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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Appearing in swing state North Carolina, Vice President Joe Biden blasted congressional Republicans Wednesday for obstructing the president's attempts to jump-start job creation, promising the administration will use all constitutional tactics to bypass the gridlock.
"We will use every power that is legally under our constitutional capacity to act when the Congress will not," Biden told a supportive crowd of about 600 at Wake Forest BioTech Place in Winston-Salem. "But understand our Republican friends in Congress are just as determined to not act."
Carolyn Kaster / AP
Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a roundtable with college presidents and education system leaders June 5 in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington.
Saying that job gains so far still are "not enough," the vice president urged cooperation and continued "fighting" to correct the country's financial troubles.
"Not enough, not enough, not enough," he said of the nation's economic progress since the 2008 downturn. "And it's up and it's down, but it's been constantly forward. But not enough. We have to do more, we have to keep fighting through this period of transition and this godawful recession we inherited.
Ryan Williams, a spokesman for Mitt Romney, said Biden's speech "will do nothing to lower the state’s 9.4 percent unemployment rate, encourage small business growth, or help companies add to their payrolls."
Biden skewered congressional Republicans for obstructing what he called "bipartisan" and reasonable measures to spur jobs, naming items on the president's congressional "to-do list" such as the creation of a veterans job corps, mortgage refinancing assistance for some homeowners, and incentives to keep companies from going abroad.
On last year's Capitol Hill fight over payroll tax cuts, Biden invoked his upbringing and "neighborhood" to suggest that most Republicans don't relate to the impact the thousand dollar cash infusion would have had on average American families.
"A lot of these guys don't know that a thousand dollars makes a difference," said the Pennsylvania native. "It makes the difference between whether or not you pay your automobile insurance that year. It makes a difference what you're going to eat and how often you have meat on the menu. A thousand bucks makes a difference in my neighborhood."
Even worse than GOP obstruction, he said, would be the other party's vision for the country as laid out by Rep. Paul Ryan, whom Biden called "a bright, handsome guy" whose budget would have "a devastating impact on America."
"He is a fine guy but I think his ideas are not nearly as fine as he is a man," he said
The vice president's appearance in swing state North Carolina marked a visit to one of the most heavily trafficked political battlegrounds in the state. NBC's most recent analysis found the Greensboro-High Point area is the seventh most saturated media market in the country for political ads.
The venue for his remarks was a 242,000 square foot research center which houses several companies — with its largest tenant being Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center — and employs approximately 450 people.
The Winston-Salem area has suffered major job losses as a result of the declining manufacturing and textile industries in the region. But Biden pointed to the area's new focus on biotechnology and other types of innovation as an example of how Americans are re-imagining manufacturing in the modern era.
"What I can tell you about America is this: there is a deep deep strength in this country," he said. "No matter how tough things get, there is no quit in this country."
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Essentially what we have here is; Congress taking the next five months off while collecting full pay & benefits, while the economy struggles...
Have you had enough of these tea baggers & their antics yet?
Nice...real...nice!
It's really too bad the Dem hot air doesn't create jobs and get the economy growing.
If it did, we'd be seeing 500,000 new jobs a month and GDP growing at 10%.
4.3 million jobs created over the last 27 months. And at a much faster clip than the last Administration.
Data shows jobs created, surpass jobs lost under President Obama.
Manufacturing is growing for the first time since the 1990's.
Auto industry is back on top. (Romney wanted to let it die.)
Republican governors chopped 600,000 public sector jobs. Previous Presidents have increased government workers following a recession. Reagan increased teacher jobs following a recession.
Our unemployment figures would be at 7.2% if they had not knowingly done that. When Bush left office, the unemployment figure was 7.8%. Now 8.2%.
There are 1.4 million less jobs in the economy since BHO was inaugurated. CNN reports 86 million people who need to work, are no longer looking. State budgets are cut due to lack of revenue.
Biden -- "We will use every power that is legally under our constitutional capacity to act when the Congress will not,"
Here we go again, just more meaningless words.... A change in the wind tomorrow will result in some new topic and this will be dropped like yesterday's garbage.
I think that its time the Dem's get some backbone, and it has to start at the top. You don't think that the republicans are just falling into good timese here, do you folks? They have a plan.... and until the Dem's can counter with a better one, you will see them drop like flies. And I mean a plan that gets people going, something they can get behind, unlike the birth control or gay marraige tangents!
And in the Weepers House, Feisty, they have only been in session 41 out of the first 127 days of this year!
Full time pay and benefits for part-time work!......
To rightwingers in FR -- I'm not interested in talking point BS. Let's hear about all the great ideas Teapublicans have to create jobs. What are the details of all the supposed jobs bills they have submitted? WHAT? *crickets*
Come on, the GOP/TP plan to create jobs is the same old failed ideas of the past -- More tax cuts (especially for the rich, of course), more deregulation (Wall Street and pollution gone wild), more spending on defense (and perhaps more war?). So we should go back to doing the same things that got us into this mess in the first place, but on steroids? Really, seriously?
We are still operating under the wars and Bush tax cuts that caused the debt/deficits, and if it had not been for the stimulus we would be in the same position as Europe right now. Speaking of Europe, why the heck do Teapublicans embrace European ideas now of austerity? They are embracing evil Europe, OMG!
The GOP/TP, their gain is your pain. Don't reward betrayal. Throw the obstructionist Teapublicans out.
I'm afraid that allot of American People need to see the American nightmare to wake up .Will it be to late? probably not, will it destroy more family's and the reputation of our country? yes. I feel it is the only way that we can put the Republican party to rest and it will probably only take 4 years. My advice to people is to get your money out of the banks sell or hide your assets and hold on for the ride. I don't think anyone can stop this and i don't think the rich think it can affect them but it will and then it will be over. Take care of yourselves get what you can and hold on to it .Play their game. To the Republicans we shall see
The Republicans are to dumb to remember that when they go home for vacation the President will be able to legislate through the back door just like he did before
Dem's are to busy trying to save Obama's failing campaign right now to accomplish anything.
dear Joe Biden; 80 billion given to GM, so they can build factory's in China, 16 trillion loaned by the Fed, using future social security tax receipts as collateral, Keystone pipeline canceled, off shore oil exploration at a standstill, pushing the law of the sea contract, to send mineral revenue to poor country's, 800 billion stimulus money to no shovel ready jobs, I think when you got your hair-transplant, they may have injured your brain.
So congress is made completely of tea baggers, there are no libtards in there taking advantage of the same perks?
To bad Obama lost his first presidential campaign to George Bush. I bet if he had inherited a good economy he would not be having so much trouble now.
None of your liberal friends will address the real issue, i.e, excessive government spending! Congress hasn't come up with a budget in 3-years and the one Obama presented didn't get one vote. Will one democrat admit that we have a spending problem, not a taxing problem??
The 1st thing Biden should do is get his eyes and ears checked. He should look and listen to Walker in Wisconsin to learn how to clear out a deficit while creating jobs. As soon as this administration gets over itself, dumps all the ideas that do not work, and get help from the people that really know how to get it done, the better.
Hey Fiesty redhead are you really that much of a moron or just spouting your party line. Fact congress has passed a budget, fact congress has passed a jobs bill, fact congress has passed a balanced budget bill. Fact Obama and his cronies in the senate led by Harry Reid tabled everything out of the congress without a vote. So try to be accurate and don't lie so much about things you obviously know nothing about.
It did what he wanted it to do GO BANKRUPTED. DID YOU NO SEE THAT IN THE NEWS?
I remember the Democrats saying they will work the same hours as the "Working man" then they took 4 months off that first year they were elected.
Jimbo-1589773 -- Are you still harping on that crap? Have you heard of The People' Budget? How about the president's 4 Trillion Big Deal, or how about Simpson Bowles?
Stop with this nonsense, and own up to the FACT that Teapublicans are so against revenue, even ending loophole tax evasion, all the GOP/TP candidates stood on a stage and raised his/her hand against a 10 to 1 cut in spending to revenue. Thanks to Dubya and unpaid wars at the same time as idiotic tax cuts, we now have to pay the bills and it's going to take a balanced approach to do it.
Contact you representatives and demand they pass the Jobs Act and president's 5-point Plan now, and then demand they reform the tax code to make the rich pay their fair share and end corporate welfare. And demand they take some damned responsibility and govern instead of plotting and planning. They aren't paid to take constant time off, or to protest, or to obstruct. They are paid to show up and do the people's work. If they won't then throw them out.
We must be rich we all most pay no federal taxes.
Hey Yeasty Redhead-- You honestly think the Tea Party introduced this kind of thing? New to the country, are you?
Does ANYBODY with brains takes Joe serious? I mean really. Just the brain washed ( like Backhouse and Tru P )think this clown still makes sense. 1.2M LESS people are working now than when Barry took office. Sounds like he LOST more jobs than he created. What a loser.
The republican controlled house has sent 46 job bills to the democrat controlled senate in a effort to help create jobs in this country. The democrat controlled Senate has yet to even vote on one of those 46 bills. They have just ignored them so Obama and Biden can run around saying lies like this and of course MSNBC fails to mention this fact because they are so concern with providing un-bias news to the people.....
Stop watching the news and get the hard data from the government websites and process it yourself.
1. Adjusted for inflation, Obama is spending as much in one year as spent to fund all of WW II and to combat the Great Depression during that same time frame. His budgets over 3 years are higher than any 3 years of the Bush administration or any 3 years prior. Not just a period of 3 but any 3.
2. Money comes into a company then dispersed as monetary compensation for labor to workers. Unless self employed corporations are paying the taxes of the people.
3. More people receive income tax returns than there are wealthy people. Those receiving returns are paying a negative tax rate. Even if the wealthy paid $0 they would be paying more than those receiving returns.
4. Those considered wealthy are paying more than 40% of the total tax revenue and are less than 10% of the population. Mathematically as individuals they are paying a higher percentage than those not considered wealthy.
5. Public sector jobs are funded through tax revenue. The more public sector jobs the more revenue needed to meet payroll. The only two ways to increase funds is through more taxation or loans which require increased tax revenue to pay off. Either way it means more taxes.
At what point does Obama have to take responsibility for the economy? He inherited a recession but he is responsible for his time in office. The Republicans and the Tea Party are blocking him at every turn? Only since January of 2011. Prior to that the Democrats held a majority in both houses and little progress was made except a bailout of CORPORATIONS 'too big to fail' and signing a health care bill that will increase revenue for insurance companies by forcing over 3 million people to purchase insurance. Even if at $28 a month per person that would be a billiion dollars a year in new revenue for the insurance industry. What has he done that has brought prices down to a reasonable leave or net income to be higher than it was before he went into office? Bush at least reduced tax liabilities and increased income credits which increased the take home pay of employees.
The information is available. Instead of obtaining information from biased news sources try finding it and actually understanding what it all means.
Fiesty, Congress is compossed of 2 parts, The Senate and the House. The House have passed measure after measure to curb spending and help with our issues. The Senate has blocked each measure. The House is controlled by the GOP. The Senate by the Dems. Thought you'd want to learn so you'd quit being so ignorant.
I say shove it down their unhonorable throats IF they can find room. Phonies have so much in their throats already. Koch bros and the like. Obvious republicans will continue their shameful games, with everyday americans paying the ultimate price. This knew GOP flat stinks. Obviously not an honorable bone in the bunch.
Explain how these measure will "curb spending and help with our issues"? Nonpartisan BLS studies prove that the GOP plan will only increase the deficit and hurt jobs. Obama, on the other hand, has a plan to cut $4 trillion in the next 10 years, and create millions of jobs. This is done through cuts in military spending, and reshaping Medicare so that costs are curbed while benefits stay the same, along with asking the wealthy to pay their fair share. What is wrong with any of this?
Let's look at how the GOP "plan" helps us. Butchering Medicare/Medicaid, more tax cuts for the wealthy, taxes raised on the middle class, and increases in military spending. How does this help anything?
Why is it that whenever the Democrats try to cut something that should be an obvious choice, like military spending, the GOP objects? Why is it that when taxes have to be raised, Democrats always choose the burden on the middle class and have it so that if anyone needs to pay more, it will be those who can handle it, while the GOP objects?
The president at this point can not really do anything much more than he has tried. Lord knows he has tried. Congress is our problem. Republicans have brought a new and higher degree of unhonorable dysfuction that we the people must deal with. Simple math. When the old guard of the party tells us that the new GOP is unhonorable, what more proof do we need? Simpson, of Simpson/Bolles, is a fine example. The GOP has lost all credibility and I'll bet sheep will keep and continue to believe their phony leaders. Insecure lemmings everyone.
Why is it that the Democrats always target the military to make cuts? Why not target the entitlement programs, or the "pension" plan, which is actually costing more than the military! The fact of the matter is, that they could cut the so-called "other" programs, which account for 9% of spending. You know-idiotic studies to find out why some damned bug breeds itself, or some other crap. You don't consider that wasteful spending???
Banshwa,
Love it, when someone "receives part of their tax witholdings back they are not paying taxes", I hope that you will someday actually get a job so you understand how tax witholdings must cover the taxes owed for the income earned but usually after deductions some of those payments become overpayments and are returned to the taxpayer. Kind of like giving the barkeep a $10 bill for a $6.00 drink and getting $4.00 back. Wow, is that so hard to understand??
Backhouse, keep believing that the private sector is doing just fine, lol
Are jobs being created, yes; however the issue is that it should be better and this Admin does not know how to get the "job" done. The only "shovel ready" ready job created is to shovel the BS both party is spewing (sorry FRH, that includes the Dem;o), lol)
Have a great week.
Backhouse, keep believing that the private sector is doing just fine, lol
Are jobs being created, yes; however the issue is that it should be better and this Admin does not know how to get the "job" done. The only "shovel ready" ready job created is to shovel the BS both party is spewing (sorry FRH, that includes the Dem;o), lol)
Have a great week.
The Dems haven't done a thing is four years.
Nor has the GOP.
Are you starting to get the message yet?
"every power" ? The President said that the White House dog would be a mutt "like me" from a shelter yet the dog they got is a pure bread that has never set foot in a shelter. This President is suppose to be the most powerful man in the free world yet he cannot come through on something as trivial as the White House dog so he really has not real power to do much of anything. The stimulus bill, at an expense of about 800 billion dollars was suppose to fix the jobs problem yet according to an administration report unemployment is worse than if the stimulus bill had never been passed. The President said that job creation was his number one priority but to date his efforts have not helped the situation. The Republicans in the house have been passing bills aimed at job creation but they just get stalled in the Democratically controlled senate. The President fusses about the situation but his efforts have been less than effective. Without conditions, the President vowed that the 2012 federal deficit will not exceed 229.27 billion dollars yet the Obama administration is exceeding that by more than a factor of 5. The President needs to explain to the American people how he is going to keep his promises regarding the economy. Complaining about congress does not get us anywhere.
MSNBC 'Feisty' - Good to hear from you - worried when you disappeared after the union debacle in Wisconsin. Say Hi to President Obama for me (I assume you were with him when he was 'too busy' to support the publik sektor union thugs trying to overthrow the duly elected government of Wisconsin).
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Not enough, not enough, not enough
Looks like Feisty Redhead's days as "QUEEN" of these boards are numbered same as her Messiah Barack (If I had a son) Obama!!!!! Funny! How the BIGGER they be the HARDER they fall... BYE! Feisty BYE! BO!!! lol!!!!
Does Feisty have a job? You have to wonder about some of these people sometimes.
It's really too bad the Dem hot air doesn't create jobs and get the economy growing. If it did, we'd be seeing 500,000 new jobs a month and GDP growing at 10%.
Joe in Albany
It's really too bad the Dem hot air doesn't create jobs and get the economy growing. If it did, we'd be seeing 500,000 new jobs a month and GDP growing at 10%.
Joey, have you seen any J-O-B-S from the republicans; lately?
Beverly - if I remember correctly, the GOP campaigned on jobs in 2010 and won big. But then, they ditched their "jobs" ideas to obstruct the President, right? And, they think people should vote for them AGAIN in November because they did such a good job, am I right?
And, all the idiots - nojoe, JAS, Concern Citizen (where the H**l is the concern) will be yapping at their heels and voting for them again, right? Clearly not the brightest bulbs in the lamp now, are they, the far righters?
No sanity AT ALL in the GOP!!!
Obama/Biden 2012
SeekingInsanity, who writes,
Have I ever call you and IDIOT? I guess that you will call all those that voted NOT to recall Walker, Idiots. Why don't you find out what was the % of democrats that voted for Walker, of course according to your logic they are also Idiots.
You are a pathetic little boy, I can imagine how much you hurt from yesterday. Come mierda!
Concern,
Don't worry...I wouldn't expect anything better from sanity... If I remember Obama ran on the promise of cutting the deficit, and we have a bigger deficit. Obama ran on creating jobs, and yet he put his "laser focus" on Obamacare... So at the end of the day, here we have a president that ran on a bunch of promises and hasn't delivered, and now we are supposed to take seriously the comments from the left??
If you want a job Look for one yourself. It is not the Governments job to find you one. it is easy You should try it it only takes a few hours 3-4.5 million people hired every month.
Beverly look on reids desk you will find all the house efforts to create jobs blame reid. and by the way when was the last time the seate proposed a budget. crickets!!!
Only the private sector can create jobs. We need to cut taxes and jobs will follow.
Look how easily that came out, and it is total bull@!$%#. Not true at all.
It obvious that cutting taxes and hoping the trickle down theory works; but alas it most certainly has proven it doesn't.
Unless there is demand....There's no reason for Companies to hire.....Period.
As wthh the dwindling paychecks of middle america goes...their goes the economy and demand.
No Demand...more bankrupcies...more unemplyment.
In business we call it the death spiral, fortunately we have not hit the point where it could be reversed; all we need is a congress that would decide to help middle America, not harm middle America!
All we keep hearing about from the right is lower the taxes.
I have a suggestion.
Since the banks aren't lending the money because of outside influences being generated from the republican party....Not lending money that they get from borrowing the money for little to no interest rates...Hey how bout loaning it directly to the American people to get out of the crushing debt.
You loan and give it away to every one else both foreign and domestic.
How bout loaning it to us?
Give'em hell Joe. The more you call out this greedy bas-turds the more people will see the bas-turds in the tea bagger/ repuke Congress will lose.
Give'em hell Joe.
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I already did Bev, but, thanks for the encouragement.
The only problem is we found out today that the job pursuit was on paper only. Dept. of Labor officials pretty mush admitted today in testimony before Congress that the unemployment and job creation numbers they have been releasing every work have all been wrong. How wrong? 47 of the last 47 weeks the unemployment numbers have been wrong. Over 92% of those weeks they have underestimated the numbers of people filing unemployment claim while also over estimating the numbers of new jobs created. Seems they have been listing replacement hiring such as someone leaving a job or retiring and someone is hired to replace them as new jobs. So the number of new jobs created has been vastly overstated.
Is this this chick saying this to Biden? I dunno, that just strikes me as funny. How hard it must have been for the DNC to find someone stupid enough to make Obama look competent. Perhaps the Secret Service nominated him. Who's gonna take a shot at Jughead when Biden is the next in line?
Ray W.:
That is the dirty little secret of the B H Obama Administration. They are the only administration ever to use a different formula to create the monthly reports. I have only seen a few people mention it. Even with when they use a different set of figures, the unemployment rate is still much higher they G W Bush and W J Clinton's average rate of 4.7%.
Check out the U-6 rate. It is over 10%. This will come back to bite Obama in the rear.
Economist John B. Taylor of the Hoover Institution summed it up aptly: "Unpredictable economic policy -- massive fiscal 'stimulus' and ballooning debt, the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing with multiyear near-zero interest rates, and regulatory uncertainty due to Obamacare and the Dodd-Frank financial reforms -- is the main cause of persistent high unemployment and our feeble recovery."
Let me see, we spend 1 million a year to send Joe Biden to play golf. Maybe if we spend 2 million we can send him to the Moon.
It is worse than you think. We have to borrow that 1 million dollars from Red China and it will end up costing the taxpayers more than 9 million dollars to pay it all back.
How do you know we did not borrow from Japan? they almost have the same amount of debt as china.
Depends if we can carpool with Russia. Oblammy deep-sixed NASA, remember?
Job creation has been the President's first priority for some years now and you are saying that the administration has not been doing enough. That says a lot about the President's first priority and his ability to accomplish anything of importance. Without preconditions or the need for any action of congress, the President vowed that he would cut the deficit in half by the end of his first administration. To do that the 2012 federal deficit cannot exceed 229.27 billion dollars but that is not happening. Please explain how the President is going to keep his promise to the American people. I estimate that for any new money borrowed by the federal government it will end up costing the tax payers more than 9 times the amount borrowed to pay the money back in 170 years. Please explain what it is going to take to pay back all of this money that we have been borrowing. The country in terms of federal spending and trade balance is operating at a huge loss and the White House is estimating that the these losses will continue for at least a decade more. I want the White House to present a plan that will return the federal government and the country to solvency.
They think taxing the rich will solve it all.
I am sure that if the rich felt that their paying a little more in taxes would turn the economy around then the rich would be the first to push for it because they would have the most to gain. I would like this administration to produce a real business plan as how to turn the economy around but I doubt that they even know what a plan really is. The administration is just guessing.
This administration has been gussing for the last 4 years, the truth is that they dont have a clue of what to do, all Obama knows how to do is waste money and blame Bush, it didnt work then and it wont work now, Obama needs to go home and let somebody else take over.
Will Haas:
Good posts.
It has never been B H Obama's plan to grow the USA economy, not that a President can control it. If they could, the USA would always have a robust economy. The best time to force a new agenda on a mass of people is when the people are in crisis and will agree to anything.
Cutting the USA Annual budget deficit to a balance number is very simple.
You mean you haven't been for the past 3.5 years? WTF?
Not enough, not enough, not enough
The story need a little editing.. "Appearing in [the former swing state now a GOP lock ] North Carolina.."
"we have to keep fighting through this period of transition and this godawful recession we inherited."
Clueless Joe still blaming Bush four years later....promising 4 more years of excuses for a bad economy.. vote for me, we promise to fail again!
Bob, one of my favorite excuses is that Obama inherited the problems he faces...however the facts show that before becoming President, Mr Obama was a member of the US Senate, and in fact vote to actually create the problems along with Biden and Clinton, that he now claims he inherited. "Don't blame me, I only voted for what Bush signed." seems to be the childish position of this elected official. If he truly was blindsided then his time in the senate was that of an incompetent representative of the people of Illinois, or he is too inexperience to understand the consequence of his vote.
OSAMA BIN LADEN was correct when he said that Blabber Mouth Bite-Me-Biden was so stupid if he became president that America would collapse. The joke of the day really is the insane thought by diarrhea of the mouth Joe that he might run for president in 2016. This idiot is from another planet!
Hey Fiesty - Your 99 weeks of unemployment benefits have run out yet??
LOL
For once, I agree with Joe. But who really has that deep, deep, strength he is referring to? Surely it isn't the Democrat side of the population that gives up when things get tough and presently take the majority of our government's welfare and unemployment handouts, is it? Say it ain't so Joe!
I think they pushed Joe's hair plugs in too deep.
So Will, if it costs 9 million to pay back each 1 million the Democrats borrow, how much does it cost to pay back the 8 Billion a week that Bush was borrowing to search for WMDs and chase Saddam's ass around Iraq?
where did you get those numbers? Just like any liberal pull them out of thin air?
He's got a point. I don't think I'll vote for Bush come November.
The larger the existing debt, the more it will cost to pay back any new money that is being borrowed. Before the federal government can pay back any new debt it will have to pay back the existing debt. While paying back the old debt, interest still has to be paid on the new dept. I want the President to explain in detail what it is going to take to pay back all of this money that we have been borrowing. I understand that the idea is that more government will bolster the economy and hence increase government revenues which will be used to pay back the debt. But the gamble has not been working. Because of our huge trade deficit the money being injected into the economy just leaks out and all that we are left with is more debt.
Why suddenly months before the election are jobs suddenly so important for liberals? After all just wait a month and more unemployed will fall off the unemployment rolls and then you as usual don't count them despite the fact they are still unemployed. Or like you liberals have done for the last year now super inflate the number of new jobs and then your propaganda machine the liberal press just won't report the corrected numbers. Or maybe instead of pouring billions of American dollars into green jobs overseas to bolster political contributors try spending some of that money in the US.The real unemployment is closer to 14% because of this administrations failed policies so time to pull up your big boy pants and stop blaming others for your obvious lack of results and ideas.
Hey, Barry and Joe, thanks for proving what we logical citizens learned from Sesame Street-'it's not easy being green'! Weren't you watching?
It is not the jobs that have become inportant, it is the Votes, that they need. That is why you will hear about Jobs, (you will not see any action, just talking). Oblaima (not a typo) has to go.
This election is a done deal. Obama has already lost big time. I have selected the wine I will be enjoying as I listen to Obama's concession speech.
Barry and Moochelle might as well suck up one more mega vacation before they are booted into the street where they belong. Then they can begin looting the White House of all the antiques that Hillary didn't steal when she left. Mitt will have to call a furniture store, the rooms will be stripped by then.
November 2012,...Goodbye dog-eater, hello President Romney.
You know they do seem to take lots of vacations.
Now we find out in testimony by the Dept. of Labor before Congress that all the unemployment number have been "cooked"by the Obama administration. Of the last 47 weeks, the unemployment number reported have been wrong all 47 weeks. In 45 weeks the unemployment numbers have been underestimated in 45 weeks. Turns out that of the last 8 weeks in which we thought unemployment went down in 7 of those weeks, it actually went up in 6 of those weeks. So the 8.2% unemployment may actually be closer to 9% because of administration official playing fast and loose with the numbers. Can anyone figure out why they would do that? Didn't see it on MSNBC? I wonder why!! Don't think it is true. Just check the Department of Labor testimony before the House oversite committee.
They also revealed that most of the "Green Jobs" numbers are completely bogus. Seems if you are a tow truck driver and change a tire on an electric car, you job is counted as a "Green Job". Same goes if you work at a gas station where Hi-bred cars fill up. You are counted as a green job created by stimulus money. This also means the "Green Jobs" numbers being lauded by Obama people are pretty much bogus.
The only question I have is how anyone could not have been aware of this all along. Well, maybe AffinityGW and Yeasty, but I'm talking normal people, y'know?
Hey Feisty,
You said the Congress is taking five months off. Not the House. They've sent up jobs bills your Democrats don't like. Fair enough. If the bills are so stupid why doesn't Dirty Harry put them on the floor for a vote?
What are you guys afraid of? Stand by your convictions and tell Dirty Harry these bills deserve to be looked at, debated and voted on if they have no merit.
BTW, Dirty Harry and your Democrats are violating the law by not having passed a budget in three years. Your guys deserve to be recalled just on that FACT alone. I want you to deny on this public forum that Harry Reid and Senate Democrats have NOT violated the law.
Joe is "Late" to the dance once again. The Wisconsin backlash on Obama will be a sunami in November 2012, and Joe knows it.
That is the Job of the job seeker.
Don’t worry Folks, the Republicans Tea Billy Conservatives are going to Focus on the Economy and Job Issues, just as soon as they solve those really Important Social Issues like Gay Marriage, Babies, and Gawd . You Bet Cha….Fer Sure
Mitt is about as real as a “Plastic Banana”.
Is it Mitt ______________Romney.
“Country Club”
“Profits Over People”
“Not To Much…Out of Touch”
“Corporations are People Too”.
“F” da Poor
"Let Detroit Go Bankrupt"
“Pray da Gay Away”
Mitt “Profit Over People” Romney Solution to all Problems…….Prayer and a Moment of Silence.
I pick "NOT OBAMA".
oweblamo is your hero, the food stamp prez.
Obama is a nightmare but so is Mitt. That leaves an honest old guy who's still in the running but never mentioned. For those who laugh, take a hard look at our choices - do you really think he'd do worse?
Pretty typical of this administration. Go from issue to issue without ever closing the deal. When it flairs up again revisit temporarily to try something different. The obama administration has pretty much shown us its policy. Ram something through, call it good then ignore it until all of its shortcomings come back to roos. Then follow through with blame because obama ignoers advice or fail to see the big picture..
I can see why he feels he deserves a 2nd term, to fix his screwups in the first.
Spot on, American. Spot friggin on.
It is not that he doen't follow through, it is that he "evolves" and changes his mind.
ObamaCare will die with the Supreme Court decision this month.
Republicans will use every power to prevent the creation of jobs, just as they have for Obama's entire term. Unemployed beer Bubbas will vote for them anyway. Their favorite attire is a tee shirt that says Kick Me on the back. That is so funny when you are really dumb.
Sure they will. And you are completely in touch with reality.
AffinityGW , Why is it always Bubba's fault you sound alot like our president . I remember Obama saying he will fix everything in 3 yrs or he would not go for re-election, hmmmmmm sounds like lip service to me . Maybe he should take lessons from WI the Gov here did what he said he was going to do , that is why he won the recall .We are getting jobs he isn't attacking the private sector unions he did not impose any restriction on the Police and Firefighters unions, I wonder why other state employees feel that they deserve to get more money than anyone else can u answer that ? What gets me is that no one see's the BIG picture the Democrats want big Gov more money and really don't realize or don't care where the money is coming from (it is called higher Taxes) as long as they get theirs. Well here is a little thought to ponder no jobs-- no taxes where is going to come from then ? At least here in WI the jobless is dropping it is not going to be fixed overnite but it is working . Maybe people in this country should take heed.
Right. The Republicans organize huge demonstrations and gather outside every place of business and threaten them with death if they hire anyone.
Jobs will come when we pay down the national debt, run our country like a business and not a charity, revoke oppressive business regulations, and repeal Obamacare.
Democrats know this, but they've been so vociferous in favor of Obama/Biden, that they won't say a word. I bet they don't vote for them, and say they did to keep their social standing with their other leftist conspirators.
I guess that is why here are more then 2 dozen bills that the Republican house passes that have been sitting on Reid's dest just waiting for him to have a vote on them.
Oh MY! Someone must have let joe out of the closet again. When I look at this guy and listen to him ...is it any wonder why this country is about to TUBE?