Backhouse

He says a lot of things most of which are rhetoric garbage and if I recall the House defeated the president's plan with a true bipartisan vote. Stop with the BS.

Anyway why aren't you in Vegas with the rest of the crew?? Couldn't you find an airline willing to take your food stamps as payment??

Balderdash.

And Romney is at least gaffe a minute. A week in the Office, and it would a galaxian record.

As for the trip - you writing a book?

The former Bain Capital executive stressed his private sector experience as a chief qualifier, and went so far as to promise the creation of 12 million jobs during his first term should he be elected.

Ohhhhhh now we're really stepping in it Mitt! You're starting to sound more and more like you're running for Student Body President rather than President of the United States! "Us" people really don't believe you're capable of living up to anything that comes out of your mouth. Let alone a promise of 12 million jobs! (me thinks he watched Austin Powers one too many times!)

Face it, Obama is a FAILURE. He can't lead, if he could he would find common ground and bring people together. Instead he is like a kid that only wants things his way or else.

Well, the or else is ruining this country.

Nice leadership, but what can you expect from someone who has never managed anything.

Backhoser -

Backhoser has repeatedly touted variations of ….

"The jobs that have been created (4.4 Million over the last 2.5 years) is truly amazing."

Oh Wow … That Is Amazing.

Especially when you compare that to 1983, the first year of Reagan's recovery, where only 1.1 million were created ….. IN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER ALONE.

June 2012 represents the completion of the third year of the Obama recovery and that amazing 4.4 million created represents the three year average of a 122,222 jobs created per month.

When you consider that 180,000 workers are added to the work force per month due to population growth …… When you consider that 130,000 new jobs are needed per month to just keep up – a sane person realizes Obama's performance sucks.

And when you consider that in June 2012, A FULL THREE YEARS INTO THE OBAMA RECOVERY ….. it is now not only "stepping" in the wrong direction when only 80,000 jobs are created (66% of the abysmal average) and of that pathetic number - 30% OF THOSE, (25,200), WERE TEMPORARY JOBS …. When you realize how the government manipulates jobs numbers where the next month 163,000 jobs - twice as many added yet the unemployment goes UP … you understand …..

THERE IS NO RECOVERY – $5 Trillion of new debt after 3 years and despite desperately dropping workers from the unemployment rolls, Obama cannot even keep up with population growth.

Most pathetic performance since the 30's and the last true "progressive" POTUS.

What is truly amazing, stunning in fact, is that some "Americans" try to project this abject failure of a president as a 'truly amazing' success, all in an effort to sway an election that dooms fellow Americans to further suffering.

And that makes them just as pathetic as the author of this disaster.

Thanks Mr. President - you achieved positive public good without any GOP help ...you are superman.

Remember this is the worst recession since the Great Depression.

1921-1929 8 years of GOP led to Great Depression. 1936 FDR re-elected with high unemployment rate, because the Great Depression did not end until after 1945 WWII, remember the impact of WWII on the economy.

2001-2009 8 years of GOP led to the Great Recession. 2012 Obama will be re-elected with high unemployment rate...not only because the damages done by GOP policies have been hard to reserve, but also continued GOP foot-dragging in Congress has hurt the nation.

4 more years.

Let's see.

There are 8 days in a week. Snakes have gills. Stars hang by threads. Rainbows have ten colors.

Emphasis is optional.

Your next strategy?

12 million jobs a year in his first term is 250,000 per month, every month.

How?

I suppose a war with Iran would create openings.

Of course he didn't say what country he was going to create that many jobs in...

No.

1.1 million private sector jobs were created so far this year.

And 4.5 million jobs over the last 29 months - not 28 months.

Please check out the Bureau of Labor Statistics for your labor-factual needs.

Or ask your nearest friendly, informed neighbor.

Facts are GOOD things.

........| Romney decries 'suffering'

yeah, we are suffering because Mitt the Vulture and your fellow vultures have outsourced jobs.

...and Mitt, you are not suffering - your tax returns are proof, but why haven't you released those tax returns.

Hey, another fact. Will you be OK though? Maybe sit down and screw your eyeballs in a bit tighter, just to be sure.

In December 2008, our U.S.GDP dropped down to minus 8.9% (-8.9%).

It had been thought to be at the worst, minus 3.9% (-3.9%).

No-one knew, not even you, that it had gone so incredibly low until much later on in 2009.

Christine Romer, the economic advisor at the time - along with other economists - threw out a figure of 8%. It was impossible to know that figure (unless you have been canonized already) at the time.

So 8% was never an official figure. However, Faux Entertainment can twizzle stuff right out of the air...and plop it right between your brains. It's what they do, the only thing they do.

Detroit Storm . . . .

Of course he didn't say what country he was going to create that many jobs in...

PERFECT! Still laughing .... great comment!

Facts are NOT good things?

If Mitt Romney wants to stop the suffering, he could start by contacting his pals at Bain Capital which bought Sensata Technologies, Freeport, IL, two years ago and plan now to ship the 145 jobs to China. 145 jobs might not sound like much to Willard but it means a great deal to the 145 holding the jobs Bain is out-sourcing thanks to Romney's big scheme at Bain,"pioneering" to create jobs IN CHINA.

At #1.13,

The '8%' in there, refers to 8% unemployment.

More of those darned facts: Europe's unemployment ranges from 11% to 25%, or even 50% (Greek youth).

So we can thank our lucky stars for the STIMULUS, that created 1 million jobs in its first year.

Yes, the STIMULUS that GOP carefully watered down, and that Europe didn't get, because they were so riveted on austerity.

Conservatives have been busy creating disasters - not just here, but across the water as well.

Reagan's recovery did much better because the jobs were still here. It's now 30+ years later and several million jobs have been shipped overseas. Let's hear a big shout out to our patriotic businesses who bite the hand that feeds them then complain about being hungry. Send our jobs overseas then complain the govt isn't doing enough for them by lower tehir taxes and eliminating regulations. Let's be JUST LIKE CHINA. It's what our business leaders want.

Like Mittens would know anything about a job - having one, creating one, or needing one! Now that's a big laugh, he knows absolutely nothing about needing or wanting anything. Make no mistake about it - life is totally different for the 1% than for the rest of us. Normally they are quite proud that it is, guess it is not playing too well with those of us who really work for a living so he has to make something up even if his nose starts growing with each word he speaks. Soon Mittens is gonna need a new pair of flip flops, I'm sure this summer's Neiman Marcus purchase is absolutely worn out. I'm sure those 163,000 people who found jobs were quite pleased, probably a lot happier today than when they lost their jobs in 2007 and 2008.

The only suffering going on is listening to Romney. I feel he's the one suffering, knowing that he keeps blundering over and over again. I'm quite curious if the fault is Romney himself, or he has the WORST taste in campaign advisers ever.

Like Romney and his fellow Republicans have a better plan....give tax cuts to those rolling in the dough so they can continue to ship our jobs overseas. I can only shake my head at all the lemmings who claim I am "jealous" because the rich got their money by exploiting workers. Takes soooooo much hard work to lay people off and send their jobs to other countries....

For those of you who have full time jobs, I'm sure you are just loving this president...But for those of us looking for employment, I don't see anything helping the situation coming out of Washington...I do however hear a lot of talk. And it's frigging cheap.

Please excuse the anyone (Dems) saying things are just all rosey here, they are so full of kool aid their eyes are watering.

This economy is not good. Congress is not doing their job, are we all in agreement? If not, are you in the 1%? If yes, good for you, if not, time to take your pills...

Republicans, if you don't like the unemployment numbers then pass Obama's infrastructure bill and put 1 million back to work.

Of course you won't, and you didn't pass a farm bill, but you can sure file charges on Holder.

Vote out the GOP in 2012.

Ronald Reagen, Ronald Reagen, Ronald Reagen...Blah Blah Blah>>>Just how ignorant are you conservatives? During Reagen's administration we had laws on the books that prohibited financial products like variable rate mortgages, and the "bundling of them into mortgage bonds for sale to investment banks? How about insurance on mortgages you didn't own? ( you know those credit default swap thingys that most connies don't understand). Remember Savings and Loans? Remember when "financial services" comprised 15% of the economy but now is close to 33%. You idiots like to bitch about "free stuff." What about the "free money" you gave away to a bunch of paper pushers like Mitt Romney in the form of tax breaks. Your hero Ronnie wouldn't pass the conservative smell test today!

bob-1805084...well, we can always take Romney's ideas for jobs,,outsourse them to other country's. And get the republicans to hand out more tax breaks for doiong so. After all...Bush and his reppublican friends did wonders when he was president..his trickle down economy took jobs out of this country...we only lost a few hundred thousand a month...wow..and now they want to do it all over again. Can hardly wait to see just how much the republicans cut from social security so the wealthy can have more tax cuts. Can not wait to see just how much medicaid will be cut. Be interesting to see just what kind of health care deal he comes up with.. PLease, someone inform me of just how many jobs bills the republicans have even offered into congress that did not include further tax cuts for Romney and his wealthy friends ? Please also inform me as to what position Romney has not changed his mind on...that alone would be an interesting topic.

It's pretty simple for Mitty to "create" 12 million jobs in his first term. All he has to do is bring back all the jobs he outsourced at Bain.

Mr. Romney! Release your tax records!

Romney never suffered a day in his life. (Excluding putting his foot in his mouth)

Dear Teapublicans and followers of the Mittronic Rombot:

Your God, the Dow Jones Industrial average, has spoken. Up over 200 points today, due to job numbers!

The "Masters of the Universe" love this President. How can you dispute the "job creators"? When the 43rd President left, the Dow was at 8,000, fell to 6,627 and is now at 13,076. How with your slavishly dullardesque worship of your master's at the Dow, can you dispute the success of this President's policies?

They love President Obama. They love record quarterly profits. And, like Mittronic, they love stashing it all over the world.

OBEY YOUR MASTERS!

THEY HAVE SPOKEN!

Obama/Biden 2012

OBEY!

"These aren't just statistics, these are real people." Romney said, "I know because I'm an android." He went on to "toot his horn" about his expertise with balance sheets and how the bottom line comes before people.

Jon R-469000

It's pretty simple for Mitty to "create" 12 million jobs in his first term. All he has to do is bring back all the jobs he outsourced at Bain.

Or what Republicans always do, steal the Democrats Job Act and pass it under a different name, then start hiring back all the teachers, cops, etc. as fast as they can, and immediately the unemployment rate would drop below 7%. Rat Bastards, do these things now -- Where are the jobs NOw?

Mr. Romney -- YOU put up or shut up.

The republican economic plan has not changed in a hundred years. Cut taxes, cut regulations. It has pretty much been that way since Herbert Hoover tried to right the economy after the 1929 crash and subsequent depression by...take a guess...yup, cutting corporate taxes. Of course at the time there were no government regulations over wall street of corporate America. So as far as the republicans were concerned it was cut taxes, cut taxes and oh yeah... cut taxes. That policy was a stupendous failure then and will be just as stupendous a failure now. Just listen to Mitty's plan for turning around the economy: cut government regulations and cut taxes. That's all they've got, all they've ever had. It failed in 1929 because instead of taking those tax breaks and hiring more workers American corporations put the money toward the bottom line and then went right on closing factory after factory. They say that a definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time. The republicans in the 21st century are just certifiably bat @!$%# crazy. As the ad says, Romney's not the solution, he's the problem. He has NO solution to our economic problems he would only make things much worse, but what does he care, he makes $56,000 a day. He's hedged the bad economy and just rakes it in, hides it and pays no taxes on it. THAT'S why he will never release his tax returns. He makes millions and pays no taxes or a loer tax rate that the average blue collar worker. Romney needs to get his ass kicked.

At first I agreed with Jon Stuart that Reid was being a terrible person accusing Romney of paying no taxes and then saying his dead dad would be ashamed of him for doing so. That is a pretty low blow. I was taken aback by how crazy and baseless those accusations were. Usually it is the other party making false accusations and dealing low blows, so seeing a Dem take the low road rubbed me the wrong way.

But now I understand what he was doing. He was baiting Romney to call him out and Romney did just that.

“It’s time for Harry to put up or shut up.” More Romney: "It's untrue, dishonest and inaccurate. It's wrong. So I'm looking forward to have Harry reveal his sources and we'll probably find out that it's the White House." But Romney’s put-up-or-shut-up reply gave Reid precisely the opening he was looking for. “When it comes to answering the legitimate questions the American people have about whether he avoided paying his fair share in taxes or why he opened a Swiss bank account, Romney has shut up,” Reid said in a statement last night.

Romney can strike a devastating blow to the Democratic Party right now by releasing his tax returns and shoving them in Reid’s/Obama campaigns face. Only he can’t do that because his tax records are so politically damaging, there is no way he wins if he releases them. Even if they prove he is not a felony level tax evader, another accusation made by the Obama campaign, they show how little Romney cares to invest in the US economy.

@Maxx

What is CNSnews? The site looks really spammy and I got a antivirus software warning when I went to the site. Did you mean CBSnews? Can you link to the numbers on the BLS site instead?

I'm a bit cuious about that 12million jobs pledge. The last I heard, the Mittster said he's deliver 500,000 jobs/ mo. My math comes to 6 million a year. That would be 24 million in his first term, not 12 million. Is he already backing off of his campaign pledges? I sense a Bob Dole moment coming for him. He already looks like he's aged 10 years in the last 12 months and he isn't even in the WH yet. At that rate, he'll be dead after 2 years.

Romney has no clue about the suffering of regular people.

Romney's suffering is when his horse loses in the olympics.

"These numbers are not just statistics," Romney said. "These are real people, really suffering, having hard times."

Then come on Romney, put your money where your mouth is.

Romney brings up the compassion of people are suffering.....He is not talking about HUMANS. He is thinking that CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE TOO are suffering. The record profits for them should be even higher! Oh the humanity..."Corporations are people too" are suffering!

Romney....on campaign...sits down at a table...and whines about cookies.........whines about store bought f....ing cookies...the common people food........Can't even sit down and eat a damn cookie and have conversation with common folk........This clown is SO uncommon.......Romney...the "Prince of Grey Poupon!"

Obama/Biden and team America 2012

Sadmoron.....What'snew with you?......................Who's on first.......What's on second.........

So Mitts going to create 12 million jobs. Where China or India.

"You spend 8 percent of GDP on health care," Romney told supporters Monday at a fundraiser in Jerusalem. "And you’re a pretty healthy nation. We spend 18 percent of our GDP on health care."

"We have to find ways, not just to provide health care to more people, but to find ways to finally manage our health care costs," Romney added.

So by this it seems that Mitt is a full blown Socialist, or a completely uninformed typical Republican.

"Israel has made health care a government responsibility like education and defense," Karen Wolk Feinstein, president and chief executive officer of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, a nonprofit group that studies health care services, told the Daily News. "The core services are provided by tax dollars."

The former Bain Capital executive stressed his private sector experience as a chief qualifier, and went so far as to promise the creation of 12 million jobs during his first term should he be elected.

This is bull@!$%#. Romney knows NOTHING about creating jobs; in order to pay for his tax cuts for the wealthy, he'd have to raise taxes on millions of lower and middle class Americans. Republicans, I will say this to you once in the hopes that you will listen: THE WEALTHY ARE NOT THE JOB CREATORS. We the consumers create the jobs. Demand, not supply, creates jobs. The wealthy invest very few of their income in investments for startups; most go to IRAs, stocks, and bonds. Consumers, however, spend the vast majority of their income on buying things. Consumption is 70% of GDP; if you want to improve the economy, aim any tax cuts (even thought they aren't that effective) at regressive taxes (payroll tax, gas taxes) to boost demand (since they affect the consumers). If you want to get the most bang for your buck, spend money on rebuilding roads and bridges, hire teachers and firefighters, and lead in massive plans to boost exports to increase employment. I am here to create a new law: Employment creates demand. And demand creates employment. That is the key to economic prosperity; not tax cuts, not spending cuts (which is absurd), not deregulation; consumer demand.

Bluelake

The republican economic plan has not changed in a hundred years. Cut taxes, cut regulations. It has pretty much been that way since Herbert Hoover tried to right the economy after the 1929 crash and subsequent depression by...take a guess...yup, cutting corporate taxes.

Actually, Republicans used to be more Keynesian (or liberal) in the 1950s and 60s. They knew that spending would help the economy, and so they allied themselves with Democrats. But when stagflation (high unemployment and high inflation) hit in the 70s thanks to the oil embargo of 1973, supply-side economics was born and was put into law in the 1980s. Ever since then, income inequality has shot up and the wealthy continue to control more and more wealth and income.

OBAMA BIDEN 2012

"Obama hailed the positive jobs figures in the report and argued his administration had presided over the creation of 4.5 million jobs since January of 2009."

Where in the World is Obama getting his numbers from?

According to the official government Bureau of Labor Statistics site, these are the jobs figures since Obama took office;

Total number of jobs for December 2008 (last figures before Obama took office) = 134,379,000 jobs.

Total number of jobs for July 2012 (estimated based on July) = 133,300,000 jobs.

That's a LOSS of about 1,080,000 jobs under Obama.

Roy...The word is out. Obama wasn't good in math. He was very good at smoking dope, though.

Some of the silly comments about Republicans cutting government jobs and then yelling about the financial problems we are experiencing is silly and shows how the liberals do not think through economics. What one needs to understand is even though the national debt has just about doubled in three in a half years under Obama we need to also look at unsecured debts (or entitlements as the people in Washington DC love to call it). We show right now a 16.5 trillion debt (it has gone up by 60% so far under Obama and he is not yet done with his term) but what we owe out in Medicaid, SSI, and pensions puts us at over 65 trillion in debt. So with all the yelling, and the government only pulling in about 216 trillion a year with the government spending 115% of what it is making. So with all the yelling, could you people for once tell me where the money is going to come from, because like it or not, we are no longer in the position to keep spending more money then we take. So stop hiring, stop unemployment extensions, and slow down on economic help, and instead start making programs that help people become self sufficient instead of relying on the government.

I think we need to fire everyone in Washington DC, and make it manditory that all representatives learn economics in order to run!

"(Romney) went so far as to promise the creation of 12 million jobs during his first term should he be elected."

Yes, and a unicorn in every yard!

And flying cars. Lots of them!!

It's so F-ed up that this guy is talking about people suffering while he's just sitting on a billion-dollar pile of cash. It's pretty sick, actually.

Here is the problem.

A lot of jobs will never return... they have been replaced by cheaper, technological solutions. All the jobs in the newspaper industry, from the paper mills to the technicians working the press and the delivery guys... replaced with easy online solutions. All the music industry jobs, from the plastic manufacturers that make CDs to the distributors and sales clerks at record stores... all replaced by online buying. Look at video rental stores, book stores, even grocery store clerks are being replaced with self-service machines.

So yes, the jobs outlook is bad because there are not enough jobs for the current population. This trend will only continue. As technology improves, less people are required to perform the same job... and of course people will continue to have more kids. So we will hit the tipping point where there simply are not enough jobs for the population. And government action will not change that.

What, do you think cutting taxes will bring back all the newspaper jobs... because people will go back to reading the news on actual paper? Nope. Do you think cutting taxes will bring back music stores, and people will stop streaming online? Nope. Do you think cutting taxes will bring back paper books instead of ebooks? Nope.

Of course, no one wants to talk about reality. Playing partisan games is much more fun.

@ Great Job America: I am laughing so very hard right now at your ridiculous Fox Entertainment "talking points" that I can barely catch my breath! You totally did a copy and paste of this as I saw this exact thing from some other nut job just a day or so ago on here. Why don't you try and be original? You know that you really know nothing about politics or how the economy even works. Come on, be honest, you just want President Obama out of the White House because he's........come on, say it!

Mitt! We want to see the tax returns!

Obama/Biden 2012

Porn queen Jenna Jameson endorses Mitt Romney for president
By Jordan Zakarin, The Hollywood Reporter:

"Retired porn star queen Jenna Jameson has thrown in with presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, citing the party's preference for low taxes on the wealthy.

"'I’m very looking forward to a Republican being back in office,'” Jameson told a CBS reporter at the anniversary celebration of a gentleman's club in San Francisco on Thursday. 'When you’re rich, you want a Republican in office.'"

Well, at least one Republican whore is up front about why they want Romney for president.

When will Romney release his tax forms? Never. He has said that 99.5% of his money is in American enterprises. Going off what little we know about his overseas enterprises that means that Rmoney is worth $6 Billion!

What a steaming pile of Mitt.

oskar-1391552

Bing or Google "Jenna Jameson."

Then get back to me on your rant when you're better informed.

RedSoxRule!.....rule what, 4th place? About the only greater example of a lack of grasp of reality I could think of would be "CubsRule".......any questions?

Oskar, move out of that garbage can...and say high to Cookie Monster.

gcooper8

"(Romney) went so far as to promise the creation of 12 million jobs during his first term should he be elected."

..........That's fine, I'm all for it, and I'm sure the GOP/TP will assist him greatly, however, if they fall short, let's all take appropriate action.

Seems to be a real stink brewing about Harry Reid being outed as a pedophile. Apparently several people called into a radio talk show and exposed ol' brother Harry. Now if I had to guess what a child molester looked like ...Harrys image would rush to mind especially given the smarmy, sleasy tone quality of his voice... I think Harry should make a public statement about this. Someone who would sexually molest a child should not be in Americas Senate...period...

Obama has: Signed the NDAA bill into law allowing the assassination of any us citizen without trial (yes, I know it's been around for a long time but Obama signed it into law even though it's unconstitutional)

Really? NOT. If there was anything remotely "unconstitutional" about it, the Teapublicans would have wasted no time crying to the Supreme Court - they did do that with the PP/ACA (and got shot down). They would have also tried to impeach on those grounds, and went after the Congressmen who wrote and supported that legislation. But they didn't

Obama has killed hundreds of innocent people (including 3 Americans) with drone strikes he has ordered in Pakistan And Yemen.

Only someone suffering a severe case of BPDS (Black President Derangement Syndrome) would call terrorists and terrorist wanna-bes "innocent people". In case you haven't noticed, we're still at war with a terrorist group that wants to destroy us and conquer the world. In wars, killings happen, and winning wars means minimizing our losses while maximizing theirs. That's what drones do oh so well.

Obama has raised the National debt Nearly $5 TRILLION.

Still not as much as Bush Jr. has increased it. Also, the Bush Jr. tax cuts are still in effect, still severely restricting revenues thus contributing to those deficits.

Obama has allowed almost 1 Million ILLEGAL aliens to become legal citizens (thanks to those he allowed to become citizens, they have committed 19 murders and 142 sex crimes)

Not even remotely close to the truth, you must have confused Obama with Reagan, as Reagan really did do the amnesty bit. Obama has increased border patrols, stepped up investigations of companies hiring illegals, and has deported more illegals in 3 years than the Bush Jr. administration did in 8.

Obama did allow children brought here illegally to apply for legal resident status, which is not the same as "legal citizen". That is allowed within current immigration laws. They may apply for citizenship, but must go through the same process as all other immigrant applicants.

Lied About all of His 2008 Campaign Promises Including the One Where He said he campaigned in 57 states.

"57 states" was meant as a joke - but of course, if you recognized jokes, you wouldn't be a Republican. Also, most campaign promises are a promise to try, not a guarantee that it must happen. It's hardly Obama's fault that Republicans are the party of No.

Google Search "Dreams from my REAL father" and you'll see, Obama's father was a failed communist who's dream was to DESTROY America, at age 18, Obama went to a MARXIST school.

Raving paranoid rants hardly matter in the real world.

CM....nice job posting response.....Great job is just throwing Romney on the wall and trying to make something stick with the Romney the teabaggers also have in their brains..............

Pigotry,

Your economic analysis is the worst I've seen.

The United States experienced a depression from 1920- 1923. That depression was brought on by 4 years of Federal spending increasing from $742 Million to 18.5 Billion (1919) AND taxes increasing over 5 years from 790 Million to 6.5 Billion 1920. Who was president during those years? Racist Woodrow Wilson (he re-segregated the US Army that Lincoln had started desegregating and re-installed the "White" and "Colored" signs on the White House bathrooms that Lincoln had taken down). Yeah, there was a war, but he sent billions to Europe and more Billions in starting the "League of Nations" which failed.

The last tax increase in 1920 coupled with the normal recession you get a year out from ending a war, caused businesses and factories just to close the doors and lay off the workers.

Warren G Harding ran on cutting spending and taxes and won. That is what he did starting in 1920. He got quite the boost from Republicans who had already successfuly cut the Federal Budget from 18.5 Billion to 6.5 Billion. But Republicans cut the budget by 1923 to 3.4 Billion and taxes 3.9 Billion. Unemployment , which had ballooned from 5% to 9.5% in 1920 slid back to 5% by 1923. And American was prospering grandly.

Perhaps too grandly. By 1926 the stock market was booming so much, investors began borrowing more money to buy stocks. The Colledge Adminstration knew this to be a problem, but could not agree how to approach slowing the market down for over a year according to Cabinet meeting minutes. No one in congress was willing to risk destroying this prosperity.

What finally occured in 1928, was to increase interest rates for banks to get money from the Federal bank, to slow the "tide of inflation". The only thing getting inflated at the time was the stock market. Banks simply stopped borrowing money from the fed, and instead of borrowing from the fed, they continued to loan using only the reserves the banks had. By mid 1929, that money began to dry up and the market began to slow it's climb because the money flowing in had been curbed significantly. Then in October 1929, on a Friday profit taking day, early sellers decided to sell more than double the normal amount, the market began to slid. As it slid, more sold investors decided to sell. The resulting acceleration of sales, caused the drop to accelerate faster and the crash was on.

In 1930, Hoover proposed Tariffs on farm goods. Republicans thought that was a good idea, but a better idea would be to slap tariffs on hundreds of manufactured goods. It was a stupid idea, because doing so ignites tariff wars making inventories swell and businesses close or cut back sharper laying of even more people. Look up the unemployment numbers. The three years that the tarrifs were phased in, were the years with the greatest numbers of jobs losses. The job losses stopped in 1934 when the Tariff increases stopped and Roosevelt started exempting countries from some of the tariffs.

In 1932, Hoover started public works projects to aid people who had lost their jobs. Roosevelt jumped all over that, and won the presidency by promising his new deal and cutting spending. Instead of cutting he took the Hoover programs, renamed them, and doubled the money to them. His "stimulus" plan did not work. What really happened is people finally had gotten their debts paid up and began spending. Even Senator Glas of the Glas-Steagall Act said that the regulations passed to prevent another crash were too harsh and were actually causing the economy to expand slowly.

If you want to move forward, the federal government needs to shrink, not grow. That is what should have been learned from history, not this ridiculous hating the rich crap, and enslave the rich crap.

WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

8.3!,,,8.3!,,,8.3!,,,,

Oh, sorry, just got done rockin with the London Olympics,,,USA!,,,USA!,,,USA!

So, Barrack Hussein created (or saved) 163,000 jobs and our unemployment went up to 8.3%. Now, let's see, most of these jobs were, ONCE AGAIN, in those wonderful industries such as the restaurant, retail, temporary service, social assistance and hospitality sectors. In other words, low-wage jobs, most without health benefits, paid sick leave or other legacy costs. I wonder what kind of pensions these jobs offer?

Let me repeat,,,WOOOHOOO!

Yep, these are the jobs that will get our great Republic out of our economic morass. I mean, these are the jobs that created the greatest economy in history, the greatest export nation in history and the greatest wealth, prosperity and standard of living, right?

NO?

But, but, but Barrack Hussein keeps telling us we’re on the road to recovery, we’re moving “Forward”, we’re driving the car out of the mythical ditch. This is finally the “Recovery Summer” we’ve all been waiting for, right? It’s just a matter of time before our mighty economy should start firing on all 8 cylinders, or off the battery on the Volt! It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3,,, and you guys all thought restarting this economy was gonna be difficult. This is as easy as Cloward and Piven predicted. Oh wait, wrong goal. Or is it?

And of course the coup de grâce will be taxing those mean, nasty, rich, fat cats. How dare they come here and achieve the American dream? How dare anyone be more successful than being a millionaire 250thousandaire? But then again, the successful didn’t do anything, government created every job and business in this country, even before there was any business or need for the job. We all remember when the government just started building things like the highway system decades before the mass production of cars was begun to create the demand for paved roads. We all remember the government building those mile long stretches of reinforced concrete in open fields just in case someone will ever need them, and lo and behold, the Wright brothers did, they invented manned flight and we could finally call these things airports. Isn’t government wonderful? Where would we be without it? Especially its massive bureaucracy, debt and unfunded liabilities. Oh wait, let’s not forget its waste, fraud, abuse and corruption, the hallmarks of the Bourgeoisie.

I’m sure any day now our $600 billion annual trade deficit will disappear with these created or saved jobs. The restaurant sector itself should generate $50 billion annually in exports, retail at least $100 billion annually, temp services another $100 billion annually, social assistance I’m sure is good for at least $200 billion annually and of course hospitality will really drive the private sector with a few hundred billion annually in exports. I hear there are millions of jobs overseas that need hotel concierge.

HUH? What? These great jobs that Barrack Hussein is creating won’t create ANYTHING exportable? But, but, but the $timulu$ was supposed to fix everything. Millions of “shovel ready” jobs were guaranteed. Oh wait, that was just a joke that Barrack Hussein and Jeff Immelt had a big chuckle over wasn’t it? Silly us, we trusted them. By the way, has anyone asked Jeff Immelt why 60% of GE’s business is offshore? In a speech to the Detroit Economic Club in 2009, Immelt berated "Buy American" policies while acknowledging that GE lived under domestic preference regimes in China, France, and other nations. In Immelt's Liberal mind, it is fine for China and France to require GE to make what it sells in their nations, but it's not OK for America to do the same. What a guy! I sure am glad Barrack Hussein chose him as our “Jobs Czar”, aren’t you? I thought sending jobs offshore was a really bad thing though. I mean, all the limp-wristed Libbies keep screaming about Mitt Romney sending jobs offshore don’t they? I would wager anyone that GE itself has sent more jobs offshore than Romney could in a few lifetimes. Let’s see, 300,000 of GE’s 450,000 jobs are offshore. But hey, Immelt is a Liberal so it’s OK for him to send jobs and whole subsidiaries of GE offshore.

So, we spent $863 billion on the $timulu$ and it has created 4.5 million jobs. That’s really great, isn’t it? I guess if spending $200,000 to create a $30,000 a year jobs is good, it indeed was GREAT!!!!! You know what? If we just gave businesses $50,000 to create a job we could have created 17.26 million jobs. If we gave them $30,000 we could have created over 28 million jobs! But I’m sure Barrack is aware of that, 4.5 million jobs is much better than 28 million.

ROTFLMAO!!!!

Ok Libbies, I can’t go any further. Do ANY of you see the stupidity of this president? I can’t make it any clearer can I? Yet most of you will sit on here and continue to support his incompetence simply because you made the horrible mistake of voting for him in 2008. You voted for him because it was a “historic” event not because he qualified. Most of you couldn’t even pronounce his name right. The first black president. Hell, he’s not even black, he’s MULATTO! It was greater than the moon landing. He was giving you hope, he was giving you change. And here we are. No better, much worse. Barrack Hussein never had a real job. He never EVER created a job. He has no idea how an economy works. Oh, I’m sure he has read a book or two, and in your delusional minds this makes him competent. He wasn’t even a good Junior Senator. And now you believe that simply taxing the rich, that will create $85 billion a year, will solve all our problems. We spend $10 billion a day on our debt, so we will pay off 8.5 days with ALL THIS MONEY! Then what? What do we do about the other 356.5 days? Tax you?

We have cut payroll taxes, so now our entitlement funds will suffer in the future. If the economy begins to recover we’ll need to increase your payroll taxes more than the 2% decrease to compensate for the losses. Even if you believe the $timulu$ injected all its net value into the economy we have sent over $1.7 trillion overseas in trade deficits over the past 3 years, we’re not losing money, we’re hemorrhaging it. Or GDP is pathetic, this will affect the ability to repay just the interest on our massive debt. Manufacturing is decreasing, consumer spending and confidence is falling, foreclosures continue despite the government telling us home sales are up. Bank downgrades continue as structural defects continue. Most Americans have lost 40% of their net wealth. The European Union will collapse. The artificial corrections being implemented will only delay the inevitable.

In the meantime Barrack Hussein has done absolutely nothing that will help rebuild our exportable manufacturing industries. No trade reforms, no tax reform, no regulation reform, gas prices are rising again. That $40 a week the payroll tax cuts gave us go right in our gas tank. The military budget will be slashed by hundreds of billions resulting in hundreds of thousands of jobs lost. Where will they get jobs? Building destroyers for SeaRay Corporation?

We need a new direction. We need a vision of the private sector creating good long term domestic exportable manufacturing industries. We need to be able to buy shoes, socks and toasters made in America. You can sit here and be giddy about all these low wage/benefit jobs, all you’re doing is kidding yourselves. The worse thing is, most of you realize this and yet you refuse to admit your mistake. By 2016 we’re expected to create $20 trillion of National Debt.

Then what?

I guess this should be called the "Third Recovery Summer in a row".

It's time to try 'Something/Someone New'.

pigotry,

2001-2009 8 years of GOP led to the Great Recession. 2012 Obama will be re-elected with high unemployment rate...not only because the damages done by GOP policies have been hard to reserve, but also continued GOP foot-dragging in Congress has hurt the nation.

Let’s get the facts straight it was president Clinton that relaxed the banking industry and pushed for no money down home loans that people could not afford the 20% required by most banks back then, it was to help the poor. I helped the alright take out loans that they had no business to take out. Bush tried to real this in when he was in office and was opposed by the Democratic Congress. This is all standard common knowledge. As I am an Independent I voted for Clinton and for Bush. Clinton did a lot of good for this country like putting a cap on how long you could be on welfare but giving those people training needed to get them working again we need to go back there.

Remember when Obama was running for president he promised us rainbows and sunshine or in a sense based on these statements. He said he would make government more transparent lower taxes bridging the gap between the two parties and cut the deficit all while lowering taxes for Americans. He said if the unemployment and the economy are still unchanged at the end of 4 years then I would not deserve a second term. This is what Obama had promised and what he said before he was elected.

Obama has made it 10 times worse with his lack of knowledge on how to run the country. Obama promised to bridge the gap between the two parties together no matter what if elected and the only thing that he has do is make the divided even bigger. As to the claim that he keeps creating job that is a false statement. He has made it tougher on businesses buy his arrogant stances with the leaders in the House and the Senate. He tries to say the Republicans have been obstructing but he had both houses of Congress for two years and could not get many of his bills passed because of his own caucus. His caucus is still not fully behind the president.

The unemployment is not getting better and the number is now starting to go in the wrong direction it was 8.2% now it is 8.3% and that is only half of the unemployment story. The other half of the story is that if you are so frustrated that you stop looking for work you are no longer counted as unemployed at that time. The jobs that are created that cannot keep up with the rate of those losing their jobs are jobs that pay minimum wage support a family on these wages. These are the minimal type jobs that are being created for the summer just like in October it is for Christmas. The president seems happy to celebrate this kind of job creation. Obama celebrates because this is tied his agenda that everyone should depend on the government as most of these people that work these types of jobs also receive food stamps and Medicaid.

Obama is happy with the country being in the discontent it is in or when elected he would of put forth a bill that said in 4 years he mandatory federal minimum wage will be $15.00 an hour as soon as that goes into effect then you will only have 5 years that you could be on any federal aid unless disabled. So if you are able bodied you will no longer be able assistance of any kind from the federal system after 2013. We would then turn that over to states so if the state felt the need to keep a welfare type system then it is the state that pays for it. Or Obama could of legalized marijuana and required that paper and plastic bags be outlawed in all states so that you must use hemp bags for your groceries. This would allow all kinds of people to grow marijuana to sell to the companies that would make the hemp bags.

Yet Obama is obstructing by invokes executive privilege to documents that will tell us what happened with “The Fast and the Furious”. Only after Holder was said to have knowledge that was of a criminal element to the case. Sure you probably don’t care and you probably think it is alright but what about the Terry family the family of the murdered border patrol agent. That was murdered as a result of the investigation and the “Gun walking” that went on. Don’t bring up well Bush used it as Bush may have used it was ended before he left office and no one was killed as a result of that investigation. Obama is the problem it is that business owners do not know what is coming next so they delay hiring.

Most economists agree that raising tax on the wealthy will not have effect Obama believes it will have. Obama saying they do not pay as much as you or I is just a lie if you look at our current tax bracket then you would see the more you make the more of a percentage you pay in taxes. He is trying to create a class warfare type of mentality. Some leader Obama is not.

So as always with Liberal Democrats it is “do as I say not as I do”.

Here are the links to all of the stuff I talked about to back up my claims.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57358484/tax-dollars-backing-some-risky-energy-projects/

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_public_debt

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/obamas-magic-number-150000-jobs-per-month/

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/02/06/the-true-origins-of-this-finan

http://realetybytes.com/?tag=unemployment

Funny how some of you people actually think we read your lengthy diatribes. What's even more pathetic is that you came back to this old article to see if anyone responded to your ramblings.

mguy-478

Here is the problem.

A lot of jobs will never return... they have been replaced by cheaper, technological solutions. All the jobs in the newspaper industry, from the paper mills to the technicians working the press and the delivery guys... replaced with easy online solutions. All the music industry jobs, from the plastic manufacturers that make CDs to the distributors and sales clerks at record stores... all replaced by online buying. Look at video rental stores, book stores, even grocery store clerks are being replaced with self-service machines.

So yes, the jobs outlook is bad because there are not enough jobs for the current population. This trend will only continue. As technology improves, less people are required to perform the same job...

The solution:

Do like my husband did and go back to college and get a degree to fix all that technology.

Backhouse

Giving more to the top income bracket continues to do fabulously well - and asking those who can't afford it to foot the bill, is indeed "Upside Down Economics".

And even worse... the very tax breaks that the illustrious GOP is defending... the tax cuts for the rich... play a direct part in stalling job growth. Yes, this is a serious statement.

Taxes have been used as incentives since they were invented back in Europe's early days. Besides collecting money required to run the government (or to make the King filthy rich), taxes are used to incent people to certain actions, depending on the tax and the amount adjusted.

Stay with me here... Income over $250,000 in a single year that is derived from active business is, by definition, money taken OUT of that business and placed into the personal accounts of that tax payer. It can be in the form of earned income taxed at 36% (or so) or stock as capital gains at 15% (or so).

Tax incentive are best understood by doing increments on a specific tax and trying to predict the reaction of the tax payer either through logic or history (if it exists).

Let's raise the 36% income rate of those making $250,000 to 39.6% and predict it's effect.

Since it is personal income that is money taken out of business, the net change is the reaction of the tax payer will be to NOT remove as much money from their business. They, instead, are incented to reinvest in their business by expanding or otherwise CREATE MORE JOBS.... saving the profit-taking for a better tax day.

This only applies to the rich... to those that have the choice of taking profits out of the business or to reinvest. And, in those cases, low taxes at the top provides them INCENTIVE to remove it from their business and our economy and to send it to off-shore accounts drawing 20%.

Guess we should call it "trickle out" economics... trickle out of our economy and into their personal bank accounts.

So, can someone tell me, will those 12 million jobs get us to the 6% that Mr. Romney says he needs to get unemployment to or will it get us to the 4% unemployment he says President Obama needs to get us to?

Ursula--make that 500,000 Chick Fil A franchises! And minimum wage jobs! No wait--the TPGOP wants to abolish minimum wages--make that third world slave wages that can't support one person, let alone a family here in the US! American Exceptionalism at its finest!

"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly

right you are, nurse!

Da Noid,

If Republican governors had not fired 750,000 - no make that 759,000 - government workers during a recession, we would be at 7% unemployment.

If we had INCREASED public sector workers, as have previous Presidents including GWB, HWB and Reagan ~ we would be at 6%.

President Reagan INCREASED teachers as an economic recovery strategy.

That is why the GOP/Koch/A.L.E.C. strategy has been to LAY OFF as many workers as possible since 2009 ~~

Sabotage our recovery, and blame it on the President of the United States.

Backhouse, that's the one contribution GOP governors could make toward making Obama a one-term president - lay off as many state employees as possible!

Ursula, that and passing Voter ID laws to disenfranchise millions of people who lean left.

So, can someone tell me, will those 12 million jobs get us to the 6% that Mr. Romney says he needs to get unemployment to or will it get us to the 4% unemployment he says President Obama needs to get us to?

Well since Obama can't get below 8% does it really matter???

I just love all these excuses...

Yes, the Republicans make excuses all the time for not passing a jobs bill......

If half the people of this country didn't want health care, then half the people did. So your power play idea is false. As for the jobs issue, no one is attacking those who really create jobs, but the jobs should be in this country, not overseas. Private industry does owe this country a great deal. Did private industry build the roads to get to their businesses? Does private industry build water lines, electric grids and bridges? I don't think so. I am all for private industry, but when they send their work overseas, like a certain person running for president, then I want them to make some changes. Trickle down does not work because it was based on honesty and integrity of those running the busnesses. Sadly, those in charge of private industry put most of it in their pockets, send jobs elsewhere and run, and that include Romney.

ctdad....the repubs get the DIVIDER OF A LIFETIME award.....Somehow Rove convinced all the TEABAGGERS that they are the same as Romney and billionaires. Somehow Rove divided middle class people, taking TEABAGGERS and convincing them to vote against their own self interests. Divide and conquer and use fear words and phrases, because studies show the TEABAGGERS brains react to fear words in a irrational way. When Fear words and phrases are introduced to Democrat people they use the part of the brain that uses rational thought and problem solving to deal with the same stimuli.

Romney and repubs...the great dividers for profit!

Obama/Biden and Team America 2012

When President Obama took office in 2009, he inherited an economy halfway through shedding 8.8 million jobs and minus 9 GDP when he took office. It was burdened with much more public and private debt, hamstrung by budget deficits; he had to deal more than any president in U.S history. On top of that, he has to deal with GOP policies that destroy government jobs across cities, counties, and states in America, that's why we have slow growth due to a drag on public sector.

Despite U.S jobs performance, growth in U.S has outpaced that of other advance economies affected by the global crisis: Europe’s volcanic sovereign-debt crisis, Japan’s earthquake and worries about China and emerging markets. Under president Obama’s leadership, we have positive 2 GDP and over 29 months job growth consecutively, manufacture continue to hire, and and my 401K have double since the low of 2008. We still have much to clean up from the mess that Bush & GOP took 8 years to create, and it will take longer than 3.5 years to clean them up, especially while GOP has been sitting on job bill since last summer.

Mitt Romney is not a fresh start, he's a rerun of the Bush economic policy that led to 2008 financial crisis--more financial deregulation for Wall Street & big banks and tax cut for super rich like him by screw up the working poor and middle class tax hike. Independent economist found Romney tax plan would run into 5 trillion dollars deficit in 10 years while Mr. Obama would save 2.5 trillion dollars in the same period.

Romney's Massachusetts Record

Jobs: 47th out of 50 states in job creation
Taxes and fees: Increased more than $750 million per year
Long-term debt: Increased more than $2.6 billion

Fact is, Romney economics didn't work then, and won't work now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlnaYOv0DZY

6 graph interpretations that media & Romney don’t want you to know:

1. When W. Bush left office, our GDP was at minus 9 and today is positive 2. Which is better?

2. Size of the economy in the 4 Quarter of 2008 was at 95% of GDP, and today is greater than 102 % of GDP. Which is better?

3. When Bush left office, Down Jones was at 6600 point, and today is at 13,000 points. Similarly, when Bush left office, my 401K was half value. Today my 401 K is double. Which is better?

4. When Bush left office, we had over 12 months jobs lost consecutively, 800K jobs lost per month, spiral to a depression. Mr. Obama stops the bleed, and has produced over 28 month jobs growth consecutively. Which is better?

5. When Bush left office, corporation profits was down, and today is up 20 - 30 percent higher than 2008. Which is better?

6. When Bush left office, Export was down at minus 30%, and today is positive 7 percent. Both export and import are growing again. Which is better?

7. When Bush left office, we have higher trade deficit, and today is a lot less. Which is better?

8. We have higher household income today than when Bush left office. In fact, it’s much higher than real GDP. Which is better?
9. Manufactures employment has gone up since Bush left office. Which is better?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/27/the-gdp-report-in-6-charts/

http://social.dol.gov/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Monthly-Private-Emp-Change-06-12.jpg

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?graph_id=82586&category_id=0

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?graph_id=82587&category_id=0

My business profits gone up 50% since Mr. Obama took office, because of his Affordable Care Act that provide tax credit for small business like mine.

My 401K was sunk when Bush left office, now is up over 90% since Mr. Obama took office.

I will vote for Mr. Obama, because he's better for small business, consumers, and middle class. Mitt Romney is good for tax haven and tax cut for super rich like him, but I don't care, because it would not help my business and my consumers.

Kelly, you and your posts were just perfect and make perfect sense to those of us that pay real attention to the economy and what a Romney presidency would really mean for this country. I am so happy to hear that you are doing much better in your business and your financial affairs. For too long now, the Republicans have lied to the American people that small business is being crushed by President Obama, but when I talk to small business owners they have a very different story to tell, one much like yours.

Obama/Biden 2012

Kelly-Indepenent: I like your links. We need more of them.

Kelly,

It's very clear to everyone (except Fox viewers) that, when GW left office, he and his GOP politics had destroyed the US economy. Now the GOP continues to tell lies and distort the truth about how the economy is doing when, if fact, they have tried to block every effort to repair the damage done. Everyone has suffered from this except the wealthy.

Vote every GOP Grover/Koch stooge out of office this November! Every single one of them.

Kelly,

Your posts should be required reading. They should be copied and pasted to every site you can find.

Romney is not Worthy of President, this is forbidden territory for Clowns !!!!!!!!!!!!

The President's solution to unemployment problem is the stimulus bill. The President said that the stimulus bill "did its job", so if that is correct, jobs should no longer be a problem. According to i report issued by our President's own administration, unemployment has been worse than if the stimulus bill were never passed.

The President's solution to our economic troubles has been to increase federal spending through the stimulus bill and a general increase in federal budgets. Party on GSA. I hope that the unemployed are taking advantage of improved transportation to get to those jobs that they do not have. I hope that everyone has had a chance to ride the new high speed trains provided for by the stimulus spending bill. I can't wait for the government to install Solindra solar panels on my roof and hence end global warming.

The President is a fiscal conservative. He went on and on how bad deficit spending was and he vowed to cut the federal deficit in half by the end of his first term. To keep the President's promise, the 2012 federal deficit cannot exceed 229.27 billion dollars but the President's own White House is predicting that the deficit will exceed 1.3 trillion dollars. The fiscal year is almost over. The President needs to reveal how he is going to keep his promise regarding the deficit and what it is eventually going to cost the tax payers to pay all of this money back. Al hail the Chief!

The President needs to be reminded of some words of wisdom that were spoken back in March of 2006. The words were as true then as they are today.

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America 's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, "the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006

Oh, well, if you're looking for a quote: "...deficits don't matter." Dick Cheney. I guess only Republicans are allowed to change their minds, especially after getting into office so they actually KNOW the numbers....oh, wait, that doesn't track, Dick WAS in office, you'd think he would have known better.

It's one of those IOIYAR things.

I wouldn't believe Dick, but I thought I could trust Pres. Obama.

Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney, speaking at the same time in the swing state of Nevada, highlighted a report showing the economy added 163,000 jobs in July as an indictment of the president's economic policies.

Well, this report is equally an indictment of Republican policies!

You can download the data from BLS website and check George W. Bush's performance yourself. I did and the numbers are shocking! Over the entire 8 years - 96 months - George W.bush's administration produced less than 160,000 jobs for 75 of those 96 months.

So, do you know what that means? It means that last month's addition of 163,000 jobs is better than George W. Bush's performance for 75% of the total 2 terms he spent in office! If that is sad for Obama, how much sadder is it for Bush?

Now what's truly sad about all this is that Mitt Romney claims to be able to add 12M jobs in his first year as president using the same failed policies that George W. Bush did!

Republicans right now suffer a severe disconnect from history.

EEngineer: Did you or anyone else ask WHERE those 12 million jobs Romney promised will be created.............maybe outside the US, you imagine?

Why is it that people ignore what condition the Bush Republicans left the country and economy in and want some more of the same dribble down, protect the rich philosophy by even suggesting that the jobs Romney will create will even be in this country? More profits for the 1% overseas and creating jobs like Apple does in Asian countries at minimum slave wages...................or do the Southerners and red state conservatives REALLY want to go out and start picking cotton, tomatoes and harvesting their own tobacco again like the "good ole days"?

If yes, then those states will see remarkable improvement in employment and steep declines in illegal immigrant laborers but I am not betting any money on it.

It's so disgusting that this guy is sitting on $6 billion in wealth and running around talking about other people suffering. It's really pretty sick! Hey, I got an idea, Romney!

Well Kelly I guess it's a good thing Mr. Bush isn't running again isn't it?

Ursula-279622

The former Bain Capital executive ... went so far as to promise the creation of 12 million jobs during his first term should he be elected.

It would have to be from a huge increase in demand for butlers, gardeners, and limo drivers, because his plan would create squat in middle-class jobs.

I'm sure some of his plan has merit, but lowering taxes for the rich on the backs of cuts to support services of those in need is more the action of a King than a President.

I know of ABSOLUTELY NO business that is deciding not to hire based on either taxes OR regulations... except a few that listen exclusively to right wing news and are severely misguided.

Every penny in off-shore accounts represents money taken OUT of our economy. Low taxes at the top end is incentive to do just that... remove money from business and our economy.

Vitriol economics... an economy based solely on fear.

It would have to be from a huge increase in demand for butlers, gardeners, and limo drivers, because his plan would create squat in middle-class jobs

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You must be quoting Obama's plan as he is the one that gave America's unemployed workers the finger by ignoring their needs and instead granted work permits to millions of illegal aliens.

Slow and steady with a Great Leader .... we're getting there, Amy!

4 more for 44.

We've almost re-couped all the jobs lost during the financial crisis of 2008, the catalyst for the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930's. In fact, we'll make up those lost jobs by election day 2012. Thank you President Obama!

What are they putting in the Obama Kool Aide? Because you must be high to believe what you just posted.

There are a million less Americans in the workforce since Obama was elected. These poor souls are not counted by Obama because they can no longer get benefits.

The 8 plus unemployment rate under Obama is the longest stent of high unemployment in history.

But you keep drinking from that cup because there must be some goods stuff in there.

Wow- you really need to devote the same amount of time you gave scribing this diatribe to other more noble efforts- such as tutoring/ mentoring an inner city youth, or working with literacy efforts to improve written, oral and reading skills, or perhaps organizing community rebuilding efforts. Other suggestions may include: reading for yourself more reputable sources of knowledge acquisition, rather than the constant illogic and often times hyperbolic and wrong rhetoric on Fox.

Query? Have you worked to improve your own community and youth or have you spent an incalculable amount of time filling your "mind" with nonsense while decrying the efforts of others?

Another question? Why are people so afraid to provide for the health and well being of all members of a society? Why are there so many uninformed others who simply feel that if it "Ain't Right and White, Its Not All Right?" to the exclusion and overt xenophobia of many?

Yes, I, too, like you, sit in judgment- of people like you, who are so closed minded and venom ridden that they run scared of change and diversity, and who will spew lies like these above, hoping masses will follow suit.

Sundance - you have to excuse ignorant people like contemptible, she's so filled with hatred that common sense is not part of any scenario she has.

Obama/Biden 2012

Why I won't vote for Romney:

He's a putz.........

I only need one.

Contempt Me,

252. Obama accepts award for transparency in secret.

Classic!

Eric, I actually read your post - love those succinct and to the point comments! ;-)

Umm I believe ContemptMe is referring to Jill Stein Green Party 2012 Presidential Candidate hardly a Fox News Contributer. But hey, don't let that fact stand in the way. You all shouldn't assume that someone who criticizes the President is another Fox drone.

If Obama had a record to run on, he would. Instead he is still fumbling around that dark room looking for the light switch. Lets see how much they adjust this months jobs report downward in a few weeks, like they have every other month. Smoke and mirrors is all we get from Washington, and the Democrats run with it.

contemptme ... You need to stay awake while watching Faux News, they say that the global warming was just fabricated and there is no global warming going on. This heat must be coming from all the fresh s..t they are puting out.

Sundance Girl....this one is short and sweet.

2008: Hope and Change

2012: Mope and Blame

Eric - Loved your comment above. Putz definition below from Urban Dictionary

1. A stupid, ignorant person; someone who doesn't pay attention to anything going on; one who makes stupid remarks

2. Literally, vulgar slang for a penis but not to be used lightly. More offensive than a schmuck

3. Yiddish for a prick

John....short and sweet....

Tippecanoe and Tyler too..

A penney saved is a penny earned.

starsailing...........keep the inane jibberish coming. Awesome.

Sundance girl,

You are exactly right. EVERYTHING the left says is absolutely correct and fact. Everything the right says is all a bunch of lies. Now go drink your cool-aid

So, over 4 million private sector jobs created and still the percentage is over 8%. So this means that Teapublican governors and state politicians have fired the same number of people from public sector jobs as the Democrats have created in the private sector?

How can we believe that Romney and friends can make the economy improve if the only answers that Teapublicans have (other than abortion and birth control) are; 1) ever increasing tax breaks for the few wealthy people and corporations who have consistently proved their disloyalty to America by their refusal to invest and 2) reduction in services and, with those services, the accompanying public sector jobs.

It also doesn't take a math genius to see that once those jobs go, the tax revenue diminishes which further limits services, and since the buying power of those newly unemployed people also diminishes, private companies are then forced to lay off more of their people because nobody is buying their products. It is a vicious cycle.

To get out of the recession we need to start with a huge investment in infrastructure. Employ thousands and thousands to rebuild and repair roads, bridges, dams and buildings right across the country. All those things that America needs to move raw materials and products around. Giving those thousands and thousands of people jobs would cause unemployment would drop, tax revenues would rise, those peoples personal spending power would increase, the private sector could sell more therefore they, in turn, could employ more people. The more people they employ, the more spending money there is, people will want to buy more so companies will need to employ still more people. This is a cycle of prosperity to benefit the whole damn country.

The only people who would benefit in RomneyWorld would be the wealthy, reclining like overfed belching (tax-havened) Buddhas in their ivory towers, and their comfortably fat and well-bribed puppydog sycophants in Congress and the Senate.

both party's suck ...plain bob 2012...

So, "ContemptMe", apparently you won't vote for Obama because he isn't lefty liberal enough for you? Geez, you sound like the type who voted for Nader in 2000, then blamed Gore for not being "liberal enough" to win the election. Did you ever realize that "not voting for Obama" could result in a far less liberal Romney winning - and I'm certain your complaint list against a Romney Presidency would be several times longer than the whinge list you've made against Obama.

Political purity is a nice feeling, but it is no way to run a government.

Obama can say anything he wants to about job creation, but what he done -- NOTHING. (3 and 1/2 years) He is nothing but talk. Look back to 2008.

BTW: Obama put forth a stimulus plan that increased our deficit by $5,000,000,000 in 3 and 1/2 years. That is more than all preceding Presidents combined have done. In 3 and 1/2 years he has destroyed the country which we have been building since 1788. He has squandered tax payer money giving it to his friends, enhancing entitlements to buy votes, sending it over seas, supporting "green energy" when it was clearly unprofitable. To my knowledge there has never been a report as to how this "stimulus" money was distributed. I doubt that anyone knows. The President is the CEO of our country. He didn't know about the GSA? So now that he knows what has he done about it? Fire some of his friends? Hell no! He has done nothing -- it's only taxpayer dollars who cares. That is my problem with Obama, he doesn't give a s**T about taxpayer $. Spend, spend, spend. Why should he care he will leave enough money to support his grandchildren and possibly more generations.

. Our children will be paying his bill, his children will not, they will only be reaping his gains.

Romney goes to dentist for footinmouth and the problem is growing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gil-2872519

Obama can say anything he wants to about job creation, but what he done -- NOTHING. (3 and 1/2 years) He is nothing but talk. Look back to 2008.

Yes, let's look back to that banner year of 2008 when the US lost 4.4M jobs.

But first, let's look back to 2001. In March 2001, two months after George W. Bush took office, the Unemployment Rate was 4.3% (the lowest in the 8 years under Bush).

In March 2009, two months after George W. Bush left office, the Unemployment Rate was 8.7% and continuing to rise (the highest in the 8 years under Bush).

The Unemployment Rate DOUBLED from when Bush started to when he left.

Since Obama took office in Jan. 2009, the US has added almost 4M jobs; it's definitely been a slow recovery but we've dug ourselves halfway out of the tremendous hole that Bush, Cheney, and Rove got us into.

Why didn't Romney go to Afghanistan and Iraq, could it be Willard is a Coward !!!

Vietnam war Romney was hiding in France with the Mormons !!!

The people of France said Romney made a big time Splash with their Chicken population !!!

Looks like the GOP Adopted a Clown !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Romney the Cyberbully is no Rambo, he's more like a "JOKE"

Vinnie: I won a $1,000 at the poker table but lost the $2,000 I had in my wallet when I came in. Get my point? I didn't make $1,000.

Gil-2872519

Vinnie: I won a $1,000 at the poker table but lost the $2,000 I had in my wallet when I came in. Get my point? I didn't make $1,000.

The only point that matters is that in 2008/2009, the US economy lost over 8M jobs and in that time 4M people have gone back to work. Yes, the US Economy has since added 4M new jobs. It is not a net gain of 4M, but it's an addition of jobs none the less.

We are digging ourselves out of a massive hole, and frankly I think your flippant comments trying to compare the perils of this economy to that of a lost wallet are a disgrace to the hard working American people.

You, sir, are not a patriot.

You can download the data from BLS website and check George W. Bush's job performance yourself. I did and the numbers are shocking! Over the entire 8 years - 96 months - George W.bush's administration produced less than 160,000 jobs for 75 of those 96 months.

So, do you know what that means? It means that last month's addition of 163,000 jobs is better than George W. Bush's performance for 75% of the total 2 terms he spent in office! If that is sad for Obama, how much sadder is it for Bush?

Now what's truly sad about all this is that Mitt Romney claims to be able to add 12M jobs in his first year as president using the same failed policies that George W. Bush did!

Republicans right now suffer a severe disconnect from history.

EEngineer: Why do you people insist about talking about ancient history. Would you like me to tell you about George Washington's expense account? The point is: Is Obama doing a god job or not? All this comparison junk is BS -- I want someone who gets results NOW.

Vinnie: You amaze me. Like many who respond to my comments, which I very carefully write, you did not read it. You copied it and it was only 2 sentences and 1 and 1/8 lines long, but again, you did not read it. In those two sentences I never said I lost my wallet. Don't put words in my mouth! It is no big deal except I suspect that this is you normal practice and I find it despicable. The fact that many other do it is no justification.

All this comparison junk is BS -- I want someone who gets results NOW.

Hmmm, did you even read my post? Romney is planning to continue the same failed policies that George W. Bush did. What makes you think that the results under Romney are going to be any different than they were under Bush?

Romney economic advisor Glenn Hubbard apparently has a very short memory.

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed making the case for Romney's economic agenda, Hubbard presents a strikingly ahistorical account of the past few years.

"We are currently in the most anemic economic recovery in the memory of most Americans."

Does the memory of most Americans go back a decade? If it does, then they can remember a more anemic recovery -- at least when it comes to jobs. The post-2001 recovery had the slowest job growth of any postwar recovery. It also had the slowest private sector growth of any postwar recovery. It's puzzling that Hubbard doesn't remember this, considering that he was the chair of President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisors from 2001 to 2003.

... repackaging the Bush agenda, just updated with austerity, is not the path to prosperity.

Now, Romney has promised to create 12 million new jobs in his first term - That's an average of 250,000 jobs per month for 4 years. How? Well, basically the same formula Bush used:

According to the position paper, the quick turnaround would be spurred by the lower tax rates...

In short, exactly what George W. Bush promised with his tax cuts in 2001 and 2003. So, if 250,000 new jobs a month is even possible, then George W. Bush should have been able to do it. Far from being BS, the comparison is a clear indicator of how successful Romney's policies are likely to be.

So let's return to that same BLS data I mentioned in my first post. How many months did Bush manage to add 250,000 jobs or more to the economy? In 8 years - 96 months - the economy added 250,000 jobs or more only 8 months! Romney's claims are crap! It has been tried, it didn't work then and it ain't gonna work now!

If you want results NOW, then your course is clear: go to the polls this fall and vote the obstructionist Republican bastards out! They swept the House in 2010 with a clear agenda of jobs, jobs, jobs! Instead, we got a reduction in America's credit rating, a deadlocked Congress and no plan for any recovery except the same failed plan that put the American economy into the toilet in the first place.

Romney's betting the same people who think fried chicken and waffle fries are an acceptable dinner, will believe his boast he can create 12 million new jobs.

PS Dear America: eat more salad, for God's sake.

"My plan will turn things around & bring the economy roaring back, with twelve million new jobs..........." Rmoney

Thats a lie or a wet dream. I never knew we were going to get that many fast food joints here in America. I guess with "chick-fil a" leading the way.

Talk about doing drugs - "My plan will turn things around & bring the economy roaring back, with twelve million new jobs..........." Rmoney.

How stupid would you have to be to vote for someone who makes such an outrageous, non-believable statement? Oh that's right, you'd be Republican!

jw- tell me, what exactly did Bush do about illegal immigrants - except hire them? You DO know we've had illegals here for decades, right? They didn't just start coming here the last 3 1/2 years??

Obama/Biden 2012

jw101 - only if you want to pick fruit, mow lawns, or clean toilets...

The former Bain Capital executive stressed his private sector experience as a chief qualifier, and went so far as to promise the creation of 12 million jobs during his first term should he be elected.

Well, that sounds about right. Acceleration to 250,000 from last months 160,000 doesn't seem too ambitious considering the Democrats were able to average 180,000 in the 1990's and the US economy is rebounding from the dismal lows. Question is are his job gains backloaded to the end of a two term administration. I would like to see quarterly forecasts so we can see if he is on track.

Romney has shown he is successful at what he puts his mind to. He was successful in business, politics, and at the 2002 Olympics.

Not to mention he actually has experience turning around failed companies. All I have seen from Obama is a politician who will say and do anything to get elected.

I have not worked in 9 months in Michigan. I am hungry. Can anyone spare a cornflake?

Ursula-###### -- Your statement insults all of us Americans who work in the skilled trades (construction, mostly). Sure, there are illegals doing jobs that many people would not want (produce pickers, mostly), but the downward pressure on wages and working conditions in the skilled trades is negatively affecting all of America. Your neighbor is part of the economy too. Oh, and before you write me off as an ignorant GOPTP, let me tell you: Obama-Biden 2012! Mostly because the alternative is much much worse.

Oh. And I have also cleaned toilets (bathrooms) for a living. When I was 20 I started a business cleaning bathrooms of gas stations (my uncle helped me with the paper-work). For $10 a day I would make them shine! Put on some rubber gloves; no big deal. At one point I had 24 customers. That's $240/day; huge money back in the day. And since they were all on two streets, Telegraph and Woodward, I could get it all done in less than eight hours! It wouldn't work today, however. Now, the owner of the business just hires an illegal and makes him/her clean them after work (overtime, probably with no extra pay) and they never really get clean.

So just lose the argument that illegals do jobs that Americans won't. Please.

Romney has shown he is successful at what he puts his mind to. He was successful in business, politics, and at the 2002 Olympics.

Romney's business was buying companies, overcharging for "management fees", stripping assets, stealing pension funds, offshoring jobs, loading companies up with debt, then spinning them off to die. Great at making money, not so good at running thriving companies. His few "successful businesses" were ones that managed to survive their Bain encounter, mainly retailers like Staples where jobs cannot be offshored.

At Politics, Romney managed just 1 term as Governor, and has held no other elected office. He utterly failed in his run for Senate, due in no small part to his poor showing as Governor.

His contribution to the 2002 Olympics consisted mainly of lobbying Congress for hundreds of millions of dollars of Government funds. Pretty easy to find "success" with that much much free money rolling in.

AMERICA, You can thank Congress for all our problems, the TeaWackos are Sabotaging our Nation. This is the Worse Congress in our History !!!!!!!!

contempme Aren't you the same troll that wouldn.t answer me on another post yesterday?

Hey Beyond, Romney is a job Creator - In Singapore, China, Japan and India !!!!!!!!!!!

You can download the data from BLS website and check Bush's job performance yourself. I did and the numbers are shocking! Over the entire 8 years - 96 months - George W.bush's administration produced less than 160,000 jobs for 75 of those 96 months.

So, do you know what this means? It means that Obama's addition of 163,000 jobs last month is better than George W. Bush did for 75% of his entire two terms!

If Bush had maintained an average of 160,000 jobs per month during his entire 8 years he would have added 15.4M jobs. Instead, the US only gained a little over 700,000 jobs during Bush's entire 8 years. The numbers are easy to verify - look it up!

Now what's truly sad about all this is that Mitt Romney claims to be able to add 12M jobs in his first year as president using the same failed policies that George W. Bush did!

Republicans right now suffer a severe disconnect from history.

Job, Harry's trying out the old "wife beating" logic with his comments.

Mitt could return the favor, mention he got a call from someone unnamed who said Harry was sleeping with kids, and then tell Harry to prove he didn't.

False logic doesn't make an argument, it just deflects from the absolute failure of this president.

Which I suspect is the whole point.

mlkboneunderwear Just so happens I heard you were sleeping with little boys to. How do you like it when someone says that about you? Is your mlkboneundrwear for your dog at night?

We will just have to see. However, Willard is dirty!!!

Part of the reason voters like negative campaigning is because they want to see how the candidate reacts when under attack.

Candidate Barack Obama reacted to Republican smears with aplomb, brushing off the criticism (literally, remember that?), never stooping to the birthers' claims or rising to the bait.

How did Romney react to Harry Reid's accusation - by telling him to "shut up." Nice mouth on you, Mitt. Didn't your mother ever tell you not to say "shut up?"

Go Harry Go, and Give Them Hell!!!

Didn't your mother ever tell you not to say "shut up?"

No actually she probably didn't. Mitt was raised in the non-politically correct era. He should have said "be quiet please Mr. Reid". LMAO @ Amy. Or perhaps he should have just done the "texting" method, "hey Harry STFU".

Smitty, a great example of Reid's baseless, cowardly charges. See how easy it is to lob stupid attacks?

Willard Romney Olympics documents aren’t being released for the public to view. Why?

Willard Romney is not being honest about his time at Bain Capital. Why?

Willard Romney and staff spent nearly $100,000 in state funds to replace computers in his office at the end of his term as governor of Massachusetts in order to keep his records secret. Why?

Willard Romney refuses to release his tax returns. Why?

Why? Because this man Willard Romney is hiding many things, and don't we the people have the right to know what he is hiding.

With Willard Romney hiding so much about his life and dealings, many people are left to wonder if Willard is covering up sinister or criminal activity. Let's keep the investigation going on Willard Romney, and expose him for what he is, A LYING, TAX CHEATING, OUTSOURCING TRAITOR TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!

Barack Obama could not stand up to the negative PRESS that is thrown at any conservative candidate. Just watch him bristle when a heckler shouts out the truth. His ego will not allow ANYONE to challenge his ideologies.

Amy - it would be hard to know if Mitt's mother ever told him not to shut up - his Dad probably had lots of "acting mother's", the maid, the nanny, the cook. Call them whatever you like but people in the Mormon faith have never fully given up that pologomy thing. Isn't that why his grandparents totted down to Mexico for so many years?

You all can't talk about Obama's failed 4 years, so the Smoke and Mirrors 2012 campaign drones and mopes along to the inevitable GOP clean sweep.

You are drawing flies with that Tabloid Bull !!!!!!!!

You all can't talk about Obama's failed 4 years, so the Smoke and Mirrors 2012 campaign drones and mopes along to the inevitable GOP clean sweep.

Well, let's look at Obama's "failed 4 years" and compare it to George W. Bush's failed 8 years. You know George W. Bush, don't you? The last Republican president and the man whom Romney hopes to emulate with his economic policies?

Now, you say that Obama has failed because he added only 163,000 jobs lats month. How does that compare with the last Republican president?

You can download the data from BLS website and check Bush's job performance yourself. I did and the numbers are shocking! Over the entire 8 years - 96 months - George W.bush's administration produced less than 160,000 jobs for 75 of those 96 months.

If Bush had maintained an average of 160,000 jobs per month during his entire 8 years he would have added 15.4M jobs. Instead, the US only gained a little over 700,000 jobs during Bush's entire 8 years. The numbers are easy to verify - look it up!

Now what's truly sad about all this is that Mitt Romney claims to be able to add 12M jobs in his first year as president using the same failed policies that George W. Bush did!

Republicans right now suffer a severe disconnect from history.

What would Mittens know about "suffering"? His car elevator is broken and they can get a repairman out until Monday?

It is also a principle that takes leadership to make it happen. You know, that Reagan/Clinton thing that made them successful? We have no leader with such abilities. He thinks because he says it should be so that it will. That is the liberal credo. The world the way I want it to be and the way I think it should be.

Suffering to Mitt the Twit is when he has to pay more than 0% income tax on his multimillion annual earnings.

Good one Detroit Storm, I'm still laughiing out loud! K Man - Thanks for the reminder of how out of touch Mittens really is!

Talk, you know that is a lie but here you are repeating it. A great basketball team will not win if half the players don't participate and leave it up to the other team members to score all the points. In order to Lead, one party cannot decide to sit on the sidelines and sulk because they lost an election.

Reagan and Clinton both had Congresses that put aside their ideological differences for the good of the country. In 3 1/2 years, the GOPers in Congress have done nothing, absolutely nothing to earn their pay and they certainly didn't put aside their differences for the good of the country.

Obama/Biden 2012.

Jody, if the right can't lie, they have absolutely nothing to say. Clearly there is nothing good to say about empty suit Mitt.

Obama/Biden 2012

Romney does draw some very strange characters !!!!!!!!!!!

talk: Better than losing 700,000 jobs a month as we were at end of 2008/early 2009...isn't it?

I'd like better job numbers but will take the bit of growth as opposed to losing jobs.

Ah but consider the January 2009 rate at 7.8% and look at what I stated above about the participation rate. 11%. Now, this is supposed to make us all feel better? I will admit it is good to see some movement in a positive direction but, As the pres. says, "We have more work to do". I suggest a LOT more.

oBAMA just eliminated almost a million American jobs by giving citizenship to illegal immigrants.

How many Americans are out of work because an illegal is working their job? Not all illegals pick fruit. Obama's illegal uncle is a manager of a liquor store. The fire chief in NJ was an illegal. They are taking YOUR jobs but people are too stupid to complain.

Earth to jw101 - don't worry honey, we will ask the space station to send you home on the next shuttle, no doubt, you've been out there way too long.

jw - Don't you just love the liberals? You throw some facts at them, easy to look up, and all they can do is call you crazy. You would think at least they might look and come back and tell you you are full of it but, NOOOOOOOOOO.

jw101, well that's a new lie or maybe an old up dug up. Care to tell us the date and the legislation signed when did President Obama granted citizenship to a million illegals? You do know the difference between citizenship and a green card for children brought here by their parents, don't you?

The economy added jobs despite Obama.

The economy added jobs in spite of record republicon filibusters.

In 400 days the republicons have not passed a single jobs bill, but did pass bills to raise our taxes and cut 7.4 million jobs.

The economy added jobs despite the government. Obama dosen't create jobs and he can only lead if people who choose to be lead. Through the whole bunch out.

If the county really wanted to create jobs they would make money avalable to anyone with a good busness plan and the will to make it work. Try starting a business with out money. The banks won't give you the time of day. The SBA is a joke. It's not regulations that is the problem, it's cash. We are giving money to the banks who are loaning it back to the government at 3%. Even if 95% of the business's fail it's still a better deal then we have now.

Different stances? The rate rose...'nuff said. Our President is a fiscal idiot.

More refreshing news.
The newest research from Nate has it as:

“Obama chance of winning 70.2% Romney 29.8%”

Why is that the electoral college is not needed by the left EXCEPT when it's needed?

steve: Too bad that is how President Obama will get re-elected. And Repubs think electoral college is not needed EXCEPT when they want it.

Obama spent $100 million in the dirtiest campaign in modern history againts Romney, and still they are neck and neck. Your in for a huge let-down in November.

And by the by, Romney's income in 2010 was from his investments, where he was taxed %28 on cap gains. He gave $3.1 Million of his own money to charity which brough his effective tax rate down to %13.7.

Better give your money to Charity where it can do some good, this Government just runs to Vegas with it and spends like druken sailors.

p*ssed off - guess you missed all the republican primaries cause they sure were a lot dirtier than anything President Obama has used against Mittens, heck I think he should use all the good intel from Rick Santorium and Naughtie Newt, plus it is just so entertaining to watch you guys eat your own.

Dirtiest campaign in modern history was the repub presidential runoff of 2011/2012. Romney out dirtied Santorum, Gingrich, Cain, Perry, and Bachman - which is quite a feat considering his competition (the other 5 candidates).

Wouldn't it have been much easier to have Huntsman as your candidate? At least that way, I would've been forced to make a decision between Obama and Huntsman. With Mitt as the repub contender, the obvious and only choice is Obama.

If you want the US to look more like China, vote for Mitt.

Well, duh, Steve, I guess the answer is because the electoral college is still the law of the land for determining who wins the presidential election.

Gee, p***sed off, maybe you should talk to Mitt Romney and his SuperPACs because the only negative, attack ads I'm seeing almost nonstop during the Olympics are those paid for by Romney and the GOP.

For a Presidential election the Electoral College determines the winner. The popular vote is worthless!!
A President can be elected with only 26% of the popular vote as long as he wins 50.1% in the 13 states needed to give him 270 electoral votes. He could have zero votes in the other 37 and still win.
RCP (Average of polls) as of 8/1/2012
8 Swing States: Tied in NC (15), Obama leads in 7, Romney leads in 0.
Delegates: Obama = Solid(142)+Likely(37)+Lean(68)+Swing(85) = 332*
Delegates: Romney = Solid(76)+Likely(55)+Lean(60)+Swing(00) = 191
Delegates: [332+191+15 = 538] Win = 270*

Job - you have no clue. I am still shocked there are so many fools in this country. How you can continue to support this administration when it is so obvious the president has no clue is beyond me. Anything will be better than him. Anything. Medication will help you and your ilk, maybe.

Romney will win NC, FL, OH, WI and VA. The Senate will turn over 5 seats to the GOP. Game, set, match with the tax and spend dinosaurs hibernating for another 100 years.

Bull sh@t. Dumb a@s.

Vote Mitt and the TP GOP, and you'll get the 2nd Great Depression. The economic policies he advocates didn't work then, didn't work for Bush, and won't work for him, and certainly won't work for the American people.

You don't call a emergency room physician who resusitates a dying patient a failure; President Obama resusitated a dying capitalist system and now the patient is in recovery. A lot different than the conservatives who would have pulled the plug and waited to see if the dying patient would recover on his own.

President Obama has turned around the economy - consider the free-fall into depression that was occurring when he took office. Yes we are much better off than we were 4 years ago.

While the recovery is slow and likely to be affected by the European recession caused by austerity; the financial market is doing fine, and Mitt Romney and his 1% privileged class should thank President Obama for restoring their wealth, and those with 401Ks for restoring their retirement funds.

What they don't get is that if there was to be a Romney presidency there would be a "honeymoon" phase that might last for a year, giving the banks and corporate raiders a chance to further line their own pockets and then we will crash and burn just like we did in 2007. It was fun while it lasted wasn't it folks?! This same crap happened back in the 90's and it took Clinton to turn it around. Then came the Bushmen! And, it started all over again. I am sick and tired of this circle jerk crap!

A vote for Mitt the Twit = Insanity! I'm AlaskaGirl and I approve this message!

Obama/Biden 2012!

4 more4 44!

"How about that Michael Phelps? But let's remember he didn't win all those medals, someone else did. After all, he and I swam in public pools, built by state employees using tax dollars. He got training from the USOC, and ate food grown by the Department of Agriculture." - these are facts, yes, so you agree with President Obama - good for you! " He should play fair and share his medals with people like me, who can barely keep my head above water, let alone swim." This is your opinion and an opinion that none on the right and very few on the left share. But by your first statement, I assume you think that Phelps should do his minimum part, pay taxes, to support public pools, the USOC, and the Dept. of Agriculture. So by YOUR OWN LOGIC you are stating you are a moderate democrat. Good for you!

Steve - his medals don't just belong to him - they are American medals, thought you were supposed to be so very patriotic? guess not, only when it suites you, right? And no those business did not get there by themselves, most small business receive starter grants from the SBA which receives them from the Federal Government (Gasp - can you imagine that!), they would not stay in business if I did not do business with them, purchase their product, tell friends to go to their business and we all kept coming back. Business is not a one man/woman show, never has been, never will be. But if you really feel that way be sure to let us know when you open yours up, we will know you don't need or want us as customers and we'll be sure to ask the government to deny you the start up cash you need.

union It seems these people don't beleive in the demand side of economics. how about fillibusting all republican owned busnesses and se what happens?

You must have missed the part of the story that explained that the report was co-authored by a former GW Bush staffer.

The president is right, up to a point: The study was not written by an Obama staffer, but by a former Obama staffer--and a close ally.

The study, titled “On The Distributional Effects Of Base-Broadening Income Tax Reform,” was written by Samuel Brown, William Gale, and Adam Looney.

As Looney's biography page at the Brookings Institution states, "Looney was the senior economist for public finance and tax policy with the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and has been an economist at the Federal Reserve Board."

The difference is lost because of the high rate of birth. Thank god Obama made birth control available for more women! Obama/Biden 2012!

p'ssedoff

Those are private sector hires; loss from Federal, State and Local government employees. You know, teachers, fire fighters, garbage collectors. But you probably like small government, so these losses are good.

Your Idol obama is too busy campaigning and fundraising to worry about jobs!

Mit out soruced production for Rain coats for his company Totes.

Obama is the Out-Sourcing king.

Especially to China:

Wanna see some Obama out-sourcing? He is handing cash to every one on the planet, while people here are starving!
OUTRAGE!
The GM the scam of the century, it provided jobs 35,000 Chinese, and 11 new plants. No Americans jobs were saved with that money, NONE! In fact, 25,000, and now 18 plants closed. GM has informed congress of their intent to move all their U.S. Manufacturing off shore. The Volt and Cadillac production are in the process of moving right now.

Then there is GE. Apparently Immelt's idea of being part of the solution is to ship as many jobs overseas as he possibly can.
A recent article on the Huffington Post documented how GE has been sending tens of thousands of good jobs out of the country....
As the administration struggles to prod businesses to create jobs at home, GE has been busy sending them abroad. Since Immelt took over in 2001, GE has shed 34,000 jobs in the U.S., according to its most recent annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But it's added 25,000 jobs overseas.
At the end of 2009, GE employed 36,000 more people abroad than it did in the U.S. In 2000, it was nearly the opposite.
GE is supposed to be creating the "jobs of tomorrow", but it seems that most of the "jobs of tomorrow" will not be located inside the United States.
The last GE factory in the U.S. that made light bulbs closed last September. The transition to the new CFL light bulbs was supposed to create a whole bunch of those "green jobs" that Barack Obama keeps talking about, but as an article in the Washington Post noted, that simply is not happening..
China gets more from Obama:
China
Stimulus Funds
North Carolina-Based LED Maker Cree Inc. Received Over $39 Million Through The Stimulus And Later Opened Its First Plant In China. Over Half Of The Company's Employees Are Now Located In China And Cree's CEO Says The Company's Strategy Is "Cree Chip, China Heart."
Loan Guarantees
Sempra Received A $337 Million Loan Guarantee For An Arizona Solar Plant. The Solar Panels Will Be Supplied By SunTech, A Chinese Solar Panel Manufacturer.
Jobs Council
General Electric Cancelled An Order From Wind Turbine Manufacturer ATI Casting In Order To Get The Parts Cheaper From China. After ATI Offered To Match The Price, GE Still Refused The Order. ATI Was Forced To Layoff 302 Workers Due To The Move.
General Electric Has Also Been Criticized For Using Chinese Made Wind Towers Over American Towers At The Stimulus Funded Shepherds Flat Wind Farm In Oregon.
Stimulus Funds
Solar Power Industries Received A $5.4 Million Stimulus Grant Before Laying Off American Workers Based On An Increased Reliance On Imports From China.

@p*ssed off - so you support big government protectionist policies as opposed to Republican laissez-faire free market policies? Obama is definately not perfect, but think twice before pulling the lever for Romney...at least Democrats think that off shoring jobs is a bad thing even if they sometimes do it...Republicans want more outsourcing and are willing to gut our tax code to get more of it.

I indicated nothing of the kind.   I want a President who knows what he is doing.   Romney and Bain created millions of jobs for Americans.   The companies they help to success can be seen on every street corner of your city or town.

This called "insourcing".

Now, here are just some Bain Capital successes:
AMC Entertainment
Home Deport
Aspen Education Group
Brookstone
Burger King
Burlington Coat Factory
Clear Channel Communications
Domino's Pizza
DoubleClick
Dunkin' Donuts
D&M Holdings
Guitar Center
Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)
Sealy
The Sports Authority
Staples
Toys "R" Us
Warner Music Group
The Weather Channel

Your Idol obama is too busy campaigning and fundraising to worry about jobs!

Patty, do you know where legislation starts? Do you know where the House is and what they're currently working on? Did you know Obama's Jobs Bill has been waiting for their attention since November 2011? Where's your outrage?

You will never see this.......

BUT, do YOU know that obama's fake "jobs bill" was voted down in the Senate 97-0.........DUH...majority Democrat!

Heh, we're not talking about the budget blueprint, Patti. We're talking about the jobs bill that the GOTea is afraid of. Try to keep up.

Most of the companies you mentioned use mostly minimum wage workers. He has outsourced most of the higher paying jobs. So how is that good?

Patty,

It did not clear the 60 vote requirement. 50 to 50 (need 60). Just thought you would like to clean up your information.

Patty: We aren't losing jobs...are we? Remember when America was losing 700,000 jobs a month....now we have slow job growth....better than job losses...wouldn't you say?

Don't you find it strange that they aren't counting the 85,000 who went on "Social Security Disability" last month AFTER their unemployment ran out?

A record number of people are NOW disabled!!!!

All it takes is a crooked lawyer and a lying Doctor!

As usual...........WE pay!

Patty, why wouldn't the House vote on the Jobs bill? Or introduce their own? Because politically it's in their best interest to do nothing. And then Repubs complain that Obama didn't get us out of the Repub-induced recession fast enough. Crazy

patty you are extremly uninformed when it comes to disability. Do you know it takes an average of 3 or more years for a limb amputee patient to be approved for disability? I know this because I have worked in the medical field for almost 30 years, we have lots of patients with Parkinson's, Dystonia, Essential Tremor, Epilepsy, MS, and CP who have to fight for years to receive disability - and they really need it. Also, the disability check you receive is based on what you paid in (children and those declared disabled at an early age receive something, but it is not very much). So tell me, what to the poor people with the above diseases do to live? Not all of them are worth $250 mil and counting or hiding.

Patty,

Can you outline Romney's jobs bill, beside cut taxes and cut spending. Remember that the austerity programs in Europe (just to remind you, austerity means government big spending cuts to all programs). It is not working so well there and you want to bring it here. More job loss, much less services (you want to get rid of garbage collection).

Reagan didn't have to contend with businesses who sent millions of jobs overseas - all in the name of profit over country. Businesses are no longer patriotic and don't care about America.

a p garcia, you must have been quite young when ronnie was in office - it was a disaster for working middle class Americans, I know because I lived this. My husband and I both worked two jobs while raising our children while the rich just got richer. We finally started to do better in the middle 90's and lost so much ground 2000 - 2007 it was shocking. We make more money now than we ever have, both only work one full time job, kids are fully employed and doing well, took my money out of stocks in 2001, never lost one dime in my 401K and am looking to retire sooner rather than later unless the repugnants continue to muck the economy up in their desperate attempt to control the world.

Yes and Reagan took the US from the most solvent country in the world to the most in debt in 8 years

Yes just vote Romoney in and more tax cut's for the rich and more deregulation's it has worked sooooo well in the past!LOL

Obama/Biden 2012 forward not back!

I'll vote out the idiot I know for sure is running our Country into the mud and give someone else a chance; you'd be a fool to vote for Obama after these past 4 years....oh that's right, liberal Democrats live in that alternate universe where everything is "improving". Get your head out of your backside, stop drinking the Kool-aid, and see reality for a moment then, maybe, just maybe, you will vote the moron out office.

And forward to what: more defict spending (7 TRILLION and counting not enough for you), higher unemployment rates (8.3 and climbing), Health Care in shambles while big insurance companies make BILLIONS in profit while paying for nothing, Housing still in the toilet etc, etc, etc....oh, that's right, in your universe we're "moving forward".

Vote Mitt and the TP GOP, and you'll get the 2nd Great Depression. The economic policies he advocates didn't work then, didn't work for Bush, and won't work for him, and certainly won't work for the American people.

You don't call a emergency room physician who resusitates a dying patient a failure; President Obama resusitated a dying capitalist system and now the patient is in recovery. A lot different than the conservatives who would have pulled the plug and waited to see if the dying patient would recover on his own.

President Obama has turned around the economy - consider the free-fall into depression that was occurring when he took office. Yes we are much better off than we were 4 years ago.

While the recovery is slow and likely to be affected by the European recession caused by austerity; the financial market is doing fine, and Mitt Romney and his 1% privileged class should thank President Obama for restoring their wealth, and those with 401Ks for restoring their retirement funds.

If you think republican governors have not been cutting public jobs you are not in a state with a republican governor. We have a GOP governor who has privatized state agencies leaving hundreds of workers hanging in the wind wondering if this company will hire them, but knowing they won't have the benefits that they had with the state like health insurance and retirement . We have a republican governor who wants to privatize prisons, but the people are not in favor of that. We have a governor who is running around the country campaigning for Romney and lying his head off about the Affordable Care Act that he refuses to implement in our rotten sorry state. The high cost of insurance rates and higher deficits is the typical right wing bunk. The ACA actually holds insurance companies accountable for rate increases and prevents them from spending too much of their premium receipts on administrative cost and too little on medical care. That is why over a billion dollars in rebates are being sent out this year to policy holders who have been overcharged. According to the Congressional Budget Office the Affordable Care Act provides $808 billion in tax credits to low and middle income families to help them afford health insurance. The CBO also estimate Obama's health care plan will reduce the deficit by $210 billion over 10 years. But the republican governors prefer to please the tea party base with falsehoods rather than getting them all red faced by telling them the truth. Teachers, police officers and fire fighters are the state workers that the GOP in many states are laying off. They are causing unemployment with their agenda against public workers.

I am glad you are pissed off. That is what comes with watching all the Fox misinformation that has you lying your head off on here. I will support President Obama and the Democrats because I really do pay attention to what the republicans are all about and it is wasting time voting over 33 times to repeal health care reform. The GOP House is really is a mess with the tea party imbeciles even more obstructive than other right wing nitwity republicans. Republicans are not for the middle class and Romney doesn't care about the poor and has said so. He knows they have a safety net. Unfortunately we have republicans busy ripping that safety net away for the people that were left unemployed and so greatly harmed in the recession. We remember the Bush administration and the rubberstamping republicans and they are corrupt and they are not worthy in our government when they won't compromise for the good of the American people. Or when the only goal is to oppose what Democrats and President Obama do the the good of the American people. You are the idiots that republicans know will vote for them into our oblivion.

lay off the meth po.

Source, please.

He is sitting on his source!

these look like facts to me.