP. The GOP has spewed so much hatred since Obama got elected. They just can't stop themselves and clearly you've just joined in. You're a pathetic example of why the GOP is losing voters each and every day. The party doing their best to tear this country apart is the GOP while our President works to bring the country together and continue to help the country recover from our last GOP President.
Thats a lie. from the president that was gonna unite with hope and change has created class warfare, escalated racism, monetary envy and now some made up "war on women" . He is such an idiot, and only a moron would listen to his garbage rhetoric. Divider in chief, bye bye!!!
russ - sorry, we leave the morons to run and be part of the GOP and clearly it's working. Prime example is you!
Obama/Biden 2012
hah, thats why the gop won the house and ALMOST the senate in 2010. Yeah, everybody else is stupid but you, right? lol!
Russ,
It was George W. Bush that promised to be the great “Uniter” not President Obama.
That didn’t work out very well for President Bush !!!
russ - wait until 11/12 when we take back the House and have a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. Poor Russ - you just truly don't get it!
Obama,
"I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America."
thetotas - and HE has worked to that end. Too bad the GOP announced they would do everything in their power to make sure he is a one-term President - then blocked everything he tried to do.
SeekingSanity,
Why don't you try writing something with some content and value instead of your ambiguous opinion that all of conservatives are idiots. I admit to being an idiot when I voted democratic and for Bill Clinton's first term. Never again will I be fooled by the phony left.
Comments like grandma's above really make you wonder what movie she has been watching these last 3 years? It certainly isn't the same one I've been watching. Kind of brings home how much of perception is in the eye of the beholder, doesn't it? There must be something to this whole quantum physics thing.
Heartlight3,
Amen. We certainly are not seeing and hearing what currently is happening in America the same as Ms. SeekingSanity.....Thank God and Happy Easter.
It's very clear what old grandma has been watching, Fox "news". It's really sad how the GOP spin machine prey on the fears of the elderly . If the GOP didn't have misinformation what would they run on? Accomplishments?? HAHAHA, that's a good one!
You believe everything Obama says? Then checkout youtube Obama vs Obama on healthcare. Funny when he was running against Clinton the Individual mandate was unconstitutional and now he says it is constitutional. Did I miss us passing an amendment in the last four years?
Actually the racial hatred I would lay at Eric Holder's feet of course his boss didn't censure him when he said that discrimination cannot happen to white people and that he would not allow HIS justice department to file any case where the victim of discrimination was white. The case that statement was made about is coming up before SCOTUS this session. And BTW when did it stop being OUR department of justice and become Holder's personal property.
Grandma: Let me guess! You live south of the Mason-Dixon line don't you? What trash talk. Are you on Medicare or Medicaid? Doesn't matter because if you get your wish, you'll get exactly whats coming to you. Another Grandma!
Uh, grandma, do you really think that the blame on political division in America lies solely with Obama and the media??? The media is certainly to blame, and yes, this division was fueled by Obama's election, but still. Much of the blame actually lies with the GOP. Take Mitch McConnell's number one goal-making Obama a one-term president. Or Donald Trump promoting the birther issue with Obama, even doubting the authenticity of his birth certificate. Or people denouncing Obama as a Kenyan, a Muslim, a socialist. Remember that??? And political division began not with Obama, but with the radical change in the GOP during the late 90s. Things got pretty heated after the Supreme Court prevented Florida from having a recount in 2000, which for all we know could have elected Gore. The O.J. Simpson trial, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Tea Party Revolution didn't do any good, either. Essentially, division in America has been simmering since the 90s, and political division burst after the 2000 election and the failure of the Bush administration. What say you???
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Women are half the population. The GOP ignores this.
The GOP's agenda ignores the concerns of women, and relegates them to baking cupcakes for fund raisers. They are to look good in CFM heels, and short skirts. Parlor skills are to be honed to accommodate males.
Mired in the past, there seems little that the GOP can bring to women.
I wonder what Jan Brewer's income is as compared to her male Repub counterparts in adjacent states? Does Jan bake cupcakes, or does she just point fingers?
You forgot the 'fishnets'... ;o)
Oh yeah Feisty,....."the ones with the lines running up the back of the stocking....."
LOL Bwahahaha
If I told my ex-Republican wife to get me a beer she'd jam the whole six pack where the sun don't shine.
Repub women,... however,...know their place.
Feisty: love your comments. Don't forget the poof hair styles!
Gilboagirl
And fake eyelashes! lol
You keep on commenting & I will keep on reading what you have to say(and voting for your posts) ☺
Really good points JoAnne, I couldn't agree more. Great Post !!
Thanks, myvote - great avatar!
***** CATS FOR OBAMA - 28 MORE YEARS!!!!! *****
Love the avatar, myvote!
My cat is still proudly wearing her "Cats for Obama" collar (except we told her it is a necklace because why would a cat wear a collar as if she were a ......pet?). It is a lovely blue to match her eyes.
Steeler: Word of caution... Never, never say cat and pet in the same sentence!
You'll thank me later! Shhhhh.
Obama the great divider only helps himself. Obama is an empty suit.
Big Jim - and your post shows you are any empty head.
Jim, see post 7.16 on division in America.
And if you thinking that Obama is trying to pit the middle class against the wealthy, you're about 30 years too late. Thanks to trickle-down economics, the rich have been getting richer while the rest of America is barely scraping by. Thanks to deregulation and tax cuts to the "holy job creators," the top 1% control over 40% of the income in America and the top fifth of Americans control a whopping 93% of the income. How's that working for the people at the bottom??? Where are the jobs the "job creators" were supposed to give us???? Seems to me that the middle and lower classes got conned by conservatives. What say you???
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Why? About 3/4 of all the jobs lost have been by men.
Why sould the tax payer be made to pay for PP or Medicaid/Medicare? Baby boomers drove this nation into debt while legislating business into extinction...so why the f*** should we care now? Isn`t 16 trillion enough already?
If there is a Romney/Raya Paul tiket they have my vote.
I am not a woman, but even I know that what you're being insane. For one thing, programs like Medicare have greatly reduced poverty among seniors. So unless you want to work until you die or see poor people begging in the streets like it's 1935. Without those programs, 50 million Americans would be forced to work or rely on retirement funds that could easily go south when the stock market does. And remember that age discrimination still pervades in our society.
As for Planned Parenthood, the organization goes to help women plan families, have medical operations, and lobbies for sex education, which I think should be talked about in schools. It is also part of an international organization to help give women affordable healthcare. And Title X USED to have bipartisan support, to both give women healthcare services and keep people off welfare.
And if we shouldn't pay for Planned Parenthood, then why should we be giving trillions in unneeded tax cuts, especially for the wealthy??? According to the CBO, repealing the Bush tax cuts and keeping in place the scheduled cuts would lower debt to GDP substantially. And did you also know that both Romney and Ryan plan to cut benefits for the poor while giving billions in tax cuts to the wealthy??? Romney plans to increase taxes on people who make $40,000 or less, while Ryan wants to privatize Medicare and throw education to the curb. What say you???
OBAMA BIDEN 2012
Women and Independents will elect the next President. It won't be a GOPer either. The party of old white guys simply doesn't get it. This is 2012 not 1950. We will not be treated as such.
Yeah, liberal hollywood, that has women drinking donkey semen. real empowering. But thats the liberals. "freeing" women. hahaha
Pure nonsense!
Yup. Just like Gary Sinise, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jon Voight, Fred Thompson, Victoria Jackson, .......
Take another run at it Russ. hahahahaha
This woman independent isn't voting for Obama. Better not count your chickens yet girl.
lone your moniker kinda tells it all....
OH My!
That old broad has nothing left so she resorts to empty threats & SINGLE vote?
True independents think otherwise...
Honey - WTF cares about you & your miserable being?
you do realize that only 35% of the Independent voters support Obama in 2012!!! the Independents got him elected in 2008. these same Independents will see to it that Obama loses in 2012. You will not get elected President or for Congress unless you carry the Independent vote.
Obama is gone...........PERIOD
Russ,
Sorry but most polls disagree with your comment. Can you site any polls to support your statement?
Gallup (Apr 02, 2012):
Obama – Romney
Rep = 13% - 84%
Dem = 87% - 12%
Ind = 48% - 40%
All = 49% - 45%
http://www.gallup.com/poll/153668/Obama-Romney-Among-Registered-Voters-Nationwide.aspx
The liberal make pretend war on women to distract from Baracalypse and his socialist agenda. how rediculous! This divider in chief is done! Bye Bye Baracalypse! Maybe the golf course you play on shoulda had women, like Romney said! This prez is A BAD JOKE! O ne B ig A ss M istake A merica!
www.commieblaster.com hundreds of examples of our communist in chief
russ - do you realize how totally moronic you look when you do the "communist" stupidity? You have nothing going in the GOP so to try to deflect from that you attack a very good President. Aren't you just horribly embarrassed to be you????
russ - just totally proved my point!
Socialist republican policies are well-documented. They privatize profit, but socialize risk.
Romney was referring to cutting government funding for Planned Parenthood, not shutting down the program entirely.
Yeah, like women that want abortions should pay for it themselves instead of a govt funded genocide. Liberals. Empowering and paying your children to destroy your grandchildren, one child at a time. The liberal legacy. Women should have a choice. We shouldnt have to pay for it.
russ - but men can be Fathers then walk away? No one tries to tell a man what he can do. Why do you think you have the right to rule a woman. And, a fetus is not a child. Oh but that's right. You want the children born then to hell with them. Not a penny to help provide for them - that's all the woman's fault. You are a pathetic excuse for a human being - kinda like the whole GOP!
Ah, now it makes perfect sense - you want your women barefoot and pregnant! Smart!
When you give birth, then you can complain about birth control - in the meantime, if you don't like abortion, don't have one.
russ, it is illegal for the government to fund abortions. Women do pay for it themselves, or if they can't afford it, they don't get one and sometimes end up on welfare/WIC/foodstamps, which you conservatives hate.
In the State of Texas PP is under investigation for fraud to the tune of 5 million dollars in the Houston area. Since the state is not allowed to fund any organization they are investigating ( I wonder why) the federal government pulled their funds about 40% from the program beacause the state wouldn't fund PP and then said the state cut the women's health program by 40%. That is the kind of lies we are catching this administration in all the time. Seeking sanity any man who fathers a child inTexas and walks away will keep walking because after the Attorney Generals office runs the DNA test and proves it unless he pays up he won't be able to get ANY licence from the state including any business licence or Drivers licence.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Thursday that it will cut off all Medicaid funding for family planning to the state of Texas, following Gov. Rick Perry's (R) decision to implement a new law that excludes Planned Parenthood from the state's Medicaid Women's Health Program.
Cindy Mann, director of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations (CMSO), wrote Texas health officials a letter on Thursday explaining that the state broke federal Medicaid rules by discriminating against qualified family planning providers and thus would be losing the entire program, which provides cancer screenings, contraceptives and basic health care to 130,000 low-income women each year.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/15/texas-loses-entire-womens_n_1349431.html
NOTE: NEW LAW
This is politics at it's WORST. President Obama is out of touch with what women are really concerned about these days. Most of the women I know are more concerned about the economy than whether Planned Parenthood is getting our tax dollars. Most of the women I know are more concerned about getting a job after being laid-off, and their families being feed, and paying the mortgage. Trivializing what women are concerned about by the President, is patronizing to women. This issue about PP is a smoke screen in an attempt to hide the more pressing problems like the 17 million unemployed people in this country and the possibility of Israel or Iran nuking the world. And please, Mr. President, stop with the distractions and get going on our economy, women can afford to get healthcare, if they have good paying jobs.
Quick question, russ. If you don't like federal funding for Planned Parenthood (which is an alternative to welfare for women), then do you like giving billions of dollars in subsidies and tax breaks to hedge fund managers, bankers, CEOs, and corporations that outsource jobs????? I am not a woman, and I am probably not a feminist, but even I recognize that Planned Parenthood helps women (and men, to a lesser degree) plan out their families, gives them medical examinations and treatments, and counseling, and is a big help to lower income families. PP gets less than $500 million in federal funding, or approximately 0.00013% of federal funding. Why go after the small stuff when you can tackle things like defense, the tax code, and wasteful subsidies and entitlements????
And GranCanyon, while I know that people tend to care more about the economy, especially women. I think everyone can agree that women don't always worry more about contraception then the economy and jobs. But if you take away a woman's right to reproductive privacy, or force her doctor to send a probe up her private parts, or make contraception harder to get or even illegal, they'll come after you. It's the same with gun-toting NRA members; touch their guns, and they'll fight you. Women are focused on the economy, but they are also pretty determined to maintain some reproductive mobility.
And compared to the GOP and its recent attacks on women's reproductive rights, I'd say Obama is pretty much in touch with women. Not entirely, but more than his rivals on the right.
OBAMA BIDEN 2012
What kind of leader never has anything good to say? An idiot. Who would follow such a negative loser?
russ - I don't know any leader who doesn't have anything good to say. I don't consider Romney or Santorum leaders. President Obama is constantly talking about positives and then leading the same way.
You tell us then we'll both know.
Damn,...how does this "Russ" kid dress himself in the morning?
GOPisextinct - I really HOPE his Mom helps him otherwise who knows what he looks like?????
seeking -- at least you got the constantly talking part right. 60% (according to RCP) still believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. so President Obama is leading which way?
@Russ -
I'm blocking you as you're just to stupid to spend time reading.
Suzq - best thing is that ignore button...sometimes some people just get stuck on stupid...as I say the GNOP can't accept facts. THEY CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
Obama speaking at a typically-politicized, interest-group- pandering liberal conference specifically dedicated to "women" :
"Women are not an interest group. You shouldn't be treated that way."
Now we have heard it all from the President!
The President of the Democratic Party! ...The Party of Government, whose goals are to pay off favored 'interest groups' with taxpayer loot. That is all they do.
They treat everyone that way; as an interest group, not as an individual.
Republicans allow Wall Street and Big Business to set the rules. Enough said.
Like the sausage fest on "Women's Health Issues" held by the Republican Congressional Committee? Women were clamoring to be heard, and only old, white, religious figures were allowed to "testify"?
Yeah, Bob, that wasn't politicized or pandering at all.
Wow.
Well said Mike. You get it. Thanks for the support friend.
Thank you, Mr. President for standing up with and for women. The Republicans just don't get it.
The GOP stands only for white males,everyone else is a second class citizen according to them. Women in the GOPs eyes should be Stepford wives,smiling as they get hubbys slippers and pipe! Now make sure you have daddys dinner on the table promptly! Remember no birth control for you dear! Submit to hubby as he demands! He wears the pants in the family woman!
Rush Limpbaugh the GOPs spokesman is without a doubt the number one woman hater in America! Any woman who's a Dittohead is braindead! You betcha!
Agree with Limbaugh being the spokesman. And any woman Ditto head....But I disagree with him being the #1 woman hater. There are thousands vying for that position. They just don't have the mic.
Rush Limbaugh is not the GOP's spokesman.
Not officially, but he seems to be their down-to-earth spokesmen. He translates the GOP's rhetoric into vernacular. For example: when the GOP said that Obama's contraception plan violated religious freedom, he stated that "the taxpayer is funding contraception," which we all know is a crock.
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Rightwingers want more babies born,but once they're born they're 100% on their own! A true fact is that most abortions are because a fetus is severely deformed and most would be living vegetables. And the Rightwingers would NEVER adopt or help out these severely deformed children. EVER! And Rightwinger males have NO business in regulating a woman's body EVER! no one died and made you God! Too bad Rightwing males do NOT respect women! FACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tony: rightly said; and don't forget they want to close any facility that can accomodate these poor souls. Must not run up the deficit!
What makes you a spokesman for the right wing? Do you claim to be one of them?
I have read thousands of comments and the one's that badmouth like say fox news or teabaggers as they call them...rush limbaugh ..gop..etc...they all have one thing in common...they all want to use cuss words or harsh words and just call them names....no rational arguments..just scumbag this or that ....AND all of them misspell alot of words....now the only thing i can conclude is they are so uneducated and were programmed by school and msnbc...cbs...abc...that they are permanant zombies that would follow their leaders litterally off a cliff....no different than suicide bombers or jim jones people....The obama administration addmited on tv that the only people they can hope to have vote for them was the uneducated {stupid} that means you.
theQ54 - then clearly you should read all the posts and not single out the ones you agree with. Should you do that, you would find those posts calling Democrats and Liberals names as well as our President. And, I see you are resorting to name calling too. So, dear, let me call it as I see it. You are not only ignorant but hypocritical, moronic and not able to post well, as you totally contradict yourself. But, I certainly expect nothing more from a right wing - do as I say, not as I do - buffoon!
theQ54 is a darn liar that doesn't know what he/she is talking about.
Garbage in garbage out coming from this low information Republican.
theQ54-
the one's that...
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Thanks for pointing out that we liberals are uneducated and misspell a lot of words! How's that home schooling working out for you?
The headline on this story should read as follows: Obama brings fight for women's vote to forefront.
What a bunch of crap. Wait until a few months before reelection and then tell everyone THAT VOTES, what you can do for them. He can't run on hope and change, that was a bunch of crap, he can't run on his record, unless you are pleased with another 5 trillion of debt. saddled on the taxpayers backs. .... and Obama care, which is a disaster. So what does he do now? Divide and conquer. Create hate between neighbors and promise potential Obama voters, anything they want. What a leader!
Dave D,
[unless you are pleased with another 5 trillion of debt]
Well the Ryan budget, which Romney and most Republicans have adopted, does not balance the budget until 2040 so over the next 27 years we will continue to borrow money – estimated to be at least 6 trillion dollars.
Dave and his team Republicans are the ones that create hate between neighbors and promise potential Romney voters anything they want. What a loser!
Dennis, Job -- Then why do the Senate democrats choose not to present their own budget. Surely they can find 51 from their party to vote and pass it. Are they afraid of the House Republicans negotiating skills?
james,
I have written about this a couple times but no the Dems cannot produce a budget in the Senate that 51 Dems would vote for – I doubt they could get as many as 47 votes. This is also true of the Republicans in the Senate … they have not even tried to write a budget either.
So I have to wonder, knowing this, why the House (Ryan) doesn’t write a budget that just might get a vote and even pass since they only need 4 Dems to vote for it.
Well that rise in employment will drop off before election day unless the senate gets off its butt because the 90 day extension of the highway bill will run out at the end of June and if the senate doesn't pass a budget the repubicans will only give them another 90 days so then the second extension will run out at the end of September. Of course if the democratic senate would folow the constitution and pass a budget then we wouldn't have to go through this every three months.
[Of course if the democratic senate would folow the constitution and pass a budget]
And just what is the punishment for the Senate if they fail to follow the Constitution??
Dave D - another of the "deny who is truly creating the division and hate" right wingers posting. You lie! Plain and simple.
I will respond to each of you three Far Left doorknobs.
Dennis, the Ryan plan attempts to recover the waste that your worshiped leader has created by throwing the last 1.5 trillion into the wind and hoping it would magically bring jobs. It hasn't
Job1, your worshiped leader promised to bring everyone together, if elected. The Country is more divided, by far, than it has ever been.
Seeking Sanity, Democrat's have created a welfare system, in the U.S. that has crippled us. It is not a program to put people back on their feet and back to work. It is a program that creates and foster's failure. You know it and the long term individual's on welfare and relief, know it. It is not a program to be proud of, but astonishingly, you are. You brag about it all the time.
Enough said. Have a happy Easter, if my saying have a happy Easter, doesn't offend you.
Looks like Dave D has bought the GOP message hook line and sinker. If I didn't know better I would think Hannity posted that nonsense. Are all GOP posters just third rate Fox "news" anchor knock offs? Kinda seems that way.
Dave D- President Clinton had a very successful Welfare to Work program in place until Gingrich and his cronies disassembled it while persecuting the President for getting a b*^%job at work.
You do realize that the money Obama spent on the economy (the stimulus), which cost only $800 billion, created over 500,000 permanent jobs and anywhere between 1.5 to 2.5 million in temporary jobs. It reversed the loss of jobs and the recession itself. Ask any economist.
And the Ryan plan doesn't account for 50% of the fiscal problem; revenues. It assumes that revenues will go back to 19% because of "dynamic economic growth" and in fact cuts taxes by $2 trillion. Why cut $5 trillion in spending and then blow $2 trillion in tax cuts that are proven to not work??? It also privatizes Medicare and forces seniors to pay the bulk of the costs while cutting funding for social services and safety nets. @!$%# the Ryan budget; it's right-wing social engineering at its worst. It's the path to decline and destruction. I know we have a crisis, but that doesn't mean we have to rush into austerity. We need cut spending in areas like defense and reform entitlements (not privatize) while spending more and reforming things like education, infrastructure, and R&D.
OBAMA BIDEN 2012